Universal Pander- September 26, 2007 The Universal Pander: There's nothing like a presidential election to bring out the healthcare crisis. And, since the presidential primary process is stretching into a two year long spectacle, there's been no shortage of proposals on how to fix our current system. Recently, Dennis Kucinich pointed out that his ideas are the closest thing to what the American people want:In a CNN poll this spring, 64 percent of respondents said the government should "provide a national insurance program for all.http://medpundit.blogspot.com/2007/09/universal-pander-theres-nothing-like.html Power of the Gods- September 26, 2007 The Power of the Gods: Medical infallibility.http://medpundit.blogspot.com/2007/09/power-of-gods-medical-infallibility.html (Untitled)- September 9, 2007 Zing the Body Electric: Treating high blood pressure, circa 1907 (click images to enlarge and read the text):A close-up view of the blood pressure machine:- from Scientific American, August 24, 1907.The report sounds so confident:The important feature is that the cure - the reduction of arterial pressure to the normal value - is permanent, and that the progress of the arteriosclerosis is arrested by the removal of the excess of blood pressure.Seems kind of silly today, but look - one hundred...http://medpundit.blogspot.com/2007/09/zing-body-electric-treating-high-blood.html |