In the Public Eye

Post date:: Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 11:22am

It’s amazing how quickly your Iphone can fill up with aps. But working in healthcare, what are the useful ones – and what ones do you actually use?

I have about 40 aps on my phone. I know that’s small potatoes. And most are pretty vanilla – FaceBook, Twitter, NPR, various sports, news and weather sites, Pandora and a couple of flashlight aps. But only four are health related – and only one (California Healthline, an ap from the California HealthCare Foundation) that I’ve actually use.

In the Public Eye

Swimming in the mosh pit

Post date:: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 - 11:29am

I just Googled "health care reform" and came up with 21.3 million hits. (What's a word worth? When I jammed together "healthcare," I only got 2.2 million hits.)

There are 20 or so people running or nearly running for the presidency. (But if they don't have their own health care reform plan, pollsters say they may as well stay home and defrag their disk drives.)

Why should I care? Ask Crunch$$$

Post date:: Saturday, February 3, 2007 - 6:09pm

Few people ask about the big picture. More likely, people want to know what a trillion dollar budget boils down to for them, what is the cost/impact on them?

That's where Crunch$$$ comes in. He's my personal, virtual world financial analyst. Sure, people what to know what the ### (numbers) mean, but what they really want to know is if they are getting their $$$ worth.

Bright bulbs, icky food and "blanket coverage"

Post date:: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 11:43am

Add Maryland to the ever-growing list of states proposing a universal health coverage initiative ... Speaking of seeing the light, the Sacramento Bee reports that two California lawmakers want to do away with common light bulbs by 2012 or 2018, replacing traditional incandescent globes with more energy-efficient illumination around the same time that hordes of Baby Boomers (present company included) will be kicking around darkened, chilly houses trying to save retirement dollars for health premiums. ...

Dollars = quality (sort of)

Post date:: Monday, January 29, 2007 - 1:53pm

They tried to stitch up a gash in my daughter's chin without anesthetic or cleaning the wound ... Nobody on the medical staff washed their hands as they went from patient to patient ... A used syringe was discarded into a paper bag where the patient put her discarded tissues ... The same smock worn while eating pizza -- extra tomatoes please -- was still on while wheeling a patient to radiology.

Smirks, tongue thrusts and applause

Post date:: Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 1:15pm

"The squints and smirks are staying hidden.... (but he) loses points for licking his lips excessively and sticking his tongue out -- sure signs of nervousness and dry mouth."

When politicians go public in a major way -- State of the Union, State of the State -- their advocates and their critics ask the two same questions: How well did (s)he present? What do the polls show?