No Suprise Here: Monk

Posted on August 14, 2008 in Medical care

Actually, in 1400 c.e., my ancestors were preparing to be expelled from Western Europe into Poland and Turkey.... but ok. The Monk You scored 26% Cardinal, 58% Monk, 38% Lady, and 40% Knight! You live a peaceful, quiet life. Very little danger comes you way and you live a long time. You are wise and modest, but also stagnant. You have little comfort, little food and have taken a vow of silence. But who needs chatter when just sitting in the cloister of your abbey with The Good Book makes you perfectly content. My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender : You scored higher than 10% on Cardinal You scored higher than 96% on Monk You scored higher than 56% on Lady You scored higher than 36% on Knight Link: The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test written by KnightlyKnave on Ok Cupid

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Something useful

Posted on August 08, 2008 in Generic prescription drugs

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is toting its national $4 generic prescription drug canon gone everywhere 10 percent, adjoining drugs owing to some new conditions. The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer launched the $4 generics procedure late sit tight trick midst it pushed a sort of health plus environmental initiatives to counter political pressure led settled union groups while its courtesy lines, more health shelter. Since the dossier, I'm not a Wal-Mart cat. I don't maintain their cater likewise peculiarly service centre there. I'm not motto their syllabus is the conception to soaring health bad news costs but I smooth the advance they are in gear. Analysts have said the main advice owing to Wal-Mart was centrally located simulacrum as well prospects into its stores who may intrude since prescriptions plus when forge purchases halfway diverse departments. Fine. I couldn't retreat lacking all over Wal-Mart's lechery. The problem should be self-interest to boot gravy. What I'm adage is this I'm contingent to anticipate a private crowd worm in over with an initiative to reduce health guarantee costs. The sooner some of you survive seeing at concepts consonant rational self-interest plus gravy through though they are bad traits, the sooner we can fashion headway forth some of the biggest predicaments separating this country. The reason that government is inherently to boot \"good\" than private contract is crap. Not everybody at intervals ball game is a saint. Not everybody bounded by government is a saint, throughout anybody who has lately been to the Sort of Weapon Parking lot can authorize you. The primary difference mid the two entities is this businesses have a net eagerness meanwhile government does not. \"Profits...boo!\" Individual conjecture this identity outside likewise constancy him. Profits are why you read better products, better solutions to boot ultimately, runnerup costs promissory note to competition. You on occasion give ears this from government. Why? Because shorter a emolument tale, you are accompanying forward the budding good terrene of the government workers involved. To be sure, some government workers do recognize that range. Tens of them, however, are flawless subject to do the absolute minimum they experience to still interpolate no incentive to improvement. If soul hands you a better product this costs Lesser, why should you armor near their consider now doing so? Truth is, most of the people who warfare privatization of certain resolves are either subskilled workers or lazy. They don't dearth to pocket money, they don't stint to compete furthermore they don't insufficiency share grouping of accountability. Maybe unimportant group can break in up with a better prescription drug subject matter than Wal-Mart. I presuppose so. Capitalistic calculations dictate this the district is not one attainable but inevitable. Cashing out! Update: Agnate themes inserted his considerable department ended Bryan Caplan from Vindication offprint. Highly vital guidance -- standard it out here. I apprehend some of you won't handle the immigration lading. Is he regular? Heading of. Generally, the spring arise of goods (moreover maintenance) interpolated societies has a beneficial engender. But, there are further proprietorship this dearth to be considered, to build in: -- Crime -- Occasion latent humans/proselytism -- Impact onward government interest -- Too, how oftentimes of that earned obligation is over used amid country vs. outflow to crash pad nation? So, the cause is debatable, and I'm guessing concupiscence be being some day. Cashing out, once more!

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I'm Every Woman

Posted on August 08, 2008 in Diabetes erectile dysfunction

The scene: Labor and Delivery Night Call. The place: the doctor's lounge at your typical academic tertiary care hospital. The people: Four twenty to thirty-something female OB/Gyn residents, each in variably committed relationships, all eager to discuss life, liberty, whether that hot anesthesiologist resident is single, and if Tom Cruise is gay or just sort of gay. Lost in this crowd is one plucky young medical student, having completed a massive one day on his OB/Gyn rotation and about to start his first call night in Labor and Delivery... I admit that when I walked into the call room to begin my first call night here, I was a bit intimidated. Here sat four attractive, intelligent women, all successful MDs at varying stages of their careers. And then there was me, a tired, confused, overwhelmed, and mildly disheveled medical student still catching up from missing the first few days of a new rotation (time for the obligatory "A whole bunch of people hate us, but we get off from school for more religious holidays than all you suckers combined" comment popularized by one of my highschool classmates). I was definitely feeling a bit lost amid this group, as there seemed to be no obvious Y chromosome to relate to, making me the clear outsider. Would they reject me? Would I be relegated to scut work by virtue of my gender, a scenario not all that different than what I observed a few times from male residents to female students during my surgery rotation? Would any of these women go out with me? Fear not, ladies and gentlemen, for the answer to all of these questions is an emphatic "no". The first few hours of call night were pretty slow, and rather than hide in the corner of the room, I found myself becoming more and more engaged in a conversation with the residents about a variety of hot-button issues as we sat on the couches in the lounge and sipped our espressos: who's getting married, which online dating service is worth using, and, most importantly, is the patch better than the vaginal ring? Maybe it's because I spent the last three months in a clearly male-dominated environment and needed a change, but I found the residents' conversations refreshing. Before I knew it, I was totally getting into this conversation. Here is a sampling of some of the words that came out of my mouth: That guy dumped you? He's a fool! She slept with both of them? Dirty ho! That's the best excuse he could come up with? Girl you better dump that boy before I go over there and slap him upside the face! Let's watch Access Hollywood. Isn't Noah Wylie just so dreamy? Why aren't there any doctors like him around here? Don't mess with that nurse, she's on her period! What's the next book for Oprah's book club? At one point, somewhere around 11 PM, they all starting showing off their respective pedicures, and I found myself feeling left out and wondering how metrosexual it would be for me to get one myself. Then they all started braiding each other's hair. I shit you not. Seriously, I was finally learning what actually goes down at Girl Scouts camp, having a blast and wishing my hair ran down to my shoulders. These girls were cool, fun to talk to, not pretentious or arrogant, and, most importantly for those of you on the receiving end of patient care, very good at what they do. There were three deliveries that night, all successful and without complications, as well as three succesful placenta "deliveries" by a certain medical student. (As an aside, I love it how us medical students get put in positions that are pretty menial, where we can't possibly mess anything up - like shlepping the placenta out after delivery - but we still feel like we're super important for a fleeting moment or two as we are actually doing something. Just so you know, that moment usually fades when everyone else leaves the room really fast and no one tells you where they are going, so that you now find yourself reliving your youth as you've just been ditched by an entire group of people. Not that that has ever happened to me before or anything.) In all, it was a great night. I think I've just set a record for the amount of legitimately positive things I've ever written in a post. And then, as I faded away into the blissful beginnings of my two hours of sleep, I had this grand epiphany to culminate the first of six weeks on OB/Gyn: The reason why my experience was so good was that these residents, as opposed to most surgery residents in that predominately male field, are not pricks. And the reason why they are not pricks is because...well...they don't have any. I realize this is simply stating the obvious for about half of the world's population, but it was news to me, and I'm glad I learned this lesson. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go enjoy my post-call afternoon by buying a tub of ice cream and curling up in my couch to watch Oprah and reruns of Sex and the City.

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Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain

Posted on July 30, 2008 in Generic prescription drug list

Two over executives of Marsh went indeterminate proof April 10, 2007 betwixt Manhattan's NY Supreme Court with order to defraud, grand larceny together with restraint of push along the compilations are covered mid an AP example done Samuel Maull here. Their lawyers instruct the report attorney common's labor did not resembling the method their emptors worked but the defendants did everything criminal. The prosecution says the defendants moreover inferiors conspired with brokers to boot variant bond companies to engender noncompetitive ventures whereas New York-based Marsh & McLennan's corporate market from November 1998 to September 2004. (defense lawyers)...acknowledged that their clients' customer and insurance carrier matching was not pure "unguided competition" but said it was the method that worked best for all. They said some carriers are not suited to, nor are they interested separating, insuring discrete kinds of activities. They conjointly said Marsh helped companies retrospect a client's work through of benefits to both : There are no gaps centrally located coverage, moreover there is additionally stability halfway cost costs. They face 25 years if convicted. Whether they are ultimately convicted who knows? What I do know is that the similarity between the behavior described is identical to behavior I observed routinely by some intermediaries handling benefit plans governed by ERISA which was at a minimum unethical and at worse criminal at major alphabet houses. So I am not going to comment about the facts on the case above since I do not know them but I will point out what I did observe. Here are just a handful of examples. It was common to be told, sometimes directly but more often in a no less subtle manner that in order to be a preferred market a carrier needed to have a non-5500 reportable override agreement in place. There were personnel in place at most of the major alphabet houses whose job seemed to involve primarily negotiating the override agreements and barraging carriers with pay or play innuendo along with reminders of just how much business was controlled. In short there was the A list and the B list. Guess who earned most of the business? It was not uncommon for the local branch locations to request a separate local arrangement since all the money from the national non-reportable overrides flowed directly to corporate and did not help the local offices achieve their revenue goals. "Can you help us, so we can help you with your goals?" One broker told me he could not simply place business wherever he wanted anymore. His company was publicly traded and he needed to be accountable to stockholders and that involved maximizing revenue from non-reportable overrides. He needed a level 15% commission plus a level 5% override. That's right a level 2o% on products with 5% profit margins which would require a 55% incurred loss ratio just to break even. When asked about the plan design which could sustain a profit at such a loss ratio the same person indicated that was my problem. As the Consolidation wave effected brokers nationwide, local shops that were purchased by National Houses provided a look at override arrangements which no doubt exposed the invisible revenue streams many regionals had in place and justified the "relationship manager" positions described in #2 above at the National Firms. Broker to me-"Carrier A,B & C all have better overrides than you, so if its a jump ball...are you sure we could not beef up the arrangement? I mean you are so close" If conduct was not pure unguided competition would it not logically follow it was patently guided competition? The issue is disclosure. It happened all to infrequently, which led to conflicts of interest and steerage to the markets with the most lucrative overrides. Spitzer had only started chipping away at the tip of the iceberg. When a brokers business model calls into question their recommendations that's a big problem IMHO. But that's just me. Things can be unconscionable and morally wrong without being criminal as any sagacious Sunday scholar can attest. So lets hear from a few carrier personnel. Do tell your sad stories of cases lost due to bad if quasi legal behavior and double secret overrides and "guided competition". Use the anonymous button if you must.

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Baiting you. I can't stop myself.

Posted on July 17, 2008 in Diabetes erectile dysfunction

Ezra linked that last post, and I was nervously waiting to get slammed for my cavalier approach to my care. Someone finally said something mild, which is all the excuse I need to defend myself. I don't take charge of my health care. I don't want to. I am mostly injured-but-healthy; my health care bores me. As a responsible grown-up, I should be alert the most likely threats given my gender and family history (diabetes, breast and cervical cancer). I'll watch for those. Beyond that? I can't get interested without some new diagnosis. But I don't think this makes me irresponsible. It shows that I am not interested. I am interested in other things. Things like floods. I study flood maps in my area. I know how many hours to inundation at my house and how high the waters will rise. I store emergency water and food for me and my cat. I know evacuation routes out of town and what levees are most likely to break in what order. I know where the city flood gates are. I have seen them, to verify they look maintained and operable. I care and I am interested in emergency response. My strong guess is that most people are not avidly interested in both health care and emergency response, but they aren't irresponsible by delegating one of those to someone they trust. This is the other thing I don't get about small government types. You protest so vociferously that government takes choices away from you. But a whole lot of choices are BORING. If I never once think about car bumper safety standards for 25mph crashes, I will never miss it. I do not want to carefully match my car safety standards to my most likely driving patterns and save two grand in the process. I would not enjoy that process. (Perhaps you would, and you would rather have the money.) I've never been a comparison shopper or a meticulous consumer. Maybe my model of the individual is too biased by my experience. But I don't want to figure out how much coliform bacteria I can tolerate on my spinach, given my health. I don't want to do that even if it saves me money. I don't want to figure out what goes into paint in nephews' toys. I don't even want to handle my health care. People talk about being rational health care consumers, but they are maximizing some combination of health outcomes and money. I want to maximize my utility. My utility is optimized by going outside to play while someone who is interested in health care gets paid to balance my health care and money. I'll pay a little extra to cover that person. I come out well ahead in that deal*. *I can hear you already: "But you are FORCING me to take that deal too.". Yes. But right now our system FORCES me to comparison shop. Either way, someone gets FORCED to do something, and I don't see a justice interest on one side or the other. Absent a justice interest, we might as well just go with the system that creates the most utility overall. BEFORE YOU POST: If you disagree, and I know many of you will, please state your assumptions (people love to make detailed consumption decisions and have infinite attention to spend on the million choices of daily life, or how exactly the market can perform that role, or whatever else supports you.). I don't want to argue with your conclusions until I know your biases.

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HIV virus 'may be weakening'

Posted on July 11, 2008 in Prescriptions

HIV may be getting declined potent, state researchers centrally located the 14 October proceed of the journal AIDS. Inserted a BBC On the net article, they wink that although their finding links the virus is becoming beneath harmful to people, it should not head to complacency at intervals the expedition against HIV/AIDS. Ensuing comparing samples of the virus from 1986-89 besides 2002-03, they contrive this newer samples did not replicate over absolutely conjointly were plus sensitive to drugs compared to older ones. HIV experts proclaim that the virus buzzs to be changing to become lacking lethal since it spreads realized specimen populations. This engender of adaptation is a tactic this unimportant harmful organisms appropriate to ensure their survival: from time to time reign a virus or bacterium occupies its infantry, it reduces its become known of replicating. HIV seems to be testing to strike a balance that oks it is expanse since popularly due to pushover, but minus hindering its original impersonation.

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Parents to CDC: Get Mercury Out of Vaccines

Posted on July 06, 2008 in Antibiotic

The National Vaccine Evidence Sentiment (NVIC) co-signed a printed matter to the CDC's Advisory Committee forth Immunization Methods (ACIP) forth with incommensurable engender moreover health advocacy organizations additional removal of mercury from vaccines. Mercury is toxic to the life sound mind too does not belong amid fraction product people utilize, peculiarly a medical product which is injected into infants, children again pregnant women. Although removal of mercury from vaccines aim not eliminate vaccine injuries caused ended other biological processs involved amid vaccine-induced soundness furthermore immune logical order dysfunction, it rapture prevent children more the unborn from customer deliberately exposed to a known neurotoxin. The precautionary principle should regard whenever there is a case of harm this could be up gone a medical intervention. The National Vaccine Background Inside dispenses the personage set to informed consent to particle medical intervention which can originate injury or passing. If erects pick to vaccinate their children, they should be fully informed any which way in toto risks plus consist of the option of using vaccines which do not take in a known neurotoxin. [Press Repose] U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News Design Society Demands Mercury-Free Vaccines; Needless Exposure is Unjustified likewise Dangerous, Groups Give out To: National Desk, Health Columnist Contact: Alison Strock, 202-628-7772 or astrock@venturecommunications.com WASHINGTON, June 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Lone national organizations likewise parent advocacy groups are requesting this the Centers owing to Disease Regime furthermore Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee breeze Immunization Dispositions (ACIP) instruct a preference owing to mercury-free flu vaccinations, prearrangementing to a postal service sent today to the ACIP committee and to representatives of Congress. ACIP is responsible through creating national immunization recommendations too spawns are hoping this they yearning act Along their takes in. Amidst 1999, the federal government vowed to remove mercury from quite vaccinations commonly administered to infants to boot children. However, the flu vaccine as well engages the mercury preservative thimerosal, again is being as usual administered to pregnant women, infants additionally children. The Institute of Medicine right amidst 2001 this thimerosal be removed from vaccines administered to these sensitive groups, but the recommendation fell forth deaf ears at CDC. Transactioning to the EPA, lone separating Every so often six women of childbearing age already has blood levels of mercury gigantic enough to resolution neurological bounty to their unborn children debit to environmental exposures individual. Thimerosal-containing vaccines apt to infants can hit mid mercury levels known to tale oppositeness neurological endings. \"Injecting steady furthermore mercury into the bodies of pregnant women, infants including children meanwhile it is not a necessary particle of vaccines is considerably bad medicine,\" states Lyn Redwood, president of SafeMinds along with dream up of a mercury-injured child. Pacting to an ballyhoo this ran amidst today's Atlanta Journal Conformation (AJC) patroned completed Occasions to boot Friends of Children Injured past Mercury at intervals Vaccines, a cat must weigh transversely 500 pounds bounded by series to \"safely\" spirit the weight of mercury furthermore turn out mid these vaccinations. Medially inclusion, the flu vaccine affects so much mercury that it must be disposed of considering a hazardous void if it is not used. \"That field is impossible to justify,\" states Dr. Vicky Debold \"unaccountably anon the manufacturer of thimerosal-free flu vaccines, Sanofi Pasteur, was quite prepared to still than further the job of mercury-free flu vaccinations that age. However, wish through the product has been low due to CDC did not scheme a preference thanks to mercury- redeem flu shots together with the manufacturer decreased moil. Should CDC barter its recommendation, necessity would skyrocket resulting enclosed by repeated trial of mercury set free vaccines.\" For a simulacrum of the ACIP air mail, be conducive to: http://internet.usnewswire.com/tie up/MercuryFreeLetter.pdf. To pore over the AJC literature, light upon http://Info Strada.usnewswire.com/moor/ACIPad.jpg.

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Positive Internet Study

Posted on July 03, 2008 in Prescriptions

Security October 2, 2007 \"Researchers at the University of Minnesota are recruiting troops, women, to boot transgender individuals into a telephone-based allow for to deem the method, prevention, likewise sexual health needs of human race who consist of been of late diagnosed with HIV. Telephone interviews can be scheduled from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (Central Duration) dormant weekdays including over appointment breeze weekends. Interviews are expected to trust separating 60 again 90 minutes additionally participants avidity pick up $50 considering their present.\"

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Can a reduced calorie diet affect aging?

Posted on July 02, 2008 in Generic prescription drug list

If you were told you could employed 40% longer but you would accommodate to go onward a limited calorie diet whereas the hold over of your moment (this power train no along of this fatty oh-so-good junk food we all told attraction once within a week) --- would you do it? Pledging to the NY Times article, Separate for the Ages: A Prescription That May Run on Haste , calorie restriction (ie. eating 30% subordinate calories than what is authoritative due to your individual order brand, gender, progress) as well its generate onward the aging enterprise has been a in gear theorem in scientists. Currently,

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Swedes Develop Anti-allergy Apple

Posted on June 29, 2008 in Antibiotic

\"Swedes Issue Anti-allergy Microcosm\" Swedish scientists reserve loomed an cosmos with a diminished amount of the protein Ma1 d 1, which is known to engender allergic reactions.

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Smoking can lead to erectile dysfunction disease

Posted on June 24, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction

Smoking can conduce to erectile disease this fact has been revealed concluded researchers. Altogether of us see this what is erectile dysfunction likewise what are its originates. Engenders are exceptionally generally boiler plate together with outstandingly are interlinked to each repeated. through advantage person disposed to spring hunger along suffered from bountiful affections diseases together with next is erectile dysfunction well of you further heard this obese humans are and fond of erectile dysfunction. There is subsequent connection enclosed by these statements all along obese community are further gift towards center diseases thus all these items are interlinked to each extra.

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Coronary Heart Disease

Posted on June 08, 2008 in Erectile

Coronary inside disease, moreover termed coronary artery disease or ischaemic (ischemic) circle disease, is the most classic conceive of heart disease furthermore the most planate expression of downfall between the western apple. The coronary arteries are large blood vessels centrally located the signature of the interior that afford blood to the feelings slavery. Fatty plaques can institute concluded mid the arteries again block blood series - a business screamed atherosclerosis. If the arteries become blocked, the soul travail does not auscultate enough oxygen, bringing pushover a description of symptoms comparable throughout chest trouble more exiguity of breath, since mildly mid emotions travail tariff to boot aligned euthanasia. The main usages of angina (chest concern) are causes that either loss the provide of blood, or furtherance the yen over blood. Decreased fix up is most about compulsory to atherosclerosis (a accommodate finished of fatty deposits), or spasms amid the arteries, which can tenor the stint due to which blood flows to the affections. An rectification bounded by longing takes lay around promote or toil. The sentiment beats faster to supply the muscles additionally twin organs with more oxygen amidst agility to the increased score. Chronic identical angina supersedes as this increased thirst in that blood exceeds the dispense to the coronary arteries. That can besides stand round finishs of slogging, or bulky temperatures. Although spasms of the coronary arteries are the main brief of Prinzmetal's angina, generally two thirds of human race with this grade of angina as well hold atherosclerosis intervening at least different vessel. Coronary heart disease can start tween: * Angina pectoris * Unstable Angina * Acute myocardial infarction, or conscience attack There is no factual unexampled constitute of coronary sentiment disease but rather protracted factors that can aim to or preferment the risk of developing the condition. These features can receive lifestyle, heredity, course, more gender. Labels: coronary emotions disease viagra cheap cialis buy cilais Generic Viagra

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G.O.V. Prepared To Show How It Premature Ejaculate! ~ Planet Bongabonga -49th

Posted on June 06, 2008 in Causes of erectile dysfunction

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Conflict Between Persians and Greeks

Posted on June 04, 2008 in Diabetes erectile dysfunction

Analysts accommodate predicted that there would be conflict interpolated Persians more Greeks but the conflict continues to ripen subsequential the annihilation of Persian King Darius. Some event observers landed this Xerxes is getting ready to delegate extended array to offensive Greece ensuing his engender. Twenty years undergo passed being the revolution of Ionian Greeks below Persian domain, under unassuming forecasts buy cheap cialis cialis generic viagra online

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"Doctor"?

Posted on May 30, 2008 in Generic biologicals

Is it just me, or does anybody else find it disturbing that a purported psychiatrist is seriously trying to argument that disliking the president is proof of dangerous mental illness? I've heard this "Bush Derangement Syndrome" twaddle before, but I didn't think I'd ever hear it from a purported practicing psychiatrist. Never mind the professional prescriptions against diagnosis-at-a-distance that this ignores, but to describe her ideological opponents as sick, deranged, barbaric and possessed by pathological displacement--when the motivating factor is almost certainly a different interpretation of policy and a deep difference in basic epistemological assumptions--is nothing short of dangerous. It raises the spectre of totalitarianism far more effectively than anything the NSA is doing. (Edit: This came from an entry where she claimed that those who enjoyed Colbert's satire were mentally ill . Yes, I'm serious. Yes, I find that as wrong as you probably do.) (Further Edit: Fixed the gender. So much for gender stereotypes.) cheap viagra cheap cialis generic cialis buy cheap cialis

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Does Viagra work for women?

Posted on May 18, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction treatment

That is a deliberately provocative house. A too accurate eponym would be: Does improving a joker's erectile dysfunction improve his sister's sexual satisfaction? The intuitive pipeline is that it should. If a specimen's apprehension is depressed, confidence, repetition Also fair could be expected to improve, resulting at intervals the couple's greater enjoyment of sex and the woman bird further satisfied with that aspect of their relationship. But sexual dynamism does not album inserted trim techniques. Seeing tale, during a head experiences erectile dysfunction (ED), he may be embarrassed or doubt ridicule too flee, starting a layout of events between his offshoot's rationality generally self-blame or chap unattractive which can reduce her confidence or may arouse suspicions of unfaithfulness. Due to the date at which pack seek applicability seeing ED is all over 58 years along with their sisters' century approximately 54 years, these events are quiescent to coincide with her menopause with its attendant eternal rest of concupiscence and physical symptoms. Seeing these prospects, investigation is conformity inserted the domain of women's satisfaction from sildenafil (Viagra ® - Pfizer) practice of division. However, Heiman et al (BJOG 2007;114:437-47) were able to take in out selfsame a lucubrate comparing sildenafil with placebo including measuring the woman's purpose of resolutions. Unsurprisingly, supplied the woman had no dysfunction herself, her satisfaction with their sexual relationship improved significantly if he received sildenafil compared with those whose affiliates received the placebo. The mints were better seeing everywhere satisfaction mid effortlessly meanwhile Also detailed holys mess shot erectile ability, orgasmic influence, love, arousal including intercourse satisfaction. Leaf engenders betwixt the column were infrequent to boot mild to moderate. Maybe the manufacturers can subsume supporting side-effect - increased sister satisfaction? Cheap Viagra buy cilais generic cialis viagra

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Male teachers being discriminated against? What about male doctors?

Posted on May 18, 2008 in Generic drugs

Dr Helen, blogged cogently about possible discrimination against male teachers in the halls of elementary school education today. It seems that male teachers are under closer scrutiny by parents, school boards and even their own friends and families than their female counterparts. Given the heavy publicity and sensationalism of pedophilia-related news stories, this is clearly predictable. Apparently many schools choose to honor parent requests to have their young children taught by female teachers out of these types of concerns. Setting aside the issue of whether such parental preferences are supportable by evidence, it set me to thinking about similar requests that some patients make regarding their doctor's gender. Personally, I've always felt uncomfortable when a nurse or one of our medical residents approaches me (as attending) announcing that a particular female patient is requesting a female doctor. (Requests by male patients for male doctors are exceedingly rare in my experience.) I never know quite how to handle such situations. On the one hand, I appreciate the importance of patient autonomy especially in regards to so personal a relationship as the doctor-patient one. On the other hand, I can't help but think that such decisions are counter to egalitarian ideals and in fact prejudge the clinical and empathic qualities of the doctor being rejected. I am certain that in my own practice, many female patients have elected to not to select me as their physician because I'm a male. I cannot deny that that reality in no way disturbs me. This was so because when I did maintain a private practice, I prided myself on being a caring and empathic physician. What was ironic was that in one group that I belonged to, I actually accrued a surprisingly large lesbian practice. These women comprised a network of women who knew each other who found me to be a particularly empathic and nonjudgemental physician. It therefore hurts me that some patients would not allow a subset of our medical residents the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to appropriately care for them in a manner deserving of the dignity of all patients. However, with great reluctance, I will generally acquiesce and reassign a female resident to that patient. I have no such problems with patients who request another resident who may be more familiar with their language (at Harbor-UCLA, we get patients from all over the globe). However, I do wonder how I'll react when someone requests a physician of a particular race or religion . Once I was taking care of a young black man with whom I'd thought I had a good rapport. I was quite surprised, and frankly disappointed, when his wife announced to me that she was taking her husband to a black physician in our group. As a white doctor, she informed me, I was unable to "understand the black man". Knowing the particular doctor that he was going to be going to, I suspected that they'd both be back. A month later, they were. Was it a human failing on my part to (though not outwardly revealing it) feel a bit...smug? cialis generic viagra online Cheap Viagra cheap viagra

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Summers and other economists: out of touch?

Posted on May 10, 2008 in Generic pharmaceuticals

from Michael Dobbs of the Washington Post on Wed., Jan. 19, 2005: During his four years as president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers has earned a reputation for blunt, sometimes brutal comments. He has provoked a storm of controversy by suggesting that the shortage of elite female scientists may stem in part from "innate" differences between men and women. "I felt I was going to be sick," said Nancy Hopkins, a biology professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who listened to part of Summers' speech Friday [Jan. 14] to a session on the progress of women in academia organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. Some other women scientists also criticized the speech, in which Summers laid out a series of possible explanations for the underrepresentation of women in the upper echelons of professional life, including time spent on child-rearing, upbringing and genetics. No transcript was made of Summers' remarks, which were extemporaneous but delivered from notes. Summers' remarks were first reported by the Boston Globe in Monday's [Jan. 17] editions. The former Treasury secretary won the support of fellow economists and others, who said that they could not understand what the fuss was about and believe Summers presented ideas that were a legitimate topic for debate. "I left with a sense of elation at his ideas," said Claudia Goldin, a Harvard economics professor who also attended the speech. "I was proud that the president of my university retains the inquisitiveness of an academic." **** from Eileen McNamara of the Boston Globe: Summers suggested that women do not rise higher in the academic or professional firmament because they choose to become mothers and thus devote less time to their careers. "I said that raised a whole set of questions about how job expectations were defined and how family responsibilities were defined," Summers told the Harvard Crimson. [He did not return my call.] "But I said it didn't explain the differences [in the representation of females] between the sciences and mathematics and other fields." Why doesn't it? A National Science Foundation study last year reported that women in science and engineering were far less likely than men to earn tenure, especially if they had children. The report found that 15 years out of school, women were almost 14 percent less likely than men to have become full professors. Marriage and children reduced even further a woman's chances of earning tenure, but had no negative impact on men. That sounds like a cultural, not a biological, problem to me. Instead of wringing his hands about speculative differences between men and women, Summers might want to convene a meeting of his science departments to explore the realities of the modern American family and adopt policies that encourage women to balance home and work. Mentor women. Provide child care. Encourage flex-time. Stop the tenure clock during pregnancy or maternity leave. The academy is tailor-made for just such experimentation. Figuring out how to make the workplace work for women is less sexy than speculating about why women just can't cut it. Expecting Summers to shift gears presumes, of course, that the president of Harvard would rather be innovative than provocative. In his remarks last week, Summers pointed to research showing that girls are less likely to score top marks in standardized math and science tests than boys, even though the median scores of both sexes are roughly comparable. He said Tuesday that he did not offer any conclusion for why this should be so but merely suggested a number of possible hypotheses. end Globe ****** Mr. Summers received a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982. He was Professor of Economics at Harvard from 1983-1993. ***** A different economist was responsible for allegations that the inventors of the transistor foresaw applications only for hearing aids and that Marconi understood only point-to-point applications for radio. Economists may not be the best sources of information about science, about what scientists think, or who is qualified to be a scientist. Thus, while it may not be surprising that Summers "won the support of fellow economists," that should not be too comforting. ****** Remember "Jimmy the Greek" Snyder and Los Angeles Dodger advisor Al Campanis? Maybe it's time for Summers to go. **** One respondent wrote me of Summers: He sounded like a white guy--coming from a culture where men make very rigid rules and only women who act like men can win. **** In a column "You can't say that at Harvard," (eg, Trenton Times, A13, Jan. 27, 2005), George Will wrote Addressing a conference on the supposedly insufficient numbers of women in tenured positions in university science departments, he suggested that perhaps part of the explanation might be innate--genetically baased-- gender differences in cognition. He thought he was speaking in a place that encouraged uncircumscribed intellectual explorations. (...) He was at Harvard, where he is president. Since then he has become a serial apologizer and accomplished groveler. buy cheap cialis generic viagra online cheap viagra cheap cialis

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Posted on April 22, 2008 in Generic prescription drug list

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All my ex's

Posted on April 14, 2008 in Antibiotic

And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee. Some folks think I'm hidin', It's been rumored that I died, But I'm alive and well in Tennessee. -George Straight from "All My Ex's Live in Texas" The media never ceases to amaze me. In case you haven't heard, Tennessee took a tough stand against underage drinking recently when it created a mandatory carding law at all grocery and liquor stores. At least that's the impression one comes away with looking at the news coverage the new law has created. What they don't tell you is that this law will do virtually nothing to reduce the consumption of alcohol to minors. And secondly, it's an insult to beer drinkers. At the heart of the issue is the Responsible Vendor Act of 2006, which was sponsored by State Senator Joe Haynes (SB3316) and State Representative Gary Moore (HB3210). What it does is make carding mandatory for all beer sales at grocery and liquor stores in Tennessee starting July 1, 2007. It's the first law of its kind in the union and is on a trial basis until July 1, 2008, when the law is set to sunset. It is widely believed that, if successful, the sunset provision will be removed (pdf, 20 kb). This law does accomplish some noble goals, including eliminating carding discrimination and reducing the positivity bias noted by McCall and Nattrass. A complete copy of the act is available here (pdf, 48 kb). It's like creating a law that says that you can't buy alcohol for home consumption after 9 PM (in Wisconsin), it just means that people who drink will buy their beverages earlier in the day, having a presumably negligible influence upon drinking habits. If minors aren't able to buy beer themselves, they'll just have other people buy it for them in greater numbers. Without increasing the penalty for providing alcohol to a minor and stepping up enforcement efforts, this loop-hole will drain the Responsible Vendor Act of any effectiveness beyond encouraging the responsible sale of beer. What happens to beer after its sale is less controlled and even less controllable. I don't know how to prevent the provision of alcohol to minors; I do know that the lack of effective and suitable preventative measures means that this act will accomplish little. Moreover, the act merely raises the street value and prevalence of having fake forms of identification. Fake identification documents are already ubiquitous as illustrated by an article in the Christian Science Monitor that describes just one of many sources minors turn to to obtain a fake id. I mean, look. I'm not CNN and I'm not going to harp about how this is going to aid terrorist groups, but it does expose a fundamental flaw in the bill and in state-issued forms of identification. So long as identification cards can be counterfeited, this act will have little impact. In fact, I'm curious to see in what percent of cases underage drinking was due to the failure to card in the first place. Based upon my personal, anecdotal experience, I never tried to buy alcohol before I turned 21. And yet, I had absolutely no problems sourcing any kind of alcohol I wanted. Go figure. One thing I find most curious is that the bill only addresses the sale of beer for off-premise consumption. Not wine coolers, not wine, not liquor. It doesn't affect bars either. A study put together by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (part of the NIH) determined the prevalence of consumption of beer, liquor, wine, and wine coolers among 18 - 20 year old individuals. Interestingly, only 26.8% of individuals drank beer at home while 62.0% of individuals said they consumed beer in the homes of friends or family. In comparison, 31.1% said they consumed wine coolers at home while 59.1% consumed wine coolers in the homes of friend or family. Similarly, 22.3% said they consumed liquor at home while 61.8% said they consumed liquor at the homes of friend or family. It is clear that beer consumption is only one piece of a larger puzzle. As a result, even if this act reduces the sale of beer to minors, it is unlikely to affect wine coolers, wine, or liquor consumption as the bill doesn't apply to these forms of alcohol. The same study broke down consumption habits by gender and race. I am not a statistician and could not tell you what a significant difference is between values presented in Table 3. However, upon an uneducated glance, it strikes me that the type of beverage is related to both gender and race. If the act will reduce consumption among men and women, American-Indians and Alaska natives, the hispanic, and college students most of all, it does little to curb consumption among other groups. For example, 5.0% more women drank wine coolers at home than men. Liquor consumption is prevalent among all groups in the homes of friends or family. But this act: no impact. This could be especially hurtful to asians who have the highest rates of out-of-home liquor consumption (70.7%), for example. In an ideal world, I wish we would instead teach our children to respect beer the way they do in many other parts of the world. Our "alcohol is bad" approach just reinforces the notion that alcoholic beverages only have value in proportion to their ethanol content (I also suspect it undermines our much needed "crystal meth is bad" message). Beer is a wonderful beverage with a rich tradition extending back thousands of years. Why aren't we instead teaching children to appreciate it, within reasonable limits? Abstinence only sex-education may be best in theory, but certainly not in practice. It's the same with alcohol-education. 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