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Sunday, July 2, 2006Homework Again: Doctors and Power. I could use your help.1. What factors have helped doctors gain power in American Society? Numerous advances in the 19 th century probably had a great deal to do with doctors first becoming a power. The invention of the stethoscope, vaccines, wholesale production of drugs, anesthesia, germ theory, and pathology were some... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, July 1, 2006More Homework: Doctors and EthicsThe dominance that doctors have creates an ethical problem because we have doctors policing doctors coupled with the potential of financial gain or loss. To a great extent, this is unavoidable. The decisions doctors make to start a procedure or during in many cases would take other doctors in order... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, June 28, 2006Welcome To Wendover - Say Hello To Wendover WillWendover Will says, "Hi and Welcome to West Wendover." He is lit up by neon at night. Sort of. It seems that poor Will is pretty darn old and every night a different section of neon doesn't work. He was resurrected from a sign graveyard last year. He used to stand on the state line and point his... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, June 27, 2006Trey is a happy kid but one thing really brightens his moodHe is very good natured but my wife and I have noticed that he is even happier when all three of us are together. He pretty much pings off the walls. He stays up later and just runs around and around. Yesterday we all went for a walk to a playground so that he could play. He loved it. He's almost... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, June 24, 2006Discussion Response For My Sociology ClassOur text and an article I recently read both point to the fact that one of the problems with going to a national health system is that U.S. citizens like to be able to make choices. I had to think about this. My first question was, is having a choice worth having the most expensive healthcare in the... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, June 19, 2006A Question For BloggersIn my college class, we are now discussing healthcare. The author of the book used for the course believes that the United States should go to a national healthcare system. What do you think? Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, June 18, 2006Fast And Furious - Social DriftI'm taking one college class for summer, Sociology. It's only a month long class and I have just finished week #2. It's a lot to do in a short amount of time but it's halfway over already. I'm going to be working for the next few days to see how much of it I can get done. We can work ahead in the... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, June 16, 2006Save The LizardsYesterday's rescue effort by my son and I is an ongoing mission. There are a lot of lizards out here in the desert so it's not an endangered species kind of thing. My wife just doesn't like to see them killed and left on our porch. That's what our cat does. My son and I have rescued several from... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, June 15, 2006I Finished What Nature Had StartedI took the tree out of the ground today and moved it off the lawn where I can cut it up for firewood. It wasn't a very big tree and probably isn't going to be more than a night's worth of burning. Still, I have a fireplace and a dead tree. Seems like a match to me. I picked up the tree to move it... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, June 14, 2006The Wind Blows Out Here All The Time So This Came As A SurpriseAnd I do mean all the time. We have had shingles blown off the roof, watched neighbor's garbage cans blow out in the desert, and one time, I think I saw an old lady on a bicycle fly by. The freeway out here has semi trucks blown over a few times a year. Yesterday was another one of those days and we... Sign in to see full entry. |
