Very true. Just finished the Steve Jobs biography and am feeling very motivated to get this thing rolling again…
Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. All somebody needs to do is scroll through your library on that click wheel, and, musically speaking, you're naked. It's not just what you like--it's who you are.– Steven Levy
I’m not suggesting we allow misery, or deny appropriate medications. I’m saying, things sometimes hurt. We live in a time when sturdy carpenters want Percocet for minor finger injuries. When teens want Lortab for ankle sprains. When young women with sunburns want something to ‘put me to sleep.’– Edwin Leap
As somebody who has broken his arm (several times) and the majority of his fingers and yet never takes anything stronger than Advil (ok, occasionally, Aleve), I have to agree.
Medical errors as extreme as operating on the wrong body part or the wrong patient are never supposed to happen. Systematic efforts to eliminate these "never events" began a decade ago, and yet such errors continue regularly in Oregon and across the U.S. The most thorough national study estimated 1,300 to 2,700 people are harmed every year by wrong site errors.– Joe Rojas-Burke at Oregon Live
When I explain the Safe Surgery 2015 project to people, they often ask me if it is necessary. Answer: Yes–especially if you’re the one having surgery.
(Cited study here.)
The only people in the USA with a constitutional right to health care? Prisoners.– Kevin Outterson at TIE
QIN (n): A Chinese zither, with strings stretched across a flat box. (Scrabble score: 12)– The Scotsman
FIQH (n): An expansion of Islamic sharia law, based directly on the Koran and Sunnah. (Scrabble score: 19)
For those pesky Scrabble games where you somehow always end up with every Q and no U’s.