Detroit The short tragic history of Detroit is that race riots in the late sixties caused “white flight”, drastically lowering the tax base and precipitating the relocation of major industries away from Detroit. The lack of jobs led to a reduction in Detroit’s total population from over two million to the current 700 thousand. At[…]
Conferences
Inflated Prices for Rice and Healthcare Rice is a staple of the Japanese diet. Japanese-grown rice costs twice as much in Japan as the same rice sold in other countries. This is because of a convoluted system of distribution and middlemen, which raises the price far beyond the actual and reasonably expected price of rice.[…]
For the third year in a row, Susan and I attended the conference Middle Eastern Nurses Uniting in Human Caring. This year’s title was Human Caring in a Time of World Crisis, a theme chosen almost a year ago, before the most recent war between Israel and Gaza, before the hideous executions by ISIS, most[…]
Planetree: Patient-focused Care As I write this blog, the news is full of alarming reports about Ebola, a disease without a medical cure, spreading internationally. Two (2!) American nurses contracted the disease while caring for an African patient. At the same time, I’ve seen several cartoons of overweight men sitting in a bar, drinking, smoking,[…]
I could write a substantial narrative about our first few days in Jordan: arriving in Amman, driving from Amman to Aqaba, taking a 4-wheel Jeep excursion into the Wadi Rum nature area, and visiting the amazing archeological treasures of Petra. Instead, I will let my photos tell those stories. This blog will address a far[…]
During the two days of the Transform 2013 conference in Rochester, Minnesota, sponsored by the Mayo Clinic, I took notes during the series of eighteen-minute talks on a wide variety of healthcare subjects. There were too many points made to communicate all of them in this brief blog. I will attempt to briefly summarize as[…]
We live in interesting times. Consider Syria…After being in the air flying back to Reno during the president’s speech, I’ve been listening to the re-broadcast and talking heads. The most compelling question begging for a military strike is: Would our lack of response to this poison attack encourage more such attacks in the future?[…]
The younger son of my Georgia buddy, Bill, has worked for several years for Google. Google is famous for how well it treats its employees. They enjoy gourmet food, free shuttles services, permission to play games at work, and even get paid for “day-dreaming”, a percentage of time when they’re encouraged[…]