What I’m Reading: Becker's Hospital Review

 

Researchers will use CRISPR/cas 9 techniques to create genetically modified bacteria designed to attack these deadly bacteria. That fact is not in the story but it is “fact” nonetheless.

 

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/untreatable-superbug-makes-its-way-to-us-for-first-time-6-things-to-know.html

What I’m Reading: Journal Sentinel

Someone always wins.

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/new-and-expanded-medical-definitions-create-more-patients--and-a-lucrative-market-for-drug-firms--379981751.html

What I’m Reading: USA Today

Can you imagine what good might be done by small, mission driven companies in this country with $500 billion?

http://usat.ly/1TrD5sE

 

 

What I'm Reading: The New York Times

Andrew Levy’s parents knew that the rare and deadly cancer in his blood could not be beaten, so they began to prepare for the worst. Then something mysterious happened.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/childhood-cancer-treatment.html

What I’m Reading: Massachusetts Health Policy Commission

Is anyone at CMS listening?

http://www.estespark.org/nu_upload/files/2015-2016%20Conferences/community-hospitals-at-a-crossroads.pdf

 

What I’m Reading: The New York Times

David Brooks is not a closet liberal. He cares about the Republican Party and the conservative movement in American politics. I don't usually agree with his politics but he writes and thinks as a rational adult should. Here, he admits he did not understand the depth of anger felt by the Trump supporters but argues that there is a moral center which even a popular vote in a democracy does not override. It is the core debate of democratic government and one of the reasons our founding fathers created a republic and not a truly democratic government. You can fool all the people some of the time. You can fool some of the people all of the time. Elections can be won by fooling enough people for a short time. Political parties can be maintained indefinitely by fooling some of the people for a long time. Even though it is true that you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, that principal does not protect us from a horrible outcome in a single election if enough people are fooled for a long enough time to control an election. The hope is that we do not suffer irreparable harm from one election.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/opinion/no-not-trump-not-ever.html

 

 

What I’m Reading: TED

David Brooks is one of the few conservative Republican voices on the regular New York Times "op ed" staff. We corresponded some a long time ago. He was the speaker at last year's Dartmouth College commencement. I do not always agree with him but he is always intelligent and rational. He is also comfortable putting "love" at the center of our business and social lives. He sounds a bit like Mal on Firefly when talking about what keeps his ship flying.

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_brooks_the_social_animal?language=en

http://now.dartmouth.edu/2015/06/david-brooks-commencement-address

David Brooks' favorite writer is C. S. Lewis. If you are ever bored enough to decipher part of Grid, you will find a discussion of C. S. Lewis and Tolkien which describes the moment Tolkien convinced Lewis to become a Christian. If you read enough Brooks, you will find a reference to the Lewis and Tolkien conversion experience. David really should credit me.