What the new health care market means for Fla.

MIAMI – Florida’s Republican lawmakers are reluctantly acknowledging that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and are taking steps to determine exactly what that will look like. The Sunshine State has one of the highest numbers of uninsured residents in the country, some of the most stringent eligibility requirements for health care safety nets, a large number of legal immigrants and a proposal to privatize its Medicaid program statewide. So how will the federal health overhaul impact that? Continue reading

Space Fan News #84: What? ANOTHER Most Distant Galaxy?; Milky Way is Larger Than We Thought – Video




Space Fan News #84: What? ANOTHER Most Distant Galaxy?; Milky Way is Larger Than We Thought We have a Deep Astronomy Community! plus.google.com Join us on Tuesday 12/18/2012: plus.google.com Census of farthest galaxies: hubblesite.org phys.org candels-collaboration.blogspot.com Milky Way More Massive than we thought: www.scientificamerican.com earthsky.org arxiv.org www.mso.anu.edu.au Space Fan News #82: youtu.be Hangout with Dan Coe: youtu.be If you want weekly space and astronomy news updates, please subscribe to the DeepAstronomy channel. Continue reading

Analysis: Access to health care beginning to look like airline travel

The old axis of access in U.S. health care – insured or uninsured – is being replaced by the kind of gradations and complexity in determining who-gets-what-when-for-what-price for which the airline industry has become famous. Some recent data and reactions to the provisions of the Affordable Care Act reinforce the trend Continue reading

Almost one third of Boroondara residents have no religion

DOES Boroondara lack spirituality? That is the question posed by Census figures released last week showing 44,588, or 28 per cent, of Boroondara residents do not follow a religion Continue reading

In Clinic (In Paris medical school parody) – Video




11-02-2012 13:26 Love to all our med school brothers and sisters! DJ Vapor, Sound Engineer: Miles Mueller, Director of Photography: Med students so hard, can’t nothing deter us Rotations don’t scurr us Finished two years of classes finally we’re in the hospital like now it’s surrus (Med students so hard) All day rounding Hours we work are astounding Wanna diagnose every patient on the census but we’re new to this game and differentials are confounding (Med students so hard) Check the anion gap I’m like a ninja when I do a pap (Med students so hard) Rocking Tdap Everybody wishes they could tap Medicine is happenin’, but surgeons get the best toys Bovies, bone saws, babcocks, Ortho boys (Med students so hard) We treat em, where the charts at, we need em Spend all morning writing notes like a boss, but nobody’s gonna read em (Med students so hard) Meds immerse us, wash our hands and microbes curse us Our greatest care is patient care Hearts in the right place, no situs inversus (Med students so hard) catching babies, vaccinate against rabies Med mobster, treat zoster, helpin’ all of my shingle ladies (Med students so hard) Chug caffeine, titrate Lantus like a machine, They say do a DRE, blushin’ like Parvo B-19 Med students so hard, acronyms never end RCA, CVA, DKA Med students so hard, don’t know em but we’ll pretend tPA, PSA, AMA Patients ask me questions and I spike my cortisol Tachycardic, give us all metoprolol Feelin like C. diff, med … Continue reading