Mixed into the jumbled bouillabaisse of our current healthcare system (from which I decided to elide the scare quotes) is the seemingly beneficent concept of quality improvement. This two-word phrase has lots of different connotations, but for the purposes of… Continue Reading
Megan McArdle recently linked to a story in Slate about why Americans have stopped spanking. Perhaps one of these days I’ll write about corpoal punishment itself, but that’s not what I’m posting about today. I’d like to hone in on… Continue Reading
That is the only explanation I can think of for suggesting I read this piece by Megan McArdle. The man wants my head to explode. McArdle’s essay is about her thyroid, which is on the fritz. Unfortunately, her endocrinologist did… Continue Reading