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	<description>Wesley R. Elsberry&#039;s personal weblog, talking about falconry, science, antievolution, computation, and the broken body he lives in.</description>
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		<title>The Worms Turn&#8230; and a Patient Recovers</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/12/10/the-worms-turn-and-a-patient-recovers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CNN report describes a motivated ulcerative colitis patient arranging for his own experimental treatment. Experimenting on yourself is frowned upon, but that patient persevered and is doing better. Meanwhile, the patient had gone on the internet and found an article in a medical journal by Dr. Joel Weinstock, chief of gastroenterology at Tufts University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care in the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a piece on NPR about balancing the budget and how Medicare alone is 12% of the federal budget, or $500B dollars. $500B dollars&#8230; that works out to about $16,000 dollars per US citizen per year. [I apparently entered an extra 0 plugging that into the calculator, which brings the calculated figure down to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment on Swank Antievolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 11:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I left a comment to the opinion letter of a Greg Swank, M.D.. Dr. Swank gave a Gish Gallop and finished up with argument from authority. My background is in the medical field and I find it interesting that from a science background I am defending Intelligent Design as a scientific probability, while Rev. Ward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CoverFlorida Health Care</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/04/13/coverflorida-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, the CoverFlorida Health Care program got started. This is essentially group insurance for the Florida uninsured pool, organized by (but not paid for by) the state of Florida. Governor Charlie Crist says the following on the CoverFlorida website: During the 2008 legislative session, my administration worked with legislators of both parties to secure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin Franklin and the Anti-Vaccination Argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 17:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this in the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT References Panda&#8217;s Thumb Blogger Tara Smith</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/03/12/nyt-references-pandas-thumb-blogger-tara-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An op-ed column by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times referenced Panda&#8217;s Thumb blogger Tara Smith. The op-ed is about the incidental evolution of a superbug in hogs given antibiotics and the health risks that now entails. Since then, that strain of MRSA has spread rapidly through the Netherlands — especially in swine-producing areas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical and Journalistic Shading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcia Angell has an article in the New York Review of Books that considers three books touching upon modern medicine and unseemly links to corporate pharmaceutical companies. Angell takes up various problems, but I was intrigued when she got around to how companies now control research, sometimes shading a negative experimental result in a way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Critique of the McCain Health Insurance Plan</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/09/16/a-critique-of-the-mccain-health-insurance-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A press release points out a review of the likely effects of the plan proposed by John McCain to change health coverage. The results? They don&#8217;t look so good. &#8220;Moving toward a relatively unregulated non-group market will tend to raise costs, reduce benefits, and leave people with less consumer protection,&#8221; says Sherry Glied, PhD, professor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Example of a Difficult Patient</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/09/10/an-example-of-a-difficult-patient/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Mayer had to become a difficult patient to secure adequate health care for a misdiagnosed illness that actually turned out to be scleroderma. She has a blog, Diary of a Dying Mom, where she discusses her own case and the larger policy issues of how health care is managed &#8212; or mismanaged &#8212; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dave Barry&#8217;s Colonoscopy Journal</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/07/19/dave-barrys-colonoscopy-journal/</link>
		<comments>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/07/19/dave-barrys-colonoscopy-journal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine emailed me one of those humorous things, this time it was Dave Barry&#8217;s article on the experience of having a colonoscopy. Apparently, everybody posts these all over the place; go have a read at the link if not a few hundred other webpages with the essay. I tried to read it [...]]]></description>
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