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[ Saturday, September 06, 2008 06:47 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Samplings

Section:
Briefs

Summary:
Briefly Noted:

* The eastern press continues to be confused and conflicted as it tries to get its collective self around the Alaskan state of mine. The latest is a stakeout on several churches in Wasilla

Meanwhile, the political investigative press has no problem in dissecting and digesting the latest new on NYC Dem Congressional Committee Chairman Charlie Rangle. He failed to report income from his Dominican Republic ocean side resort hideaway. Plus, it was purchased with a nice interest free loan.

* Vice President Cheney is in the republic of Georgia as aid is delivered by U.S. naval ships via an eastern Black Sea post that is close to the loading terminus of a trans Georgia oil pipeline.

** Bob Woodward has a new tome on the workings of the outgoing administration. Surprise, that administration was interested in what world heads of state were saying. Most schools of Journalism call that good reporting; others brand it spying.

* The Obama campaign and the DNC are recruiting a paid army of voter registration workers. Unregistered young, mobile, poor, and new US residents are the targeted demographic. It is well known in California that that profile means Hispanic LA Raza power at the polls.

Professional political pollsters do not work for free, but have a worse record of predicting reliable results than the local weather forecasters.

Main:
Yes, we know it all along:

- Childhood immunizations to not cause autism.

- As many as 20% of Hillary Clinton spring primary voters are leaning to the McCain ticket in the fall.

- Extreme weather, like hurricanes, is always newsworthy and is used to come without a political conventional wisdom label.

- Lehman Bros, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac and People’s Bank of China play in the same league and have the same needs. Quick cash and credit equivalents.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/06 at 06:47 AM
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[ Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:56 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Shoot Out

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
Early Indian Affairs in the Far West: California Missions, Exploration of the Oregon Territory, Fremont and Carson, the California Connection, and the Klamath Basin Tribes.

Main:
The Hudson Bay Company, Coastal Exploration, Astoria, and the War of 1812

Junipero Serra: Spain, Mexico and the Californios of Monterey

* Peter Ogden and the fur traders

** The Bear Flag Rebellion

* Dr. John Marsh and General Marianna Vallejo of Sonoma

Captain Jack and the Modoc Indian War http://www.klamathtribes.org/

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 03/16 at 11:56 AM
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[ Tuesday, November 27, 2007 06:53 ]

Legacy Journal: Medical Fundamentals: Patient Care, Turf Battles, and Funding

Section:
Health and Medicine

Summary:
Medicine Today: Local, National, and Global: Three Views in the News

* Outliers: A case report from the University of Rochester.

The Texas Tornado and the Outlaw: The Feud ends between reconciled Houston heart surgeons DeBakey and Cooley.

* The Fundamentals: Why the United States is the object of both admiration and envy.

Main:
First, today the University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital Rounds was a case report. The patient was a 83 year old woman who was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit from another hospital for care because of fever and cardiomyopathy. Her DRG code was sepsis, probably secondary to pneumonia . Her hospital stay was over 35 days. Consultations, tests and procedures were numerous and frequent. Hospital charges alone were $90,000; insurance reimbursement was 50 cents on the dollar. She was discharged in stable condition at her request three days after simplifying her medicine regimen. One lesson is that the patient did offer students and residents valuable clinical experience. In addition, she probably was included in a NIH funded, University study on focused on some of the fundamental cellular mechanisms of sepsis.

Second, today the nytimes reports that the long standing Texas sized feud between Dr. Michael DeBakey and Dr. Denton Cooley has ended.

Third, David Brooks, writing for the nntimes and reporting from China, makes the case for sticking to the fundamentals of open, free and fair trade given the financial and economic realities of Global trade and the fluid flow of funds.

In the interest of full disclosure of possible conflicts of interest, I have been a willing reference guinea pig subject for an ongoing sepsis research study at Strong, a CME attendee of one Dr. DeBakey’s lectures, a step-brother is a guy who owns his life saving cardiovascular emergency surgery at the Texas Heart Institute by an Iraqi surgeon in Houston, and a post WW II beneficiary of world travel, trade, and the free exchange of human and financial capital.

BTW, approximately 20% of western upstate New York’s working professionals are estimated to be foreign born according to a recently reported economic and business survey.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 11/27 at 06:53 AM
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[ Tuesday, October 09, 2007 07:01 ]

Legacy Journal: Global Medicine: A view from Rochester

Section:
Health and Medicine

Summary:
“Prevention is better than cure”.--------------- Desiderius Erasmus

Tuesday is Medical Grand Rounds Day at Strong Memorial Hospital and the University of Rochester. This is also the week that the Nobel Prize for Medicine winners, for the developing the “knockout mouse model” widely used in gene investigation, are announced. At Strong, this morning was given over to clinical and basic science poster presentations and competition. It is no surprise that the main participants included many immigrant students and physicians from Italy, South Korea, India, etc.

Main:
Young medical school graduates emigrating from India, joining university affiliated training programs in the United States, and seeking practice opportunities around the country is not new. In Rochester, two Internal Medicine residents from the Unity Health System, via Bombay presented posters in the competition. One was a study of the acute cardiovascular effects of life threatening scorpion bites in 150 young adults transferred to a tertiary care center in India. Patient transportation from India was via land, not via helicopter. Medical public health statistic are better in the states of the south and along the coast and in the northern interior states. Residents from the affiliated Rochester General Hospital also had presentations.

Several facts are clear.

* Many of the presentations were case reports of infrequent complications of effective drug therapies in frail and vulnerable individuals. One report may help make the case for the extended use of medical procedure centers that are equipped with proper monitoring equipment, staffed by a dedicated group of nurses, and run by hospital based specialists. This appears to be a trend with the usual cadre of detractors and turf guardians.

* The numbers of patients included in many of the studies could not be duplicated at any research or patient care facility in the U.S.

* The young men and women were articulate in English, well trained in medicine, presented themselves well, and intended to seek additional training in high tech Cardiology, Nephrology, etc.

* Training at Unity Hospital and Rochester General includes an affiliation with the University of Rochester and a clinical rotation to Strong Memorial.

* It is not unusual for U.S. medical students with an interest in infectious disease to do intense clinical clerkships in India and other Asian locations.

Other posters included single case reports, unusual complications, practical tips on frequently encountered problems in managing acute and chronic disease. and bibliographies that review the relevant medical literature. No mouse gene models were on display.

As always, drug detail persons were present on the floor.

BTW, the nytimes, that for many years opposed the manufacture and distribution of pesticides, including DDT from the west to poor countries, today has a report from Africa on the effectiveness of pesticide impregnated sleeping nets in helping to dramatically reverse 3d world death rates from malaria carried by mosquitoes. The Gates Foundation, Unicef, and USAid are helping to remount the campaign against preventable infectious disease among poor ,young blacks and Asian. We would hope that those who continue to view early death from disease as a sure quick cure for global “population explosion” based carbon and ecology “footprint” pressure would update their demographic curves, reevaluate the moral basis of their claims, and expose themselves to the negative public reaction to their pervasive pessimism.

Meanwhile, immigration is continuing hot topic as the voting season is fast approaching and California continues to roll as biotechnology startups and institutions like Berkeley, UCSF and Stanford continue to attract money and talent from around the world according to a recent PBS News Hour report.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 10/09 at 07:01 AM
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[ Saturday, July 28, 2007 15:56 ]

Legacy Journal: A weekend view from Davis

Section:
Essays

Summary:
“We can do no great things; only small things with great love."----- Mother Teresa

Main:
A good morning in Davis includes: a visit to the Amtrak Station; a chat with friends on their way to serve as volunteer docents at the Sacramento RailRoad Museum; coffee with Phyllis at the Davis Farmers Market, making friends and sharing a strawberry-rubarb muffin with a retired couple from Corvallis who were visiting their son and daughter-in-law and their growing two career family; swimming laps at the Hickey Pool; dodging rally squad camp participants on a bike across campus; sharing lunch with Robert and Winn at Dos Coyotes; and finding the perfect soft roller duffel bag on sale at Big 5 in the Market Plaza.

What to do for an encore in the afternoon? A youth swim meet at Schaal and an air conditioned library on the west UCDavis campus will do very nicely.

Lessions learned:

* Seniors arrive early to catch morning weekend trains. Blurry eyed single students and groups of Cantonese speaking students arrive at last minute. The first group values sleep, the later wants to know the cost.

* Seniors who volunteer for community service or to man the impressive Yolo County for Obama booth at the Farmers Market are knowledgeable, committed, and passionate.

* The Famers Market is a central, pleasant, convenient, safe and accessible multi-generational meet and greet spot. The local pols learned that long ago. The Mayor was in, but out with not for public ears and eyes type asides with the powers that be. She does have a Berkeley and a Cambridge background and Davis is a company town, after all. UCDavis has been, is and will continue to be what defines the culture of this small college town. Today, the paper reports that UCD donation in the last fiscal year excessed $100 million for the first time.

* And by the way, according to the usually solid Chris Cuomo of Albany, Yale , Fordam, and the Hamptons, backyard poison ivy is growing beyond control, “possibly” because of rising carbon dioxide levels. In Aggie Davis, many plant people think the young GMA media guy and his New York City friends have their causes and their effects backwards.

More later. Stay tuned.

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Posted by: eegotoguy on 07/28 at 03:56 PM
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[ Monday, June 25, 2007 15:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Tales from the Heartland- Reyes of OSU and astronaut Williams

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
Jorges Reyes, a freshman pitcher from Warden, Washington, for the C.W.S champion OSU Beaver, was chosen the outstanding player of the tournament. Suni Williams recently returned on the Shuttle from a record making mission on Space Orbiter

Main:
The Heartland story is that both are from immigrant backgrounds. Reyes’ grandparents travelled to Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska to watch a win over NCU. Similarly, the India born father watched from Massachusetts as his U.S.N.A grad daughter streaked across the night sky on her glowing reentry and eventual landing at Edwards A.F.B in California.

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[ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 15:54 ]

Legacy Journal: The State of the Nation Memorial Day, 2007

Section:
Opinion

Summary:
America is admired by the World’s youth, the country is prosperous, the economy is growing, the citizens are happy, healthy, well educated, well housed and employed, institutions work, the environment good and getting better, lifestyles are taking advantage of leisure time, and there is domestic freedom, tranquility, justice and tolerance.

Main:

Categories:

Negative View

Positive View

Image

Foreigners hate America and are openly hostile to American’s.

50% of the world’s population, 25 and under, wants to emigrate to the U.S.

Prosperity

The average American is poor.

The median household income of a family of 4 is over $50,000 per year.

Economic Growth

The economy is stagnant.

The rate of economic grow continues to exceed the rate of inflation.

Happy

The majority is dissatisfied with their lives.

The vast majority of American’s are satisfied.

Health

Americans are in poor health.

The state of health of Americans is good.

Housing

The average American can not afford a house

The majority of families live in the own home

Jobs

America is not creating jobs.

The unemployment rate is at a historic low.

Education

Public education is poor, unavailable and expensive.

American public education is the envy of the world.

Environment

Crowding and Global Warming = massive collapse and catastrophe.

Population growth is slowing and climate is complex and has moods that shift with the millenia, at a
geologic glacial pace.

Justice

Racism, sexism, religious intolerance and ethic bigotry are the norm.

Human Rights has been a standard in the written Constitutional Bill of
Rights for more than 200 years. The Civil War and the Civil Right Acts
are now part of history and legislative law.

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Posted by: eegotoguy on 05/29 at 03:54 PM
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Categories:	Negative View	Positive View
Image	Foreigners hate America and are openly hostile to American’s.	50% of the world’s population, 25 and under, wants to emigrate to the U.S.
Prosperity	The average American is poor.	The median household income of a family of 4 is over $50,000 per year.
Economic Growth	The economy is stagnant.	The rate of economic grow continues to exceed the rate of inflation.
Happy	The majority is dissatisfied with their lives.	The vast majority of American’s are satisfied.
Health	Americans are in poor health.	The state of health of Americans is good.
Housing	The average American can not afford a house	The majority of families live in the own home
Jobs	America is not creating jobs.	The unemployment rate is at a historic low.
Education	Public education is poor, unavailable and expensive.	American public education is the envy of the world.
Environment	Crowding and Global Warming = massive collapse and catastrophe.	Population growth is slowing and climate is complex and has moods that shift with the millenia, at a geologic glacial pace.
Justice	Racism, sexism, religious intolerance and ethic bigotry are the norm.	Human Rights has been a standard in the written Constitutional Bill of Rights for more than 200 years. The Civil War and the Civil Right Acts are now part of history and legislative law.