Health Wonk Review #22
This week’s edition of the Health Wonk Review is posted at MSSPNexus.
Category: Miscellaneous
For those with a personal blog…
A recent Economist article (see a reprint at the Librarian’s Place blog) chronicles the career of Mena Trott. Mrs. Trott (along with her husband) founded Six Apart, a company whose blogging enterprises include Typepad, Movable Type and Live Journal. The most recent and perhaps most profound innovation by the couple at Six Apart is the…
Cavalcade of Risk
The Cavalcade of Risk (#14) is now posted by Micheal Cannon on the Cato-at-Liberty website.
Adding more time to your day
Getting more done in less time is the key to a productive day. Working efficiently is important for not just graduate students, but anyone who has to manage many tasks at once. The “All-but-dissertation Survival Guide” gives a few good pointers. Five Secrets to Add More Time to your Day, by Carrie Silver-Stock, MSW, LCSW…
Happy Thanksgiving
Time for a day of family, turkey, and of course football. Enjoy!
Cavalcade of Risk posted
The latest version of the Cavalcade of Risk is posted at RDoctor Medical.
The Office: You don’t need health insurance if you’re a Schrute
On a lighter note… If you are a fan of NBC’s “The Office” and need a laugh, please take a look at the following clip on YouTube. In this video from season one, Dwight Schrute (played by Rainn Wilson) is put in charge of choosing a health insurance plan for his co-workers.
Environmental Economist blog
If you are sick and tired of reading health care blogs, you may want to look at a blog which looks at the health of the environment. Natural Capital is an environment economics blog by Robert Metcalfe, a PhD student at Imperial College London’s Tanaka Business School. A visitor will even find an entertaining cartoon…
Empirical Research: Wine and longevity
In January of this year, I wrote (“Does drinking wine truly increase longevity“) that I was doubtful that wine has a large impact on longevity. As a dedicated social scientist, I have decided not to simply accept the findings of other experts, but instead to do some of my own empirical research. Monday and Tuesday…
Looking at healthcare…health care…health-care????
Healthcare Economist. Why not Health Care Economist? Or Health-care Economist? Which one is correct? The Chicago Manual of Style webpage offers a discussion of the issue. The site claims that ‘health care’ is the correct spelling according to Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, eleventh edition. One individual, however, writes to the website saying: “I find in my American…