Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
The thought that health is a form of capital goes way back to the 19th century. Max von Pettenkofer compares health and economics and health states with capital in the following quotation: Just as the effort to obtain greater profits, an not merely fear of losses, is the driving force in economics, so too it…
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.” Yogi Berra
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. – Jim Carrey
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered, than answers that can’t be questioned Richard Feynman
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” E.O. Wilson
Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good. Confucius. HT: John Kay’s Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance.
Clinical progress against a disease as wily and dimly understood as cancer, DeVita argues, happens when doctors have the freedom to try unorthodox things—and he worries that we have lost sight of that fact. Excerpt from “Tough Medicine: A disturbing report from the front lines of the war on cancer” by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker.
Starting off 2016 with some humor: Economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show that they have a sense of humour William Gilmore Simms, on forecasts
“One can assemble a history of science from the solemn pronouncements of high authorities about what could not be done.” Robert Heinlein