Random notes will be for subjects that I want to blog about or things that need a bit more broadcast, but I just don’t have the time for a separate post. They will appear on a, you guessed it, random basis:
- Why is health care so expensive? Might bill padding be involved? (Dr. Wes)
- There is a follow-up to this post from August: Wrong Site Brain Surgery — Three Times in Six Years at RI Hospital. They’ve now been fined $50,000;
- Blawg Review #136 is up from down under at Freedom to Differ;
- Blawg Review #135 was a two-parter co-hosted at Transgender Workplace Diversity and the Rainbow Law Center;
- Malpractice awards cap would harm victims (Newsday Op-Ed by Jeffrey Kimmel)
- Did Rudy Giuliani steal 400K from indigent defense fund to pay for dalliances with his mistress? (Simple Justice). And did he commit an Alan Hevesi type
felony? (TalkLeft)
- Virtual Hip Replacement Surgery. A very cool interactive tutorial on how it is done (via Kevin, M.D.), and if you want the real thing instead of virtual, go here.
And as a follow-up to the marathon Blawg Review, one last video: