Redskins coach Gibbs retires, again
Washington Redskins Joe Gibbs retires. In my opinion, Joe Gibbs was closer to Sean Taylor and his death hit him hard.
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Institutionalized Ways We Kill People
A recent New York Times story reported that many people die in hospitals from cardiac arrest because hospital personnel do not reach them in time. And, also, because they are black and/or poor.
From the story—
In nearly a third of cases of sudden cardiac arrest in the hospital, the staff takes too long to respond, increasing the risk of brain damage and death, a new study finds.
In the real world, doctors and nurses do not always run fast enough. Expert guidelines say the shock should be given within two minutes after the heart stops, but the study found that it took longer in 30 percent of the cases.
The consequences were striking. When the defibrillation was delayed, only 22.2 percent of patients survived long enough to be discharged from the hospital, as opposed to 39.3 percent when the shock was given on time.
The study, being published Thursday in The New England Journal Of Medicine is the largest ever to look at what happened to patients with “shockable” abnormalities in heart rhythm, and to correlate their outcomes with the time it took to deliver the needed shock.
Delays were more likely in patients whose hearts stopped at night or on the weekend, who were admitted for noncardiac illnesses, in hospitals with fewer than 250 beds and in units without heart monitors.
Being black also increased the odds of a delay, but the researchers said this finding probably reflected the quality of hospitals in areas where most blacks live and are treated, rather than a decision by medical workers to drag their feet because of a patient’s race.
Dixville Notch votes
New Hampshire has this quirk in their state law. The town of Dixville Notch votes before anyone else. The town of 17 people vote the night before anyone else.
Democrats:
Obama 7
Edwards 2
Richardson 1Republicans:
McCain 4
Romney 2
Giuliani 1
Take that for what it’s worth. 
Shrum offers advice to Clinton
Okay, stop laughing. Bob Schrum has been the man behind the campaign for almost 2 decades. He is famous among Democratic Washington circles. Unfortunately, his track record is 0-9. Maybe I’m wrong. I’ll check but his track record isn’t good. In spite of this he serves up some advice to Hillary Clinton.
My advice is simple. Drop the rollback the clock to the Clinton Era rhetoric. Be real as in Hillary be yourself. Move away from Iraq. Move toward the left. Leave the corporations. Promise to get troops out of Iraq by the end of your first year. That will go a long way to win over progressives. Come up with a comprehensive plan to stimulate the alternative energy industry. Talk about a million (affordable) electric cars by 2012 just 4 short years from now. Come up with a plan to punish companies that ship jobs over seas. Tax raw materials that are shipped out of this country and tax the final product coming back in. Propose tax cuts for businesses that renew clean manufacturing in this country (we don’t make shoes in this country. we should have at least one company that makes shoes). We need to make things again. If Hillary can embrace this agenda then she will be a candidate for change and I believe that her fortunes will turn around.
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From NY Daily News:
She will have to get off the mat and recast her case. Contrary to the caricatures, Hillary Clinton is a real person, often funny in private, with engaging qualities that have been well-hidden in this campaign. But the hour is late and even if the real Hillary emerges, voters might see it as just another contrivance.
She can launch an all-out attack on Barack Obama - based on Saturday night’s debate, that looks like where her campaign is headed - but what’s there to attack that would convert rather than repel primary voters? (more…)
Clinton chokes up
I can tell you want happens when you get very little sleep and you are working your butt off. You get emotional. Doctors are famous for being hotheads when they are on call. Hillary Clinton teared up. Fine. Now, let’s move on to some real issues.
I have more on this and its context here.
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
