Doctors and the lack of healthcare advancement and quality of service.

Kevorkian may have been stopped, but what is worse could be the many passive Kevorkians in the system. 80 years old and head injury with bleeding? Odds are no recovery so, why try because the failure rate is so extremely high. Simply maintain and watch the decline to eventual death.

I'm saying that because Doctor's are so high up in the system both socially and professionally they can get complacent as just about anyone does. Or, it all becomes too much to bear or whatever the cause; any doctor has a heck of a lot of learning and as they are revered in our society we should be able to expect more from them. Just as any athelete or movie star or giant of music or other person choosing to make their life a display for all and gets a special place in society we should be able to expect their best behavior. From Doctor's we should get the highest of quality, concern and innovation. It's like Dentists, I mean can you believe it is just about the same technique-wise as it was 1000 years ago, they just have novacaine and nitrous oxide and lasers to make it easier for them to do their jobs. What I mean is, if they really cared to fix you, really, by now they would have found out how to stop cavities altogether and you wouldn't get tooth decay at all. I mean 1000 years, come on. And, the cigarette companies if they had taken the money and years they spent trying to make it seem that cigs don't hurt you and spent it on cancer research we would probably already have a cures for throat, lung and mouth cancers. Oops, back on track>
So, I was putting a customer's patient monitor into a box to ship to the company that has to fix it as it requires proprietary manufacturer's software only available at the factory to calibrate it, when it occurred to me that I wouldn't really in all good conscience be able to charge for the time I spent fixing it as I hadn't really fixed it-even though I got it working again it was out of calibration. This made me think that it would really make Doctors work really hard to come up with new innovations and techniques and would also make the quality of health care overall get a lot better if we as a society make it a rule that when a Doctor or hospital doesn't fix you:
you don't have to pay.

Insurance premiums would also most likely go way down as the quality and innovation in medicine sky-rocketed. As this would no doubt also save society huge amounts of money as so many more people would be cured, and cured faster and returned to a greater degree of health upon recovery society could even afford to pay Doctors even more money than they get now when they also get paid for the failures to heal. I suppose for a while we would have to still pay them a fractional payment for the really, really old folks who expire, but we could feel better as a society knowing that everything that could be done was really getting done as they would save a lot of their time and make a lot more money if they also fixed them and this would keep them from complacency with the status-quo.

As long as I'm ranting what about if we had spent the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq 'War' and bought solar collectors, how many watts would have been produced that would also have the wonderful benefit of not producing greenhouse gases and heat as a by-product of their use? A whole lot, and probably no one would have had to die doing it. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Fix for the Afghan preference for growing poppies

I say the US or International Community as a group simply buy the opium produced. After all in the US we pay rich people that are absentee owners of farms that don't grow anything 'free' (translated: your tax dollars) federal government money in the form of farm subsides. So what if it is opium? Just buy it. When the opium is bought then it's known who is growing it, and it keeps the drug and drug money out of the hands of potential terrorists, and the Taliban. Then burn it or sell it to legit drug and chemical companies to recoup some of the money spent on it. This way the farmers don't turn to the Taliban and terrorists for their survival which makes any man a another man's friend. Then we become their friends instead of potential targets.

If this is done the Afghan farmers can then be introduced to other crops that will support their families and they can freely and proudly sell in the open marketplace.

Buying the opium produced also prevents the regulating agency from having to traveling with armed squads of soldiers and they don't have to kill or arrest people simply trying to make a living in a harsh environment.

One other plus is no spraying of plant poisons and defoliants that will stress their already marginal growing environment and may pose long-term health threats to man, animals and local plant species.

I can only assume that no armed squads, no herbicide campaigns, no deaths on both sides will be cheaper than buying the opium and providing teaching and new crops.

How to fix Global warming and help with the overflowing landfill problem

One of the scariest things happening on the global warming front is the positive feedback cycle that is happening to the giant icepacks that are melting at a much greater rate than anticipated due to the increased areas of land and water exposed that are darker than the ice and snow and so absorb a much greater amount of heat from the sun, making the summers hotter in the Artic areas and warmer winters.

So, to fix this problem I propose we collect every bit of styrofoam chunks in all the millions of boxes that radios and TV's and all other kinds of fragile items as well as all the used styrofoam peanuts and ship them all to the North and South Poles and Greenland and dump them on all the exposed water and land areas, and perhaps even on the snow-especially during the summer to help keep the snow insulated from the sun even though it is already white. The styrofoam is perfect as it's white already and it floats really, really well and has a really long half-life in the direct sun and elements so it would last for years and years so that we could really get a lot of it piled up. With the styrofoam insulation the Poles would stay colder with more ice and thus naturally help counteract the heating due to humankind's insults to our own environment.
Collecting all the styrofoam and sending it to the Artic areas would also open up a tremendous amount of volume in our landfills that we also desperately need. Leaching of chemicals from the styrofoam and any small problems they might cause will at least be many miles away from most human habitation. There it is we already have the materials we need to do the job and shipping costs should be low as the styrofoam is so nice and light.

Added bonus to this is my not-patent-pending test method for determining if global warming has a strong human-caused component-note: it is best to preform this test only during the summer months. It is quite simple: go outside to a nice and sunny spot at the edge of your yard or other grass-covered area next to an asphalt street. Place one hand palm down on the sunny grassy surface, then place the other hand, palm down on the sunny spot in the street. If you move your hand from the grassy spot due to discomfort before you move your hand from the street due to a greater level of discomfort; humans have not had much of an effect on global warming. If you move your hand from the street first due to the fact the hot asphalt is burning your hand, then humans have had a great effect on global warming. Quite a few years ago I read an article in Scientific American that said just in road surface-not counting parking lots, tarred rooftops and the like-in America alone we had paved over an area as large as South Carolina. Now that's a lot of burned palms.

Later, leeSki

Too tired, too late to compose a blog, instead why don't yo check out:
www.scifiarchive.com/futmap02.htm
As electronics is becoming more and more our way of life rather than just nifty gadgets to use, check out what I think our future will be when electronic rights become written into the
US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, what I call the e-Amendments.

Fix for USA, Iraq, North Korea

Okay, to fix the problem with North Korea they need money to feed their people. They spend too much now on their military, so they use the threat of nuclear weapon development to scare the US and Japan and the South Koreans into making monetary aid deals in return for North Korea saying it will stop development of weapons. Now it would be a lot better if the North Koreans had a commodity to sell, other than fear and the occasional part for nuclear bomb fabrication.
The USA is mired down in a war of two fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan and doesn’t have enough troops to do the job, and the US government is running out of its citizen’s patience for the war and the US government is also burning up tons of cash it doesn’t have keeping its hi-tech troops, and even more expensive civilian military-assistants in the battle zones.
North Korea has a huge military with no place to go, so if we hire them to police Iraq and Afghanistan there will be plenty of soldiers to do the job. It should also end Iranian aggression in Iraq as it would please the Iranian government because they already have wonderfully friendly trading relations with North Korea plus the US would be gone.
The US can pay the North Koreans a whole lot less than the couple of billion a week that is going out to the US troops and save the aid money the US would be simply sending the North Koreans as bribe payments. This will end many political problems in the US and elsewhere as well as greatly easing the cash flow problems for the US government. This would also take the US troops out of harms way, and give the South Koreans breathing room they haven’t had since the Korean Conflict ‘ended’. Even the Chinese would probably like to see the North Korean military spread out a bit more rather than bunched up on that little peninsula with no place to go. You know the Japanese would love it.
Who knows, maybe the North Korean citizens could stage a democratic coup while the troops are away. At least they would be better fed as long as we keep an eye on how the money is spent by the North Korean government. Maybe, if the US government is really slick we can get the South Koreans, Japanese, and the Chinese to help pay the North Korean’s bill for renting their military. As the North Koreans are not used to the same level of creature comforts as the US, they can be shipped off to the war zone in the empty oil tankers returning from South Korea for the Middle Eastern oil depots. That would also save some major cash. If it’s the right ships the US might even be able to round-up a free ride for them, saving even more money the US desperately needs for its mortgage credit crisis and its dropping dollar value. Ye Haw.

That is my ‘modest proposal’ for fixing these problems. Tomorrow, I’ll fix global warming as cheaply, easily, with as many good side-effects or maybe just how to fix a brand-name-deleted-out-of-fear-of-reprisal (email me for name) portable X-ray machine for one-quarter of what the company service would charge for labor and only 8 dollars parts(new not used or found) instead of several thousand. Let me know if you have a preference.

Thanks for stopping by the blog,

leeSki

What book am I?

Okay, as this is the number 1 blog for me I'll post my fix for the USA, Iraq, and the North Koreans(end to death and killing as the answer-wise) tomorrow. So, no fixes today, just a question for everyone to get the 'ole blog rolling: What book do you think Ray Bradbury would choose to be if he was one of the 'books' in his story Fahrenheit 451?
'till tomorrow,
leeSki