Extortion

I received an ominous comment on my blog today. The commentor claimed to have hacked my blog and harvested all of its databases – blogs, […]

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A rose by any other name

I’m sure that you recognize the phrase. It’s from Romeo and Juliet. So, let’s consider the question, “What is Health Care?” I read in my […]

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Salve Lucrum

I think it was probably 2007, and I was a recently minted market Medical Director for United Healthcare (UNH) in Central Texas. Because I had […]

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Spring

I went to the grocery store today and I bought a nice Thyme plant to replace the one that I lost during our most recent […]

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Low Residue

This evening was the second and last day of my Low Residue diet. I bought a snow crab cluster for me and a chicken pot […]

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Home Defender

Perhaps you think that I mean a Ring or Nest device or perhaps some kind of ADT system. Nay, we are talking felines here. I […]

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Noodling

I’m still on a low residue diet. Dinner was beef-flavor, ramen noodles with a gratuitous but decorative shrimp. We always try to make the best […]

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The Lesser of Weevils

You may think that this is a political screed comparing Donald Trump to Ron DeSantis. Au contrair, Mon Ami. This is a screed about ~6mm […]

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BRAT

I’ve been a little under the weather for the past four days. I think I’m experiencing an episode of acute diverticulitis – an inflammation of […]

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This Week in COVID

For at least the past month, the weekly COVID updates have suggested that the apocalypse “has been cancelled,” to quote an iconic line from the […]

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