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Continuity

Posted on October 24, 2023 by ddxdx

If you do electrical stuff, you know continuity means you have a connection from one end of the wire to the other. I want to talk about continuity in healthcare. It’s related. I’m sure you’ve all experienced it. You call … Continue reading →

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Solutions

Posted on September 20, 2023 by ddxdx

I have watched the Idaho Freedom Foundation and their mouthpieces rant against Medicaid for years now. Rants can be fun, but honestly, there’s hard work to do. I invite your shoulder to our shared grindstone. I believe managing health care … Continue reading →

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Coroner Story—-Thanksgiving

Posted on September 13, 2023 by ddxdx

This call came on a Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It might have been Friday or Saturday, probably a Friday, I think. My sister and her husband were visiting. So, it was a long time ago. She died as I turned 40, … Continue reading →

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Patchwork

Posted on September 12, 2023 by ddxdx

I have migrated late in my medical career to working part-time in a Federally Qualified Health Center. (FQHC…sorry but the anagrams may start piling up.) These centers grew out of a 2001 plan from President George Bush II. He wanted … Continue reading →

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Dignity

Posted on September 7, 2023 by ddxdx

I find myself stifling a smirk when I hear a new term for a group. The homeless have become the “Unhoused”. I stifle the smirk because such a response is disrespectful. And the intent of the renaming is to offer … Continue reading →

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Persuade

Posted on September 5, 2023 by ddxdx

It’s going to be a hot drive down to our state capital tomorrow. But I’m excited to be making it. I got the AC in my old Volkswagen van charged up. It doesn’t blow cold, but it does blow cool. … Continue reading →

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Piecemeal

Posted on July 31, 2023 by ddxdx

We took a family vacation up toward the Cabinet Mountains in western Montana. This meant we got to go through the beautiful town of Libby on the Kootenai River. Libby is famous for asbestos. And asbestos gives you more than … Continue reading →

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Another

Posted on July 11, 2023 by ddxdx

Idaho’s grandstanding Attorney General, Raul Labrador, has decided he doesn’t like the process whereby the University of Idaho entered into a business deal with the University of Phoenix. He’s threatening the Idaho Board of Education with a lawsuit unless they … Continue reading →

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Interim

Posted on July 11, 2023 by ddxdx

We citizens have decided it is best to let our legislature call itself into session whenever they can get enough to sign on. So be such folly. But while our august lawmaking body does their potato field, or insurance sales … Continue reading →

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Woke

Posted on May 25, 2023 by ddxdx

This woke rant will probably mean as much to you as it would have to the Idaho Constitution drafters back in that hot summer of 1889. I specify Article X Section 1: STATE TO ESTABLISH AND SUPPORT INSTITUTIONS. Educational, reformatory, and … Continue reading →

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