http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Thu, 4 May 2006 10:22:52 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/11/29/192829.php#comment-362902 Most people who reach 85 have almost certainly paid taxes for a very long time, and many of them started work at 14. Also, a lot of them are veterans, or the wives/mothers of veterans. So they have good reason to feel entitled to medical care. Maybe there are old people who visit the family doctor to get out of the house. There are also old people who suffer in silence because it's the way they were brought up, and they hate to bother anyone; these are often the same old people that die alone of hypothermia because they can't afford heating and are too proud to apply for benefits or what they see as 'charity'. Whatever, it might have been better to attempt to organize some kind of program for your lonely patients, or find a list of programs to refer them to. 362902@blogcritics.org Thu, 4 May 2006 10:22:52 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/11/29/192829.php#comment-30819 No need for hip replacements at all, if people would get off the drug/doctor wagon and into the freedom of simple prevention and self-healing; but the massive drug industry and entrenched medical establishment are pushing mightily to see that that doesn't happen, to keep the health problems coming and the money flowing. Amazing that more people do not perceive this, though as I say there are mighty forces arrayed against public awareness. 30819@blogcritics.org Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:45:34 EST