Faceless Bureaucrat

Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Progress in Medicine

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Reading a biography of Lady Bird Johnson. LBJ had gall bladder surgery, meaning an "enormous scar" which he showed off to the me...

Monday, February 10, 2020

The Marvels of Modern Medicine

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I've some loss of hearing, so have been using hearing aids for about a year. I don't wear them all the time, mostly when going out ...

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Good News Today: Multiple Myeloma

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The NYTimes has column today on good news this week. I'll add to it: Kevin Drum reports on the progress being made on multiple mye...

Monday, September 19, 2016

Beware of Innocent Seeming Names

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Someone, I suspect on Powerline but I'm not sure, included a link to this site, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. ...

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Modern Health Care: Dentistry

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I know I've been lucky with my teeth, very few problems, certainly mainly less than I deserved considering the care I've given them...

Sunday, December 16, 2012

The Wisdom of Engineers

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For some reason, although the engineers (former engineers) whose blogs I follow are more conservative than I, they often have posts with whi...

Monday, October 31, 2011

Steve Jobs and Medicine

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The blogger at Respectful Insolence specializes in taking down the "woo" merchants, by which he means anyone who pushes "alte...

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