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Universal Healthcare – Universal Language

Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, tagged , , , , , on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a speech given by my mother.  Aside from any political values, I think it exposes an interesting language (concept) problem we have in our culture – the idea of inherent character flaws.  I don’t always agree with my mom’s language or her conclusions, but I do agree that attacking our many difficulties in society [...]

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Global Warming Marketing vs. Health Care Reform Marketing

Posted in analysis of behavior, global warming, online advertising, tagged , , , , , , on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Have you tried many of these “green” products out there?  The cleaners, the lightbulbs, the hybrid cars, and all the other end a round products intended to reduce your output of non-green/bad for the environment stuff…  
I have.
Most of these products suck.
Dishes take 3 times to clean in the dishwasher.  Clothes still smell after 2 [...]

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The Health-Care Monocausilitis Crisis

Posted in analysis of behavior, health care, tagged , , on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Take a look at Sen. Tom Daschle’s latest note on his approach to improving health-care.
His summary of his ideas focuses mostly on exposing more data to people (transparency). This is the only workable strategy because it doesn’t assume any particular one cause for the cost of health-care nor any specific solution to one identified cause. [...]

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DNRs – one of the most confusing information concepts of our time

Posted in health care, information theory, tagged , , , on December 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »

One of the great mindbenders of our lives is End of Life directives.
Here’s a list of where directives go haywire:

unclear language in the document
document “enforced” by someone other than the subject of the document
document not present during decision making
assumptions and pre conditions by family, self, doctors
written policies surround use of dnr
unwritten policies
spur of the moment [...]

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