Opining
Yes, I am still around. I’ve just been toodling, doing hobbies, reading, travel and such; surfing the web reading some of my favorite blogs and I always seem to end up listening at the feet of those folks over at M.D.O.D. Common sense seems to have left the building when it comes to a lot of medical care these days and the only people we have to blame are ourselves. When I say ourselves I mean the entire medical community, by allowing those bureaucratic troglodytes who want free healthcare for all to run roughshod over us. I recently found (and unfortunately lost) an article that indicated how many regulatory groups to which the medical community had to answer. The numbers were preposterous. Anyway, back to the point at hand. The paper pushers are too blind from their dim view to see that if we cut half of the administrative nonsense they require, the cost of healthcare would be cut so low, that our current system of care might actually be able to revive itself from the code bed.

Well said. Sometimes it feels like I’m nursing paper instead of patients.