We must ban boats to [save lives] prevent this from ever happening in the future!

What they are proposing is better regulation to makes boats safer.

A few dozen people will die in a single tragedy and we'll do something about it -- unless that tragedy happens to involve guns.

The only person talking about banning all guns is in the hysterical rhetoric of ConservaDunce's straw men.

I hope someday we can have an honest conversation about gun violence in this country but your post reminds me it's not that time.

Where's Nullidunce to defend his heroes?

SHe lost.

Whether Hillary won or not has zero to do with Trump's performance. He's done about as well as you'd expect a morally bankrupt serial liar and failure to perform.

My bet is enough people have seen it to matter. Only his ignorant base will stick with this level of incompetence.

And I wish I had dropped out of school in third grade.

Oh, you didn't?

Sounds like she and Ray went to the same gut-based University.

I support Bernie.

Bwahahahahaha!!! Best joke of the day and it's 3am.

Trumpologists are such cowards. They can't even be honest about their abject Trumplicking.

I imagine Ray in his trailer by the dump, carefully counting the remaining dwindling dollars in his financial portfolio, deciding to pay the rent or his internet so he can post more ConservaCrapola to Drudge.

Any criticism of Trump no matter how valid = TDS (see also Fake News!)

So I have to stow my laptop under the seat because it can become a dangerous flying object but a 100lb unrestrained horse? Just fine!

Do nothing, keep dying.

- Avigdore

Disease is preventable. That's what fifty years experience told me.

While diet, lifestyle play a role in health. There are some things (like genetic disease and certain cancers) that are largely out of the control of the patient.

It really depends on what you're talking about. Some are obvious (obesity, which for most people is a choice, not a metabolic or endocrine disease).

I preach smoking cessation, weight loss, low-glycemic diet every day. It's the rare person who will engage in preventative medicine but it's awesome when they do.

I agree with some of the sentiments in this article although they are by far only part of the health care issue in this country.

Our basic American attitude appears to be "Don't tell me what to do! I'll do what I want!"
For some, when the wheels start to fall off they listen, for many others it's adherence to their same unhealthy standard of living.
Then it's "Fix me!" usually with as little discomfort or work experienced by the patient. Again, some at this stage listen, a good chunk do not.
When the "fixin'" doesn't work because of zero patient compliance the attitude changes to "Take care of me!". Knee replacements, scooters, home health PT and disability all become "my right!".

And there you have it, the lack of personal responsibility circle.

In the patients where I know their politics it doesn't appear being left or right wing influences it although would love to see the study.

Unlike you, I'm not the one out to save the world from some half-baked idea of climate catastrophe.

While I wish I had that power, I'll take that mantle.

It's only half-baked to idiots like yourself who ignore the science and politics around the science. The exact same thing happened before with tobacco. It's literally the same players and same tactics but you're too gd stupid to see it.

You literally had the documents presented in front of you and you ignored them. Documents that showed the real conspiracy; one run by the oil companies. A conspiracy with proof, not fact-free Conspiracy theories pulled from the dark place your head apparently resides. That told me all I needed to know about you.

You are the clarion call why we need better STEM education in America.

#2, where would Ray go to get his ConservaSpiracy info?

Yeah, those pesky scientists, all part of Ray's gubmit cornspiracy.

They should put Ray's photo next to the definition of Dunning-Kruger.

Your problem is that you don't know the difference between political science and objective science. Your link is a good example.

My link wasn't about science at all you nit-wit. It was about the lack of science and propaganda freely admitted to by documents by Exxon and other major oil companies. These documents' accuracy have never been refuted by the original sources.

You are projecting. Because the only one who has got sucked down the Conspiracy rabbit hole is you.

Your AGW climate conspiracy is the one that has no legs, not shred of evidence, but you cling to it like a piece of wood off the Titanic. You pretend to be some careful unmasker of the truth but you ignore it when it's smack in your gullible gobber.

I'll take my chances with climate change.

This is why I can't just have a "you believe what you want, I'll believe what I want" kind of discussion with you.

We're literally talking survival of life as we know it. If we're not going to actively oppose intellectual boulders like Ray, we at least need to step over them and keep moving.

The ideal model is six patients an hour in which you prescribe a drug regardless what the patient came in for. There is now a pill for everything whether real or driven by TV ads inducing imaginary diagnosis. It goes so far as to provide paid vacations for doctors that prescribe medications in high enough volumes, leading directly to the opioid epidemic killing ~65,000 per year. Next opioids will be underprescribed.

The average patients per day seen in my profession, one of the busiest, is 19. Still high, but nowhere near 6 per hour.

There are plenty of diagnosis where a medication, even if available, wouldn't be appropriate. I can think of dozens of examples but antibiotics for upper respiratory infections comes as an immediate one. I spend more time talking patients out of unnecessary antibiotics than the convenience of just writing the prescription. The CDC's own guidelines call for not prescribing antibiotics in the first 7 days for uncomplicated URI in nonsmokers. Patients drive a lot of this, wanting something convenient and quick.

I don't know what world you're talking about but my interactions with pharmaceutical reps have resulted in free pens and pizza or take out Chinese. The current place I work doesn't allow them in at all. There will always be bad actors in every profession, I'm sure someone got a kickback somewhere but this widespread large scale influence peddling is long past. I make the same paycheck whether I prescribe or not. If I'm getting a BigPharma (tm) check they sure have been slow about it.

As someone in the field the last 20+ years I would put my stressors as follows:

(1) Docs are mostly employed these days and it is a tough place to be in. There's a profound loss of independence although you're the first one responsible if the proverbial crapola hits the fan. I have never had a malpractice case (humble brag alert!) but it's still always lurks in the background.

(2) Most of my difficult patient encounters take place with a small percentage of my patient panel (maybe 1-2%). However, in a system focused on pleasing people if you're not making 100% of them happy, you've got a problem. This has created a lot of stress where I want to do the right thing but feel pressure knowing the patient will probably complain if I do.

(3) Patient panels are insane. Where I work there is no limit to the amount of patients you can get on your panel. No limit! I'm in my third year at this job and still see 2 or more new patients per day. I've given up keeping track. The virtual patient care is one of the biggest burn outs of my job.

(4) The knowledge gap alluded to by Pinchaloaf is very valid. It's amazing in my field (primary care) how much this has exploded. I spend the equivalent of 1 workweek yearly in CME.

(5) Workload has been squeezed by efficiency experts to get you to bill the maximum while seeing the most patients you can per day. I'm under the gun because I insist most of my geriatric patients get 40 minute visits and it lowers my productivity. Many doctors see an excess of 20 patients per day and I can't see how you can deliver quality care like that.

I wonder if any of the Fright-Wingers on Drudge can join Fatso and say the words "White nationalist terrorism"?

"About half the FBI's terrorism cases right now, as we speak, are actually this stuff, the domestic stuff," he added. "That is extremely disturbing."

You people can't grasp what's obvious to me.

This is what annoys the F#$K out of me with Conspiracy Theorists. They think they're privy to some super-sekrit (TM) font of knowledge the rest of us Drudges never drink from. These usually take the form of YouTube videos or Google searches to find the "real" answer. This is true for Chem Trails, anti-vaxxers and AGW denialists. It appears Ray has swallowed the pseudo-science ----- willingly again and again.

No dude, you're not on some intellectual mountaintop looking down on the rest of the unenlightened masses. You're a gullible uneducated chump who can't understand the actual science so sticks to the fringes where the rest of the idiots reside.

You're intelligent enough to do your own investigation if you were sincerely interested in what the counter-arguments and counter-evidence have to say.

"Do your research!!" The rallying cry of the uninformed.

You make the assertion, you back it up. If you're too intellectually lazy to defend your own point I'm not going to do it for you.

Do you have an alternate energy source ready for market?

Maybe you should ask those hippies in China.

Believe what you want to believe and I'll let it go at that.

I believe what I believe based on my analysis of the evidence.

Evidence, Ray, not some smoke and mirrors Unicorn conspiracy theory.

I showed you the paperwork outlining how Exxon and major oil companies fudged the research. Actual documentation and Ray the truth seeker, couldn't be bothered.

Show me the equivalent Ray, show me the paperwork where climatologists admitted they were faking results.

Hilarious. No sir, you believe what you want to believe. You may not vote Trump but you sure have the science and conspiracy theory chops for one.

We will need to reduce not eliminate our Co2 output. We do need to transition from a predominantly fossil fuel economy. Pretending that alternative means of energy production doesn't exist is disingenuous at best.

So no, I do not want to eliminate oil but reduce our dependence on it.

And Al Gore does not, nor ever has been an argument against decades of climate research although you numbskulls and your Whattaboutisms never fail to deploy it.

Ray, you want a real conspiracy with proof, I challenge you to read the collection of papers obtained from the FOIA and lawsuits , collated by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
They show a concerted effort by major oil companies to fudge the evidence over a 30 year period on AGW including a Road Map to Victory where confusion was their goal.
You want bought-out scientists, it's all in the papers.
You want whistle blowers, done.

Enjoy!

(None of the evidence has ever been refuted).