Changes.....Constant.....

Just completed the last issue of the 14th year of the hospital newsletter I do.....Outcomes In Perspective.....I retired some 8 years ago and agreed to stay on and publish the newsletter.

Several things occurred to me as I finished the issue and converted the draft version to .pdf format.

Changes....in the newsletter, and its delivery. My 1st edition was completed in Word. It was a bit rough around the edges and needed a lot of attention. I discovered Publisher and that changed the newsletter completely. Easy to use and quick. I worked each month to complete the newsletter, work with my boss at the hospital to edit it and then I first drove the file to the printer. Later we devised a system of sending it online. Then about 5 years ago we went on the web entirely to the site for our 5,000 doctors. Now it was in color and much more attractive. Currently the consideration is underway to drop the newsletter completely and set up a web site with links to the articles allowing our docs to pick and choose their needs and interests. Changes!

As I was completing the issue it occurred to me there were equally earth-shaking changes in the hospital and treatment and by who!!!!!  For a number of years we listed our new docs each month; welcoming them to the hospital. Today, my list of new "Medical Professionals" includes those with MD and DO and PhD.....but also some new titles....PA, CRNA, CNM, etc. As I reflected on this change it came to me that the care these new people give.....while not quite at the level of knowledge of an MD.....is probably better both knowledge-wise and technically than the care we were able to offer through our MDs just a decade ago.

Isn't progress marvelous? Every day at my hospital we implant organs in people whose own have failed or nearly-so....adding months to many years to their lives. One of our transplants, recently passed.....after MORE THAN 17 years of added life due our transplant capability.

As blogger-extraordinaire Professor Reynolds often puts it......."Faster Please!"

"The most transparent administration....ever!" Hiding it all!

Security By Obscurity! The new government evasion of transparency......

But, not the only one.....The SEC joins in.....

It is all part of the WH/Administration/Federal Agency growth of power and ignoring the laws and the people in favor of even more power!

Kill The USPS!!!!

They cost us BILLIONS....and most reports include the fact that the "mandated" cost of employees under federal union control is the reason!  Given a free employee contract situation the USPS would flourish!

Federal Unions......death of the empire!

A Time For Reflection!....A Time for Brother

He was a little skinny shrimp.....a blonde...a brother. He came into my life at age 9 and a 1/2.....

I remember my Mother and her introduction to me of my budding unborn brother. She called me to her and held my hand on her swelling belly and I felt his kicks against her.....That was amazing to me.

Then Mom went to the hospital and came home a few days later with a small, skinny, squalling little thing she called Mark.....Official name, Mark Douglas DeLand.....

I was asked to love him, and as Mom liked him...so did I...but he sure was a stinky, squalling, little mess.

Later I grew to like him as I took care of him from time to time and he grew and began to walk and talk. Due our home, with its strange configuration of rooms, he and I ended up sleeping in a double bed together.

WHAT A PAIN!.....he was this small skinny child who had eight elbows and 6 knees when sleeping. My god, but he made sleep difficult! I soon learned how to handle getting him to sleep.....He loved and laughed at stupid things I'd say....such as the names of children's books listed on the back of his prized books.....Things such as "Racketty-Boom!" sent him into gales of laughter. And so nightly I read the names of books to him and he'd laugh until tired prevailed and he'd sleep.....

ALL 8 elbows, and 6 knees!

When I was in my teens and playing tennis; trying to get in shape, I ran in the alley behind our home.. When he reached about 5 or 6 he joined me....he'd run laps on the alleyway....That was one of the times we shared as youngsters.

We grew apart....mostly due age; but also, due my move away after high school. I was 18; he, 8...

We were apart as he grew and moved thru his high school years. Then he graduated and married. His high school sweetheart. I, by then, had two kids and had moved about a good bit.

We again crossed paths when i came to Joliet, IL and was first a radio newsman and later Manager of the Chamber of Commerce. He came to Joliet and was looking for work. He ended up doing various jobs, and later they moved to Chicago where he tried various jobs again.

I moved on and went through my own crisis.....divorce and move back home and then a scant few years later off to Florida in 1978.

A few years later he moved to join me in Lakeland, FL...where he still lives. We became friends anew....So different; so alike........That is my Brother and I.

Time marches on and both have faced major changes; life events which altered what we did and where we lived. Both have kids and I step-kids......We remain Brothers...

I love you Bro.....you are the person, other than our remaining sister, I have known longest in life. You are the remnant of our family.....we pass on our genes, and we live, and eventually we die.

I'd chose no one else to be the brother you have been thru thick and thin.....You care....you show caring, and often at the expense of gain financial or otherwise.

I love you my Brother.

Always and forever.......

Family is 1st......

"Look Over There At The Mountains!"

There was a time when, in my family, someone needed a distraction from being called out on some mistake or offense committed, the phrase above was used to provide distraction and cover. That now seems to be the complete line for our "President-In-Absentia!"  Obama has obfuscated, ignored, avoided, and zig-zagged so many times it is beyond pathetic. This man has taken avoidance to a new art form.

He has "pivoted" to jobs so many times I am sure he and his advisers are falling-down dizzy....He has used charges of this and that to hide his avoidance of any decision about ANYTHING!!!!

Currently we are enjoying a spirited offering of Chicken Little's famous line....converted to Obama-speak as he cries out long and loud....."They are gonna Impeach Me!!!"....all in the name of fund-raising, and avoiding any substantive media looks at Iraq; Lybia; the Ukraine, etc.

If we had a major Media which did the reporting they did when I numbered among them 40 years ago, Obama would by now have become a wart on the Axx of history!

How sad that a once-fine institution called the "Press" has deteriorated to the level of obedient lap-dogs of the Liberals in office....... 

Tell Me....Please Tell Me!!!!!

President Obama made his decision about Illegals and the decision gave EVERY person seeking entry into the USA from countries South of Mexico an almost "FREE" ticket to enter this country..... His goal.....OVERLOAD the system!  He has done the same, by various means, for the IRS and the EPA and the other agencies of this country.....aided by Pro-liberal employees whose union membership insures their vote......

He is subverting this country into anarchy......I was laughed at earlier....a year or two ago...by those who did not see a bad bone in the Obama body....

I sincerely hope they are now beginning to wake up and see his attack on our country....and its founding principles.....

Tell, my liberal friends....are you happy with the mayhem of Obama????is he doing fine and fooling so many now as he did before????
Tell me!

Oh, Say it Ain't So!!!!! Yes, The War On Women (W.O.W.) is real and happening!!!!

& No finer a personage than the FLOTUS is to blame!!!  I have a sneaky feeling this will not make the3 headlines, page 2, or possibly ANY page of the Lame Stream Media! It does not fit the narrative they were given by their handlers in the WH!