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[Raleigh] Adult Dodgeball tomorrow!
2004-08-27 09:25 amDodgeball was a blast last week. I'm going to go again tomorrow. You can still register if you want to join!.
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2004-08-27
Futurama on my dating life:
2004-08-27 09:40 amfry: can't we just be together?
leela: listen - you are a man, I'm a woman. We're just too different.
leela: listen - you are a man, I'm a woman. We're just too different.
100 Years of Medical Robbery
2004-08-27 12:41 pmhttp://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1547&id=71
100 Years of Medical Robbery
by Dale Steinreich
Our mentor has always been Hippocrates, not Adam Smith --President of a County Medical Society at an AMA meeting quoted in the February 16, 1981 issue of the New York Times.
This weekend (June 11-13, 2004), the American Medical Association (AMA) will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its Council on Medical Education. The medical establishment understandably sees the formation of the Council as a good thing. However, some patients aren't ready to celebrate yet, and their instincts may be good.
History
The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded in 1847 around two propositions: one, all doctors should have a "suitable education" and two, a "uniform elevated standard of requirements for the degree of M.D. should be adopted by all medical schools in the U.S." [1] In the days of its founding AMA was much more open--at its conferences and in its publications--about its real goal: building a government-enforced monopoly for the purpose of dramatically increasing physician incomes. It eventually succeeded, becoming the most formidable labor union on the face of the earth.
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100 Years of Medical Robbery
by Dale Steinreich
Our mentor has always been Hippocrates, not Adam Smith --President of a County Medical Society at an AMA meeting quoted in the February 16, 1981 issue of the New York Times.
This weekend (June 11-13, 2004), the American Medical Association (AMA) will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its Council on Medical Education. The medical establishment understandably sees the formation of the Council as a good thing. However, some patients aren't ready to celebrate yet, and their instincts may be good.
History
The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded in 1847 around two propositions: one, all doctors should have a "suitable education" and two, a "uniform elevated standard of requirements for the degree of M.D. should be adopted by all medical schools in the U.S." [1] In the days of its founding AMA was much more open--at its conferences and in its publications--about its real goal: building a government-enforced monopoly for the purpose of dramatically increasing physician incomes. It eventually succeeded, becoming the most formidable labor union on the face of the earth.
( Read more... )