A new venture, a new language

All my fulminating and (occasionally) fuming about inequities of health information offerings has led to a decision: it's time to start a new website. I can do all the things I think are missing -- like translations of medical terminology (just check out some of the sites and sources that purport to do this....good lord.... but more on that later) and ridiculously basic information. It's darned exciting. And how ironic: for all my gripes and snipes about the language of healthcare, I'm now in an immersion course in the language of technocrats and webmasters. Here's to new a whole new world acronyms and buzz words. As I used to say in my tv reporter days: stay tuned.

dinner with octogenerians

The most lively, engaging bunch of people I've had the pleasure of learning from and laughing with. Five plus moi (the only one at the half century mark). One thing we all had in common was taking medication. I'm on asthma, GI and Potassium Citrate (kidney stone prevention) and they're on cholesterol, blood pressure, thyroid, osteo-arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and one is on several to control Parkinsons. I know because when one of 'em took out his pill container, I asked. Then everyone wanted to tell me about THEIR meds. Then everyone wanted to compare meds experiences with everyone else. Oh, if only a group of MD's coulda heard...