Sometimes, we play a little politics on this blog. I am a student of current events and enjoy following the dysfunction and absurdities in American politics. To paraphrase the legendary former British Prime Minister, ‘never has so little been done by so many to benefit so few’. Legendary Former British Prime Minister Which of the following recent events is the most politically charged? Speaker of the House John Boehner passed a clean extension of the debt limit without conditions. (Nothing like a colossal failure on this issue months ago to guide the speaker today.) Obamacare received its 27 th extension, another ‘tweak’. A new study questions the value of mammography. Readers know how skeptical I am about medical dogma. When I was an intern a quarter century ago, I didn’t grasp why routine measurement of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) was standard medical practice since it was true back then that more men were harmed than helped by its use. A recent stu
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