MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'irresponsibility'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:34:06 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3542586&cid=t_249932_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fumh8Dg-358Y%2F By David BoazMark Penn, who has been a pollster and consultant to the presidential campaigns of Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Anderson, and Ross Perot, writes about political discontent in Britain and the United States in the Washington Post today, noting that in this country socially liberal and fiscally conservative voters believe, especially after what happened with health care, that they have no clear choice: They must sign on with the religious right or the economic left. Exactly the point that David Kirby and I have been making in our studies on the libertarian vote, as in the first line of this January study: Libertarian — or fiscally conservative, socially liberal — voters are often torn between their aversions to the Republicans’ social conservatism and the Democrats&#... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3542586 Thu, 06 May 2010 15:51:58 +0100 3542586 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2793137&cid=t_249932_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fusr6_D_mguM%2F That’s my favorite placard from the Washington tea party protests on Saturday. No Child Left a Dime underlines perhaps the central concern of the protesters — the ongoing massive fiscal irresponsibility in Washington by both parties. We’ve got deficits of more more than $1 trillion for years to come. Federal debt will approach World War Two levels within a decade. Even so, the Democrats are trying to ram through a $1 trillion health care expansion, and the head of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, is defending against any cuts to Medicare, the program that is the single biggest threat to taxpayers. People are marching not just because Obama and the Democrats are scaring their pants off, but because most Republicans in positions of power are spen... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2793137 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:42:55 +0100 2793137 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2284447&cid=t_249932_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F03%2Firresponsibility-in-reporting-of.html I have been very unhappy about the lurid headlines in the New York Post and elsewhere about the gravely injured Natasha Richardson being "brain dead." That is not only insensitive to her devastated family, but the term is thrown around all too loosely.Brain death is a popular term for "death by neurological criteria," in which various tests and patient history show that the brain and each of its constituent parts have ceased all functions as a brain. (It does not mean that every brain cell is nonfunctional.) It often gets conflated with a diagnoses of permanent unconsciousness--but is not the same as having a catastrophic brain injury. It is dead.More responsible press reports have described Richardson as being in very critical condition or having suffered a devastating brain injury. No do... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2284447 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:32:00 +0100 2284447 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=806609&cid=t_249932_140_f&fid=35443&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesplinteredmind.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fdepression-and-militarys-license-to-ill.html In this rapid fire world of sound byte journalism, a new report claims that mentally ill soldiers are being propped up on meds and redeployed without counseling. Is it true?According to The Hartford Courant, "the U.S. military is sending troops with serious psychological problems into Iraq and is keeping soldiers in combat even after superiors have been alerted to suicide warnings and other signs of mental illness." If true, these are damning allegations to make during a time when public support is strained at best for a lengthy war.Following a link from MyDepressionSpace.com, I followed the trail further past the Christian Science Monitor to the original source itself: The Hartford Courant. What I found at first seemed to be a string of strawman style arguments linked together with unfoun... The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=806609 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:28:00 +0100 806609