My Domestic Church Daily Clips 12/16/2009

• Obama: ‘On the precipice’ of health care change, though ‘differences’ remain – The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidencytags: areyousorryyet?
  • “What we know for sure is that this bill includes a half-trillion dollars in Medicare cuts, $400 billion in new taxes and higher insurance premiums for everyone else,” McConnell said.
• Midwives in meltdown: A former NHS worker reveals how understaffed maternity wards are sinking into chaos | Mail OnlineHow childbirth works in another nation with socialized medicne. tags: Obamacare, birth, childbirth
  • My heart went out to them. But I knew there was little I could do.
    With five other pregnant women to care for at the same time, all with
    hugely different and complex problems, I was rushed off my feet and
    didn’t have the time to look after her properly, to allay her fears or
    to hear about how she wanted the birth to unfold.
    I longed to sit with this poor young woman, calm her and remind her gently to breathe deeply through each contraction.
    Just
    half an hour of my time could have made all the difference. Instead, I
    put on my cheeriest smile and followed hospital procedure. ‘Would you
    like a painkiller?’ I asked.
    Ten hours later, after she had been drugged to the eyeballs to dull the pain, I heard she’d given birth. Her baby was healthy, but I knew I’d let her down.

    As I watched her being wheeled into the ward, I felt eaten up with guilt. She’d effectively been ignored from the moment she turned up until the moment she gave birth.
    Plonked on an antenatal ward until her time came, with no one to reassure her during what was most likely the most terrifying moment of her life.
    No woman should have to give birth in these conditions  –  let alone in a modern hospital with professional staff at hand.
    Welcome to the modern NHS maternity ward. A world of shoddy practice, poor hygiene standards and a shocking disregard for patients’ individual needs.

• 800,000 Doses of Children’s H1N1 Vaccine Recalled – H1N1 – FOXNews.comGlad I didn’t jump on that bandwagon to quickly. tags: currentevents, vaccines
  • —  Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children manufactured by French drug company Sanofi Pasteur have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said Tuesday.
• Take Crisp Photos | Blissfully Domestictags: photos
• 80% of women who get breast cancer have none of the known risk factors!it’s so perplexing. tags: cancer, breastcancer
  • Eighty percent of women who get breast cancer have none of the known risk factors!
    This means we don’t have a clue as to what causes this disease. Could it be a virus? Is it due to certain environmental factors? Is it because of something that no one has even thought about and that we will never discover unless someone is daring enough to stand up to the status quo and start looking?
• Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? – Telegraph BlogsThe unraveling of the politics of climate changetags: currentevents
  • When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:
  • The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

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