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When Healthcare Became a Business: Why America Can’t Find Enough Doctors?  — Part 1 of 2 Parts by Metis with some assistance from Dr.  Persico

No matter where you live in American today, you will encounter the problem that there is a physician shortage. It is easy to blame people. We can ask why more people are not interested …

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When Healthcare Became a Business: Why America Can't Find Enough Doctors?  --- Part 1 of 2 Parts by Metis with some assistance from Dr.  Persico

No matter where you live in American today, you will encounter the problem that there is a physician shortage.  It is easy to blame people.  We can ask why more people are not interested in becoming doctors.  The truth is that America does not suffer from a shortage of people who want to become doctors.  It suffers from a healthcare system that systematically limits physician supply, burns out…

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Putin, Capitalism, Communism and World Domination:  Part 2 --- J. Persico and Metis (AI Assistant)

This blog continues from where I left off in Part 1 A look at what is going on in the USA today should squash any such naïve belief in our altruism towards the rest of the word.  America’s rhetoric about democracy often conflicts with the realities of it’s economic and geopolitical behavior. We are heading in our own country towards an autocratic government that bears little evidence of the…

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Putin, Capitalism, Communism and World Domination:  Part 1  --- By J. Persico with assistance from Metis (AI Program)

Is Putin a Defensive Nationalist or an Expansionist Authoritarian Bent on World Conquest? This is one of the central geopolitical questions of the 21st century, and serious historians and strategists disagree sharply about it.  What was Putin’s real motive for invading the Ukraine?  Did he perceive their entry into NATO as a major threat to the Soviet Union or was it simply a power grab that…

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Memorial Day: Just another holiday?

It often seems that special days like:  Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Labor Day and many other “Holy-days” have lost their meaning.  They have become corrupted by our greed for leisure time and pleasure.  They represent “just another day off with pay.”  The true meaning and purpose of the day lies undiscovered in our rush to party or go to the big game.  How many of us celebrate the true meaning…

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We Have a Problem:  Finite Water, Infinite Growth

Once upon a time there was a Real Estate Developer.  He knew that everyone wanted a home.  He also knew that he could get state or city subsidies to build a new housing development.  He decided to build in an area where there was a severe water shortage.  This did not bother him because he believed that he could convince people to buy their dream homes and assure them that they would never run…

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Ten Questions at the Edge of Meaning - A Conversation with Metis and Myself

Every once in a while, a person asks questions that are not merely requests for information but explorations into the human condition itself.  Questions about God, history, myth, literature, morality, and meaning. Recently, I posed ten such questions to Metis.  What fascinated me was not merely the answers themselves, but the depth behind them — the way each response tried to wrestle honesty…

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There was a time—not so very long ago—when reasonable people believed that if you simply built a better ruler, you could measure the world perfectly. Measure a mountain carefully enough, they said,…

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The Uncertainty of Everything - “From Deming to quantum gravity—how certainty quietly slipped away”By John Persico Jr.  & Metis

There was a time—not so very long ago—when reasonable people believed that if you simply built a better ruler, you could measure the world perfectly. Measure a mountain carefully enough, they said, and you would know its exact height.  Build a better clock, and you would know the precise passage of time.  Sharpen your tools, refine your methods, and reality would eventually surrender its secrets…

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When Bigger Isn’t Better: What the Beer Industry Teaches Us About the American Economy --- By John Persico & Metis

For the past fifty years, American business has been quietly—but steadily—consolidating.   Companies have merged, industries have shrunk in number, and economic power has increasingly concentrated in fewer hands.   To many Americans, this trend is largely invisible.  After all, prices at Walmart seem reasonable, Amazon delivers quickly, and the shelves are still full. So, what’s the problem? To…

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Aging, Infirmaries and Poker – Or What’s Cards Got to do with It?

This last week has been really stressful.  Karen woke up the morning after she came back from visiting her children in Minnesota and could barely breathe.  I called 911.  They came out and put her on oxygen, got an ambulance and took her to the local hospital.  They admitted her and she spent six days undergoing tests, getting needles stuck in her and breathing through an oxygen tube stuck in her…

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