Respiratory Therapy 101: Just Keep Breathing

Another article in my series on the Rules of the House of God is coming up, but in the meantime, why not enjoy some  other blogs?

Freadom over in the RT Cave has written a good Q-and-A about rescue bronchodilators, those wonderfully abused but mostly harmless drugs.  He’s hinting at a crucial point, which is that physicians tell patients that Albuterol will prevent them from developing an asthma exacerbation because they’re too lazy to write prescriptions for real control meds like Flovent, Advair or even Singulair. Go on over and read the Q/A, it’s interesting.

Meanwhile, GruntDoc has been making lawyers crap their pants in the ER. There are very few things that make seasoned ER personnel nervous, but the phrase “I’m a lawyer” is enough to give just about anybody pause. However, the tables turn when the lawyer is on the table, as we can see here.

Moving out of medicine and into Politics, we can see that there’s an initiative coming up to repeal the income tax in Massachusetts. Having previously lived, worked, paid taxes and driven (”Spirit of America”apparently refers to passing on the right with extended middle digits–and that’s just the cops) in Massachusetts I am intrigued by this. The state doesn’t exactly have a reputation for this sort of tax-repealing small-government movement, at least not since we threw all the tea into the harbor, but maybe some of the libertarians from New Hampshire have been creeping across the state line.

Further updates as events warrant.