Draft Version ~ US Constitution, its 511 nouns, Post-Roe, Thinking out the box_

by faithgibson February 23, 2023

draft – work-n-progress 06-02-2023 — last edited on Friday @ 7:13 pm word count 11,167 This is a very long unfinished draft, skipping for now as i move specific topics to stand-alone posts ~ Thinking Outside the Box ~ The 511 nouns that appear in the US Constitution and as a class have been identified […]

Read the full article →

draft ~ TOPIC-#13p22-23_A primer in Hospital Economics

by faithgibson February 14, 2023

TOPIC-#13p22-23_A primer in Hospital Economics As privately-owned for-profit business, hospitals depended on their patients being personally able to pay their hospital bills. But hospital bills are not the same straight-forward financial transaction as the purchase of most other services. By definition, hospitalized people (i.e. patients) are sick, injured, crazy or infected with communicable diseases. As […]

Read the full article →

draft ~ TOPIC#12_p22_The Double Whammy of Medical Science

by faithgibson February 13, 2023

TOPIC#12_p22_The Double Whammy of Medical Science Prior to the modern development of medicine as a science, the services provided by hospitals had little or nothing to do with “curing” diseases. Hospitals were in essence medical hotels that provided labor-intensive “hospitality” services” to the ill and injured. This is where the word “hospital” comes from – […]

Read the full article →

draft ~ TOPIC-#10_p-20-21_The last gasps of 19th century hospitals as they were dragged into the 20th century

by faithgibson February 12, 2023

TOPIC-#10_p-20-21_The last gasps of 19th century hospitals as they were dragged into the 20th century Prior to the modern development of medicine as a science, the services provided by hospitals had little or nothing to do with “curing” diseases. Hospitals were in essence medical hotels that provided labor-intensive “hospitality” services” to the ill and injured. […]

Read the full article →

draft ~ TOPIC-#10_p-20-21_The last gasps of 19th century hospitals as they were dragged into the 20th century

by faithgibson February 10, 2023

  TOPIC-#10_p-20-21_The last gasps of 19th century hospitals as they were dragged into the 20th century Prior to the scientific era, the basic function of hospitals was providing “hospitality”, that is, a medicalized version of a well-staffed hotel that provided clean dry linens, three meals a day, and help to the bathroom or a bedside […]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →