From the Sac Bee:
A new University of California Davis study on physician job satisfaction found differences among medical specialties, with the happiest doctors caring for children and the elderly.
Dunno about the elderly, but I coulda told you that about working with kids.
Should we use taxes to deter financial speculation? Yes, say top British officials, who oversee the City of London, one of the world’s two great banking centers. Other European governments agree — and they’re right.
Ryan Streeter: From a conservative perspective, CA sucks and TX is teh bomb. Let's ignore prop 13, Howard Jarvis and how we got here. One could just as easily argue CA is a failed tea party.
David Brooks: Ode to Bruce Springsteen
Stop hyperventilating, all you climate-change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week -- portraying some leading climate researchers as petty, vindictive and tremendously eager to make their data fit accepted theories -- does not prove that global warming is a fraud.
Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband:
In an epidemic, each one of us wants to know our personal risk for illness. The current definition of underlying conditions communicates only a level of increased risk, not individual susceptibility. For the first time in history, though, scientists are poised to redefine underlying conditions in a more profound way based on individual immune response. Deep in our genes, there may very well be another underlying condition that determines in part whether a virus will cause us mild or no disease, or severe illness and death.
Follow-up on the various reports about H1N1 mutations in six countries:
[WHO's Keiji] Fukuda commented Thursday in a briefing from Geneva. He says officials are trying to determine if the mutations are leading to changes in the virus' "clinical picture" -- which could result in more severe or less severe forms of swine flu.
The WHO adviser named Norway, Brazil, China, Japan, Ukraine and the United States as countries that have reported mutations. He also said world health officials are investigating some cases of drug-resistant swine flu.
