I agree. We have the same problem in medicine. Your generic drug had A test to determine product equivalency when company A applied to release it to the public, then company A got bought by company B, who now holds the license and contracts with company C to make the drug in China. Is the drug still the bioequivalent of the branded version? Who knows. We gave up that oversight decades ago when we bought the lie that regulations were bad because they cut into multimillionaires' profit margins.

(Written on 2019年04月06日)(Permalink)

LOL. An ahistorical vision of both the Founding Fathers and the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson himself thought we'd have a Constitutional Convention every 20 years or so to rewrite the thing. As GWB said, it is nothing but a G-d piece of paper....

(Written on 2019年04月06日)(Permalink)

As a Houstonian, I think this crash has generated too little interest. Obviously because 200+ ppl didn’t lose their lives. Thousands of ppl ride 767s daily. Weather? Sure, we get storm fronts, but a typical “winter storm” around here is nothing. Pilot error? Something wrong with 767s? Inquiring minds want to know.

(Written on 2019年03月25日)(Permalink)

LOL, a “left wing organization” ......American media has 1 motive, to generate ad sales.....

(Written on 2019年03月25日)(Permalink)

Unfortunately, the prevailing political attitude regarding federal agencies has been, for 40 years, that the "private sector" can do it better. Our FDA tried to approve drugs before extensive real world use in Europe and Asia a few years ago. The result was a rash of drugs approved and then pulled off the market 6 months later.

(Written on 2019年03月15日)(Permalink)

At least they are not beating passengers and pulling them off the planes. When the country has only 4 major carriers, the news cycle will rotate though them fairly quickly. The people who are saying "Maintenance issues? Problems with union contracts? I'm leaving!" seem not to remember similar accusations attached to United, AA, and Delta in the last 15 years.

(Written on 2019年03月01日)(Permalink)

Very sweet. Barn owls live inside structures. It isn't a far stretch to think he has a home in a hangar nearby.

(Written on 2019年02月08日)(Permalink)

This issue is already being addressed by departments of public safety in states where marijuana is legalized already. Yes, marijuana stays in your system for 30 days. No, only a certain level in a certain time frame makes you intoxicated. In ERs across the country, we deal far more often with people who are using synthetic marijuana. It doesn't make you "pop" a drug test. It is far worse than marijuana, imo. Agitation, syncope and catatonic behavior, elevated BP and pulse-that is the "high" of synthetic marijuana. The people using it are also in high risk jobs. So, sure, the airline industry is having to rely on pilots who did not come from the military. Those lifelong civilian pilots may not have the conservative and antidrug mindset of an ex-military pilot. I would prefer the airline industry approach the marijuana issue realistically instead of how the oil and gas industry deals with it, by pretending drug testing "prevents" a problem. And, BTW, this ER doc is ex-military so no squac

(Written on 2018年10月20日)(Permalink)

Just to give everyone a sense of how delicate your brain is, you can die falling off a bike and hitting your head. Let's say the debris broke the window without penetrating the window. Now you have a partial ejection of your head and upper body out of the window where you are buffetted by winds in excess of 450 mph and temps of -65. Does your head hit the window frame and kill you instantly? Or let's say there was debris contacting her head when the window broke. Now you have blunt trauma at gunshot velocity impacting an undetermined amount of her head. Neither scenario seems survivable. Kudos to the personnel who did CPR, tho. In my job as an ER doc, I have had to tell many people that I could not save their loved ones. There is no good way to do this, a phone call hurts just as much as a face to face.

(Written on 2018年05月04日)(Permalink)

Wow, xenophobic much? Maybe you should control your own opinions first before you expect others to do the same

(Written on 2018年05月04日)(Permalink)