I Had A Dream

...That the hospital I work in finally installed an electronic medical
record system.  I was messing around with it and discovered
that the hospital administration had accessed a record of a sleep study
the hospital had done on me.  It turned out that they were
trying to figure out a way to use my brain power while I was sleeping.
 In essence, they wanted me to work 24 hours a day.


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Yesterdayâs Boston Globe features an interesting article on the vastly different fees that different Massachusetts hospitals charge to insurance companies.
Oh, that hospital.
It's between fifteen to twenty one cents of every dollar spent by hospitals. A recent study examined the costs of antibiotic resistant infections in hospitals. The main finding (italics mine):