{"id":324,"date":"2010-01-07T22:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T03:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=324"},"modified":"2010-01-07T22:33:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T03:33:12","slug":"vampiric-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Vampiric vs lycanthropic healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed Ezra Klein&#8217;s segment on the healthcare bill last night on the Colbert Report, though he likes the bill more than I do. Werewolf doctors got a mention, and <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/01\/colbert_nation.html\">Klein talks about them providing a possible advantage in scoring the bill<\/a>. But once again congress is not making good medical decisions, this time in which kind of monster doctors belong in patient care. <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2010\/01\/no-werewolf-doctors-yet.php\">Matt Yglesias took that up in his blog today.<\/a> He pointed out that vampires would be more useful, as they could revive the patient even when heroic measure had failed by making them into one of the undead. I think this is an excellent idea- patient vocused, um, I mean focused.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, consent it an important issue. To give a feel for what that might look like, I created a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/24930747\/DNR-VForm\"> revised DNR-V<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed Ezra Klein&#8217;s segment on the healthcare bill last night on the Colbert Report, though he likes the bill more than I do. Werewolf doctors got a mention, and Klein talks about them providing a possible advantage in scoring the bill. But once again congress is not making good medical decisions, this time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[185,119,120],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical","tag-politics-in-america","tag-vampires","tag-werewolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}