James L. Paris's Blog, page 73
July 20, 2017
Study: More Americans Making Costly Dosage Mistakes When Taking Meds at Home
According to the results of a new study published in the medical journal Clinical Toxicology, more Americans are making dosage errors when self-administering drugs at home. These mistakes have resulted in hospital admissions in the tens of thousands, as well as over 400 deaths over the previous 13 years.
Perhaps even more significantly, the problem is expected to get worse as greater numbers of Americans are diagnosed with diseases that require chronic management through medications, like heart disease and diabetes, according to a write-up on the study in The Washington Times.
The researchers analyzed over 67,000 cases from the U.S. Poison Control Center between 2000 and 2013, and found that cardiovascular drugs, analgesics (pain medication), and hormone/hormone-related drugs, like insulin, are the medications most likely most likely to be involved in an individual���s dosage mistake.
Nicole Hodges, a research scientist at Nationwide Children���s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio and the lead author of the study, said, ���These medication errors are a significant public health burden. A third of the cases in the study resulted in hospital admission, and so they are something we want to take seriously. As prescribing of those cardiovascular medications, opioids and insulin ��� as those all continue to rise, we���re likely to see an increase in these medication errors as well.���
Just one more consequence of what has long been Americans��� growing reliance on medications to manage ailments that could otherwise be greatly mitigated by lifestyle choices.
In concluding remarks, the researchers noted that ���the rate of non-health care facility medication errors resulting in serious medical outcomes is increasing, and additional efforts are needed to prevent these errors.���
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
Study: Over 44 Millions Americans Now Have a ���Side Hustle���
The side hustle era is fully upon us, largely thanks to the Internet, where it���s much easier for people to earn extra money by engaging in more entrepreneurial sorts of endeavors that have little in common with traditional, part-time jobs.
As reported by CNN Money, there���s a new study from Bankrate that reveals over 44 million Americans now have some type of side hustle.
Not only that, the money is real. As Bankrate���s Sarah Berger notes, ���It isn���t spare change from a lemonade stand.��� According to the data, 36 percent of those engaging in a side hustle earn at least $500 per month.
Interestingly, although its younger adults ��� young ���Millennials��� ��� who are more likely to have a side hustle, according to Berger, it���s actually older adults���those closing in on retirement age (53 to 62)���who are more likely to earn at least $1,000 a month from their side gigs.
That���s not surprising. It���s reasonable to assume that if more ���seasoned��� folks are involved in the gig economy to make extra money, it���s because they really need it, and so will be more serious and deliberate in the pursuit of it. Additionally, older adults often have built-in advantages when it comes to making more dough, particularly if their side hustles are related in some way to careers in which they worked for decades.
The number of ���side hustlers��� is on the increase, and they���re pursuing all kinds of interesting, entrepreneurial activities to make their extra money. You may be one of them now.
If not, chances are getting better you will be, one day soon.
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
July 19, 2017
ESPN���s Annual Awards Show Sees Ratings Decline for Second Straight Year
And that���s with former first lady Michelle Obama as a presenter.
Or, is it because former first lady Michelle Obama was a presenter?
Anyway���the tough times for sports network-turned-leftist mouthpiece ESPN continue.
It���s now old news that ESPN���s regular ratings have been tanking. While a variety of reasons have been cited for the tumble, many on the inside admit that the continued, overt embrace of progressive political stances by the network, as a whole, as well as by many individual commentators, has proven to be part of the problem.
And the hits just keep on coming. ESPN���s popular, annual awards show, the ESPYs, saw its numbers fall for the second straight year. According to Variety, last Wednesday���s broadcast posted a 1.4 rating with 5.3 million viewers, which was down from last year���s 1.7 rating with 5.6 million viewers.
The network surely thought featuring Mrs. Obama, who was on hand to present the Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, would give its floundering ratings a shot in the arm, but that turned out not to be the case.
With recent polls indicating that ESPN���s continuing slant to the political left is having a deleterious effect on its numbers, it is mystifying how someone there thought that making Michelle Obama a presenter would help.
Because, clearly, it did not.
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
Phil Donahue: Trump Presidency is the ���Darkest Political Moment in American History���
If it wasn���t for hyperbole, how would Democrats even be able to communicate in the era of a Trump presidency?
And thank goodness this relic chose to weigh in with some pearls of wisdom.
As reported by The Hill, this past Saturday, MSNBC dusted off talk show legend Phil Donahue for an appearance on that network���s AM Joy program with host Joy Reid.
During his appearance, Donahue declared that the era of Trump has proved to be ���the darkest political moment in American history.���
OK, really?
Beyond Donahue���s pronouncement about Trump���s dubious (as Phil sees it) place in American political history, the old talk show master is clearly warm to the idea that Trump be impeached, even if he does not say so in quite those words.
When asked by Reid about that very subject, Donahue responded, ���I think it���s too dangerous for a member of Congress to vote for impeachment and upset a significant number of his own constituency. It���s a third rail ��� he could risk his own reelection.���
You���ll notice he did not respond by saying to Reid, ���Impeachment? Why on earth would anyone bring up impeachment? There���s no evidence that he���s done anything worthy of impeachment.���
Again, that���s what he didn���t say.
Thanks, Phil.
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
Broke Illinois Has Over 60,000 Government Employees With $100,000 Plus Salaries
OpenTheBooks.com Founder Adam Andrzejewski Joins Jim Paris Live. Topics discussed include the government making grants to organizations with millions of dollars in assets, the VA wasting millions on art, millions in government funding of the controversial Shakespeare In The Park that depicted the assassination of Donald Trump, and despite being broke Illinois has more than 60,000 government employees receiving salaries of greater than $100,000.
July 18, 2017
Most Won���t Be Successful ��� Here���s Why
A great piece over at CNBC gets right to the heart of the matter concerning why most of us, despite our best intentions, will simply be unable to turn the corner in the effort to attain genuine success.
There���s a lot to the article, but some of the best, and briefest, declarations about why so many will fail to make it have to do with the impediments associated with making poor lifestyle decisions.
Article author Benjamin Hardy asks, ���If your daily behaviors are consistently low quality, what do you expect your life's output to be?���
���Your choices must become higher quality. Your relationships must become higher quality.���
And he means ALL of your choices.
Even down to what you choose to eat.
���You can't continue eating crappy food, regardless of your spouse's or colleague's food choices,��� writes Hardy.
What does what you eat have to do with success?
It���s a reflection of who you are. If you are someone who���s truly driven to success, then you will make sure that everything you���re doing, both large and small, is the best that it can be.
To that end, Hardy says directly that ���your days must consistently be spent on high-quality activities.��� That means all of your activities���including what you eat.
And your associations? That���s a crystal clear reflection of where you���re headed.
���To be successful, you can't continue being with low-frequency people for long periods of time,��� Hardy notes.
In other words, success doesn���t come merely by working hard at the singular effort at which you want to realize great achievement. It comes, as well, from the symbiosis that results when everything you���re doing, when every effort in which you engage each day���is characterized by being of the highest standard possible.
But that���s just not where most of us are.
Which is why most of us will merely read about the successes of others.
Will that be you?
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
Cop in Trouble After Using ���Wrong��� Pronoun to Identify Transgender Person
It appears that cops are under fire these days for all kinds of reasons.
According to The Daily Caller, it looks as though the entire Fort Lauderdale, Florida Police Department is going to have to attend training designed to make its members more aware of, and sensitive to, the special considerations of interacting with transgender persons.
To include learning by what pronoun to refer to them.
This all started when Office James Brinton stopped Shelby Kendall for a traffic violation back in January. Brinton is a transgender woman, but Officer Brinton continually referred to Kendall using male pronouns.
What particularly upset Kendall, a male who identifies as female, is that when Brinton issued the citation, he���d indicated Kendall���s gender on the ticket as that of male.
Kendall alleges that Brinton would not change the gender noted on the ticket, even though she���d asked him to do so.
���If I���ve done everything I need to do for the state of Florida to recognize me as a female, he doesn���t have a right to purposely mis-gender me,��� said Kendall.
The complaint initiated by Kendall led to involvement by Fort Lauderdale���s Citizens Police Review Board, which ultimately made the recommendation that the entire department undergo special sensitivity training.
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
Uber, Lyft, And The New World Of Freelancing
On this episode Jim discusses his recent trip out west and the explosion in popularity of side gigs, like Uber and Lyft. While on this trip Jim had the chance to interview several drivers and shares some interesting insight about one of America's most popular side gigs. He also discusses the great experience he had flying the discount airlines. An odd place that you are now expected to tip, sites will be asking people for a credit card to prove they are 18 or older, but will there be unintended consequences? Is this the beginning of the end of anonymous Internet browsing? and Dance Mom star, Abby Lee Miller, reports to prison for her 366 day sentence for bankruptcy fraud.
July 17, 2017
Jesse Jackson: 2016 Election ���Stolen��� from Hillary Clinton
Good victories clearly die hard for some people.
Ever since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, there has been no shortage of people expressing all manner of sour grapes over the way things turned out for him, as well as for defeated Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton.
Among the most recent of such expressions from high-profile personalities is that made last week by none other than Rev. Jesse Jackson. Jackson was back in Chicago on Thursday at the convention of his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, where he introduced speaker Tom Perez, the recently-anointed Democratic National Committee chairman.
As reported by The Washington Free Beacon, while introducing Perez, Jackson said, ���To have a head of our party who is sensitive to the plight of working people is the order of this day. Don���t forget when you lose; you tend to amplify ���would���ve, could���ve, should���ve.��� When you win, you cover up your sins. Let nobody fool you. We worked last year; we won the election. It was stolen.���
It was?
Jackson went on to clarify what he meant by ���stolen,��� adding, ���From John F. Kennedy to Nixon to Carter to Ford to Clinton to Barack if any of them had to face the impact A: of Russian interference in such a bold way��� had to face the foolishness of the electoral college and the interference of the FBI, none of them��� Hillary won in spite of having a three million vote lead. So we are not going to let anybody break our spirit. We are going to keep fighting back.���
Thank goodness he cleared that up.
by Robert G. Yetman, Jr.
