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	<title>Comments on: Healthcare Update 01-14-2013</title>
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	<description>A blog from inside the emergency department</description>
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		<title>By: The Make-a-Nickel Engineer</title>
		<link>http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2013/01/healthcare-update-01-14-2013/#comment-118652</link>
		<dc:creator>The Make-a-Nickel Engineer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stomach acid (HCl) does not &quot;melt&quot; zinc. Rather it reacts with it to form hydrogen gas and zinc chloride. Household vinegar (5% acetic acid) will also react with zinc, as will any other acid.

Also, one&#039;s femur is not &quot;4 times stronger than concrete.&quot; This statement is meaningless. Having &quot;junk science&quot; spouted forth on a BS website (the one you linked to), validated on your website by a medical doctor (you), and then quoted by others as fact is not a good thing.

The website that you quoted doesn&#039;t even get the units of strength correct. Strength is measured in force per unit area (PSI-pounds per square inch in the English system and Mega Pascals MPa in metric). The femur is composed of cortical bone (outside) and trabecular bone (inside) that have markedly different strengths, and the strength varies depending on the axis on which it is measured. The cortical bone is by far stronger, and has a maximum axial compressive strength of 18,000 PSI. Although concrete strengths vary, 18,000 PSI concrete is commercially available as are stronger and weaker concretes. 

I won&#039;t advise others on the proper use of vassopressors for patients in shock presenting to the ER if you refrain from presenting &quot;interesting facts&quot; as medical truths. Deal?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stomach acid (HCl) does not &#8220;melt&#8221; zinc. Rather it reacts with it to form hydrogen gas and zinc chloride. Household vinegar (5% acetic acid) will also react with zinc, as will any other acid.</p>
<p>Also, one&#8217;s femur is not &#8220;4 times stronger than concrete.&#8221; This statement is meaningless. Having &#8220;junk science&#8221; spouted forth on a BS website (the one you linked to), validated on your website by a medical doctor (you), and then quoted by others as fact is not a good thing.</p>
<p>The website that you quoted doesn&#8217;t even get the units of strength correct. Strength is measured in force per unit area (PSI-pounds per square inch in the English system and Mega Pascals MPa in metric). The femur is composed of cortical bone (outside) and trabecular bone (inside) that have markedly different strengths, and the strength varies depending on the axis on which it is measured. The cortical bone is by far stronger, and has a maximum axial compressive strength of 18,000 PSI. Although concrete strengths vary, 18,000 PSI concrete is commercially available as are stronger and weaker concretes. </p>
<p>I won&#8217;t advise others on the proper use of vassopressors for patients in shock presenting to the ER if you refrain from presenting &#8220;interesting facts&#8221; as medical truths. Deal?</p>
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		<title>By: DefendUSA</title>
		<link>http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2013/01/healthcare-update-01-14-2013/#comment-115499</link>
		<dc:creator>DefendUSA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O&#039;care strikes again...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/16/PA-Hospital-To-Stop-Delivering-Babies-Due-To-Obamacare
No baby delivering for these people as of March 31st.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O&#8217;care strikes again&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/16/PA-Hospital-To-Stop-Delivering-Babies-Due-To-Obamacare" rel="nofollow">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/16/PA-Hospital-To-Stop-Delivering-Babies-Due-To-Obamacare</a><br />
No baby delivering for these people as of March 31st.</p>
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		<title>By: DefendUSA</title>
		<link>http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2013/01/healthcare-update-01-14-2013/#comment-114971</link>
		<dc:creator>DefendUSA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon to sound like a broken record. The Act passed March 2010. My coverage went up 32% in Jan 2011. It is now going up another 25%! I could not afford the first hike, and the second wipes out 1/6 of my grocery bill. But that isn&#039;t accounting for gas/milk/ beef prices on the rise. I now pay 55 per office visit. And get the lab tests done by PrivateMDLabs. I just can&#039;t afford it any other way.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Soon to sound like a broken record. The Act passed March 2010. My coverage went up 32% in Jan 2011. It is now going up another 25%! I could not afford the first hike, and the second wipes out 1/6 of my grocery bill. But that isn&#8217;t accounting for gas/milk/ beef prices on the rise. I now pay 55 per office visit. And get the lab tests done by PrivateMDLabs. I just can&#8217;t afford it any other way.</p>
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