There are only a few dedicated pain doctors in my community.  One in particular pushes the envelope of prescription guidelines.  But he does genetic testing and keeps pain contracts and faxes back when pharmacists ask questions.  Still the BNE and DEA have put him on watch and some pharmacies worried about their license have stopped filling for him.
Meanwhile it seems opium production in Afganistan is doubling every year since the Taliban was bumped out. And somehow there is a heroin and opiate problem burgeoning in my little seaside community.
I am disgusted that a patient of mine with 10 tumors in his spine has to run around and find a new pain doctor while illicit drugs flow in.  This patient will head to a medical marijuana dispensary hopefully with good results.

Adding it up...what a crazy picture.  Eight plus years of school and misguided regulations prevent licensed professionals from treating and managing pain.

I want the flow of foreign illicit drugs to stop and I want local laws and enforcement agencies to support treatment options in medical offices and pharmacies.

Is that unreasonable?


http://www.independent.ie/world-news/afghan-opium-production-hits-record-29750971.html

Two pixel currency.

Currency is valuable especially in our technological world.  Debt currency on a large scale is a dinosaur but what about a gift currency: work is performed and recorded.  That record is traded.  As each trade is made its history becomes a testament to community economy. (*Information regarding debt currency inefficiencies.)

This has been done on paper.  On a small scale it cannot be forged as each transaction is signed.
"Oh I see you cooked meals for old Mrs Smith when she was ill last week, and she had bought a painting from Ana... Yes I'll accept this for an afternoon of landscaping."  And it continues.

I am interested in a medium of exchange created from "tracking pixels" currently used in shipping and advertising.  Any work or trade can be entered into a database and encrypted becoming part of the record of that currency that cannot be forged any more than breaking into a Bank of America's system.  And why forge a history?  Takes too much time.  These can be on phone Passbooks or paper as they would be scanned every time they were used.  Some would have more value than others-- essentially e-denominations.

Such a system would be much easier to program and implement than setting up a bank and credit card system.  Even Nobel Prize and Congressional Medal of Honor winner Muhammed Yunus famous for microcredit could not muster starting a bank in America.  The only fix is innovation.


*Some background regarding how the current system inherently absconds from innovators and laborers.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/its-the-interest-stupid-why-bankers-rule-the-world/5311030
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv25uEs

I do relief pharmacy work and I come into contact with a parade of tragedy called "health care."
Absurdities of health care include its cost, misallocations of labor and capital, dearth of technology widely available in other economic sectors, legislation that panders to BigPharma at the expense of safety, snail paced advancements from lab to journal to practice, sequestrations and sales of health information and acutely: public apathy and fantasy.

As I work in different venues I am driven to grab a prescription pad and scribble an angry little note regarding how some process or adverse effect might be improved or ameliorated.  Coworkers imagine I am writing all kinds of things in the "care culture" where we work under multiple surveillance cameras and a missing dollar or tablet will go down on a permanent employment record.  But my notes have ended up in a smallish shopping bag next to my hamper.  And now the bag is filling up and it is time to share my scribbles on prescriptions in hopes of raising awareness and making some desperately needed improvements.

Welcome to Prescription Rant--  ℞ant

Please contribute and share and let problems and solutions be put in the open.  Let it be known that we can do a whole lot better.

As my hair grows longer I am experiencing an increased ability to appreciate the beauty in the hearts of others...and myself.
Ironically I am taking on a leadership role in a conservative and philanthropic organization where my growing hair seems to be of concern.   Would my leadership ability in this group be compromised by my lengthening wild curls which seem to grow with an empathic ability and desires aligned with its core mission?
Perhaps it is just a coincidence, my empathy is growing regardless of my hair, and the buzz cut of my youth will allow me to me a more effective listener and giver.
But I think of Biblical Sampson.  And of circumcision...the message clear; "Man up at age zero, we own your most sensitive parts and you-- so stop your crying, do what we say and get used to it."
Much of my life I have shrunk myself to make others comfortable.  Obsequious professional requests to allow physicians to keep their licenses for example.  "Please can we change this drug" code for "not kill our patient?"
Personal strength and synergy.   Am I shelving my vitality with a dying organization when I should be building a new one where individuality and synergy are cultivated to positively affect our country rather than the "clone and control" hierarchical methodology of past generations which is obviously floundering.
I believe all ages, abilities and talents can and should be working together to continuously better our society.  I happen to appreciate the conservative and founding values of this great nation and of the philanthropic organization I admire and am proud to be a member.
But do I have to cut my hair?

500 to 1000
Thats what it takes for all the chocolate
of my Soul to be nibbled away

250 I start to feel it.
Like a healing herb
with much of its leaves
eaten by locusts

It takes days to regrow and
like a blade of grass coming up fresh I am very fragile
vulnerable

I need to breathe life in
one breath
At a time

anyone within 50 feet
stifles the growth...sets it back.

vigilance and fear

Is this mental illness?
It is situational...all I need is solitude
breathing it back
And I am creative
I am fun
I am capable.
I am loving

Same as everyone I suppose
why do we deny this to eachother?
It is what we crave.

By 1000 people
My last leaf is trembling.

Common Sense Lawful Defense

How can we pretend there is a rational debate when the phrase "gun control" is mentioned without listing the previous centuries genocides associated with it in Armenia, Russia, Germany, China, et cetera?

When a "debate" is framed by non citizen entertainers antagonizing showmen on a forum interrupted by ads for toothpaste and car insurance.

When the "debate" is supposed to promulgate illegal legislation to change the seed agreements of our prosperous civilization.

Mind you the event precipitating the debate has not been fully investigated yet.  Normally a 2 week period...all records have been sealed for 90 days.

To date our press or Main Stream Media has shown photos of dead Al Caida members, children dead from the flu epidemic, but not a shell casing or drop of blood from Sandy Hook.  No autopsy reports.  No timeline that corresponds to the released nine-one-one tapes.  No surveillance camera tape.  And we are expected to support the castration of only hope for humanity.

What can I possibly mean by the "only hope for humanity?"  The hope that principled and heart centered people can control the US military and financial sector.
A free and critical press and an armed populace are the only things that can keep unlimited power in check.
Certainly in America we do not tolerate police brutality.  Around the world it is another story.

Think our government's force is nice?  Responsive to the needs of humanity?

Agent Orange cancers in Veterans and Vietnamese alike continue.
White phosphorous weapons are not even talked about.  What exactly does a drone strike do?   Depleted Uranium in Fallujah has caused 1/2 pregnancies to terminate early and more than 1/2  that come to term have serious birth defects.
What prevents that kind of firepower and toxic warfare from arriving on Main Street?  I'll tell you: Men who took oaths and have guns.  Good people need to have weapons that intimidate the state.  I say the state not because I am not hopelessly grateful for the American system of governance but because it is always under threat of manipulation by less than benevolent influences.  Good people need to have weapons that intimidate and therefore deter those malevolent influences of our free state.  If not--Armenia, Russia, Germany, China et cetera.

Unless by "gun control" advocates are referring to the practice of using two hands to steady ones weapon in common sense lawful defense of self, family, community and or humanity.

No one hugs like the people of Esalen.

This is the comment I imagine leaving at the end of the Esalen seminar I really want to attend but cannot afford at the moment:

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I remember when Esalen was a place for Heart centered living.
A place to heal and to find limits and bolt beyond them.

A community where ethical explorers created massage and psychic modalities,
Grew healthful food and medicine beyond the shackles of Big Agra and Pharma,
A place too far South and far too beautiful for the religious and political police to patrol.
A shinning community on a hill-- A hope for the world.

Now it is just a run down spa with a bitchy office staff.

...but the DJs are good.  And the poets. And the dancers.  And the gardeners.  And the cooks.  And the people cleaning and groundskeeping with light in their eyes...and no one hugs like the people of Esalen.

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