Oh, OK. I just assumed they were big dandelions! Susie

We were in West Virginia last week visiting my brother. Very interesting vegetation. Check out the dandelions-I had to take a picture with my hand to show the size. Susie Lauer

I have 5 cousins who are from my father's youngest brother. The 4th and 5th were both gay. 4th is a lady, 5th a man.

The lady cousin was 30 and was in a horrible car accident. She spent a year in rehab. Her girlfriend was with her at all times. When my cousin got well enough to talk and realized who the other lady was, she was horrified and refused to see the lady again. She has been straight ever since, and she would be 57 now.

Susie

I think for the amount of meat in a turtle, that's a lot of shell stuck in those teeth!

My husband went fishing Monday on Lake Moultrie near us-got a neat photo of an alligator. They are extremely thick around here. Susie

Precious-sent it everywhere. Susie

Medscape Medical News > Psychiatry
Psychiatrists Top List of Big Pharma Payments Again
Deborah Brauser
Mar 14, 2013

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Topic Alert
Once again, psychiatrists top the updated Dollars for Docs list of large payments from pharmaceutical companies to individual US clinicians.
On March 12, the investigative journalism group ProPublica released the names of the 22 physicians who, since 2009, received more than $500,000 from these companies in speaking and consulting fees. Mirroring the organization's first report released in 2010, psychiatrists dominate the list.
This time, the top recipient was Jon Draud, MD, medical director of the psychiatric and addiction medicine program at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and from the Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro.
According to the database, Dr. Draud has received a total of $1,009,213 from AstraZeneca, Cephalon, Eli Lilly, Forest, Merck, Novartis, and Pfizer — which is about $278,000 more than the amount received by the number 2 doctor. As noted by ProPublica, these figures do not include travel, meal, or research expenses.
The third and fourth spots are also psychiatrists, and in fact, 12 of the 22 are from this specialty.
APA Reaction
"My immediate, honest response was that this boggles the mind," James Scully, MD, CEO of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), told Medscape Medical News.
"It surprises me because we've made so many changes in what we've done here at the APA. Most of the leaders in the field and the leading researchers in the academic world have really looked at the role of pharmaceutical industries and the way they work with physicians. And they have struggled with how to do this the right way and maintain the public trust," added Dr. Scully.

Dr. James Scully
"Clearly, however, there are others out there who are still working closely with industry. That's perfectly legal. But it's important to have open communication. If people want to do marketing for drug companies, they need to be clear that that's what they're doing."
The other 10 spots on the list are held by 2 directors of pain management, a podiatrist, an allergist, a cardiologist, a pulmonologist, an associate professor of hematologic malignancies, a critical care surgeon, an endocrinologist, and a specialist in infectious diseases.
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Of the 12 psychiatrists among ProPublica's top 22 pharma payment recipients, 3 are from New York, 2 from Tennessee, 2 from Texas, and 1 each from the states of New Hampshire, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.
The list's number 3 position is occupied by John J. Miller, MD, medical director of Brain Health in Exeter, New Hampshire, and a staff psychiatrist at Seacoast Mental Center. The report notes that he received $669,935 since 2009 from AstraZeneca, Forest, and Pfizer.
The number 4 position belongs to Gustavo Alva, MD, founder and medical director of ATP Clinical Research in Costa Mesa, California, and former associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine. He received $663,751 from the same companies as Dr. Miller as well as from Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Merck, and Novartis. Susie

The day after his wife disappeared in a kayaking accident, an Anchorage man answered his door to find two grim-faced Alaska State
Troopers standing there.

"We're sorry, Mr. Wilkens, but we have some information about your wife," said one trooper.

"Tell me! Did you find her?" Wilkens shouted.

The troopers looked at each other. One said, "We have some bad news, some good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to hear first?"

Fearing the worst, an ashen Mr. Wilkens said, "Give me the bad news first."

The trooper said, "I'm sorry to tell you sir, but this morning we found your wife's body in Kachemak Bay."

"Oh no!" exclaimed Wilkens. Swallowing hard, he asked, "What's the good news ?"

The trooper continued, "When we pulled her up, she had a dozen 25 pound king crabs and 6 good-sized Dungeness crabs clinging to her, and we feel you're entitled to share in the catch."

Stunned, Mr. Wilkens demanded, "If that's the good news, what's the great news?"

The trooper said, "We're going to pull her up again tomorrow."

Wow! Susie

All you have to do is look at the prices of brand name drugs and what they come down to when the patent runs out in 17 years and they become generic. One example-I am on Neurontin-some arthritis problems, and it was over $300 a month-low dose at that-when I first got on it. Now it is $20 and of course $4.00 with insurance. When something is priced 15 X higher, somebody is making some money. Susie

The shingles vaccine only works in 51% of the people 60-70 who take it and less in those over 70.
Shingles is from an INCOMPLETE case of chicken pox. If you remember having a dilly of a case of chicken pox, like I do, you won't get shingles.
You don't get a virus twice. Only bacterial things [say strep throat] can you get twice.
So if you had only a few spots, the virus isn't done with you. Susie

Now you are causing me to waste time Googling all this stuff!

"Of course, Mr Obama went on to distinguish himself by going on to earn the second highest honour in a graduate law degree at Harvard."
2nd in his class at Harvard Law-that right there proves how bright he is.
"And he became the first black president of the prestigious legal journal, the Harvard Law Review."
This was interesting on Google also:
"9 Presidential Candidates Who Weren't Great Students"
McCain was the worst finishing 5th from the bottom at Annapolis. Susie

I am old fashioned, I just cut the center part out and place it on a background of my choice. Susie

Now convert this to a fishing trip and my husband would be in Hog's Heaven! He's been drooling over an Alaskan fishing trip for about that many years. Susie

I get all my backgrounds from places like fabric stores, ceramic tile, wallpaper sites, things like that.
Of course my pictures are almost universally dogs, but here are a few that have gone over great-
1-black crocodile
2-Marmoleum linoleum-theirs are great.
3-Fabric-the darker the background the better.
I have 12,000 and some of these! May not do for what you are doing, but there are plenty of plain ones!
Susie