Recent content by uncleradar

I practiced from 1976 to 2015. In my early years you had a lot more freedom to save people money- house calls, seeing patients in the office at 3am so they didn't get an ER charge, arbitrarily reducing surgery bills, etc; as medicine became more corporate and doctors became employees (and...

The cattle business is tough. You pay $1800 for a calf, feed it for six months, then sell it for $3000. You lose a few calves to illness or injury. You have to produce your own feed- hay and silage- to turn a profit. Machinery, labor, fertilizer, diesel are all going higher faster than than the...

Situs inversus in an acute (i.e. trauma) case? Impaired physician?

Obama could not have posted this image cause every Southern Baptist knows Jesus was a white man.

I think it will come down to Newsom, Kelly, Beshear or Shapiro. Newsom may be too progressive to win the general. Beshear is a little wooden but has appeal and a track record as a moderate. Kelly would be a strong candidate but voters seem to prefer former governors. Shapiro would be a good...

As a young child I was taken to the ER with a high fever. The doctors were concerned I might have polio and admitted me to a polio isolation ward. Polio was ruled out by spinal tap. The doctor left the large metal spinal needle(they were reusable in those days) by my bedside. With its...

I grew up on a farm in western NC. I hunted with my dad as a boy- primarily to spend time with him (that wasn't back breaking labor). I left home at 18 and did not touch a gun until I retired and moved back to the farm. My cousins were into training bird dogs. I got hooked and started bird...

I didn't know Epstein was married.

When I read threads like this, I ask myself- who would Calla or Ram or Zen vote for if the 2024 election were held today, knowing what they know now. I think we all know they would vote for Trump, and I think that tells us all we need to know.

I set a goal of having financial security and retiring by age fifty. I met the financial goal but I loved my work and had no desire to retire- ever. However I was forced to retire at age 60 by illness. When I made an unexpected complete recovery I had been out too long to return so I remained...

I retired ten years ago at age 60 due to illness. I loved my job and would have worked to 65 if that had been possible. My advice is to follow the course that is best financially. You don’t want to be financially stressed in retirement. There are lots of unexpected expenses (healthcare for...

Dickinson just missed.

I have a relative with a PhD in Finance who has taught for many years at a major university. While in grad school he was hired to teach a remedial business course at a private college that catered to rich kids. After a month he was fired. It turned out that he felt the students needed to learn...

I was called before a professor and accused of cheating on a chemistry exam. I had drawn a ridiculous comic stick figure as the answer to a problem ( I had no idea of the correct answer). The professor showed me another exam with a nearly identical stick figure drawn for the same problem. The...

In western North Carolina you could easily cover taxes with rental of grazing or cropland. Taxes are subject to "Farm Use" adjustments and tend to be very reasonable. The problem is your initial cost- figure $8-10,000/acre for a good mix of pasture and wooded land in a pretty area. You could...