Category: General

The Law of One Price

I’ve often heard people who need such things pondering why it is that American drugs are so expenseive, while the same drug, by the same company can be so much cheaper coming from another country. The assumption was always that the American system was somehow gouging the Americans and that the foreign country price was the more “natural” price for our drugs. The FDA was somehow involved. Of course, the FDA kind of supports this idea when their only argument against importing Canadian medicine is that the FDA can’t ensure how safe it is.

No one ever mentioned to me before that drugs are cheaper in Canada because of price controls.

Now [Jane Gault](http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005124.html) has hit me over the head with a discussion of the obvious.

One down fifteen to Go

You know you’re sore when you can feel the individual muscles contracting when you walk up stairs.

You know you’re a science/mednerd when you can name the individual muscles.

Soreness = good aerobic workout in class yesterday.

I was going to write this tomorrow but today is close enough to being the end of the first week of classes that I don’t think it matters too much. I’ll only have one class tomorrow anyway. Continue reading “One down fifteen to Go”

A New Year

Christmas is over and 2004 is gone. KB has gone home and I have another week of vacation before heading back to Charlotte myself. It feels odd to be almost finished with school again. I have an extremely light semster with my hardest class being microbiology (one of the hardest classes in the science department according to many students), but honestly, 12 hours is still only 12 hours.

Most people make New Year’s resolutions at the beginning of a New Year. I honestly don’t ever remember writing down a resolution before and I don’t really want to start now because I know that whatever I resolve to do, I can’t do on my own. So many people start out with good intentions each year but without God it’s useless because we are so incredibly weak on our own. Continue reading “A New Year”

Happy Thanksgiving Back

In honor of Thangskiving, I would like to say something about the thing that I am most thankful for: someone whom I am missing very much right now, since she is in Mary-Land, and I have to manage to stay sane here all by myself. Valerie is the only girl I’ve ever loved, that I’ve loved first on the basis of her character. She knows how to love better than anyone I’ve ever known.

She’s also the only one I’ve ever written bona fide love poetry for. So…

Continue reading “Happy Thanksgiving Back”