Finalist For 2009 Medical Weblog Award

Posted on January 27, 2010
Filed Under Medical ethics |

DrRich is very pleased to learn that the Covert Rationing Blog has been chosen (By Whom? One must wonder!) as a Finalist in the 2009 Medical Weblog Award Competition, in the category of Best Health Policy/Ethics Blog. The Medical Weblog Competition is sponsored by Epocrates, and hosted by the venerable medGadget blog.*  The winner will be chosen by readers.

DrRich faces here some pretty stiff competition (about which he will have more to say soon). Worse, he realizes that the opinions he has expressed on this blog over the past few years have gone a very long way toward alienating conservatives (since DrRich favors universal healthcare), progressives (for disparaging commentaries simply too numerous to list), and even, and perhaps most especially, moderates (speaking of whom, DrRich continues having a really hard time with the chapter on James J. Buchanan in his upcoming book, “Great American Moderates and Their Legacy”).

So it is hard for DrRich to imagine who’s left to vote for him, and he expects the results of this election will not be happy for the Covert Rationing Blog. Still, if any of his readers are of a mind to cast a vote in his direction (or - if you proudly bear one of those modern mindsets which considers ethics to be situational, flexible, or utilitarian - several of them), DrRich would be gratified. He will not be either surprised or dismayed to lose, but would find being entirely shut out most mortifying. Voting, which is open until February 14, may be accomplished here.

*As luck would have it, medGadget just yesterday posted on the very medical product which DrRich has been working on for the past 3 years. Thanks, medGadget.

Comments

3 Responses to “Finalist For 2009 Medical Weblog Award”

  1. L-E on January 27th, 2010 9:58 pm

    If victory depended on the hearts and minds of the people who actually work in the Covert Rationing trenches and fully appreciate your insightful commentary, then you would be assured of it.

  2. Gary Schell on January 27th, 2010 10:12 pm

    Rich,

    I have voted enthusiatically for your blog. Because I suffer from the same ethical impairments that I perceive we share, I just cant vote more than once. Know, however, that my one vote, represents %100 of the fully informed and knowedgeable voters. Regardless of the voting statistics, be confident that your work has been affirmed. The voter has spoken! The polls can now be closed.

    I am a 60 y.o. recovering family physician who now enjoys sleeping and working part time in occupational medicine. I’ve delivered the babies, made the house calls, and was privileged to serve trusting patients who PERSONALLY PAID FOR my advice, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. FWIW, I was published in U.S. News and World Report, in 1984, predicting everything that was about to happen with entitlement/Medicare legislation. The epiphany for me back then was the resounding lack of interest the (several million) readers of U.S. News had to my plea for attention.

    And so it has come to pass. Your blog is just what I might be saying if I had the talent (and energy). Be confident that your one reader who truly gets it has voted. Your work is the Best. Thank you.

    ‘Ol Doc

  3. Marcey on January 28th, 2010 4:11 pm

    Another proud vote - you make me think even when you’re wrong (which isn’t that often) ;).

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