Medicine has always relied on killing enough patients to determine how safe/effective or not a drug or procedure might be. We simply do not have the technology to provide definitive answers any other way as of yet. This is why one "practices" medicine and not "does" medicine. And administering a drug to a patient is called a "trial." There is simply no way to know the outcome until the outcome arrives. Years of experience can give you a fair indication of what to expect, but expectations are not definitive answers.

As a keynote speaker ER Doctor stated at an EMS seminar I attended, "No matter how much knowledge and skills we think we know and have, modern medicine still boils down to doing things to keep the patient amused and letting nature take it's course." As a simple medic, that was a thought that stuck with me through my 15 years in the back of the bus. It scared the bejeezus out of me.

Miracle Whip is not mayonnaise. And no one actually knows what it is other then just plain nasty. Never, ever buy Miracle Whip.

I don't know where his ship is, but the man had great taste in blended Scotch! If you run across a bottle of Shackleton in your local liqueur store, buy it.

Ahhh yes, the Geneva Checklist.

Standards committees: We don't discriminate. Everyone can have their own standard.

I would sub out a decent bottled in bond bourbon for the wine. But overall I approve of the diet.