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Dolors & Sense  by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—1/30/12—Every so often a newspaper or magazine will publish a grandiose analysis of the so-called economics of exercise. Such articles purport to view exercising in a capital-budgeting framework: projecting the likely increase in longevity from an exercise program vs. the temporal and monetary costs of engaging in [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—1/23/12—The days of our years are threescore and ten and, if by reason of strength they be fourscore, yet is their strength labor and sorrow . . . . So says the psalm and, for most people, it rings true. There have been impressive increases in life [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose  KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—1/16/12—Not public relations. Genomics. Nearly everyone talks about the “Woody Allen” gene, the source of a neurotransmitter, serotonin, which has a powerful impact on things such as mood and digestion, and thus makes quite a difference in everybody’s life. But, in some people, the gene itself can [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—1/9/12—Economics exhibits more than a little circularity. To spur the economy, we need more job creation. To spur job creation, we need more consumer spending. But consumers won’t spend more unless they have more and better jobs, which won’t be available until there is more economic growth. [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—1/2/11—Blood heals. It supplies oxygen and essential nutrients to the body. If tissues don’t get enough blood, they die. It’s called anoxia. In the end, anoxia gets us all. It is the leading cause of death. What might be called progressive anoxia is also the leading cause [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—12/26/11—I am an unwanted guest at life’s second feast. Burdened by a genetic inheritance that is useful for some purposes, but certainly not for restful living, I have always had an unquiet mind and consequently have waged a life-long struggle for sleep. Age has sharpened this struggle. [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—12/19/11—The doctor’s first duty is, of course, Primum non nocere. Do no harm. In many cases, doing no harm means doing nothing at all, which, being hard on the revenue stream, is rarely an option. Yet it often should be with respect to back problems. We all [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—12/12/11—As G.M. Trevelyan once put it: “I have two doctors—my left leg and my right.” Those who don’t use these two doctors are condemned to visit a third—a man in a white coat with a waiting room filled with anxious, needy people. That doctor will not generally [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—12/5/11—The inimitable Yogi Berra had it right. Much of life is a tiresome re-run. Take the Eurozone crisis. It’s a re-visitation of the crisis that devastated the US economy in 2008, which was in many senses a re-visitation of the Great Depression of the 1930s. A central [...]

Dolors & Sense  by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—11/28/10—Who says that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke lacks the power to cure the recession? The proposition is dubious, given that the gentleman has already given evidence of extraordinary, even non-pareil, linguistic puissance. The word “so” had, one used to think, many but not universal applications. It was [...]