I haven’t been updating this site recently because I’ve been on the road for almost two months, one month driving from North Carolina toVancouver, a few weeks packing for that move and some time in isolated Western NC beforehand. There is much to share from those journeys but until then I hope to provide some short insights from things I’m reading.

While catching up on past Daily Show episodes, I’ve noticed that  the healthcare debate has now come front and center in United States discussions. So this excerpt fromthe current book I’m reading was very poignant.

From the 1982 The Turning Point by UC Berkley Physics professor Frijof Capra,

“There is now an almost paranoid fear of litigation among American doctors, who try to protect themselves from lawsuits by practicing “defensive medicine” ordering even more diagnostic technologies which further increase the costs of health care and expose patients to additional risks. This malpractice crisis is the result of several things: excessive use of high technology within a mechanistic model of illness in which all responsibility is delegate to the doctor; considerable pressure from a large number of profit motivated lawyers; and a society that prides itself on being democratic but does not have a socialized medical system. “