I'll agree with this. It just works and does so quickly.

Add a good shredder and a secure redundant storage system and you're good to go.

Similar story for me. I used a palm pre for about a year. The OS was great. Much more intuitive and easier to use than Android. Its hardware issues and lack of software forced me to change. I use a Samsung Epic now which I like immensely but it has its quirks and took a several days of regular use to become familiar with. On the other hand, the palm pre I had figured out to to a point I was very comfortable with its use in 1-2 hours.

I've invited about 70 people since early this month and as far as I know they all registered without a problem. It did take me 24 hours after my invitation was received to be granted access.

That's a matter of both taste and opinion. The Itunes software is awful in my opinion.

Seriously. If you have an answer then tell me what it is so I can critique it. I'm a physician and part of my job is critiquing articles for a living, so please share.

So far I'm not sure what your point is other than the placebo effect exists which is common knowledge.

Subjectively people will get better from a sugar pill during a cold. Good for them I'm not aware of any objective improvement. Are you? I've read quite of few of the studies and must have missed the objective parts....things readily measured, not just reported by patients, like duration of fever or hospitalization rate.

I'm very well aware of what the placebo effect is.

So docs should prescribe antibiotics to people unnecessarily just so people think they will get better? Is that what you are trying to say? Give the potential side effects and resistance issues (ie MRSA), that doesn't make a damn bit of sense. We don't rx placebos in practice (only in studies) because it is considered unethical.

Using an antibiotic to prevent a secondary infection does not work. It just kills the normal bacteria and allows bacterial that are resistant to the antibiotic to colonize you. Those more resistant bacteria can cause secondary infections just as well as the original.

Multiple studies have shown over and over again, that the course of a cold, sinus infection, bronchitis are in no way altered by treating with antibiotics. Yes, we have given people placebos to people and compared the results to those given antibiotics. Guess what? no difference. So your theory about preventing ER visits and such is just wrong.

so because you have had crappy jobs and crappy doctor visits, an antibiotic will fix your cold? I'm not following your logic here.

I'd like to know where these financial incentives are for prescribing antibiotics because I've never received one. The drug reps do push there meds, but I don't know anyone that takes them seriously. They're usually just eye candy or a person to be made fun of after they leave.

I'll give you the heckling thing tho. Occasionally after 5 cold visits in a row and multiple demands for antibiotics, some mothers literally screaming at you for not giving their kids antibiotics, one can become weak and may give into a demanding patient later. We are only human after all. I actually very rarely cave like that, but it happens.