and one day some kids too :-)
Monday, December 15, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
BK ad
Here's the link to the newest ad campaign of Burger King: LINK. I was kinda bummed to hear all the Hmongers only speaking Thai, I bet they didn't have a Hmong translator so they only showed the responses in Thai. The experiment is very flawed (scientifically speaking), but I think anyone would recognize that, not just a Hmong lover like me. I do enjoy all the recent Hmong media though (this and the new Clint Eastwood movie).
Leia Mais…Thursday, December 4, 2008
Hmong people are Whopper Virgins
A commercial just came out for Burger King with hill-tribe hmong people from Chiang Mai, Thailand deciding if the Whopper is better than the big mac. I enjoyed the commercial, mainly because I have eaten at that burger king :-) The video isn't on youtube yet, but I'll post it when it is uploaded.
Leia Mais…Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Primary care doctors in the United States feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
And 60 percent of 12,000 general practice physicians found they would not recommend medicine as a career.
"The whole thing has spun out of control. I plan to retire early even though I still love seeing patients. The process has just become too burdensome," the Physicians' Foundation, which conducted the survey, quoted one of the doctors as saying.
The survey adds to building evidence that not enough internal medicine or family practice doctors are trained or practicing in the United States, although there are plenty of specialist physicians.
Health care reform is near the top of the list of priorities for both Congress and president-elect Barack Obama, and doctor's groups are lobbying for action to reduce their workload and hold the line on payments for treating Medicare, Medicaid and other patients with federal or state health insurance.
The Physicians' Foundation, founded in 2003 as part of a settlement in an anti-racketeering lawsuit among physicians, medical societies, and insurer Aetna, Inc., mailed surveys to 270,000 primary care doctors and 50,000 practicing specialists.
The 12,000 answers are considered representative of doctors as a whole, the group said, with a margin of error of about 1 percent. It found that 78 percent of those who answered believe there is a shortage of primary care doctors.
More than 90 percent said the time they devote to non-clinical paperwork has increased in the last three years and 63 percent said this has caused them to spend less time with each patient.
Eleven percent said they plan to retire and 13 percent said they plan to seek a job that removes them from active patient care. Twenty percent said they will cut back on patients seen and 10 percent plan to move to part-time work.
Seventy six percent of physicians said they are working at "full capacity" or "overextended and overworked".
Many of the health plans proposed by members of Congress, insurers and employers's groups, as well as Obama's, suggest that electronic medical records would go a long way to saving time and reducing costs.
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