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GENERAL INTEREST
The Importance of Trust
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/trust-social-capital-government-policy-progressive-politics/

Don't store your toothbrushes in the dark and NEVER wash chopping boards with soap: The biggest cleaning mistakes people make revealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6771421/The-biggest-cleaning-mistakes-people-make.html

HEALTH
Striking scans show how 'lung cancer patient's tumours SHRANK within three months of him taking daily drops of cannabis-derived oil'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6761503/Striking-scans-lung-cancer-patients-tumours-SHRINK-CBD-oil.html

HEALTH CARE
What Your Doctor Isn’t Allowed to Tell You
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

HUMOR
The Wild Things You’ll Only See In Texas
http://www.ninjajournalist.com/entertainment/only-in-texas-tb/

The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0219/hamilton.php3

ENVIRONMENT
Top 10 Most Contaminated Groundwater Sites Revealed in First Major Coal Ash Pollution Study 
https://www.ecowatch.com/groundwater-contamination-coal-ash-2630617715.html

CYBER SECURITY
Facebook is slammed for 'unconscionable' security risks after it's revealed profiles are searchable by the ‘secret’ phone number that you give them as a way to protect your account
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6770489/Facebook-profiles-looked-using-phone-number-use-two-factor-authentication.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
Chinese hackers target University of Hawaii, MIT and other schools in pursuit of military secrets
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinese-hackers-target-university-of-hawaii-mit-and-other-schools-in-pursuit-of-military-secrets-2019-03-05

FOREIGN POLICY
Russia Demands U.S. Missiles Be ‘Eliminated’ from Europe 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/russia-demands-u-s-missiles-be-eliminated-from-europe/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-03-05&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Russia must threaten enemies in the West with war - to prevent the US invading, Putin's military chief declares
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6772487/Russia-threaten-enemies-West-war-prevent-invading-say-Putin-chief.html

LAW AND ORDER
Virtual world trains responders for reality
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=840f0ce05b23be8f52effc9c2aec74ff_5c7eaf81_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190305&goTo=A01&artid=1&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Somali Gangs Battle in Minneapolis; Somalis Demand That Cops Do Something
https://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/somali-gangs-battle-in-minneapolis-somalis-demand-that-cops-do-something/

NKOR
North Korea Rebuilding Dismantled Nuclear Launch Site
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/newsweek-north_korea_rebuilding_dismantled_nuclear_launch_s-rnewsweek

THE WALL
McConnell eyes Trump, Paul and reelection when it comes to emergency fight
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/432568-mcconnell-eyes-trump-paul-and-reelection-when-it-comes-to-emergency-fight

TRUMPGATE
Hoo Boy: Are Democrats Planning to Move Forward With Impeachment, Regardless of What Mueller Finds?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/03/05/are-democrats-going-to-move-forward-with-impeachment-regardless-of-what-mueller-finds-n2542540?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Trump signals White House won't comply with Democratic probes
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/432695-trump-signals-white-house-wont-comply-with-democratic-probes?userid=288549

POLITICS
Capitalism vs. Socialism
https://www.prageru.com/video/capitalism-vs-socialism/

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's chief of staff is accused of illegally funneling nearly $1MILLION in political donations to his own firms, according to an explosive complaint filed with the FEC
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6771209/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortezs-chief-staff-faces-Federal-Election-Commission-complaint.html

Democrats Need to Face the Truth about Ilhan Omar 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/democrats-need-to-face-the-truth-about-ilhan-omar/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-03-05&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

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which you can never afford to Lose – with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
        - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)   USE LINK for full story

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-your-doctor-isnt-allowed-to-tell-you-11551740732?emailToken=c3f32f7de2bae8da1fcc4dfec8da0e0eoTiUwpJkNr3ICTWjcq2bDRiJAtWWQx4zr6tZI/Xm4dSINSjRkAXVCQd+T+sOXl7Soh25M26ofmfzDk2h9N4aEbqV1L1EYeeBZPSHEqWHwjQ%3D&reflink=article_email_share

What Your Doctor Isn’t Allowed to Tell You

Badly designed electronic records can be hazardous to your health, but a gag clause protects the makers.

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By

John Levinson

March 4, 2019 6:05 p.m. ET

Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto

It isn’t easy to ruffle my friend of 30 years, one of the best gastroenterologists in Boston, a town known for top-notch medicine. But he was ruffled when he told the story of giving a patient anesthesia and performing a medically unnecessary procedure—only he hadn’t known it was unnecessary because the patient’s electronic health record, or EHR, didn’t function as promised.
If you’ve heard of EHRs, you know that many doctors consider them a pain in the neck. Not much is said, however, about the harm EHRs can cause to patients. There’s a reason for that: Gag clauses prevent EHR users from talking publicly about their specific problems.

At its core, the electronic health record is a great idea. The technology is intended to replace paper records in the interest of efficiency, quality and safety. For millennia, physicians have written notes to record what we see, think and do in the care of our patients. Those notes began to develop into primitive electronic medical records as early as the 1970s, but things changed dramatically during the Great Recession.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

To protect patients, doctors need the same uncensored academic freedom with regard to EHRs that we have for medical devices, pharmaceuticals and all the other tools we use. The safety of our patients depends on it.
Dr. Levinson is a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.