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4/20/2004 10:14:11 AM
PRIZE-WINNING WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTERS TO SPEAK OUT AT WEDNESDAY'S ANNUAL MEETING -- AND TO STAGE PROTEST OUTSIDE
Inside the Dow Jones annual meeting on Wednesday, Pulitzer-Prize winning Wall Street Journal reporters will stand up and speak to directors and shareholders about the damaging effects that proposed healthcare cuts and pay limits will have on quality at the Journal. Dozens of other Journal and Dow Jones employees will attend the meeting to support those speeches. (The Journal is Dow Jones's flagship publication.)

Why do Wall Street Journal reporters hate "progress"? Why do they want to stay in the Buggy Era? (See post below)

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It's not a bug, it's a feature your future

bostonchannel/AP:

Bush Pushes For Computerized Health Records
President Promotes Plan To Computerize Records Within Decade

President George W. Bush says America's medical technology may be tops, but its medical record-keeping is stuck in the "buggy era."

"Buggy"? Like Amish SUVs?

"The 21st-century health care system is using a 19th-century paperwork system," Bush said. The result is that files get misplaced and problems with drug interactions aren't systematically checked, among other problems. "These old methods of keeping records are real threats to patients and their safety and are incredibly costly," he said.

Ahh, okaay. Like Buggy-buggies. Cute ponies, old timey. For a minute there I thought--Wait a sec...

Not all doctors are ready to jump on board the electronic record-keeping train, either. Dr. Marc Seigel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine, said he has concerns... He said electronic records might lose sight of patient privacy -- records might get shipped to specialists or related doctors without express patient permission. "For the purpose of patient access, I'm all for it. For doctor use, I'm all for it," Seigel said. "But it's access for third parties that I'm worried about."

Oh, that kind of "buggy". It's not a bug, it's a feature buggy. Like say, touchscreen voting but-no-paper-trail, gross system failures, lost votes, software security holes, your voting history available to interested parties on the web buggy? Wired: How E-Voting Threatens Democracy buggy?

Those bugs, pesky euphemisms. They're everywhere. Lookee here, one more that almost got away: "...But it's access for third parties that I'm worried about." Gee, who do we think the good doctor might really be referring to there? Couldn't be his altrusitic friends in the actuarial and apothecary trades could it?

Nah. He'd have to be buggy to suggest something like that.

What's your job description, Monkey-boy?

Update: Briefly posted here on the main blog but, in hindsight, this kinda sorta really belongs on the bio page. Now back to our regular programming...

This can't not be wright rite correct.

How grammatically sound are you?
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Doh! This is the one I wanted:



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"The only thing we can do is do the right thing..."

"...What other people do is out of my control," said [Veryfine Juice Company President] Rowse.

Loyal Employees Get 'Veryfine' Bonus

$15M Split Among 400 Employees

LITTLETON, Mass. -- It seems like when a local company sells out to a corporate giant, executives collect the big money. But that is not the case with Littleton juice maker Veryfine.

I really like Sam Rowse.


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