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A doctor guide!  Very interesting!  Zagat guides will now partner with WellPoint  for a review of doctors!  Today members of the insurance company WellPoint can view reviews as postings by other members. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/business/media/16zagat.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=zagat&st=cse

The Zagat-WellPoint venture was launched in California, Connecticut and North Carolina.  We all recognize the name Blue Cross of California, a unit of WellPoint.  Not all Blue Cross Blue Shield are WellPoint but all can access the Zagat reviews.  The Zagat reviews are not yet available for New York’s Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield. 

As a sidebar, no surprise: some doctors have complained about a review site named RateMDs.com that evidently has some non-patient postings about doctors – a fact that cannot be prevented on a public website such as RateMDs.com which supposedly has postings from ex-spouses or competitors allegedly. 

For Zagat, a threshold of 10 reviews of a doctor will be required for posting, and the reviews will be screened for at least abusive language.  Times are changing!  Zagat sells 650,00 copies of its New York restaurant guide.  What great thought leadership to have physician reviews in partnership with the proven track record of Zagat!  Everyone, pace yourself and I will do same.  Adios

Happy Tuesday!  Air Force One is about to lift off to carry The Prez to Denver!  He is taking the day to travel over and back as a flair to sign the stimulus onsite in Denver with solar panels as the backdrop as we hear the background story. 

The huge expense of the travel to Denver is WASTE.  So that is some type of CHANGE. 

It’s at least 50,000 plus gallons of fuel to fly there and back plus the security detail –wow!  totally a waste.  44 seems NOT to see the expense HE is creating – whether it is keeping the Oval Office “hot enough to grow orchids” or travel to Chicago for Valentine’s dinner or now a day trip to Denver – AMAZING just AMAZING! 

And 44 thinks he is GREEN?!!!  Everyone, pace yourself and I will do same.  Adios

The earth is cold – no it’s hot – you go figure!  Washington DC is in the news for another reason than the antics of 44 today:  a new study predicts DC would be flooded by the Antarctic ice melt it seems.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/antarcticmeltdownwouldfloodwashingtondc

Then, next subject, news item about the 90-year old WW2 veteran Bay City, Michigan gentleman Marvin Schur who froze to death when the city shut off his electricity.  OMG  It seems he left $1,000 in unpaid hospital bills and bequeathed his entire estate remainder - an amazing $600,000 to Bay Medical Center.  His frozen dead body was found 4 days after Bay City Electric Light & Power did their fatal deed cutting off his electricity resulting in Mr. Schnur’s freezing to death.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29033269/?GT1=43001

With all the knowledge we have today, how can someone FREEZE TO DEATH?  OMG  There are so many community service programs, I hope the local Bay City Michigan community outreach leaders identify how this could have happened in year 2009.  And maybe Jennifer Granholm, Michigan’s Governor, can weigh in although she surely has her hands full with the auto industry in crisis.  Everyone, pace yourself and I will do same.  Adios

So #44 tells us we’ll have to pry the blackberry out of his hands huh?  That’s ‘game on’ for sure with operational Office of the President protocol and nothing less for the federal archiving requirements.  Have we all forgotten EVERY email from the Clinton White House being summoned for the Lewinsky scandal with resulting impeachment?  Email is a document of record.  Each is subject to document oversight and then the archiving requirements kick in - have been in place for over 10 years thanks to the Pentagon battle plans needing data archiving and follow-on data retention under the “Archivist” data housekeeping rules.  What’s your bet?  Will #44 have it removed by the 20^th? Or by Valentine’s Day?  We can only imagine who “b-berries” #44 today?  Ya think his investment banker in Chicago texts him?  How about hot realtor deals on Lake Michigan?  Maybe his wife and the Sidwell girls text him?  Or real-time, Mrs. #44 texts him that she is spending $100 on an off the rack dress for his next star studded celebrity event.  Stay tuned!  Game on!  Pace yourself and I will do same!  Adios!

Sharing good news:  In an unexpected company email just now, a director told me ‘thank you’ plus an add-on “awesome team player” – what a mind wipe!  Talk about doing a ‘re-set’ on your day’s lookahead!  Having said that, I do look back a few years to a totally opposite experience and also memorable:  I was new to California life in a Silicon Valley IT shop and was impressed by the initiative of one of the members on my new team, so I said “Well done and thank you.”  Result: blowback:  the young namby-pamby featherweight VP came directly to my desk after overhearing this praise: “Don’t you EVER say those words ‘thank you’ to anyone in this building ever!!!  They are just doing their jobs!  Don’t you get it?!!  They will expect praise because of YOU!  Your’re not working in Manhattan any more – get with the program! – no more praise. PERIOD!!!”  Yep – it stung & it stayed with me.  What goes around comes around smile: the economy took away his perk of his townhouse on Haight street that he bragged about to us worker bees.  LOL  So use the words “thank you’ and cherish being told ‘thank you’ especially unsolicited!  Pull out those emails on a blue day & smile….and ‘re-set’!  Get healthy!  Stay healthy!  pace yourself and I will do same.  Adios.