Hey BigB,
While reading your post, a song an old friend of mine wrote and recorded kept going thru my mind ... "Well it's the same old song ... fiddle an guitar, where do we take it from here ..." I kept rerunning the mental videos from when he and I were kids and rather bored with the same old sandstorms. One day he had a new song and changed an entire genre of music and it'll never be the same.
Well, this situation has some similarities. We've heard the same old thing over an over with only minor variations for a very long time. The reason we hear them over and over is that they are just part of the naural flow of business and progress. They important factor is that we have made progress. We have to keep repeating everything as that paradygm shift is building to a crescendo ... and then the field of medicine will never be the same.
Keeping the faith is a real challenge when progress comes at glacial speed. I'm not giving up and for some very strange reason, I think we are going to be hearing of REAL progress very soon ... possibly within the next few days. Don't know why I feel that way, but it feel very strong from half a world away.
One more blurb about the bashers saying the same things over and over ... you know, the rah-rsh folks do exactly the same thing from a different perspective. It doesn't make either of them bad. It just makes them more normal ... lol. In example, if we're going to blame Percy for asking the same questions about deficits over and over, aren't we going to have to do the same for the "to the moon" crowd?
Now, what's that 'after stroke' protein that makes us walk funny and forget so danged much? Yin ... we need you ... stat.
AI
