Amazingly enough, it's true, a blog can start in about 10 minutes. Of course, given how I do things, it starts months before, thinking about it, getting around to it, imagining it, and doing something else in the meantime. But now, over a holiday season in 2008, because of judicious planning and some luck, I actually got everything done that I had scheduled myself to do, in time for the Rose Bowl. So here I sit, earphones on and listening to Buddy Holly, waiting for dinner in a little time, watching USC win again (much to Ann's chagrin, because after all, that's where her brother went to school), and generally feeling good.
So, blog, here you go. My aim is for 10 people (including me, so I guess it's already down to 9) to read it. Set achievable goals!
Topics - what I think about and know something about. Politics, health care, thought, not popular culture but our sociological culture, maybe even pediatrics. BGut what I reallyh like to do is to predict and see the prediction come true. Like, when I called the general election for Obama a few days before the Iowa caucuses, on the basis that I woke up one morning and thought that people were ready to turn the page, and Hillary wasn't turning the page.
Budd Shenkin
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- A Berkeley resident for 46 years, I went to Lower Merion High in the Philadelphia suburbs,then Harvard College (history, Leverett House), Harvard Medical School, and did my pediatrics training at the University of California San Francisco. I also earned a Masters' Degree at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, where I am now on the Advisory Board. I was a Fed in Washington with the U.S. Public Health Service in 1968-70, and 1973-4. As a member of the USPHS I studied at the Stockholm School of Economics for a year, and at Yale. Later on I was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCSF doing health policy analysis, published a book on Migrant Health Policy and many articles in publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the AMA Journal, and taught some. I practiced pediatrics from 1979 to 2012. I was President and owner of Bayside Medical Group, the largest privately held primary care medical groups in the Bay Area, until I sold it to Stanford in 2012. I am married and have three children and two step-children, 3 granddaughters and a grandson. While our permanent residence is Berkeley, we live in Maui part-time.
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