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Mixed political and history blog ------------------------- In 1994, after my back surgery and the prolonged recovery, I had to decide what to do with the rest of my life. The young man who I had taken in as a partner before my surgery, did not want me to continue in the surgery practice as a non-operating member. I had offered to see patients in the office and to help keep the referring doctors sending patients. I still had a fair sized breast practice which includes quite a bit of office work. He was not interested. That was a bad decision on his part but I had sold him the practice before my I had been interested in the area of peer review in Medicine for some years and had served on the Board of Directors of California Medical Review, Inc. This was an outgrowth of a new federal policy called “Professional Standards Review Organizations. It was useful in trying to figure out how to measure quality but go into trouble later for exaggerating Anyway, I was interested and knew that Dartmouth Medical School had a program called “Evaluative Clinical Sciences. His original study had been of to*sillectomy in Vermont where he was state health officer. He found that the incidence of to*sillectomy varied by town but not by medical indications. IT was a function of local medical “culture.” Eventually, his work resulted in The I talked to him and then applied for the Fall Semester. In September, I leased my house and moved to New Hampshire for a year. I leased a The house was pretty and situated on 5 acres of land. It had a barn that served as a garage and I had my car winterized as New Hampshire is cold in Winter. It was 26 below zero Thanksgiving morning. The house was about 6 miles north of the medical school, up this highway. I had my dog and a cat that some neighbor children had brought over the first day I was moving in. The cat and the dog got on very well and even ate from the same dish, although Sunny, the dog, ate faster and I eventually had to put