Yes, I’ve been a little AWOL. I am waaaay behind on blogging. It’s just been busy, with work, getting new projects off the ground, traveling, and doing early spring gardening. I hope I didn’t bite off too much this year with gardening, but I’ve got about 200 little seedlings coming up, and I just planted more onions.

So blogging has fallen a little by the wayside, and will probably be somewhat sporadic until Easter. By then I should be more caught up and back to my regular schedule.

I have been ignoring the healthcare reform debate because I just can’t bear to listen to it anymore. It just drones on and on, and the final product–if it passes–is not really going to change very much.

But has anyone heard a peep from our Surgeon General yet? I mean, in the middle of all this commotion with healthcare reform, has she ever made a statement? Does she support the president, the bill, anyone or anything? The only thing I’ve read about her since she was sworn in is that she thinks that we need more minorities in medicine. And when she threw out her statistics, it was obvious that she was talking about needing more black doctors, and not minorities in general.

The real issue is to get more students interested in careers in science and medicine–students of all stripes, colors, size, shapes, and origins. Our nation needs physicians, scientists, healthcare workers in general–we don’t need more lawyers, stockbrokers, MBAs and politiicians. But that seems to be what we are mass producing, rather than people who produce anything of substance.

And with all of the problems in healthcare, and with this big debate over reform going on, is this what our Surgeon General sees as the most pressing problem? That this topic is what she has devoted her first talk to?

Kind of pathetic. I don’t want to write this woman off completely, but hey lady, let us know you’re alive and kicking.