And then there was one. More. One more.

Over the past couple of years, I have started following various blog feeds.  A few of these typically discuss political leanings, some focus on sports, a smattering on parenting and lifestyle even some medical in nature.  Most of the time these readings are quite entertaining and offer good insight into lives very different from my own.  I have been asked on occasion if I blog and that answer heretofore has been "no".  I have had a few of my friends suggest that I should start periodically blogging to help keep in touch with friends more distant.  One person even suggested that my rants were so entertaining that I might one day be able to quit my day job.  But the most intriguing is one of my friends who recently told me that my perspective on health care and more specifically the delivery of health care and the politics that drive that delivery would make for a quite interesting and possibly influential read.  I guess all that stuff is nice but I don't particularly see myself in that light.  I already feel like I keep in touch with those friends that care about me and/or that I care about.  I know that there is no hope of ever turning my random thoughts into any type of financial empire.  There is quite simply no one dumb enough to pay for that type of inanity (and no that word is not missing an "s") and after a while I tend to be more abrasive than entertaining.  Heck, I've had relatives "unfriend" me on Facebook because they felt that my debate style was too aggressive.  And I harbor no delusion that the random thoughts I have on my job or the health care profession in general are anything more than just random thoughts.  They don't offer any profound insight or shiny new perspective.  In fact, a substantial proportion of the people I work with have similar thoughts and ideas on health care even if they aren't as forthright with their feelings.  And the truth is that I don't even have all that unique of a political stance.  I'm pretty much a social liberal and a fiscal conservative.  If you looked up Libertarian (or more specifically Libertarian Minarchist) then you would more or less have my political views figured out.  So, why start a blog?  I guess it will mostly be sort of like my therapy for when I hit my manic phase and need to transcribe my flight of ideas into relatively incoherent and loosely associated words and thoughts.  So, brace yourselves.  Here goes.