What s in Your Library? What s in Your Head?

Probably tons of books, videos, audiotapes and CDs, if you are like most docs.

A bigger question is which ones have the biggest impact on you and why?

For the last few months, one of my recreational reads has been Truman , by David McCullough. All 996 pages. Now, biographies can be laborious, but this one captures the detailed essence of one of the men to make multiple landmark decisions that changed the face of the planet forever.

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No, not Dewey of the TV show Malcolm and Me . Not Melvil Dewey, the originator of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Not even Thomas E. Dewey, who ran unsuccessfully against Harry Truman in the close presidential election 1948 and now best remembered for the photograph of Truman gleefully holding up a newspaper with the premature headline Dewey Defeats Truman.

No, I m talking about Professor John Dewey, hardly a household name for most people - but a continual presence in my life.

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Citizens of the United States of America are starting to get very fat and although no one wants to be called fat they are rather obese. The United States of America therefore needs a sports Minister to help fight this obesity problem and prevent diabetes from overrunning our health-care system. We cannot afford to have 30% of our population with diabetes, as it leads to all kinds of other health ailments and diseases.

During the Presidency of George Bush Sr. you may recall that Arnold Schwarzenegger had put together a fitness plan and was touring around helping children in school in their PE or physical education programs. We need to get back to that, but this time

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One of my favorite stories to tell is about the time my brother-in-law s girlfriend got her black belt in karate

She had her big flashy test kicked the bag sparred other girls (and a couple of guys that looked like girls!) with the foam booties and gloves on did her kata with the appropriate snap in her movements very nice.

Now, I m not a complete jerk, so I let her have her moment. Congratulated her, hobnobbed with the karate master , and ate a piece of the sheet cake with little icing karate dudes on it .

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Have you watched Sicko already? It is very worth doing so.

In order to help put the health problem we are living in better perspective, let me share now some of the insights and advice that Bill Clinton gave us in San Francisco recently at the Healthetc event sponsored by California Pacific Medical Center and KCBS.

Some of the speech highlights:

1) Clinton’s great overview of key comparative data:

* 16 vs 10-11: % GDP spent on health care in the US vs. other industrialized countries. This percentage difference equals around $800 billion annually!

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