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Thought for Today – 09.18.11

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New Economic Perspectives: William Black: Why Nobody Went to Jail During the Credit Crisis

We have known for centuries, that if you don’t underwrite loans, or if you don’t underwrite insurance, you’ll get something called “adverse selection”.

This interview answers the question of why nobody went to jail for our recent financial crisis.

For this underwriter, it’s all about prudent underwriting and strong internal controls.

John Locke – Lessons From a Expert

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How I Sold a Million Books on Amazon in 5 Months

In case you missed the message, John Locke is a serial entrepreneur who loves to write. He also loves to earn a profit from his writing. He sees writing as a business and the selling of books as a marketing effort. And this is what he shares in this book.

John Locke Author: Secrets to Self-Publishing Success

I owned a life insurance company. I quit college with one week to go before graduation in order to sell insurance door-to-door on straight commission. By age 28 I was one of the top insurance sales people in the world.  By age 35 I bought my own life insurance company and appointed nearly 7,000 agents in 34 states.

A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: Guest Post by John Locke

Richard Lehman’s Journal Review – August 2011

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BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 8 August 2011

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I recently shocked an audience of young doctors by stating that my chance at 61 of having localised prostate cancer stood at about 25%. Since then I have looked at various sources (including Overdiagnosed) and found that according to one study of prostates examined histologically after traumatic death, the true figure may be 60%. So if a urologist decided to do some transrectal biopsies on me and hit the right/wrong spot, I might well have a cancer diagnosis. So what would then be the best nonsurgical management strategy – leave alone, local radiotherapy (brachytherapy), or external beam radiotherapy? The conclusion of this systematic review of different modes of radiotherapy for localised prostate cancer is that nobody actually knows. A most reassuring fact to share with your patients.

Prescription Drug OD Deaths Up in Florida

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Medical News: Alprazolam Among Top Causes of Fatal Overdoses in Florida – in Public Health & Policy, Public Health from MedPage Today

Deaths in Florida involving prescription drugs in 2009 were four times as common as those related to illicit drugs, with alprazolam (Xanax) joining opioids among the top killers, the CDC reported.

From 2003 to 2009, the death rate in Florida from overdoses of prescription drugs increased 84.2%, from 7.3 to 13.4 per 100,000 population, according to data from the Florida Medical Examiners Commission analyzed by the CDC in the July 8 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Time to tighten up your anxiety/depression underwriting guidelines?  How about script checks at lower amounts?  Can you differentiate between the applicant who wants to off himself versus plain vanilla anxiety?