The life of an athletic director isn’t perhaps as cushy as it might seem.
Wichita State Athletic Director Eric Sexton was at Cessna Stadium early today. It wasn’t exactly bright and early since it was still dark outside. But it looked like he’d stopped by to cheer on those of us either determined enough or crazy enough to participate in “Shocker Fitness with Coach Bolt.” Of course, it’s not like Sexton was in his sweats.
Among other abuses, track coach Steve Rainbolt made us run the bleachers. The steep, imposing and, at times, menacing bleachers. He pointed out that when people come for events, sometimes they have a hard time making it to the top seats.
To which one weary participant added, “That’s why we don’t have football.”
According to the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan, but definitely anti-tax group, about 33 percent of tax filers don’t pay taxes because they don’t make enough money or qualify for credits that cancel out their tax bill.
How do the presidential candidates rate? The foundation says Obama would take another 10 percent off the tax roles through various tax credits, so that 44 percent of the populace (63 million people) would pay no taxes, with several new tax credits. McCain would add 9 percent to 43 percent (62 million people) not liable, with a major new tax credit that encourages people to buy health insurance.
Not much difference.
Some of the reasons fewer medical students are choosing to specialize in primary care — a subset of internal medicine — has to do with lifestyle, says a report in the Sept. 10 issue of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
They want better hours and recompense for the amount of time and work it requires to treat the large portion of elderly and medically complex patients this specialty sees.
A study to find out students’ impressions and concerns found they were concerned about patient complexity, the practice environment and lifestyle, compared with other specialties, officials said.
“Current students recognize the increasing demands on internists, particularly primary care physicians, to accomplish large numbers of preventive and therapeutic interventions during short visits with chronically ill patients while also managing increasing administrative expectations,” the authors wrote. “Career interest in general (internal medicine) is particularly low, reflecting the challenges in the primary care practice environment…”