Mitch’s Blog

There’s a New York state organization that calls itself the New York State Health Accountability Foundation. What they do is rank services provided by hospitals throughout the state and publish the statistics online for all to see.
This isn’t a bad idea, because I believe that if certain facilities are providing bad services, or [...]

I guess it’s now a competition, this millionaire quest of mine (read here). A friend of mine wrote me and his specific words were “I’m going to get there first”. I said to him I didn’t realize we were in competition with each other, and he said it wasn’t a competition, [...]

I went to a sales training seminar this morning at a company called Peak Performance, located here in the Syracuse, NY area. I hadn’t been to a seminar in over a year, as I’d been out of town and on the go.
The speaker was talking about finding the pain of a prospect in general, [...]

Each person finds that others aren’t always as proficient as they might be, or think they are at least, at everything. That’s just the way life is; none of us is perfect to begin with, and even if we’re pretty good at many things, none of us are good at everything. So, sometimes [...]

There’s this interesting article on MSNBC where the first line of the story is “What does it mean to be a black man?” Personally, I found it a fascinating little expose on being a black male in America and the challenges that are faced, being one myself. That’s all I’m going to say [...]

Last week, at a poker table, I was one seat away from an older gentleman who I’ve played poker with in the past. At some point the topic got around to healthcare, and this gentleman complained that he’d had an aneurysm, spend only one night in the hospital, and the bill came to aorund [...]