Whoa!  Think you have the wrong site?  Looking for the "Angry Allergist"?  Well, don't panic--you've got him, so relax....  Same great posts.  Different name.  Got it?  And come to think of it, you're probably also wondering why there have been NO posts for 3+ months.  Truth be told, I've been looking for a different--better--name for this site, and a direction to be taken...and therein lays the paradox of the half-full glass of water...                                                                                     Is the glass half full?  Or half empty?  Which is the MORE accurate perspective?  Which viewpoint  tells us more?  In the field of allergy, the Angry Allergist has been concentrating on our shortcomings...and rightfully so.  We have a bucketful of them. I've outlined them in my "Allergy--a field in trouble" monograph in the right menu column.  In short, I've portrayed the Allergy Glass as pathetically half-full, or maybe even empty.  On the other hand, as I read our official allergy society newsletters, I've been greeted with moronic platitudes like "Nobody does it better than the Allergist"--and a marketing campaign dedicated to telling patients to see their local allergist for the best in allergy care.  This perspective treats the glass as completely full. Nothing more needed.  As allergists, we have all the knowledge and tools to effectively help our patients, even if we utilize our best tool--immunotherapy--in less than 20% of them.  Well, who's right? Is the glass half full, or half empty? 

 I've been looking for a word--a single word--that typifies what we need in the field of allergy--something typifying the act of "filling the glass".  Something to describe in a positive fashion what we--as a field--need to do.  And be.  And not what we lack. What word? 

 Renaissance.  

And I'll talk about why I chose this word.  And what it means for us as a specialty.  Because we need, desperately, to fill the glass.  Yes, it's probably half full.  I'll give you that.  But it wasn't designed to be half full.  And that's the point.    Let's fill 'er up.  And, like real life (at $4+ bucks a gallon)--it may be painful, but it's got to be done...

Late. Dude

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