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Turkey Tips from Romney’s Dept of Health and Human Services

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This, believe it or not, is the lead item on the Massachusetts Dept of Health and Human Services website: Turkey Tips

Image: Color photo of a table set for a big meal, including a turkey

and text: “Want your Thanksgiving meal to be remembered as a delicious feast? To help achieve this, make sure that you take care to properly select and prepare your bird. For suggestions and guidelines on how to ensure your Thanksgiving poultry dish is delicious and safe, read and follow our turkey tips.”

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I came across the above gem (sorry I couldn’t get the actual photo) when searching for Tim Murphy’s tel #.  Murphy is the guv’s secretary fo health and human services who, as the Globe reported today, is meeting with DMH leadership to “devise a plan” to cut other areas in DMH programs instead of inpatient admissions, because cuts to the DMH inpatient program impact the private sector (now there’s a way to get some attention I guess) and has generated very appropriate blow-back on the guv.  Not all, but most of the other big$ 9C cuts were to equally important services.

I’ll leave it to my fellow readers to share your very own “Turkey Tips” with the Guv 617-722-2000 and his HHS Sec Murphy 617-573-1600.  Happy Turkey Day to one and all!

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  1. the turkey tips emphasized food safety and were not about recipe exchanges or other happy talk.  That’s actually standard fare, I think, for a government web site.  You know, public health.

    • is an integral part of our state’s health care system although it’s all too often treated as something separate, which not only doesn’t make a lot of sense, it’s unhealthy for all of us!

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      The indignance displayed in my original post over the Turkey Tips had a lot to do with the timing of discovering it, coming right in the midst of the shameful 9C HHS cuts fiasco.  I did get to wondering about other state’s HHS sites and found the lead item in New Hampshires HHS site to be more than a bit ironic (they provide a budget overview, of all things!!!)

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      I agree with using the Mass. Dept HHS website to promote public health.  A more effective way to promote/protect public health at this time of year might be with a lead item about, say, hand washing being the single most effective way to reduce the spread of infection, be it the flu or be it a life-threatening hospital acquired infection.  (BTW I’m a community health nurse and my spouse is a public health nurse.)

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