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Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2026

And you thought Lyme disease was bad...

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New England is pretty much ground zero for Lyme disease. (The name itself comes from the town of Lyme, Connecticut.) And I know a couple of ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Hypochondriacs, assemble!

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Just when I think I've said everything I have to say about the perils of AI, up pops another one. And this pop up is a doozy. A not surp...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Yet another thing that shouldn't be for profit

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There are plenty of things that shouldn't be run on a for profit basis. Prisons. Jails. Healthcare. Rehab. Armies. Student housing. And ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Good news for those who aren't a whiter shade of pale

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A couple of weeks ago, I had what is likely my final visit with my dermatologist. I was there for a periodic skin check, but the doctor foun...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Release the kratom? What's it worth to you?

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Although I've been known to pop a mini-can of Diet Coke to jolt me out of my longing for an afternoon snooze, I've never imbibed an ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

I, Crepitus! (Snap, Crackle, and Pop)

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I have been averaging 5-7 miles a day walking for years. While I fully understand that this is not a perfect workout, it has mostly worked o...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Longevity. (Remember when 80 used to sound old?)

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Last month, Tracy Kidder died at the age of 80. Kidder was a terrific long form journalist and I was a long-time reader and admirer of his w...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Why we have regulations, Part one million, three hundred thousand, nine-hundred forty nine

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Chances are that, at any given time, there'll be a chunk of Parmigiano-Reggiano in my fridge. Some pasta on the shelf, a bottle of olive...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

OK. AI is good for some thing(s)

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One of the very worst diseases I can imagine is ALS. I had a friend - not a close friend, but a friend nonetheless - who died of ALS, and it...
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Dr. Who? Dr. What?

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In October, I received a form letter from my primary care physician, announcing that she was leaving her internal medicine practice to becom...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

An eye for a tooth, a tooth for an eye

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One of the most aggravating and disheartening aspects of the Trumpian elimination of so much medical research funding is that there will be ...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Just put your lips together and blow

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One of the many pleasures of my pre-school days was meandering around the neighborhood with a small covey of my fellow three- and four-year ...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

Yet another unintended consequence of our errancy, our profound stupidity

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I had the measles when I was 4 or 5. It was during the summer, I remember that. And my sister Kath, who would have been 6 or 7, had it at th...
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