Now what?
Whale flu? Oh, whoops – there seems to have been a misunderstanding.
Sun, May 31 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Shorter Alec MacGillis
Godforbid those undeserving, ignorant peckerwoods get health insurance. Seriously, it occurs to me that MacGillis might be using reverse psychology here, but another way to look at the problem is that Southern and Western states have been subsidizing Northerner’s health care for decades. To say that one region will benefit from the end of that [...]
Sun, May 31 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Sotomayor and disability law
Keri at Diabetes Mine asks: Does the position of Supreme Court Justice fall under the American Disabilities Act? Good question. Kerri is responding to some speculation elsewhere on the interwebs, about Sotomayor’s health – she has diabetes – being a liability in her nomination and confirmation, but let’s be honest: this is a dumb and [...]
Thu, May 28 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Mon, May 25 2009 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Worst airline in the country…
US Airways, hands down, for reasons including but not limited to: screwed-up reservations, damaged baggage, stinky planes, painful seats, and useless flight attendants.
Mon, May 25 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Feeling the bite
I pay $440 a month for my health insurance via COBRA. This is, for me, a lot of money – more than a quarter of the pay of my part-time job. I was moved to this job – not by choice, not for any cause – by my employer last September. As part of the [...]
Thu, May 21 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Absolute adventure
I get that most twenty-somethings think they’re invincible, so I sort of see what Dana Jennings is getting at here: Yet as weak as I was — if I had caught a case of hospital pneumonia, I might not have made it — it never occurred to me that I might die. I was wrapped [...]
Tue, May 19 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Something I can’t imagine
How angry this woman must be: When a loved one is in the hospital, you naturally want to be at the bedside. But what if the staff won’t allow it? That’s what Janice Langbehn, a social worker in Lacey, Wash., says she experienced when her partner of 18 years, Lisa Ponds, collapsed with an aneurysm [...]
Mon, May 18 2009 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
House, MD
I mentioned that many doctors think Scrubs is the most realistic medical show on television. According to ER Drama, the least realistic – no surprise – is House, MD: Watching House, MD though, things have been taken to an even higher level of unrealism… So why does this matter? It matters because there are a [...]
Mon, May 18 2009 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
Attention sick people
If you have a chronic illness, you should go to http://chronicdisease.survey.sgizmo.com and complete the survey there. I did it in about ten minutes. Seriously: do it now. The survey is part of an NIH-funded research study, and they need all the responses they can get. This is how Jennifer Jaff (one of the people working [...]
Thu, May 14 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
