Kicking Our Grandpas to the Curb
Watching the horrific number of nursing home deaths at the beginning of the pandemic and the selfish, toddler-esque tantrums of the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, one gets the feeling that this country doesn’t care about its elderly. And they would be right. This...
Lessons from Israel’s Successful Campaign to Get the Ultra-Orthodox Vaccinated
30% of American adults are still not fully vaccinated, seriously weakening our efforts to crush COVID-19. The resistance to vaccination has been super stubborn and our President and many governors are exasperated. Addressing holdouts’ concerns and outright bribery...
Invisible No More?
Novelist Lisa Grunwald, an MS sufferer, wrote a touching article for The Atlantic about how when the country opens up, her friends will get back to traveling hither and yon while she and others who live with a variety of chronic illnesses will still be confined to...
Doctors, Stop Fat Shaming
When I was in college, I volunteered one afternoon each week in the ER at Yale-New Haven Hospital. One of the stories making the rounds at the time was about two residents who were trying to do a spinal tap on an elderly, Black, obese woman. The residents had...
Our Polarization is Killing Us
Make no mistake. We have a public health crisis on our hands and it’s killing millions of us. No, I’m not talking about that one. I’m talking about the political polarization of our nation. When politicians speak of the need to heal, oh boy do we ever. ...
The Expert Next Door
Whatever your political orientation, we can all agree that America in late 2020 has big problems. A few years ago, I came across a neat approach to solving really tough problems called positive deviance. This powerful approach deserves a catchier name but that's...
Believe Me You
Hundreds of thousands of coronavirus survivors transition to life as so called long-haulers who live in a grey zone of mystery symptoms that persist long after the virus has disappeared.
A Brief Pause in My Coronavirus Venting
Civil rights icon John Lewis died a couple weeks ago and America mourns. You hear the words he uttered over the course of a remarkable life and wonder if this guy was human. Indeed, a CNN commentator likened him to a saint. Here’s a guy who had his head beaten in...
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