by Jeff Dubin | Apr 19, 2021 | Chronic illness, Coronavirus, Physician bias
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...
by Jeff Dubin | Oct 14, 2020 | Chronic illness, Coronavirus
Fearing the onset of serious brain rot, the other night I decided to switch up my usual entertainment choices. Rather than watch such intellectually irredeemable fare as Adam Sandler’s new cinematic gem, Hubie Halloween, I instead watched a couple TED talks. A talk...
by Jeff Dubin | Mar 2, 2020 | Chronic illness
On a recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry is playing poker with his buddies and announces that he might have cancer. One by one, each of his so-called friends announce that they couldn’t be friends with him if the diagnosis comes back positive. Ouch! ...
by Jeff Dubin | Jan 24, 2020 | Chronic illness
“In the face of the world’s harshness and danger, organisms of any kind develop protection — a coat of armor, a rigid system, a comforting ritual. For the short term, it may work, but for the long term it spells disaster.” -Robert Greene, author of The 48...
by Jeff Dubin | Sep 25, 2019 | Chronic illness
The life of a person with multiple chronic illnesses is truly that of a medical nomad. They wander from diagnosis to diagnosis and from doctor to doctor, hoping to alleviate the never-ending multitude of aches and pains that plague them. Insurance companies often...
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