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My Summer of Ulcers: Amerikan Medicine In Action
I’ve grown afraid of turning into an armchair reporter. A search engine, a bag of English-class composition tricks, and a backlog of polysyllabic words I picked up from listening to too much Bad...
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Questioning My Sanity, Part One
There was a time in my life, a painfully misguided detour into the depths of insanity, during which I lost my way. A term which I have used more than once in this column, “quarter-life crisis,” could...
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And the Lord Sayeth, ‘Your Health? Your Problem!’
In his fourth encyclical, Pope William I, spiritual head of the Church of Self Actualization, discusses the importance of “Christian Charity” and “Doing Unto Others” as long as there is a “Buck to be...
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Questioning My Sanity, Part Duex
In case you missed the first installment: At 24 years of age, after an impressively protracted derelict adolescence culminated in broke, broken, homeless desperation bad enough to make me feel sorry...
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Dear Mrs. Vera: What’s the difference between Costco & Wal*Mart?
Dear Mrs. Vera, Can you please tell me the difference between Costco and Wal*Mart? I can never decide where to shop. Regards, Walton Brotman Anaheim, Azuza, California Mrs. Vera Newman,San Francisco,...
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Ending the “Doctor Shortage”
We Americans do not have the world’s “best” health care, just the most expensive. Health Care reform must consider skyrocketing costs if any progress is made. We walk a tightrope between cost and...
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Treatment Denied: 4 Bizarre Reasons Patients Are Refused Medical Care
Although doctors still haven’t perfected the “Star Trek” body scanner that can diagnose with one swipe of the patient, 21st century medical advances are still pretty impressive. Just because the...
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