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Why Men Die Young and What You Can Do About It
Photo: Vince Garcia Why men being men could just save our behinds. The cover article in the Monitor on Psychology this month is about the genetic and cultural differences that combine to cut men’s...
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How to Fix the NFL
We all have different ways to rationalize our support for the NFL, but Max Ornstein might have found a way to fix it. According to the Internet, the NFL Lockout might end soon. When it does, we can...
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Living Longer Is Killing Us
Tom Matlack looks for a reasonable solution to America’s old age problem. I had dinner with a good friend the other night. His most recent girlfriend is one of the country’s most expert setters of...
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Man-to-Man With John Heard
Actor John Heard talks love, devotion, honesty, and the privilege of playing a character that embodies all of those traits in a Hollywood world that obfuscates what’s really important. Though most...
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“So then the morbidly obese would be best since they die off quicker? People...
These are comments by Mike L and Archy on the post “I Don’t Need to Explain My Fat to You“. Mike L said: “We live in a world where Medicare picks up the tab for elderly healthcare, regardless of what...
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Dear John: Nosy Coworker Smells Booze
This week Dear John addresses a boozy colleague, a socially aggressive wife, and meds for chronic depression. This article originally appeared at GoLocalProv.com. Dear John, I suspect a co-worker...
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Moving Story of a Health Care Convert
Christ Healing A Woman With An Issue Of Blood, Paolo Veronese c. 1548 Check out this CNN article about a man moved by faith to abandon his career, and do the right thing instead. This article is a...
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The Dying Game
Can a merciless marketplace be entrusted with caring for people? Some things should not be left to the open market to decide, like healthcare for all. The market is an indifferent player in the realm...
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Going with the Alternative: Supporting My Mother’s Healthcare Choices
When his mother’s cancer returned, Joe Barton learned how oncologists might regard alternative therapy: as competition, rather than complement to their care. My mother was just 45 years old when she...
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I Didn’t Elect to Have Cancer (Sometimes, Just Sometimes, Politics Work)
Toar Winter got a crash course on how the politics of his state affected him on a very personal level. —- I went to the doctor last summer for a physical. It was my first physical since turning...
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Republicans Continue to Orchestrate Disaster for U.S. Postal Service
USPS provides essential services despite manufactured obstacles; delivery innovation and cost-savings being blocked by ulterior motives This post originally appeared at Occupy Democrats By Salvatore...
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Book Review: “Shoes of the Dead” by Kota Neelima
Shoes of the Dead may be set in India, but the problems it addresses are taking place all over the world. “Who cares about dead farmers, Nazar? No one even cares about the ones who are alive.” Shoes...
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NEW STUDY: The Financial Cost of Gun Violence
Emergency room and inpatient procedures related to firearm injuries cost $629 million in 2010 alone. — This post originally appeared at ThinkProgress By Sy Mukherjee Emergency room and inpatient...
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Minimum Wage, Minimum Life
Busting myths about who will benefit from raising the minimum wage. - Most of us have had a shitty job or two. Maybe it was a job that barely paid, where the managers acted like tyrants, and the hours...
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Have We Lost the Art of Medicine?
An experienced caregiver shares three tips for injecting humanity into an often cold & arbitrary heath-care system — As a well-traveled, well-educated couple who spent most of their lives in New...
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Ordeal by Military Healthcare
After mysteriously falling ill while on a tour of duty in Korea, Brad Christy was put through the ringer of medical tests. The military healthcare system couldn’t find anything wrong with him, but...
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Fully Unfinished Business
As we approach 2014, Ken Goldstein has four areas of concern that are nasty, messy, murky and looming in the business world: inequality, privacy, healthcare, and government gridlock. What are yours?...
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This Video Reminds Us Why We Should Be Kind to Others
May we always treat others with the benefit of the doubt, courtesy, compassion and respect. — My life intersects with others all day. Sometimes I know these other lives well, but other times,...
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Painter’s Journey: Uncertain Beginnings to Artist-Activist
Joe Concra works to right injustices with his artwork and as co-founder of the O+ Festival, during which artists and musicians barter with healthcare providers. — I was impatient to start life. The son...
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We’re Still Not Tracking Patient Harm
Top patient-safety experts call on Congress to step in and, among other steps, give the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wider responsibility for measuring medical mistakes. by Marshall...
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