Should Jerry Brown Just Ignore His Cancer?
As California’s oldest governor, Jerry Brown has gone out of his way to demonstrate his vigorous good health, jogging around the Capitol and even challenging reporters to pull-up contests—which he …
Tag Archives: Remedies
Cancer Doesn’t Have to Be This Deadly For African-Americans
Doctors and health experts have long known that members of minority groups in the United States tend to have poorer health outcomes than white Americans. I noticed it myself while …
Will High-Caliber Doctors Practice In Low-Appeal Places?
It takes a special kind of doctor to practice in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
It’s one of the state’s sickest regions, with high rates of obesity and diabetes and an epidemic …
How About Ice Cream Without the Tonsillectomy?
In 1981, I was 7, in love with Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl,” and so sick and sweaty and miserable that I woke myself from sleep in tears. When my mom …
You Have the Right To Be Sick—But Not On My Patients
Last week in my clinic, I saw a patient with AIDS. As part of this visit, my patient was examined by a medical assistant who had a cough and sniffles. …
When We Die, Who Is Kind?
I am writing this piece as a middle-aged woman who recently lost her younger brother. We were “Catholic twins,” born 18 months apart in Kansas City. As kids, we fought. …
TOP
