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Category Archives: Health
Recovering Your Sanity By Turning Your Back On Modernity
Commenter Dan at Mangan’s writes: I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder a dozen years ago. It was not a misdiagnosis then. I was a mess with run ins with the police and mental institutions and a suicide attempt where my … Continue reading
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The Ugly Truth About Obesity
Geoffrey Miller writes: On the other hand, what if all these negative stereotypes are accurate? After all, many stereotypes have some truth to them – Jews do make more money than others; Black people are more often involved in crime; … Continue reading
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Torah Scholars Tend To Be Frail
One does not usually associate ruddy health with the most religious Jews. Adam Kirsch writes: Yet Talmud scholars, the chapter also teaches, did not often get a chance to indulge in such dainties. Whether because they were too poor, too … Continue reading
NPR: Hospitals Set New Restrictions On Who Can Perform Risky Surgeries
NPR: “So how bad can things get? Dr. John Birkmeyer at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in New Hampshire says a patient came to him after bariatric surgery at a small hospital, a hospital that didn’t perform that operation often. Before sewing up this … Continue reading
‘Killer King’ Hospital Reopens
I’m shocked that hospital named for Martin Luther King would have competency issues. LA TIMES: Some critics of the old medical center have long-held memories of its failures, even as they hold out hope for the new MLK Community Hospital. … Continue reading