Even here in the zenith of the Season of Goodwill I’m fretting about Gender Affirming Care. So, I apologize for being a bit of a Grinch, but I wonder why opponents are so fired up about it. There has been the recently published report on Gender Dysphoria, and President Trump calling care “chemical and surgical mutilation.”…
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Activists Active About Data Centers
Sometimes a friend with a bee in their bonnet about some issue suggest that it would be a good subject for this column. Friend Ruth was one such, suggesting I write about the health hazards of data centers. She hooked me up with Erin Sanzero, president of Protect Stafford (https://eidsolutions.net), who in turn has a bit…
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The Moss Free Clinic Closing – a Case of “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till it’s Gone”
I keep telling everyone “it’s been like a death in the family.” But my take is that it was a preventable death. I liken it to a diabetic who dies for lack of insulin. Not because insulin hasn’t been invented. Not because no one knows that’s the right treatment. But because there’s no money to…
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Forget the Flowers . . . . . . Where Have All the Doctor’s Gone?
If you’ve tried to make an appointment with a primary care doctor recently, the challenge will make you understand why I was leaning on the two young women I was working with at the Moss Clinic. Why I was trying to persuade them to be primary care doctors themselves. One a foreign medical graduate from…
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