This year marks the 45th anniversary of my graduation from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Wow! Despite the passage of all that time, Wesleyan is still with me in so many ways. It was the career-defining decision. If I had not gone to Wesleyan, I would be someone else. I started at age 16 though …
We need to embrace vaccination against COVID-19 even though we have good reasons to be wary of health researchers and clinicians. For example: James Marion Sims is celebrated as the father of modern gynecology. He perfected his surgical techniques by operating on Black women who were slaves and did so without anesthesia. In 1932, in …
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Although we had a rough year, there was an upside. For years, most of us had been running so fast that we could justify sprinting by the road signs without looking at them. The pandemic forced us to slow down, and some of our issues caught up with us. We realized that some jobs, activities, …
This is the year I became eligible for Medicare, and I started my research in October. I decided on a Medicare Managed Care (Part C) PPO option that allowed me to see any clinician I choose but with a higher co-payment for out-of-network care. I knew if a doctor practiced in more than one health …
