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Month: January 2017
Public Bathroom Etiquette
Usually, in a public bathroom, you don’t talk to anybody. Just do your business, turn around, and get out. Most of the time, your business is pretty quick, quiet, and not incredibly stanky. TMI alert. These last few weeks, I’ve been having a bit of trouble with my bowel movements. They’re a bit out of my […]
Fighting the Health Insurance System
One of the things that frustrates me most about health insurance: when you need it most, you’re less able to deftly navigate the system: “You have the right to independent medical review, but how good are you going to be at taking advantage of it if you’ve got cancer?” said Dustin Berger, an attorney in […]
Training the Gut
Mike Massimino became an astronaut, but only after applying an extensive amount of work. And over the course of several years, he applied twice to become a NASA astronaut and both times was rejected in the first rounds. A few years later, he tried again, finally getting an interview. But the interview included a medical exam, […]
Now Hiring: Gut Translator
Over the years I’ve gotten pretty good at listening to my body, of translating various signs and symptoms into actionable cause-and-effect chains (or at least as close to them as possible; it gets pretty tricky sometimes). The hardest part is that my guts do not speak English or even Korean or Braille or any other language […]