Do you need to explain to the person on the checkout line or, say, a mother organizing a bake sale, why your back hurts? Or why you need a seat on the bus?
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From an article in today’s New York Times on hiring discrimination against people who smoke: “There is nothing unique about smoking,” said Lewis Maltby, president of the Workrights Institute, who has lobbied vigorously against the practice. “The number of things that we all do privately that have negative impact on our health is endless. If it’s not smoking, it’s beer. If it’s not beer, it’s cheeseburgers. And what about your sex life?” I think he’s right, more or less, in a slippery-slope sort of way, seriously - Lots to think about this weekend! —- Related Posts:An Ordinary DayShould People With Health Problems Talk About their Conditions?A Blog About PainMagic Johnson is Alive 20 Years after Announcing He Had HIVNew York City Mayor Bloomberg Promotes Healthy Lifestyle Choices A tweet hit me on Sunday evening, from a stranger: @Mibberz I’m saddened by how many ADULTS can’t get their #rheum 2 understand the level of severity of their pain.What hope is there for my daughter? I half-watched an on-line exchange about the issue, and then went about my family’s dinner preparations. The message came from Amy Cunningham, who blogs about her daughter’s experience with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and uveitis to the starting tune of Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl.” I couldn’t bear the tracks that followed, playing automatically and disjointedly in multiple browser windows, so I shut them off. But I kept on thinking about the girl’s pain, and the mother’s despair. I wasn’t alone in that. Turns out that Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior Kelly Young (@rawarrior) was all over the matter. She’s got a Facebook discussion going on the topic and a post today called Some Rheumatologists Don’t Understand See more I Feel Your Pain (not) I’ll be staying near my home in Manhattan this week. But if I did have plans to travel by airplane for the holiday, I think I’d be apprehensive about the new screening procedures implemented by the Transportation Safety Authority (TSA). My concern is not so much with the scanners…Rather, I’m worried about screening errors — false positive and false negative results, and about harms – physical and/or emotional, that patients and people with disability may experience during the screening process. See more The Transportation Safety Authority Screens Travelers Inside and Out If there’s one obvious thing I didn’t learn until I was well into my forties it’s this: Don’t let a day go by without doing something you feel good about. This message is not unusual, cryptic or even interesting. It’s simple, really so trite you could find it in most any “how having cancer changed my life” book available in bookstores and on-line. Why say it again? Everyone knows we should relax and enjoy sunny weekend days like this. Because it’s a reminder to myself, as much as for some readers and maybe a few fledgling doctors out there. One of my… See more An Ordinary Day 
This is my first film review, if it is that. I was tempted to write about Ethan Hawke, hematologist among vampires in Daybreakers, but gore’s not my favorite genre. A mainstream choice would have been Harrison Ford solving the enzyme deficiency of Pompe disease in Extraordinary Measures, but I didn’t get sucked in. I chose Precious, instead. This luminous movie relates to the practice of medicine everyday, big-time. See more On Precious |
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