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A Different Deadly Species

The “murder hornet,” the world’s biggest species of wasp, has an MO that reminds me of a parti...

Who Owns the Land? (Part One)

“This land is your land; this land is my land….” If Woody Guthrie were alive today he might ne...

“Sharing” Patient Data Or We’ll Do Anything To Make Money

Received May 14, 2024 (via email) NOTICE OF DATA BREACH Dear BARBARA, On behalf of Kaiser Permanen...

Fifteen-Minute Cities

I live in a fifteen-minute city if I limit my walk to the library, the bookstore, a small grocery st...

Rural America –Getting It Right

What’s In a Name? I hated the term “flyover country” long before I moved there and was curious...

Rural America – What They Keep Getting Wrong

In February 2024, a new book took the latest shot at rural America - White Rural Rage: The Threat to...

It’s a No Foolin’ April

In September 2022, the White House hosted a conference that focused on nutrition, health, and hunger...

Civilization

I just discovered a book – Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress. Full disclosure - I’m wait...

100 Million People

I thought I’d read it wrong when I saw this heading in a recent posting from Kaiser Health News (K...

PE – Not Your Gym Class

Do you remember when the health insurance wordsmiths came up with “patient-centered care?” Like,...