A recent advice column in Slate was about a woman who liked to plan dinner parties but her friend had an ever-changing list of dietary requirements. Having to accommodate her friend’s fad diets was killing the fun of throwing parties.
Category: Direct Primary Care
Hospital Online Price Estimators Don’t Match Phone Quotes
Hospitals make it notoriously difficult to know the price prior to a service. Prices are hard to obtain and often meaningless when disclosed. Indeed, there isn’t one price but many prices depending upon who the payer is. There is a different price for BlueCross, Aetna, Cigna and most other health plans. There is the chargemaster…
Why Fentanyl Can Kill So Easily
Hardly a day goes by but what I read about a fentanyl overdose. I’ve also noticed an increased number of news articles about people from the entertainment industry dying unexpectedly. I always assume unexpected deaths among otherwise healthy people are drug related. According to the National Safety Council, more than 67,000 people died of fentanyl overdoses in 2021.
Why Are More Poor Kids Fat than Rich Kids?
Obesity is a bigger problem than hunger in the United States. Among the poor obesity is especially a bigger problem than hunger. When hunger occurs it’s not hunger that is the problem, rather hunger is a symptom of other problems. The problems that lead to hunger are child neglect, dementia, infirmity, elder abuse, drug abuse, etc.