67 Writerly Posts Tagged medicine
Healthcare and medicine, public health.

Jul 25, 21 On the “legitimacy” of vaccine hesitancy
Jul 20, 21 Out of the frying pan of COVID, into the fire
Jul 17, 21 The time for hesitation is over
May 24, 21 QR codes still useless
May 24, 21 Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
May 20, 21 Weird chronic illness versus weird COVID vaccine side effects
May 5, 21 Another Round ★★★☆☆
Feb 1, 21 Public health theatre
Jan 19, 21 The most dangerous lie
Dec 14, 20 I don’t know what COVID test result I want
Sep 18, 20 A timely excerpt from The Plague, by Albert Camus
Sep 11, 20 Peak denial
Aug 8, 20 The “asymps” are driving the pandemic
Jul 17, 20 Writing for customers versus an audience
Jul 17, 20 Doomliving
May 31, 20 The Canadian perspective on America’s crisis
Sep 12, 16 A Story of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Gone Horribly Wrong
Mar 7, 16 Cold or flu? There’s no way to know
Apr 5, 15 Weirdest fan mail ever
Apr 4, 15 A Manuka Honey Moment
Dec 17, 14 Google trials free medical consults
Nov 13, 14 Dr. Oz mauled in snark attack
Oct 2, 14 Speak to me
Sep 14, 14 Owly
Jul 19, 14 It slices, it dices!
Jun 18, 14 Hen-house guarding by foxes in alternative medicine
Jun 18, 14 Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
Jun 14, 14 Patrick Stewart supports dying with dignity
Jun 4, 14 Good bill, strange oversight
May 3, 14 After antibiotics
Mar 22, 14 Cranks shout
Feb 7, 14 Creepy medical tour of the past
Nov 15, 13 Kevin Trudeau jailed
Oct 24, 13 Pseudo-science is all grown up
Oct 24, 13 Hotmail haters
Jun 11, 13 Survival skills
May 10, 13 Victory!
Feb 13, 13 The Sonic Hedgehog Gene
Jan 11, 13 Fix the file-drawer effect!
Oct 7, 12 I’m a professional buzzkill
Sep 30, 12 These cranks drive me nuts
Aug 7, 12 Hope: Always a bestseller
Aug 4, 12 The mind in cancer
Aug 3, 12 What’s a claim?
Jun 29, 12 The “integrated medicine” straw-man:
Jun 27, 12 And who the hell TALKS on their phones anymore anyway?
May 15, 12 The rest of the internet is full of it!
Apr 2, 12 How I lost 25 lbs and why I couldn’t have done it without beer
Feb 5, 12 History of Medical Discoveries
Dec 10, 11 Magical thinking in medicine, then and now
Dec 10, 11 NCCAM boondoggles
Oct 21, 11 Reserving judgement on Steve Jobs’ health choices
Oct 6, 11 Skeptics, please reserve judgement about Steve Jobs’ alleged use of alternative medicine
Oct 2, 11 Irony detection
Jul 22, 11 Messing with our heads
Jul 18, 11 My first “viral” article? A writer’s case report
Mar 31, 11 New eyes
Feb 28, 11 F for effort
Feb 21, 11 Homeopathic placebo for animals
Feb 6, 11 Anti-intellectual worship of weak “mysteries”
Jan 16, 11 Just how open?
Dec 29, 10 Gullible masses: stop confusing “studied & disproved" with “unproved”
Dec 14, 10 The cause of what does not exist
Dec 3, 10 God’s text message
Nov 26, 10 Ironic regulatory fail!
Sep 17, 10 Big Suppla