About a month back I was informed by work that I needed to work Saturdays again. This would cut into my boxing Sparing so I signed up for my one last hurrah and was set up against a younger guy with greater experience and technique than me. The night before I manage to get food … Continue reading On Pain, and it’s ramifications:
Category: Public Health
From worse to awful and beyond…
In the past 6 months I have ordered more studies to investigate the arterial structures of the neck than I have in the last several years. What was I looking for? Well, this in particular, dissection (tearing) of the vertebral artery, leading to a cerebral infarction, the worst nightmare in the Chiropractic profession. This is … Continue reading From worse to awful and beyond…
Societies Juvenile Debris
As someone who has followed the Vaccine Crusades for about a decade I noticed a troubling narrative switch facing those who call themselves Anti-Vaxx: People who had previously said: “I don’t think the MMR Vaccines causes autism but even if they did I would want my kid autistic instead of dead.” Switched to a more … Continue reading Societies Juvenile Debris
A cure that may enable the disease.
The last time I was really sick was in 2010 when I came back from Thailand and I had a hacking cough that took a few months to truly resolve. I never got an official diagnosis but my roommate proclaimed it the artful title: Asian Lung Herpes Whatever ALH was it must have jolted my … Continue reading A cure that may enable the disease.
Hysteria and The Curse of Incompatibility
Watching the Coronapalloza unfold from my quarantined perch here in Beijing, the duality from the very real threat that the illness poses for many and the accompanying hysteria for those not nearly at risk, has my again reminding myself that Reason and science really need to balance itself out vs irrational fear. I have tried … Continue reading Hysteria and The Curse of Incompatibility
Trumping Hope…
As I’m sure you heard in the past few weeks: “50,000 people die from the flu every year and nobody gives a shit!” It bares repeating, It’s not that no one gives a shit it just that we have accepted it as normal. I know something that kills almost 50% more people than the flu … Continue reading Trumping Hope…
Dum Spiro Spero…
In May of this year it will mark my 5th year on Planet 3 of being Fatherless. My father passed away, officially of congestive heart failure but recent events had me reassessing his last few years and weeks. My father was diabetic, for which he had a leg amputated, and had previously had a kidney … Continue reading Dum Spiro Spero…
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