health

Washing Your Hands in the Men’s Room

April 18, 2011

I’ve done no formal research on this but I am pretty sure that men only wash their hands in the bathroom like 20% of the time. And I would say that most hand washing is a kind of reaction to peer pressure. Some guys are all-the-time hand washers and, once they step up, every guy [...]

Cat Nap

October 22, 2010

Yoga is for dickheads. And I don’t even try to stretch before or after a workout anymore. Still, I’ve managed to stay limber and sprightly nearly all my life. The key is taking a solid cat nap each and every day. There’s something about contorting my torso in half while pointing my limbs in uncompromising directions that I [...]

Why Organ Donation Wont Kill You

April 12, 2010

Given the recent articles about problems with the donor registry in England, I thought I’d address the most common reason people say they aren’t sure about donation from what’ I’ve heard in America and the American system. There’s a lot of great reasons one might have to not sign up to be an organ donor. [...]

How the ‘Red-Eye’ to Harlem Gave Me an STD – (audio) *Adult-Themes

March 26, 2010

I had taken a flight to Manhattan, the red-eye, and awoken with a mixture of horror and certainty that I had an STD.

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Biden’s Fatherly Fucking Advice

March 24, 2010

In case you missed this one, moments after President Obama signed the Health Care Bill into law Biden shook his hand and said, “This is a big fucking deal.” They were sweet words, sort of. What’s hilarious about this isn’t that it was caught on the microphones but that, on its own, it was a [...]

Is The Filibuster Dead?

March 23, 2010

So Health Care Passed and now some are asking if the arm-twisting tactics used by Democrats will set a precedent for future issues to be, oh, what’s the phrase everyone loves, “rammed through,” in the same fashion. I don’t think so. First, if the issue is with reconciliation, it’s been done before, and folks on [...]

Final Votes of Passed Health Care Cast By Four Horsemen of Apocalypse

March 22, 2010

The much debated Health Care Bill, the main domestic issue of the Obama Administration, was passed today in the House by a vote of 219 to 212, with the final, “swing,” votes being cast by the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Said one aid to House Speaker Pelosi, “We were confident we had it right [...]

As Health Care For All Looms, GOP Races to Exclude Mexicans

March 20, 2010

With a vote (and possibly a passage) of the Health Care Bill coming up Sunday, the GOP is racing to find a new hot topic to be all upset about. Said one representative, “We know that there’s other things that we can say no to, but it’s been a real struggle finding that exact, right [...]

KQED Interview Response

March 19, 2010

Last week I did an interview with Scott Shafer of the California Report about my involvement with Organ Transplantation as a Surgical Coordinator for the California Transplant Donor Network. It was a good interview and, for the most part, I was pleased with my presentation. But not totally. There were a few parts where I [...]

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Health Care Will Pass – A Brief Summit Review

February 25, 2010

For those of you who missed the White House Health Care Summit, you missed three important things: First, the issues were discussed openly and in a forum of dialog as opposed to the unanswered back-and-forth of talking points. The standard, by contrast has been that most folks hear the issues from whichever side they already kind [...]

Health-Care Summit: GOP Demands Coke in The Water Fountains

February 24, 2010

The White House Summit on Health-Care will take place Thursday morning, and GOP officials say they are revving up for a real discussion. There are a lot of opinions on this. Their latest demand, “We’re going to need some promises on having Coca-Cola in hospital water fountains.” Long a disputed measure, the Coke-Fountain Initiative has [...]

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and Forget About Health-Care

February 2, 2010

The top two officials of the Defense Department are pushing for a repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy of excluding Gays from the military. They warned that the process could take years. I think that’s great news, actually. This couldn’t come at a better time. As long as those standing in opposition to Obama’s Agenda [...]

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