Over on the Daily Post, they gave a writing prompt to bloggers–what would you do with $1billion? My thought: how would I use that to fix our healthcare crisis? Tongue in cheek: 1 billion dollars! Wow. That’s lots of millions! 1000 millions, to be exact. Three extra zeroes at the end of 1 million. 1,000,000…
From Britain: The Survival Time of Chocolates on Hospital Wards: Covert Operational Study How quickly does a box of chocolates disappear? Who does the eating? Covert observations by a duo of diet detractors. From Australia: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Deficiency A Pilot Study in imaginary populations. As author Elif Batuman tweeted: “Ha! I KNEW that…
“Christmas came early this year. I got health insurance! Obama gave it to me.” A newly insured patient at my South Chicago community health center
One of my friends from medical school married a chemist who dreamed of becoming a vintner. Calling themselves the visioneer and the winemaker, they partnered with an artist to launch their label: Orpheus Wines. In October, I visited Sonoma Valley for the first time, and attended their harvest party. In the morning, we picked grapes,…
Chicago Family Health Center has busily been signing up patients for health insurance. Each Saturday, we’ve been hosting Affordable Care Act Enrollment Fairs. The first one was November 16. After seeing my patients in clinic that morning—including two who had previously been uninsured, now covered through the Cook County early Medicaid expansion called County Care—I…
