Sunday, April 12, 2020

What If We Don’t Flatten the COVID-19 Curve?

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On April 5, 2020, US Surgeon General Jerome Adams said, “The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment. It’s going to be our 9/11 mom...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

End-of-Life Implications of the Coronavirus Pandemic

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We are early in this coronavirus game of social distancing and hand washing. We haven’t quite become weary of it. We joke about it. And yet,...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

DETCOG, Broadband and Health

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Can you hear me now? That phrase, made popular by Verizon Wireless in the early 2000s, epitomizes the frustration of rural America over lack...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

An Accurate Census – Our Health Depends on It!

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When I was a skinny, naïve teenager, I worked the summer of 1980 for the US Census Bureau going door to door, pencil in hand, filling out ce...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

The Graduation Speech I Would Give

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Facebook and YouTube are full of graduation speeches that go viral and become memes representing personal life views, political stances, or ...
Sunday, December 8, 2019

Modifying Your Alzheimer’s Risk

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One of the most feared illnesses today is Alzheimer’s disease. Aloysius Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, first describ...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

How and Where People Die – Is it Good?

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All of us, at some point, have pondered what it means to have a “good” death. A common theme is to fall asleep in one’s own bed and simply n...