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We Need to Focus on the Worried Well to Stop Coronavirus
Fever. Chills. Body Aches. Runny nose. Cough. The classic symptoms of a viral illness. They are also symptoms of Coronavirus. When we get sick, our gut instinct is to run to the doctor and seek medical attention. For the majority of those with viral symptoms, this is the wrong thing to do. As the US marches toward hospital surge capacity, we must focus attention on the worried well patient.
By Jeff Livingston6 years ago in Longevity
An Open Letter to America's People:
One of the things that I love about science is how nurturing it is. It never judges. It allows for the complete inclusion of all interested parties as well as their ideas, whether good or bad. It even has space for these ideas to be fostered and explored by coming to life in the form of experimentation and hypotheses. When I think about science as it exists in our world, I can't help but feel the overwhelming maternal presence surrounding it. The essence of its being, its soul if you will, Mother Nature herself, and the wisdom she imparts to humans done so through the language of science.
By Dr. Megan Babb6 years ago in Longevity
Italy Is Red Zone: Draconic Measures to fight the Covid-19
The first new episode of Montalbano was finally starting yesterday evening. Most of us, in Italy, were ready to watch after dinner our most famous fictional detective in Sicilian Vigata in pursuit of the murderer. The usual commercial break ended, but the news started instead, on our great surprise. The Extraordinary Edition of the news opened on our popular journalist Francesco Giorgino, from the channel RAI1, who in a controlled, yet, excited tone informed his audience that our Premier Giuseppe Conte was on the verge of giving a speech to the entire nation.
By Raffaella Ferretti6 years ago in Longevity
What I Learned When I Sprained My Butt and Injured a Rib While Sneezing
Aging and still doing what you love Earlier this year, I sprained my right butt cheek. I pulled a neck muscle while putting on a T-shirt, and I sprained a rib while sneezing. Last year, I broke the tip of my left pinky. I often wake up in the morning with a stiff neck because I “slept wrong.” In last night’s soccer game, I either suddenly developed appendicitis or was trying to pass a kidney stone while shielding a defender.
By Jeff Livingston6 years ago in Longevity
Angel of Miracles
April 20, 2008: “I got your blood test results from the physical I gave you last week. After watching your white blood cell count rise the past few months, I need you to make an appointment with Anne Mellott. She’s a hematologist/oncologist …” The squirrel cage runs in my head. Let’s see: Hema-. That’s blood. Oncologist. That’s cancer. Blood … cancer … blood …. cancer. Where have I heard that combination before? DAD. “Wait a minute,” I said to the doctor. “Do you think I’ve got leukemia?” A pregnant pause. “Yes,” she said.
By Michel Schwartz6 years ago in Longevity











