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I prescribe a walk

I found a St. Louis community clinic system to see a doctor about the headaches and associated side-effects with my head. The one clinic is booked until next month, but another is free this week, but then you have to show proof of funding. I’m not unemployed technically because I’m self-employed, though this is a […]

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Need

Another thing that Bush talked about yesterday was how it was ‘junk lawsuits’ that are driving the cost of medical care up so high that health insurance costs have grown beyond what the average person can afford. If it weren’t for the fact that people sued doctors and hospitals, why everyone would have access to […]

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Medication for all and for all a good-night

In my writing about parents being real, I made mention of the fact that medication for depression isn’t the solution for all people. I thought afterwards that some might think I’m critical of those who take antidepressants. I do think that ours is a society that overmedicates, and that too often doctors prescribe antidepressants with […]

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I am become the rash

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are many things I’d like to talk about today. There is Yule Heibel’s post on Foucault and self-exposure, and Mike Golby’s and alembic responses. Yule wrote: Understand this: whatever is translated into discourse is instrumentalised as social control. It is not the case that chatter about your sexuality or your neuroses or your deepest darkest […]

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Confetti

I had a bad allergic reaction to one of the medicines the doctor gave me. Ringing in my ears until I can’t hear, severe headache, horrid rash under arms and down sides and on to my breasts, and dizzy, and disoriented. As I wrote someone, perfect weblogging conditions. So I followed the medicine’s instructions (what […]