Ya Gotta Wonder! Today, U.S. Healthcare ranks dead-last—Bottom of the Class*—among the most privileged countries in the world. Our Worst-in-Show Report Card just got personal. I have been diagnosed with a potentially deadly disease. Deadly now because for six months I wandered around the American Healthcare Desert being either misdiagnosed or waiting endless amounts of […]
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Medicine
Proud Texan vs Anti-Vaxers
Posted by David Wallace on August 12, 2021
“I don’t care that the polio vaccine I was given caused me to have a limp for the rest of my life. Sometimes you gotta take one for the good of an entire team. And polio had to be irradicated. I’d take that vaccine again, even knowing it would leave me slightly deformed.” Those were […]
Read MorePrescription Drug Sticker Shock
Posted by David Wallace on August 12, 2021
Ya Gotta Wonder… Went to Walmart to pick up a prescription for an antibiotic. Nothing exotic or sexy about the drug or my medical malady. The drug’s been on the market for over 70 years. Doctor checked “generic” on the prescription form for 14 pills. STICKER SHOCK ALERT!!! Cost? $300.00 Bless the good folks at […]
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