America’s Obesity Epidemic has a Simple Solution, and you Don’t have to Pay Noom a Kidney for It

I was just reading an article about Noom—the “weight loss app” that claims to use “psychology” to “change the way [you] think about food.” It claims to not be a diet. But, as the article said, it is. I found this out myself when I tried to use the app myself—not to lose weight, but

How the “Opiate Epidemic” is Destroying the Lives of Innocent Patients

The “Opiate Epidemic” is a phrase that probably strikes some sort of thought, image, or emotion in the mind of any and every American at this point. The media has now spent the past several years railing on the producers of Oxycodone as if they literally shoved their pills down the throats of patients, all

Massage Therapy: Its Role in Chronic Pain Management, and Why Insurance Companies Should Cover LMTs

As all of my regular readers likely know, I have severe chronic pain. Back in the Fall of last year (2021), I started regularly seeing a massage therapist that worked at the rec center at my university. It was a discounted-cost service, but was not run by students, which is an unusual combination. Ironically, due

The Ableism of Socialized Medicine

I lived under socialized medicine in Israel. Our healthcare is far better than that provided in the UK and Canada. We have better medical schools (which unfortunately means they have 100% match rates with US residencies, resulting in a brain drain) and we’re a smaller country with shorter wait lists. But those wait lists are

Why Wake Forest’s Medical Student Kychelle Rosario Deserves to Be Expelled (and maybe criminally prosecuted).

On one hand, the requirements to become a practicing medical doctor in the United States never seem to stop increasing in bulk. My father, who trains medical residents, tells me about the enormous number of “hands-on hours” students must now complete between undergrad and medical school just to apply to medical school. He said that

Why Disabled Living is Better in Small Towns Than Cities

This is a long one with lots of anecdotes, so buckle up… but it’s worth the read, if you have a few. Trust me. In July 2021, I moved to a college “town” for law school. My whole family thought that it was a “small Florida town,” barely a city. A “college town.” A typical,

Why We Need Law Students with More “Life Experience.”

People are shocked when I talk about the average or median age of most law school classes: most law students are in their early 20’s. Most other types of professional school programs skew much older: med school, for example. It’s very unusual to be 21 or 22 years old in medical school, in 2022. In

Spiting the Disabled: Apparently a New Trend for a Gen Z Sub-Sect

I was talking with one of the girls who helps me at home the other day. She’s one of two very nice college students I recently brought on to help me with the things I need around the house: cooking, cleaning, errands, etc. I feel like I’ve won the lottery: they’re timely, responsible, sweet, and

Anti-Semitism, Christianity, and Generation Z: Part 2

Last week, here, I spoke about an interaction I had involving an anti-Semitic question about my lineage. The question wasn’t innately anti-Semitic. As I explained, it has been asked honestly and genuinely in the past by others. It’s the response, or the follow-up, that informs me of the person’s intentions and why they’re asking. What

Anti-Semitism, Christianity, and Generation Z: Part 1

I had a rather disturbing conversation recently. At the time, while I was having it, I couldn’t pinpoint precisely why it was so disturbing. Like many conversations in which certain types of people veil their anti-Semitism with feigned genuine interest about our culture and religion, the conversation started off seemingly genuine and legitimate. It was