A Natural Scientist

It's amazing how little time severe, chronic pain takes to send me into a spiral of fear, depression, and anger.  (About three days, in ...

1)  I can't quite articulate why, but it's like a giant weight has lifted, simply because I have work for which I receive both respe...

Ever since I was pregnant with Tatoe (he's two and a half now), some moderately bad health things have been happening.  They are mostly ...

I reserved our public library's copy of this book because the author is a friend of a friend, who told me I might like it.  Here's t...

I am finally switching to a different primary care provider . In fact, I am switching to the MD who sees my tots - in four years, he's n...

You know what makes me steam at the ears?  The phrase "a cure for cancer". There is not *A* cure for cancer, because there is no...

My dear spouse is almost never sick.  He is virtually never ever sick enough to stay home from work. I, on the other hand, am a walking at...

The point of the elevator/door story is, of course, that scientists are trained skeptics. It never fails to amaze me when people just take t...

Last month, I had the singular joy of arguing with Large Evil Healthcare Company, which insures employees of Uncle Frozen & Crazy . Alt...