In the private support group I run, a woman recently shared the story of her husband going about a month without showering, but still expecting her to have sex with him. And that opened the floodgates of male disgustingness. “My ex didn’t shower and never washed his ass. He insisted on sleeping in the nude and his sheets always had stains on them. One time he wanted to 69 and there were literal poo flakes near his balls,” one reader told me.

If it feels like every family you know has been battling strep throat this year, you could be right.  We’ve seen a record number of kids coming to our office for strep throat – often more than once. Adding to the chaos, kids have been experiencing uncommon symptoms of this bacterial infection, and it has been difficult to treat. These unique differences have led to delayed diagnoses, recurring infections, and toooooo many missed school days.

You’ve probably heard people complain that there’s too much administration in healthcare. Is it really that bad? Let me answer with this graph showing the growth of US healthcare administrators and physicians: Graph nerd comment: Any graph with a y-axis that surpasses 1000% is poorly calibrated, misleading or both. More about that later. Healthcare administration is about 15-25% of the US healthcare expenditure. While the number of US doctors grew by 150% between 1975 and 2010, administrators have increased significantly, according to the graph above at a rate of 3200% (relative increase of ~20x).

There are some times when I feel compelled to write and this is one of them. Let’s talk about money. When I left my job as a news anchor in December of 2023, I was very clear to say that the reason I was leaving was not about money. It wasn’t. There’s an important clarification in that, though. It was not about money…for me. Money, however, was very much on the minds of management.

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