medicine
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On Long Covid, minds, and bodies.
Common prejudices might make us overlook treatments for Long Covid.
Akiko Iwasaki, chronic fatigue, Covid stress, covid therapies, Covid trauma, Covid-19, disrupted sleep, experimental therapies for Long Covid, foggy thoughts, Long Covid, Long Covid therapies, Long Covid treatment, low cortisol, medicine, Pandemic, post traumatic stress, Prazosin, PTSD, PTSD treatment, stress, trauma
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On urgency and gender-affirming medical care.
Sometimes, young people are right to be infuriated by our lack of urgency.
access to medical care, age discrimination, Emily Bazelon, estrogen, gatekeepers, gatekeeping, gender, gender transition, gender-affirming medical care, hormone blockers, hormone therapy, LGBTIA+, medical care, medical transition, medicine, nonbinary, patience, psychology, puberty, puberty blockers, queer youth, restricting medical care, testosterone, The Battle Over Gender Therapy, transgender, transition, transitioning, urgency
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On vaccination.
How do the Covid-19 vaccines work, and why were they made this way?
Alexandra Lahav, ancient history of vaccination, ancient medicine, biochemistry, bioscience, coronavirus, Covid, covid vaccination, covid vaccine, Covid-19, expression systems, fat bubble, fermentation, gene expression, history of vaccination, how do vaccines work, immune system, immunology, medical safety, medical testing, medicine, Medicine Is Made for Men, membrane trafficking, protein expression, protein folding, science, structure and function, vaccination, vaccine, vaccine production, vaccine safety, vaccines
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On money, nursing home care, and Covid-19.
When we ask the people with the fewest resources to do the hardest work, we often see bad outcomes.
45, asymptomatic, asymptomatic spread, asymptomatic transmission, bungled covid response, coronavirus, coronavirus testing, cost of nursing home care, Covid, covid care, covid deaths, covid medical care, covid nursing home deaths, covid PCR test, covid response, covid school closures, Covid testing, Covid-19, Covid-19 care, Covid-19 epidemic, Covid-19 pandemic, Covid-19 PCR test, Covid-19 response, Covid-19 school closures, Covid-19 testing, data, deaths of despair, delayed medical care, domestic violence, Donald Trump, economic justice, economic modeling, economic study, economics, fair pay, fair wages, fear, Fox News, getting kids back to school, higher wages, higher wages lead to better care, Kristina Ruffini, low wages cause deaths, measuring outcomes, medical care, medicine, minimum wage, New York covid policy, New York Covid-19 policy, New York nursing home policy, nursing home, nursing home care, nursing home deaths, nursing home pay, nursing home staff, nursing home wages, nursing home workers, PCR test, PCR testing, PotUS, quality of life, raise the minimum wage, Ruffini, school closure, school closures, shutdown, spread by people who feel fine, Trump -
On writing.
By writing, we can prove that we really do exist. But not everyone in jail has access to even as much as a sharpened pencil.
action permanence, depression, deprivation in jail, drug trip, drugs, ego death, jail commissary, jail poetry, medicine, mushroom tea, pencil sharpener, pencils, pencils in jail, Portland, psilocybin, psilocybin mushrooms, psychedelic, psychedelic drugs, psychedelic medicine, psychedelics, PTSD, PTSD cures, Sacred Knowledge, shrooms, suffering in jail, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, trip, trip report, William Richards, writing, writing in jail
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On attentiveness and names.
Some kids are exceptionally attentive to their environment … but we tell them they have an attention deficit.
abuse, ADD, adderall, addiction, ADHD, amphetamine, attention deficit, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, chemical dependence, chemistry, childhood abuse, childhood development, childhood trauma, crystal meth, crystal structure, deficit, developmental biology, dirty drop, dirty urine, disease names, diversity, doctors, drug chemistry, drug test, drug testing, evolution, Fruitless, Fruity, gene names, genetics, hedgehog, human evolution, hyperawareness, hypervigilance, incarceration, jail, jail poetry, mass incarceration, medicine, methamphetamine, names, naming genes, neurodiversity, parole, Percy Jackson, pharmacology, poetry in jail, probation, protein structure, reading, self-medication, sensitivity, sensitivity to environment, SHH, Sonic Hedgehog, Sonic Hedgehog mutation, stimulants, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, The Lightning Thief, trauma, urine screen, War on Drugs
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On nature.
Nature heals, but we yank the world away from people in need.
boaters, boats, cell block, concrete, contraband, domestic violence, drug use, evolution, finding a way to survive, forest bathing, Greazy, Grow, growing a tree in jail, heroin, human evolution, human instincts, incarceration, instincts, instinctual behaviors, instinctual urges, jail block, jail boats, jail poetry, life inside jail, mass incarceration, medicine, methamphetamine, nature, nature bathing, nature walks, opiates, our man, Our Man Grows an Orange Tree, plants, poem, poetry, prison poetry, stress, teaching poetry, teaching poetry in jail, withdrawal
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On Sci-Hub, the Napster of science.
Can people really be “informed consumers” of modern healthcare when they can’t read the research their taxes pay for?
academic journals, Alexandra Elbakyan, autism, bad medical advice, biomedical research, concussion, folate, ghostwriting, health, healthcare, medicine, Napster, p-value, pop medicine, repair manual, replication crisis, research journals, Sci-Hub, science, scientific papers, scihub, statistical testing, superfoods, TBI, theft, traumatic brain injury
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On minotaurs (and whether or not mothers are the root of all maladies).
While reading Eula Biss’s On Immunity, I was often reminded of Rebecca Kukla’s Mass Hysteria. Both works analyze the permeability of bodies, especially mothers and children, while drawing from literature, philosophy, and medicine. Their major divergence is in tone; Kukla’s work can veer academic (which I enjoy, being a pedantic fuddyduddy myself); Biss’s writing is…
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On autism and vaccines.
Let’s get one thing out of the way first, shall we? Vaccines don’t cause autism. If you’ve got a kid with a standard operating immune system, you oughta get that sucker vaccinated. If you yourself have a standard operating immune system, and you’re considering living in a place where certain diseases that you aren’t immune…
Frank Brown Cloud 