Archives for “healthcare”

I was right: my ex-OB was lying to me.


One of the comments on DoubleX's reader stories of health insurance nightmares: To the woman with blood clots... Call your insurance company and ask for their Appeals ...


If medical bills underly 60% of bankruptcies, then how much of all debt, including outstanding debt that hasn't yet crippled anyone, is due to medical ...


I click onto the NY Times web site and the first headline I see is this: Finding Hope Online, Hoping a Job Follows By PETER S. GOODMAN 5:41 ...


Current firsts: In addition to the word 'lamp,' Z recognizes the dog's name. She now likes putting things into and taking them out of containers. Endlessly. Until ...


Nevertheless, its what finally got Z to try fingerfoods: I baked some sugary pecan-fig-orange cookies that she was rather taken with. Yes, I know how ...


Baby Z can do it now: Big change from the less successful lip-crawling phase.* And non-groaning phase. Also note: how I torture my child by moving ...


So there's an actual report that found what anyone who's ever adjunct-taught a college course probably already knew: that adjuncting is overall BAD (via Bitch.Ph.D.). ...


Paul Krugman's right: one of the most important areas of legislation, if not THE most important area of legislation that the next administration should enact ...


Faustina's had a few more firsts: As of this Thursday, she can turn over, from tummy to back (which she tries to do frequently then squawks ...


Faustina laughed out loud for the first time today. I was giving her a bath tonight, trying to imitate what her father does (he's away ...


I took Faustina for her one-month checkup today. Where she also got the second installment of the hep-B vaccine. I love her doctor: a young woman, ...


I love Obama. What's not to love? But I'm torn about Hillary Clinton, I feel for her now as she's being abandoned. And not because it ...


"In fact, Mrs. Clinton was accurately repeating the story as it was told to her -- and it turns out that while some of the ...