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health

Quick Status Update

May 8, 2010

I know I’ve left many of you who asked questions in the lurch, but I will eventually answer them, hopefully sooner rather than later.  I have rough drafts of the posts made up, but I’ve either been too busy showing around visitors, meeting friends, or getting the house ready for the baby (on my good [...]

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Down for the count

November 6, 2009

That’s what I’ve been for the past week. The worst cold ever became bronchitis, and now that I’m on antibiotics, I think there was just a touch of sinus infection in there too. I finish antibiotics tomorrow evening and will hopefully make a speedy full recovery back to health, because this is now three weeks [...]

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Back in the world of the living

October 29, 2009

I’m slowly on the mend after spending the last four days for the most part in a horizontal orientation.  I’m pretty sure it wasn’t swine flu, since I didn’t get a fever, but this has definitely been the worst cold I’ve had in my life (it’s severity was compounded by other factors, like having a [...]

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Universal health care: Taking on the myths

August 27, 2009

This is the fifth and last post in my series on universal health care. The first was a description of the health care system in Germany, the second was my experiences in the German and the US systems, the third was reader submitted experienced with universal health care in Germany, and the fourth gave experiences [...]

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Health Care in the US and Germany: My Personal Experiences

August 19, 2009

This post is the second one of my series on universal health care. The first was a description of the health care system in Germany, the third was reader submitted experienced with universal health care in Germany, the fourth gave experiences with universal health care around the world, and the fifth takes on myths surrounding [...]

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Health Care in Germany

August 18, 2009

This is the first post in a series on universal health care, addressing the concerns that have been brought up in the current debate on health care reform in the US.  This post describes the German health care system. How do health statistics compare between Germany and the US? Looking at the World Health Organization’s [...]

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You’ve Got Mail

January 29, 2009

I was just watching You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, from back in the 90′s and a couple things really struck me.  Dial up – remember that?  Okay, according to my web stats, a few of my readers use dial up, and when I lived in Rostock and Potsdam, that too was [...]

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