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The Samples
Helplessness makes monsters of people. He’s seen chairs thrown, exam tables kicked. The rooms pathologists speak to patients in now have everything bolted down.
June 2019
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Routine
I take the test, grade myself strictly, and add up the points. The result is that I’m likely an alcoholic and should seek treatment as soon as possible. I take the test again and grade myself more forgivingly, because forgiveness is a virtue.
April 2019
Quotations
Sunbeams
April 2019When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m beginning to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality.
One Nation, Indivisible
April 2019
Featuring John Taylor Gatto, Olga García Echeverría, Katy Butler, and more.
April 2019Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Cure For Racism Is Cancer
This strange country of cancer, it turns out, is the true democracy — one more real than the nation that lies outside these walls and more authentic than the lofty statements of politicians; a democracy more incontrovertible than platitudes or aspiration.
In the country of cancer everyone is simultaneously a have and a have-not. In this land no citizens are protected by property, job description, prestige, and pretensions; they are not even protected by their prejudices. Neither money nor education, greed nor ambition, can alter the facts. You are all simply cancer citizens, bargaining for more life.
September 2018Poetry
In The Dermatologist’s Office, Again
The cancer he wanted / to cut out of my back / somehow disappeared / in the month / since the biopsy.
July 2018Quotations
Sunbeams
March 2018Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
One Nation, Indivisible
March 2018
Featuring Ralph Nader, Katy Butler, Krista Bremer, and more.
March 2018The Dog-Eared Page
The World Of Love
If you are going to deal with the issue of health in the modern world, you are going to have to deal with much absurdity.
March 2018
The Sun Interview
The End Of Insurance?
Andrew Coates On Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System
It’s appalling that one person’s illness would be an opportunity for another to make money. The care of human beings should not be a commodity.
March 2018
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