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Beret E. Strong

Beret E. Strong

Health Insurance Shenanigans

We spend nearly $3 trillion on health care annually in the United States. That works out to about one-sixth of the total economy and nearly…

Feb 27, 2023

Health Insurance Shenanigans

Feb 27, 2023

Beret E. Strong

Mask Whiplash, Anyone?

Masks are coming off by the millions even though only 37% of eligible people in the U.S. are fully vaccinated. If you think the “honor…

May 18, 2021

Mask Whiplash, Anyone?

May 18, 2021

Beret E. Strong

Good News

2020 was a year of disaster and a year of miracles. We’ll be living with the ripple effects of the disaster for years to come. The…

Apr 3, 2021

Good News

Apr 3, 2021

Beret E. Strong

Wash, Rinse, Repeat?

We are about to reach a sobering threshold in the Covid debacle: a half-million of us dead. And yet, there is much to be hopeful about, as…

Feb 22, 2021

Wash, Rinse, Repeat?

Feb 22, 2021

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Crowley County, USA

What in the world is going on in Crowley County? This past week, the worst outbreak in the country has been in a rural Colorado county I…

Nov 25, 2020

Crowley County, USA

Nov 25, 2020

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Covid-19 and Vaccines: Who Do You Trust?

Imaginary tense conversation from not so long ago: Physician: “I have to have my Covid patient on X medication or take them off X…

Sep 5, 2020

Covid-19 and Vaccines: Who Do You Trust?

Sep 5, 2020

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Covid-19: If Only We Had Prepared

A few years ago, I read a riveting and prescient book called Spillover, by David Quammen. It’s about diseases in animals spilling over —…

Aug 7, 2020

Covid-19: If Only We Had Prepared

Aug 7, 2020

Beret E. Strong

Gender Bias and the Legacy of Medicine

My family loves books. We have a lot of them around, and we pass them from generation to generation. That is how I ran into a book called…

Jun 25, 2020

Gender Bias and the Legacy of Medicine

Jun 25, 2020

Beret E. Strong

Black Lives and Our Medical System: A Troubled Legacy

While the country mourns the death of George Floyd and many call for radical changes in policing, we are hearing how structural racism has…

Jun 11, 2020

Black Lives and Our Medical System: A Troubled Legacy

Jun 11, 2020

Beret E. Strong

If We’re Lucky, We’ll Get Old

My great-grandmother lived to be nearly 107. She got tired of being half-blind, half-deaf and in a nursing home, so she announced she…

May 27, 2020

If We’re Lucky, We’ll Get Old

May 27, 2020

Beret E. Strong

Beret E. Strong

Beret E. Strong is working on a book called The Experiment Is on Us, about the history and ethics of medical experimentation. www.beretestrong

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