Beret E. StrongHealth Insurance ShenanigansWe 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…4 min read·Feb 27, 2023--1--1
Beret E. StrongMask 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…4 min read·May 18, 2021----
Beret E. StrongGood News2020 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…4 min read·Apr 3, 2021----
Beret E. StrongWash, 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…3 min read·Feb 22, 2021----
Beret E. StrongCrowley County, USAWhat 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…5 min read·Nov 25, 2020----
Beret E. StrongCovid-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…5 min read·Sep 5, 2020----
Beret E. StrongCovid-19: If Only We Had PreparedA few years ago, I read a riveting and prescient book called Spillover, by David Quammen. It’s about diseases in animals spilling over —…5 min read·Aug 7, 2020----
Beret E. StrongGender Bias and the Legacy of MedicineMy 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…6 min read·Jun 25, 2020----
Beret E. StrongBlack Lives and Our Medical System: A Troubled LegacyWhile the country mourns the death of George Floyd and many call for radical changes in policing, we are hearing how structural racism has…5 min read·Jun 11, 2020----
Beret E. StrongIf We’re Lucky, We’ll Get OldMy 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…5 min read·May 27, 2020----