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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…

4 min readFeb 27, 2023

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Health Insurance Shenanigans

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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…

4 min readMay 18, 2021

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Mask Whiplash, Anyone?

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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…

4 min readApr 3, 2021

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Good News

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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…

3 min readFeb 22, 2021

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Wash, Rinse, Repeat?

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Beret E. Strong

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…

5 min readNov 25, 2020

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Crowley County, USA

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Beret E. Strong

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…

5 min readSep 5, 2020

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Covid-19 and Vaccines: Who Do You Trust?

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Beret E. Strong

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 —…

5 min readAug 7, 2020

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Covid-19: If Only We Had Prepared

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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…

6 min readJun 25, 2020

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Gender Bias and the Legacy of Medicine

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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…

5 min readJun 11, 2020

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Black Lives and Our Medical System: A Troubled Legacy

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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…

5 min readMay 27, 2020

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If We’re Lucky, We’ll Get Old

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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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