There’s nothing to worry about, nothing to fear. Really. That’s what I hear from many patients and acquaintances: Covid-19 is overblown. The worst is over. The restaurants are open, the bars are filling, the beaches blanketed. Disney World is up for business. Everything is getting back to normal. Except one thousand Americans are dying every […]
It’s Too Hot
Too Hot to Handle Some like it hot. Nearly sixty years ago, film director Billy Wilder presciently premised that two men fleeing the hotly pursuing Chicago mob could succeed by dressing as women, and then unexpectedly find true love. But what happens to hot men and women when the mercury keeps rising? The strange transports of […]
Who’s flying your plane? (2/7/11)
When Your Pilot Falls Asleep – and Locks the Door Sometimes folks fall asleep and you can’t wake them up – not for quite a while. When it’s your SAS pilot flying you from Copenhagen to Stockholm, it does provoke comment. Last year, as reported by Fran Golden in AOL Health, a short hop, one […]