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Doc Treats Man

Well, it looks like health care, recently pronounced on the road to wellville, if not entirely hale and hearty, is once again limping around on the US political stage. (Remember those 90s-era editorial hosannas to the brave new world of managed care and the free-market discipline it would impose on runaway health care costs? I do. Good times, good times.)

Because of its timeliness, and because my friends back in the US display a surprising fascination with Stories From the Land of Single Payer, I thought I’d share with Correntians my mundane experience with our adoptive country’s health delivery system.  Read more 

Mind Expanding After All?

Maybe the hippies were right:

Calgary — Forget the stereotype about dopey potheads. It seems marijuana could be good for your brain….  Read more