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All this medicating has me downright depressed

The more I think about the number of people taking anti-depressants – government statistics show one in 10 Americans over the age of 12 taking them – the more depressed I become.

Age-old problem hinders treatment

Herb Gilbert is 90, and that means enduring people acting as though he can’t think and can’t hear, which he said became even more frustrating recently during two short hospital stays.
Medical professionals, he said, engaged in what researchers refer to as “elderspeak.”

A turn of events to turn the stomach

Suzanne Newton says she doesn’t normally talk much about throwing up. But she’s so sick to her stomach about a trip to the ER — it was far more costly than she ever imagined — that she feels she must talk about what sent her to the hospital in the first place.

I’m already plotting: I should die like a doctor

The more I think about the burial plot my wife gave me as a gift a couple years ago, the more I think about how I’ll get there.
And now I have decided once and for all that I want to kick the bucket like a doctor.