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It has always been something of a point of pride that I've never been one of those people who suffers from "Medical Student Syndrome"- wherein the second one hears about a new or novel disease one begins suffering the symptoms.
(The one exception happened quite a number of years ago when I made a bunch of people take a little detour while on a Washington D.C. trip to visit the Walter Reed Army Medical Center's National Museum of Health and Medicine. The focus then was on kidney stones and the whole lot of us left the exhibit feeling as if we were in the process of cooking up whole worlds of misery and running to guzzle bottles of water in hopes of staving off the dread stones.)
But now, in yet another case of "since Felix," I confess I'm a little more susceptible to reports of various ailments, particularly those related to children, the threat of becoming personally incapacitated, or ones that reflect some sort of parental oversight.
The Tuesday morning health section in the New York Times (or I just think of it as the "morning" section because I tend to skim it around 6:30) has become the site where many weird worries blossom. Today, for instance, the top article is about "Sibling Violence." Where once I would have glanced at the thing and thought: "What sort of nitwit wouldn't notice if one kid were regularly beating the crap out of another one and do something about it?" Today, I actually read the article and while I am still mostly of the same opinion, the issue has been filed away in the back of my mind for future potential worry.
Potential, I say because right now I have one child.
Right across the screen, however, another article hails me down with another worry: macular degeneration. I know about the disease. I saw Gray's Anatomy and enjoyed Spaulding Gray's monologue about searching to save his eyesight with psychic surgeons and sweat lodges. But this article dragged the ailment out of the novel and into my mind. I don't want to lose my "central vision" (who does?) and now I see I possess a fistful of risk factors. This should send me scrabbling for an eye doctor (it's been years). It should indeed. And I should take my vitamins.
I don't really like this change. I would prefer my old ways of being interested in disease (I really do visit medical museums for kicks) without having to think about them.
But then again perhaps I am misdirecting my energies. On the subject of health and wellbeing, I read a great piece by Dahlia Lithwick on the subject of "pharmacists, physicians and the right of conscience." This was a clumsy segue, but if you haven't read it and you're feeling panicky about the power of physicians to deny you medicine on moral grounds, it's worth a gander.
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