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Should We Vaccinate Health Care Workers For Swine Flu Whether They Like It Or Not?
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hfields
Health care workers are on the front lines of the battle against H1N1 this year. So why not look at the question of whether it ought to be mandatory for them to receive swine flu vaccinations using a military metaphor?
Moral Monday: The Savage’s Decision to Give Birth to the Wrong Baby
By
Padmini Mangunta
When I first read the MSNBC headline, “Woman Implanted with Wrong Embryo to Give Birth”, I moved straight past it, thinking it sounded a bit too much like a supermarket tabloid to interest me. I’m glad I took a closer look, because I now feel it’s a story worthy of the “Moral Monday” title –…
The Sick Traveler: An Easy Person to Hate
By
Padmini Mangunta
Last weekend I returned from a lovely, restful weekend trip to San Francisco. As I boarded the red-eye back to New York, I found myself hoping that just this once, I would have the ideal flying neighbor–the non-existent one. What I got instead was a middle-aged man, sniffling, sneezing, coughing his way through the 5-hour…
What-If Wednesday: Your Doctor Cheats the Insurance Company — For You
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Padmini Mangunta
Dental plans are the worst, aren’t they? Some of you may remember my worst-date story in which I also described an accident that resulted in a mouthful of broken teeth – after paying more than half those costs out-of-pocket, I feel traumatized simply walking past a dentist’s office. So I must admit there’s a part…
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