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Things To Remember From The COVID Spring #2: Masks

March 22, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

When this whole mess is over I want to remember the shortages of masks for medical workers. At the moment when it looks like cases of COVID-19 are going to explode and overwhelm some medical systems, Forbes Magazine has printed directions for volunteers to sew masks for frontline medical workers. A local nurses’ association is organizing an N95 mask donation drive. Last night my spouse spent hours trying to negotiate transnational supply relationships to locate sources of masks even at […]

Categories: COVID Spring • Tags: healthcare, masks

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Mystery Object #11: Lung Money

August 3, 2013 by Museum Fatigue

The other day, as I was paying for a cup of coffee in Greenville, Ohio, I looked down to see a most unbelievable thing—a massage raffle for a lung transplant. Let me write that again just in case you missed it the first time: A massage raffle for a lung transplant. Had I been in a bit more of a hurry to pay for my coffee I might not have looked down and read the details of the request: The photocopied […]

Categories: Bodies, Gambling, Healthcare, Mystery Objects, Politics • Tags: health, healthcare, lung transplant, raffle

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Weeding My Thought Garden

September 9, 2011 by Museum Fatigue

Listen to many of the right-wing opponents of national healthcare and they will tell you that it is socialist or totalitatian. The well-read ones might even pull out the literary reference and assert that it is Orwellian–that the governement will take it over your life, tell you what to do with your health, and set up death panels to decide the final day of your mortal coil. I have always found this argument to contradict reality. Nearly every encounter I have […]

Categories: Random Reflections • Tags: biomanagement, healthcare

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