OTR DISPATCH: Telling Joe Biden He Is Too Old To Drive
PLUS: Dykstra's Hot Nurses!
From: The Hill
It was a difficult conversation, but it was a message that had to be delivered by someone who cared. I had to tell my elderly father that after over 65 years of driving, he could no longer drive a car. His unsteadiness not only created risks for him but endangered others on the road.
While I respected his desire to manage his own life, I realized that it would be irresponsible of me not to intervene. And when he complained that if he couldn’t drive he wouldn’t be able to get around, I had to remind him of the availability of taxis and public transportation as an alternative.
From Our Friends at Amp America
Medicine Now Diagnoses the Non-White ‘Oppressed’ With an Oppressive Case of ‘Weathering’
In 1986, an upstart public health researcher named Arline Geronimus challenged the conventional wisdom that condemned the alarming rise of inner-city teen pregnancies. While the crisis was decried as a ghetto pathology, Geronimus contended that teenage pregnancy was a rational response to urban poverty where low-income black people have fewer healthy years before the onset of heart problems, diabetes, and other chronic conditions.
Though it got little traction then, the concept that Geronimus pioneered – “weathering” – has become a foundation for the social justice ideology now upending medicine and social policy. The term “weathering,” she says, was intended to evoke the idea of erosion and resilience.
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