On Friday, I caught Chris Rock on Bill Maher’s show. And he had a message for all the Tea Partiers out there: If you only knew. The two comedians were discussing health care, when Rock recalled visiting the hospital with his dad back in the day, and then more recently with his mom. At 22, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘advocacy’
March 31, 2010
the bellicose language of cancer
The New York Times ran a really great column recently written by a prostate cancer survivor. I probably shouldn’t call him that, because his entire piece is about how words are irrelevant when it comes to cancer, including how cancer patients identify themselves. Fighter, warrior, survivor ― all inadequate, says author Dana Jennings. Cancer just [...]
March 22, 2010
i’m over it
I was hoping to tap into my creative juices to pen something poignant about health care reform. You know, history in the making and all that good stuff. But the more I tried, the less successful I became. And then I realized that after a year and half of reading and writing about health care [...]
