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"Wear it in good health": Jewish saying

WEBSubject means: among Jews of a certain age or upbringing in NY (cite: Jews I’ve met here), “wear it in good health” is a common, pleasant, non-sarcastic thing to …

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Health Insurance and the Army

WEBFactual Questions. Maus_Magill March 18, 2024, 7:25pm 1. My oldest son, Fang, just got the Army to pay for his last two years of college. Of course in exchange, …

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What percentage of people make it to the age of 80 …

WEBMercy, folks, this is not the way to get a factual answer to a statistically-based question. This PDF article compares the percentages of elderly in 1972 versus in …

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Advice on choosing part D Medicare insurance and …

WEBI’ve already started the application process and have selected for part B to start in April '24. Right now I’m trying to figure out which company would be best for part …

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With Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's health problems …

WEBThe topic came up in this thread: And this is a big deal right now. Here is an article about it, there are numerous articles though: I get that asking her to retire now is …

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trying on pierced earrings: health and legal issues

WEBI am trying to find out about potential health risks of trying on pierced earrings that have been worn by someone else, and any relevant laws on selling …

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Are porn stars physically damaged by their work

WEBTim_T-Bonham.net November 24, 2012, 3:54am 5. Several porn stars became infected with AIDS from their film work, back when producers insisted that using …

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Does Tony Robbins have acromegaly

WEBenergetic1 May 15, 2016, 7:52am 16. nowaybro: Though he does not have acromegaly in the classic sense of the disease. He was diagnosed with a tumor on his …

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Interesting study: medical debt relief provides no …

WEBI found this NBER working paper interesting, though after some thought not so surprising. It’s a well-designed study in my opinion, and they worked closely with the …

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High schools, YMCAs, and nude swimming

WEBColibri November 10, 2006, 4:02pm 13. Colibri: requiring women to wear frumpy tank suits at all times, even during women’s hours, while men were allowed to swim nude. To …

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Does involuntary commitment to a mental health facility show up …

WEBI had some mental health crises in 2007 and '14 that required that I be involuntarily committed to psychiatric hospitals, on account of the fact that I was a …

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Why does the hospital need my employer's address

WEBThe best they can do is ask you to get documentation from your doctor to give to them, and it has to be specifically related to your job. For example, if you need …

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Do nurses or doctors ever have to masturbate disabled or …

WEBI understand that when people can’t (for whatever reason) take care of themselves, their caretakers have to feed them, bathe them, change them, wipe their …

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Irregular heart beat symbol on BP machines. Accuracy

WEBMy parents have an OMRON BP mointor for home use. My mother uses it often to check her BP. Its pretty good mostly. About a month ago the irregular heartbeat …

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nurses and erections question

WEBChefguy August 30, 2010, 2:29pm 16. jjimm: My mother, a nurse during the 1960s, said she and her coworkers used to carry a metal teaspoon around the wards with them in a …

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Edward Hibbert's face

WEBEdward Hibbert is perhaps best known for his role of restaurant critic Gil Chesterton on *Frasier. *I always wondered about his oddly-shaped right cheek/jaw, …

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"Wellville" is this true

WEBDougC June 18, 2001, 10:45pm 4. At the time the movie “The Road To Wellville” came out, a magazine I saw ran the real history of what happened around that time, concerning the …

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Tippy Makes My Day

WEBSo it’s six-thirty in the morning in Chicago. It snowed overnight over patches of ice, and I have to walk my sixty-something self with weak ankles over these Plains of …

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