Tag: Health

  • Portable Breakfast

    Portable Breakfast

    Few things in life give me as much satisfaction, as much joy, as much sheer pleasure as an Egg McMuffin from McDonald’s.  Tacos do, but that’s a whole other experience for a whole other time of day.  I’m old enough to remember a time before McDonald’s served breakfast – when they didn’t open until 11…

  • The Myth of Patient 0

    The Myth of Patient 0

    On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) entitled “Pneumocystis Pneumonia—Los Angeles,” describing five cases of a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), in five young, previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles. Two of the men had died. Click…