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1 month ago | 
doingwellnews.substack.com | Mia Armstrong-López
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1 month ago | 
doingwellnews.substack.com | Mia Armstrong-López
Welcome to Doing Well. Today:An Q&A with tips on how to navigate rising health care costsAn essay on the history of Medicaid and MedicareWord(s) of the week: “lymphatic system”Wait … what should I know about the MMR vaccine? A tip from ASU’s Chief Wellness Officer on monitoring air qualityThe U.S. spends a tremendous amount of money on health care: as of 2023, $4.9 trillion per year, which averages out to some $14,570 per person.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
timesofsandiego.com | Mia Armstrong-López
In a small vase in my husband’s grandmother’s house is a dried bouquet of miniature roses, no larger than your hand. Two years ago, my own grandmother bought them on the street in Mexico City for something like a dollar, and gave them to her. It was the day before our wedding, the first time Licha and Sue, both in their 80s, met — and we thought it would probably also be the last.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
slate.com | Mia Armstrong-López
Skip to the content Medical Examiner When Carli removed her own intrauterine device while sitting in a warm bath, she was elated. IUD in hand, “I threw on a towel and ran to my partner,” she told me. “I was just like, ‘Holy crap, I did it.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
jill.substack.com | Monica Hesse |Jen Gunter |Mia Armstrong-López |Hilary Whiteman
Photo by Sebastian Le Derout on UnsplashHappy Monday! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere this week. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Mia Armstrong-López
The nurse practitioner who inserted my IUD worked with the precision and speed of someone on a pit crew. Or, really—just someone working in the gynecology department of a student clinic at one of the largest universities in the U.S.“You probably do a lot of these, huh?” I asked. She smiled. For weeks, I had been dreading the appointment. A steady stream of friends who had endured the procedure before me had warned me it hurt. Still, they said, reliable, long-lasting birth control was worth it.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
slate.com | Mia Armstrong-López
The nurse practitioner who inserted my IUD worked with the precision and speed of someone on a pit crew. Or, really—just someone working in the gynecology department of a student clinic at one of the largest universities in the U.S. “You probably do a lot of these, huh?” I asked. She smiled. For weeks, I had been dreading the appointment. A steady stream of friends who had endured the procedure before me had warned me it hurt. Still, they said, reliable, long-lasting birth control was worth it.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
slate.com | Mia Armstrong-López
Skip to the content Life This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. We don’t have a dishwasher, so over the years my husband and I have tried to implement some dish-washing “hacks” to make hand-washing less miserable. My husband, for example, came up with “the rule”: Every time you bring your dish to the sink, you have to wash it and two others (say, the pan left over from eggs that morning, and a stray cup).
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Mia Armstrong-López
This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. We don’t have a dishwasher, so over the years my husband and I have tried to implement some dish-washing “hacks” to make hand-washing less miserable. My husband, for example, came up with “the rule”: Every time you bring your dish to the sink, you have to wash it and two others (say, the pan left over from eggs that morning, and a stray cup).
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
slate.com | Mia Armstrong-López
A response to Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s “Rigland.” It was clear the food drop wasn’t going to arrive. Holed up on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, miles from the shore of Ciudad del Carmen—an industrial island and major outpost for Mexico’s oil industry—there weren’t many other options. Workers balled up bread for bait and threw lines over the side of the platform. Later, they feasted on ceviche and fried fish. This, one of the women there later told me, delighted the workers.
