If you want to be taken seriously, you have to have serious hair. That line has lived in my brain since 1988. I was fifteen years old, and I was convinced Melanie Griffith’s character in Working Girl had revealed one of life’s secret truths. In the movie, she utters the line as she directs her…
Comments closedAs a medical oncologist of almost 20 years, I’ve seen my share of patient-blaming stigma. People are indicted for their cancers in various ways: “They ate too much sugar.” “They were obese.” “They were a smoker.” “It runs in their family.” I find the current culture of attributing severe COVID-19 illness and deaths to “preexisting conditions”…
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