I took an extra year to finish college for health reasons. That year taught me a lot about myself, and it also gave me front-line exposure to the uncertainty and ambiguity that’s a normal part of conventional medicine. Take the adjective idiopathic. It’s used to describe conditions or symptoms that seem to arise in individuals from nowhere […]
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My generation, the children of West Indian immigrants, didn’t learn to look kindly on imperfection, even when it was all we had. My mother’s mother trained perfectionism into her children by scrunching up inattentively ironed shirts and requiring the poor unfortunates to iron them again. My mother once punished me for not starting a summer […]
