On Being A Statistic: Living in the Maze of Autoimmune Disease and the American Health Care System

It’s about reaching for goals while the body is quietly, behind your back, sabotaging those goals.

Living with a chronic, progressive neurological disease (MS), a geologist explores some of the confounding questions of our time. The difference between wellness and illness, the different, but complementary roles modern science and alternative traditions like naturopathy play in healing, the pot-holed approach to accessibility and affordability of health care in our great country, the role of...