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The risk of gay sex

Bookworm on Jan 15 2008 | Filed under: Health

AIDS is a disease that does not distinguish between race, religion, sex, or national origin. Like all diseases, it is opportunistic, and thrives when behaviors provide perfect incubation and vector situations. The promiscuity that characterized gay sex in the late 1970s and 1980s was the perfect petri dish for the disease to transition [...]

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Memories — bad ones

Bookworm on Oct 12 2007 | Filed under: Medicine

Back in 1981, during a summer break in college, I got a job working as a medical transcriptionist for a couple of research virologists in a local hospital.  Their past secretary had been a disaster but, because of union rules, they couldn’t fire her.  Fortunately, for them, she got pregnant and went on maternity leave.  [...]

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