Anonymous asked: Just wanted to say that I think what you're doing is amazing. I live in the UK where we've had free health care since 1948, and I find it shocking how far behind us the US are in that respect. Keep up the good work, you're awesome. (I love the tattoos too!)
thank you for the kinds words
dr dave ores
Your salad may be making you barf, but should you also be blaming the sick cook who can’t afford to take a day off, back there in the open kitchen trying not to fall into a pot of bolognese? Precarious relationships between restaurant owners and employees who work long hours for typically low shift pay are all the more tested by outbreaks of food-borne illness, a new study suggests, and the whole thing is pretty grim.
Almost no laws anywhere in the country require restaurants to provide paid sick leave for employees who come down with anything from the sniffles to a norovirus. On the other hand, pretty much every single municipal health department in the country has a rule or law requiring employers to keep sick employees away from food and out of the restaurants, and that’s where things get problematic.
Many restaurant owners cannot afford or are reluctant to pay for employee sick leave — especially workers who typically receive hourly pay with little or no additional benefits — if they are home in bed with a fever and sorbet and a Homeland marathon queued up, especially because that sick worker’s replacement must also be paid, and that gets expensive. It turns out that sick restaurant workers can’t afford not to work, so they come in. Cooks and servers do not want to risk their jobs.
Yet another reason why health care and sick leave should be for all, instead of a luxury reserved for the few—it’s not just the compassionate thing to do, but it’d help keep all of us healthier.
Having platinum health insurance and the ability to regularly, painlessly pay $500 for a dinner out won’t keep you safe when the minimum wage workers in restaurant kitchen have to choose between coming in to work sick or losing their job and ability to feed their families.
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Anonymous asked: I have a bump on the left parietal lobe of my head. It's about the size of the nail on my thumb. It's been there for years by now. The only thing that I could think of that could've caused it is that when I was about 10, a toddler's wooden chair fell at most 3 feet on my head. The bump is very hard but if I keep pressing down for a minute, it eventually flattens out but then comes back about 10 minutes later. From this little information can you guess what it is? Cyst, tumor, fat, weirdness?
have it removed. then it can be examined under a microscope for pathology. sounds benign and not dangerous. but, to be safe, have it removed and examined. dr dave ores
Why are there not regular bicycle racks ( For people who own bicycles in the community ) attached to the backside of all these Bike Share racks? On a one to one ratio? NYC could make that part of the negotiation / business deal Since bike share is a for-profit private enterprise based in Oregon
They allow private for profit Oregon based company to install these profit making machines on our streets? And do not require regular bike racks as part of the deal?? For people who actually live here? (See bikes in bg) And they could not find/hire a NYS company to do this? Creating jobs and wealth in NYS? Shame on NYC.
