When I was growing up in the 1950s British midlands, a common sight was children wearing leg callipers. They were recovering from Polio. Everyone knew someone who’d had polio. My grandmother had had it as a child, and her height never exceeded 4 ft 5 inches. My junior school teacher had it as an adult,Continue reading “Vaccinations – a common-sense view”
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US Healthcare
I was born in the UK and have experience of healthcare in Minnesota and California, as well as Britain, France, Holland and Spain. Here’s some of my experiences of healthcare in the US. Our son was born in Minneapolis, and the pregnancy was routine. We only have the one child so I have no pointContinue reading “US Healthcare”
