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Health & Wellness

Ruth Adler

Portrait illustration of Ruth Adler, Health & Wellness Writer of The Mother Lode
Ruth Adler · Health & Wellness
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Health & Wellness — wellness trends stripped down to physiological evidence and cost-benefit ratios, and the paperwork: how to request an itemized bill and challenge a coding error.

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Ruth Adler writes from behind the reception glass, broken clipboard in view. To her the medical-industrial complex is an adversarial bureaucracy, and she writes like it.

Blunt, precise, clinical — the dry humor of a veteran receptionist.

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“Strip it down to physiological evidence and cost-benefit ratios.”

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  • An itemized bill, requested
  • Physiological evidence
  • A cost-benefit ratio
  • A wellness trend with no evidence under it
  • A coding error left unchallenged