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capri0mni*Usual disclaimer: individual professionals may be pure of heart, and noble of intention, but the system in which they've learned their craft and practice their art, pits them against ... Well, everything that is not the system.
Yesterday, in a radio segment on summer health, I heard the dermatologist who was being interviewed on the dangers of skin cancer and avoiding skin burn say that the best and healthiest clothing you should wear, when you go out into the sun is:
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Heavy, dense fabric of a dark color -- such as a nice, heavy weight denim, that lets no light leak through the weave.
ahem.
I joke you not.
She never even gave the hint of awareness that this runs absolutely counter to every other piece of medical advice we're given for surviving in the hot weather.
(though she did kind of admit that not everyone would want to do that... you know, be comfortable with that choice).
Save yourself from skin cancer! Kill yourself with heat stroke!
No wonder our health "care" "system" is such a mess.
Yesterday, in a radio segment on summer health, I heard the dermatologist who was being interviewed on the dangers of skin cancer and avoiding skin burn say that the best and healthiest clothing you should wear, when you go out into the sun is:
** ** **Drum Roll** ** **
Heavy, dense fabric of a dark color -- such as a nice, heavy weight denim, that lets no light leak through the weave.
ahem.
I joke you not.
She never even gave the hint of awareness that this runs absolutely counter to every other piece of medical advice we're given for surviving in the hot weather.
(though she did kind of admit that not everyone would want to do that... you know, be comfortable with that choice).
Save yourself from skin cancer! Kill yourself with heat stroke!
No wonder our health "care" "system" is such a mess.
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:19 pm (UTC)