pediatric housecalls Robert R. Jarrett M.D. M.B.A. FAAP

Let’s Make our Day Harder

Here is Dr. Mike Evans again with another one of his takes on life as we know it. I think he’s got our house bugged with all the insight he has into how we do things. He talks about work and the obesity epidemic.



Perhaps now (the week after thanksgiving in the US) is a good time to think about the points he makes. I know that I get a bit annoyed with all the teenage clerks in stores who think I’m gullible enough to swallow their knee-jerk excuse for their lame store not carrying any clothes in my size: “Well we don’t sell enough to carry them,” they spout.

“Look you little brain-dead twerp. There are a whole lot more people who look like me out on the street than who look like you!” – is what I wish I could say. And I probably might if I were a millennial; but, alas, I am not.

Maybe this “anti-pushing-the-button-so-the-door-opens-automatically-for-us” movement isn’t so bad after all. Obesity…