News about my health – Econlib

In response to my last EconLog post, “Competition Works, Even in Healthcare,” dated August 17, 2024, a number of you responded or sent emails or Facebook messages expressing your concerns. I appreciate all of you who did that.

Yesterday I got some pretty good news. Subsequently, the biopsy had yielded twelve tissue samples. 10 showed no sign of cancer. 2 showed signs of cancer, but the Gleason score on each was 3 plus 3. That’s apparently what you hope for with a Gleason score. The Gleason score is, as you might guess, named after famous comedian Jackie Gleason. No, seriously, it’s named after Dr. Donald Gleason.

By the way, I don’t plan on making EconLog the place where I post about my health. I will only do that on my davidrhenderson Substack, “I Blog to Differ” and/or on my Facebook page. The only reason I mentioned my health in my Sunday post was to tell my race story. So the only posts in the future where I talk about my health on EconLog will be posts that have an economic component.

Thanks again for all the good wishes.

The accompanying photo is of comedian and renowned medical researcher Jackie Gleason.