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Robert Reich

What my doctor told me, and what I said back

Robert Reich
Dec 11, 2025
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Friends,

My doctor told me I should relax more. The problem, she assured me, is not that I have high blood pressure or an aggressive cancer or any other particularly worrying health issue — “apart from those expected of someone my age.”

“My age?” I asked.

“You’ll be 80 in June,” she said. “So you should take it easier.”

She doesn’t like it that I work as ha…

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