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Allegheny County Resources



African American Institute for Excellence, Inc.

7209 Race Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15208

Phone: 412-242-8385

Email:  saalih1@aol.com



Center for Minority Health

University of Pittsburgh

127A Parran Hall / 130 Desoto Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Phone: 412-624-5665

Fax: 412-624-8679

Email: mailto:info@cmh.pitt.edu



Us TOO: Prostate Cancer Support Group

Cooper Classroom C, Hillman Cancer Ctr, 5115 Centre Ave

Phone: 412-647-1062

Email: lowmasterkl@upmc.edu

(Other local meeting groups as well, please check the website)



NBC Digital Health Network-Pittsburgh PA



Soul Pitt's Healthy You

6393 Penn Avenue, #317

Pittsburgh, PA 15206



UPMC Men's Health Archive

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National Resources



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AHRQ Men Stay Healthy at Any Age

Men Stay Healthy at Any Age, from the Agency on Health Research and Quality, provides a checklist to help men maintain their health. Men are encouraged to obtain appropriate screening tests, take needed preventive medicine and to practice healthy behaviors, all explained more fully on the site. The information on the site comes from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).



American Cancer Society-Prostate Cancer



Ask Noah About: Men’s Health

This bilingual site from the New York Academy of Medicine and the New York Public Library includes basic health information for men as well as information on fertility, impotence, prostate health, safer sex, and gay men’s health.



CDC Men's Health

From the Centers for Disease Control, a website addressing men's health issues. This site offers a broad range of information aimed at both consumers and health professionals. There are links to hundreds of articles on topics ranging from alcohol to obesity to reproductive health and workplace safety. Healthy living tips, leading causes of death and health statistics are included. Articles written for easy reading are identified.



MayoClinic.com-Men’s Health Center

The Mayo Clinic offers general health information for men, including preventive care. It also has interactive tools and answers to FAQs from Mayo Clinic specialists.



Medem Medical Library: Men’s Health

This site offers health information from the nation’s medical societies about healthy living, reproductive and sexual function, prostate conditions, and other men’s health issues. Some is available in Spanish. The articles included are rated for level of difficulty.



MedlinePlus- Men’s Health Topics

The National Library of Medicine offers information on a variety of men’s health topics including circumcision, fertility, prostate disease, and testicular cancer. The site is available in Spanish and offers links to PubMed searches on men’s health information.



Testicular Cancer Resource Center



Urology Health (American Urological Association)

This site provides information on a wide variety of urological conditions affecting men. It also has information about female and pediatric urological disorders.

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A sea of tarps at Petionville Camp, where some 50,000 relocated following the earthquake.

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A baby is weighed in one of the International Medical Corps clinics at Tabarre-Issa as part of the health screening for new arrivals to Tabarre-Issa.

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A Haitian girl sits on a suitcase after moving to Tabarre-Issa from the Valle Baudoin, an area prone to landslides and flooding.

Big thanks to our Former Field Site Coordinator for Port-au-Prince, Carrie Hasselback, for sharing these wonderful photos with us!

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Part of the purpose of a shelter is to connect you to resources in the community to reduce your reliance on outside help. Or their help, I guess.

One of the things they're having me do is apply for a health care plan. I had insurance, back when I was pregnant and it ended after the second full month after my baby's birth. The local county cialis has a "health plan" for which you can apply and get reduced-cost health care. In some cases (I think mine qualifies) you get it for free. We have no income, yet. (I've had one interview since we've been at the shelter.) I haven't filed for divorce so there is no order for child support. I have applied for government assistance...it'll be 2 weeks ago Friday...and I am waiting for them to mail me a letter and tell me when my appointment is.

Back to the health care.

I have an injury that requires medication. My doctor finally found something that works well for me. I didn't have it refilled before my insurance ran out. I called the pharmacy to see if I could just pay for it myself. That medication is $210 for a 30 day supply. How can that even be? For that much money, it should heal any and everything wrong with me, acne and stress knots in my back included.

So, I've sat in this eligibility office trying to get on the "Local County Hospital" health plan for a total of 5 hours over two days. It is a scary place. Every seat in the waiting area is full. There was a man there who looked like a skeleton, his wrists almost indistinguishable when viewed from the side. There is another man with a prosthetic leg. He keeps taking it off and fanning himself with it. Nobody wants to be there and they are calling us back at the slowest possible pace, about one case per hour.

I'm finally seen and she signs off on the paper saying I qualify for this health insurance. I remember my prescription and ask how to get it filled through this health program. Apparently, I have to be seen by one of their doctors. The fact that I have two refills waiting for me at the pharmacy is not good enough.

She directs me to the Urgent Care Clinic on the ground floor of the "Local County Hospital". I'm skeptical. I've dealt with this government stuff before. I imagine it crowded and dirty and probably not something that I can do in my allotted child care time before I have to go pick up the kids.

But I want to be responsible and try to take care of everything. So, I drive over. I find parking at the very top of the parking garage, in the bright summer sun. I take an elevator that smells like pee all the way down. It doesn't let me off in the hospital part of the hospital, but underground where the giant carts of soiled linens go. It reminds me a bit walking down a jetway to get on an airplane except the walls were cement blocks with sickly pink peeling paint. I walked and walked and walked...probably three miles total, working my way up from beneath the hospital. I finally came to a bank of elevators, 2 of which were out of order. I remembered how tall the hospital tower was. I pressed the button to go up but since I just needed to go up one floor, I looked around for stairs.

I found two fire escape maps that had a staircase on them nearby. I walked around trying to find the stairs, but couldn't. I went back to the map. It looked like they should be right here...ah, the doors with the sign on them saying that the basement exit is now closed and not useable. ("What do they expect us to do if there IS a fire down here?", I thought.) I came back around the corner to the elevators just in time to see the doors closing and the car going up.

Crap.

Another ten minutes standing around and I finally got on an elevator. I tried to mentally calculate how long it might take to be seen. How many people could there possibly be? I imagined other urgent care clinics I'd been to. They sat, what, maybe 30 in the waiting room? And if all 30 spots were taken? It'd be a couple hours probably, but how bad could it be?

I had no idea.

When the elevator doors opened at the first floor, a swarm of people flooded into the elevator. I barely got off in time. I walked around looking like a tourist in the big city for the first time, trying to find some sign to point me in the direction of the urgent care clinic.

I walked through a waiting area three times the size of my high school cafeteria. Please, god, let this not be it. There was no sign attached to the area. "Maybe it's something else", I thought. I kept walking.

I came to another waiting area, just as big. And, like the one before it, every seat was full. There were at least 250 people sitting around, children bored and cranky and running around. Adults fanning themselves, complaining about the wait. There was no sign here either. Up ahead, I saw some windows, like a bank teller would use. They were on the other side of another giant, completely full waiting area.

I walked up to the empty window. "Can I help you?", the lady behind the glass drawled.

"Yes, is this the urgent care clinic?", I asked.

"Mmhmm.", she replied.

"Ok, well, I-"

"Step back behind the line until your name is called.", she snapped.

"Uh...what?"

"Back behind the line until you hear your name called."

I walked back to the roped off area she'd referred to as the line. (There was no one standing in it.) I stood there for a bit. My mental calculations of how long I'd be sitting there were off the charts. How would I get out before midnight? I had to be back to pick up my kids by 3:30. It looked like there were enough people there to keep a hospital full of doctors busy for a week. "That's what you get for being poor", I thought.

Then, I realized, I didn't give that lady my name. How would my name ever be called? Just then, a tone sounded and a computerized voice announced "Now serving A106". It reminded me of the afterlife scenes (I realized I couldn't remember if it was supposed to be heaven or hell.) from Beetlejuice. I knew right then I could not handle staying there a second longer.

I turned and started the miles long walk back to my car. (Funny side note: My injury is in my leg and it is worsened by walking.) I was angry, muttering to myself, hoping someone who worked at the hospital would stop me and ask me what's wrong so I could tell them what I REALLY think of the "Local County Hospital".

In the car, I called some of the clinics the lady had given me contact information for. I knew that it would probably technically take longer to get into a clinic than into the urgent care place...but seeing the waiting areas for the urgent care place, I wondered if it wouldn't actually take about the same amount of time. At least if I made an appointment, I'd be able to spend weeks waiting at the shelter with my kids instead of in the giant waiting room.

I have a car and no qualms about driving anywhere to be seen. (To avoid a $210 charge for medication, I will go almost anywhere.) I worked my way down the list, one location at a time. Busy signal. Automated system that then transferred me to a busy signal. No answer. Busy signal.

Finally, one answered quickly. I told them I need to make an appointment. "Please hold while I transfer you." Yes! This is the place to be seen! I bet their waiting room is tiny!

I was able to drive all the way from "Local County Hospital" back to the shelter, stopping on the way to get a chicken sandwich because I'd missed lunch before anyone answered my call. I was overjoyed when someone finally picked up the phone. "I need to schedule an appointment", I said.

"I will take down your name and mail you an appointment as one becomes available", the lady said.

"Can you give me an estimate of what kind of time frame we're looking at?"

"At least a month."

That's what you get for being poor.

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I have been shooting food pics with point-and-shoot cameras for years now and decided to take my hobby to the next level with a Digital SLR. Yes I took the plunge and bought myself a Nikon D40.



I'm experiencing a learning curve but I hope to improve the quality of the images on my blog. One thing I'm adjusting to is the size difference. Trust me its not easy breaking out a D40 at a taco stand in Tijuana and clicking away.

I will still be using some archived images from my old camera, but you should gradually see a difference in picture quality. I have been using the camera for a few days now and here are some of the highlights.

"Viagra Cocktail" taken at a local San Diego taco truck.


Sope de Chorizo de abulón - La Querencia Tijuana


Fruit Salad - Frutilandia San Diego


Speaking of San Diego......
Lately I have tossed the idea around on including San Diegos Mex food scene on this site. I'm leaning towards including San Diego, I just don't know when and how. What are my issues on the decision? I have been active on San Diego food based Message Boards and Review Sites for a few years now, and I just don't feel comfortable using a copy and paste method of my past contributions. I would like to highlight the places I frequented in the past and also bring in a fresh new perspective.

In Ensenada news this week....

Degustation, food and wine tasting Spring Festival at Restaurante Del Parque and adjoining wine shop La Contra. Saturday March 21 2009 - 5:00pm - 8:30pm. See the banner below for more info.
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