Screen-caused migraines and more: Letters to the Editor Sept. 22, 2024
Screen sickDr.Robert Fryer’s primer on migraines was nice (“Pain on the brain,” Sept.
16).Certainly hunger, dehydration, stress and lack of sleep are migraine triggers.
But I believe he missed a major one: screens.After a decade of suffering from severe migraines, I was able to track through a headache diary that showed my main trigger is phone and computer screens.
Today, in order to survive, I do not keep a cell phone, and I can’t look at a computer screen for more than 10-to-15 minutes per day due to eye damage from screens.I regularly preach to parents whose children are on a computer at school (and also on their phones) for eight hours a day and then doing homework on a computer to tell them take breaks every 20 minutes and to wear blue-light-blocking glasses.
My eye doctor has also seen an increase in eye- and brain-pain disorders since screens have become indispensable.B.Mantz, Princeton, N.J.DEI doctor dangerJay P.
Greene exposes what is being taught to our future physicians in medical school, where diversity, equity and inclusion is apparently taking precedence over medical subjects (“Top Medical Schools Putting Politics First,” PostOpinion, Sept.16).
Medical advances have been achieved by relying on evidence-based approaches to develop therapies.Where are the studies showing that poorer outcomes in certain ethnic groups are due to racism and not economic status? Have there been studies comparing outcomes in poor Caucasians versus poor African-Americans or affluent African-Americans versus affluent Caucasians? Is there any consideration of the fact that poorer outcomes in African-American women with breast cancer may be perhaps due to the fact that they have an increased incidence of triple-negative breast cancer, which carries a worse prognosis? Our medical schools must realize that their function is to produce competent, caring physicians, not political activists.Seymour Cohen, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Ichan School of...