Two Other Unusual Apple Medical Benefits

I’ve been hearing about the freezing eggs benefit, which has made the news, but I’ve never heard news break about the Stanford Health Navigator benefit that Apple offers.

• Worldwide
• To its employees
• For immediate family
• Even if they’re not covered by Apple insurance

Medical Referral Anywhere in the World

Need some edge case treatment not available locally? Want to go for some treatment elsewhere?

They’ll refer you.

Navigators can also assist with scheduling appointments and coordinating specialist visits at Stanford Hospitals and Clinics and its affiliated network of leading healthcare institutions around the world, including the Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General, and select institutions in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Medical Librarian Research

Want research on a medical topic to make better decisions or take it to your doctor? Give them a call and they’ll prep it for you.

No request is too large for our staff to address or too small for you to mention. Whatever you need, we will respond as quickly as we can. We are committed to providing you with the highest quality customer service.

NVIDIA also has the same program. (There were several corporations that donated big bucks to Stanford, I believe 6 corporations in all.)

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More Thoughts on SFWA Bulletin 200 Cover Controversy

Romanticon Cavemen. Photo by Cait Miller.

Last week, I had an “aha!” moment, finally understanding what Mike Resnick was going on about. I wrote about the cover controversy earlier this year, complete with sample covers from the genre he was complaining about.

Here’s what Resnick said (click for pic of text, quoted below)

And a lot of it abounded in bare, raw, pulsating flesh, totally naked from the neck to the navel. No question about it. It’s there for anyone to see—and of course, since such displays seem to offend some of our members, to picket.
You know where I found it?
In the romance section. I’d say that just about every other cover shows a man’s bare torso, lean and muscular, usually with a few more abs than Nature tends to provide. The man’s head is rarely portrayed. Clearly these are erotic covers, designed to get a certain readership’s pulse pounding.

I’ve admitted that I haven’t spent a lot of time paying attention to Ellora’s Cave (link is to my posts on same), an erotic romance publisher, until recently.

When I was writing this post about their annual convention, something clicked.

Let’s look at their little video for BEA 2013:

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Quite a different feel from the gardening book publishers, no?

Anyhow, it struck me:

Mike Resnick was trying to use a false equivalency between a professional industry publication and an erotic romance publisher’s book covers.

What’s particularly egregious about that, of course, is that Mike’s daughter, Laura Resnick, is a romance writer. You’d think he’d have seen her own book covers and know his statements were FoS.

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