Posted by Nicholas at March 19, 2007 12:09 AMA recent study showed that the most important generation ever to stride the Earth, the boomers, complain more to their doctors about minor aches and ailments. Not surprising. Their parents knew how to suck it up; if they went to a doctor it was for something good. "Sorry to trouble you, Doc, but I lost a leg in the auger the other day, and I had to sew up the stump with barbed wire. I wonder if you'd give me some salve for the itch." Many boomers, however, regard the minor afflictions of life, particularly those associated with the ravages of age, as a personal affront. I'm surprised they don't form a class-action suit to sue God for mortality. If that's not a product defect, what is?
James Lileks, "It's this or smell like Ben-Gay", Star Tribune, 2007-03-13
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