X-rays, and a walk through the garden.

History tells us that it’s all going to be OK, and not OK, for all of us, in the long run.

Last week I needed some x-rays. I walked a half mile from my front door to the oldest hospital in the United States, Pennsylvania Hospital. It was founded by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond in May of 1751, two hundred seventy-two years ago. Another signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, practiced medicine here for decades, in…