Should the Topic of Bi-polar Disorder Be Made Into A Lighthearted Movie?
The other day, (well now it has been a couple of months! I am so not keeping up with this blog!) some friends and I went to see the movie “Silver-Lining Playbook.” It was a good movie. The acting...
View ArticleAn Article About a Drug Recall
Recently, I came across the following article (see below). Since it contains any and all the elements I might point out had I written the article or even just quoted parts of this article, I am...
View ArticleA Story About Our Medical System
I have to get my decks power washed and stained. The man who is doing the job, very nice, friendly, talkative, shared the fact that last year, he had a major heart attack. I asked if I could share...
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Heart Surgeon Comes Clean
As you may recall, I wrote on two documentaries “Forks Over Knives” and “Chow Down”, both documenting how it is what we eat that affects our health. Since then, I seem to be coming across more and...
View ArticleDrug Addiction — The Pharmaceutical Kind
Recently I read an article in america.aljazeera. com entitled, “Painkiller Addiction Worst Drug Epidemic in U.S. History.” According to the article: In the United States, enough painkillers were...
View ArticleObamacare is Coming! Obamacare is Coming!
[Ed. note: Although I try and avoid political entries on this blog, the topic of this blog has been so politicized, that I am not able to avoid it.] In spite of the fact that representatives in...
View ArticleDo Economics Influence Attitudes Towards Aging?
I have been working on a power point presentation entitled “One Size Does Not Fit All.” The presentation will focus on how the cultural mores of the aging population in our country are beginning to...
View ArticlePrescription Drugs Detected in Drinking Water
We have recently heard about the contaminated waters in the Elk River in West Virginia due to leaking toxic materials. But for years now, our water sources have been the recipient of other potentially...
View ArticleDeath and Dying
Apparently the topic of death and dying is starting to become less taboo in our society. I have just come across two articles that speak on this subject. Now I do not want to insinuate that we have...
View ArticleEducation As Preventative Medicine
I always enjoy “meeting” someone on the internet who seems to hold the same views that I do and just recently, I came across an interesting article, Lifelong Learning and Wellness One Component to the...
View ArticleDirect Association Between Paxil (Paroxetine), an Antidepressant, and Suicide
A few years ago, a neighbor, having just switched antidepressant drugs, walked into his daughter’s room, exchanged a few words and then walked into the bathroom and blew his brains out. At the time,...
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