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When bad things happen to good people

Yes, I know, there’s a book by this title. No matter what, I struggle with the idea. Yesterday it hit me in the face.

I put in a call to Ruth Ross, a Seattle insurance company sales representative, who will be a guest on my radio show Sunday. She won’t be there to sell insurance [...]

Meeting a Kindred Soul

On my talk show Friday I featured Trisha Gura Ph.D. a Boston-based author of a neat new book: “Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women.” Not surprisingly, Trisha has fought eating disorders herself as a teenager and again as a adult. What was neat is that she is using her [...]

The Keys to Patient Empowerment

This is getting to be a fun time as more voices can be heard inviting us to be “smarter patients.” I’ve been at this a long time and it was great to have two neurologists (Dr. John Castaldo and Dr. Lawrence Leavitt from Leheigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA ) on my talk show who, [...]

More Encouraging Cancer News

If you are a cancer patient, 29,000 people who could help save your life have been meeting in Chicago the past few days. It’s the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology or ASCO. This is what I call the “World Series of Cancer” where everybody who is anybody shows up. Of course, [...]