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Overcoming the Impossible: Life After Illness

Do “Dr. Dreamies” Serve Us Right?

I was interested to see that the daytime, syndicated television show, “The Doctors” is doing well. Oh PLUHLEEZE! Here we go once again with two things that really bug me: 1) doctors are featured as experts and there is no patient on the panel and 2) it makes health concerns entertainment, putting an emphasis on [...]

Real People Telling Their Stories

Saving Billions in Healthcare

Our new President takes office in a few days and he has targeted healthcare as a way to save money, create jobs, and do public good. I agree!

It’s estimated that 200,000 jobs can be created by putting a priority on creating a widely used system of electronic medical records (EMR’s) also know as personal [...]

New Year’s Eating Disorders

I go to the gym near my house every morning at 6 a.m. There are two TV monitors on for all to see and as we sweat on the bikes and treadmills there has lately been a constant stream of TV commercials pitching the latest ways to lose weight and get in shape.

Chuck Norris [...]

Health Imperfection in the New Year

I am writing this from sunny Southern California where the USC Trojans are killing Penn State in the Rose Bowl.

Along Pacific Coast Highway in “the O.C.” (Orange County) everyone looks so healthy. Perfect lives. Perfect families right?

Dig deeper and you quickly see it’s not so. One man told me about his diabetes and [...]