Category: medicine and health

Just returned from the hospital after a nasty accident with an automatic door at our local Toys R Us store. The door closed on me just as I was trying to enter the store. It knocked me down off my canes, and I fell on my head. I was bleeding a great deal and my head [...]

The Ashley Treatment http://ashleytreatment.spaces.live.com/ So very sad and shocking when you first hear about it. But the parents do a good job of describing the numerous health and comfort benefits to the very controversial Ashley Treatment. It seems that there is improvement of quality of life when you first read it. And on their site, [...]

Symptom of our society, really, to deal with our problems with drugs, and usually, labels to justify using those drugs. Who needs wisdom or common sense, patience or tolerance, human understanding or clever problem solving. It’s big daddy pharmaceutical to the rescue, with sometimes tragic consequences.  
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_re_us/toddler_booted
ATLANTA – A woman said she and her toddler son were kicked [...]

Laughter isn’t the best medicine. It’s the only medicine.
Invitation from Michael Moore to share your Healthcare Horror Stories, to be screened and shared with Congress.

The Fluoride Deception (Interview With Christopher Bryson)http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7319752042352089988&pl=true
Learn about Edward Bernays, nephew of the very Sigmund Freud, and pioneer of a scientific technique for manipulating public opinion called - “engineering of consent“.  Sounds like something me and my family have already encountered from some doctors. And not exactly with our best intentions at heart either. More for their expediency and convenience, [...]

http://www.answers.com/topic/diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-of-mental-disorders 
The DSM has seen criticisms through the years. A Columbia University team headed by Robert Spitzer, an editor of the DSM, acknowledges a concern about the DSM in their annual report of 2001, “Problems with the current DSM-IV categorical (present vs. absent) approach to the classification of personality disorders have long been recognized by clinicians [...]

Just saw a W-Five report on a pedophile priest in Canada. Trying to find it online but no success. I have found this article instead, which is quite shocking if you were to click it and read it in its entirety. Gives some background on why pedophile priests may have historically been protected, their abuses kept hidden, their [...]

Shame, an emotion that’s too uncomfortable for most people to even recognize, let alone process. The following makes so much sense.
Shame: A Major Reason Why Most Medical Doctors Don’t Change Their Views
    
by Frank Davidoff – from http://www.health-care-reform.net/shame.htm
“… Doctors may, in fact, be particularly vulnerable to shame, since they are self-selected for perfectionism when they choose to [...]

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.” – Dale Carnegie
I believe Dale Carnegie forgot some other strong motivaters -money and prestige. Let’s not forget community spirit, as in – we’ll all get together and walk [...]

Just saw the movie ‘Transamerica’ written and directed by Duncan Tucker and starring Felicity Huffman. You might already know that the story was inspired by a debate on sexual morality between Duncan Tucker and actress Katherine Connella. At one point, he tells her that maybe she has to have a dick to understand his view, and she tells him that’s what she [...]