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Hospice Cares, Even if Your Health Care Provider Seems Not To
Posted on December 16, 2010 | 2 CommentsGracie, a nurse of 16 years, the most recent 14 of which she has spent as a hospice nurse, told me the story about a patient that she’d had several years ago. Sam had been diagnosed with HIV and it had progressed into full blown... -
Examination Room 15
Posted on September 25, 2010 | 2 CommentsWe arrived at the doctor’s office nearly a half an hour early so that, maybe, this time we could get in and out in a reasonable amount of time. One would think that a pediatrician’s office would be mindful of time and children’s tendency to... -
A guy walks into a bar…
Posted on August 1, 2010 | 6 CommentsFreedom is fantastic! While researching Dr. Summer Johnson’s blog posting regarding the waiting list for organs and the story of a man who confessed to killing his wife of 18 years I found another blog posting that was even more intriguing to my social media... -
Don’t Stick a Tube in Me, I’m Done
Posted on July 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsWhen we’re young we have no real concept of life expectancy, death or what it means to be ill and infirmed. We think of the future as forever and we believe that we will live to see it. A child will blindly walk into the... -
Misconception: it’s not a form of birth control
Posted on July 13, 2010 | 2 CommentsIn her blog “Therapeutic Misconception At Its Worst” Dr. Summer Johnson, PhD examines the website http://www.closerlookatstemcells.org and the leading nature of the copy on the site. Stem cell research is a valuable field and, from these anything cells can come a host of possible treatments...
