Empathy?…

Always, even before I am faced with something on a personal level. I have been out of the net for a few days, well weeks to overcome a broken foot.  It was a doozy.  I fell changing pitches on the roof and created what is known as a Jones fracture.  Well has a crazy treatment. …

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Kobayashi Maru…

  Well except the Romulans are played by Nazis or something like that. In a May 31 article in Stat News found here we find a surgeon who was having difficulty during a surgery.  She elected to use a famous Nazi medical text to assist her in the procedure. The book is the Pernkopf Topographic …

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Recovery only works…

I am by no means an expert in recovery, but is anyone truly? After yesterday’s blog, I felt a little bit more like an ass than I usually do. Then I thought about it and decided that I was essentially correct. I will not say that traditional recovery programs don’t have that respectable goal of …

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Surprise of all Surprises…

    Or maybe I should say, "this in from Captain Obvious" NPR published an article (surprisingly because that's their job), When LA's Air Got Better, Kids' Asthma Cases Dropped Children who live in areas with bad air pollution are more likely to develop asthma, which is the most common chronic illness among young people. …

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