No sex until marriage…

(I am sure only my husband gets the title) So we start with a recent survey on the “Purity Pledge” you know that is the one where a young lady pledges to be a virgin until marriage.  That she remains pure until her wedding night.  How Victorian of them. I wonder if they do it …

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Your opinion is yours and not to share…

Lots of patients end up at our doorstep its what keeps us working and pays the bills.  Have you ever stopped to take inventory of personal bias? Yesterday I wrote about “fat shaming” which to a certain degree we need to discuss weight with people who have a BMI over 28. We need to make …

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This is why we can’t have nice things…

So, in Utah HB 399 was introduced this session to ban conversion therapy in Utah.  Similar legislation has gained some momentum across the country and is currently the law in 13 states as well as in some municipalities where the state does not have those protections in place. The bill was introduced by Rep. Craig …

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First do no harm…

It was a long time ago, the same galaxy. It was shortly after September 11th, and I was working on the dialysis unit in Butte, Montana. Yeah, the name looks like butt, insert Beavis and Butthead laugh here. Everyone was in a dark-assed mood. Lower Manhattan was still in chaos, and we were still coming …

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