March 29, 2008 – 11:57 am
This article, from Citizens Commission on Human Rights, concerns a bill before congress to force the insurance companies to reimburse doctors for treating any one of the 374 ‘mental diseases’ listed in the DSM-IV which is the psychiatrists manual of ‘diseases’. Many, many more ‘mental diseases’ will be added to this list as they are […]
March 23, 2008 – 12:01 pm
Over the last decade, studies have tried to link an individual’s genetic make-up to an ever growing list of diseases. Such as obesity, Parkinson’s disease, ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, bipolar disorder, manic depressive disorder, cancer etc. This would seem to absolve a person from taking personal responsibility for their ailments or their lifestyle. “It’s not […]
March 19, 2008 – 11:40 pm
The most vulnerable times in our life are when we’re sick. We’re scared. Our body isn’t acting right. We’re in pain. We want it to stop. So we willingly delegate our fate to a doctor. We are at his mercy.
It’s at a time like this that we as patients should take control of our own […]
March 17, 2008 – 11:28 am
The upward trend in childhood obesity in the U.S. has been known by our government for years. However, little or nothing of substance as been accomplished by our politicians to address this problem. It is seldom, if ever, considered a viable issue even though the rate of childhood obesity and it’s related diseases, such as […]
The U.S. is the only modern country that doesn’t have universal health care. Yet we rank 37th in in the world in health care efficiency, lowest in life expectancy, highest infant mortality, highest in per person health care spending, ($7016 and increasing daily), highest in drug costs and highest in cost of hospital and medical […]
