The recent debates over U.S. healthcare reform are long overdue, yet still sadly inadequate. (The discussion is about health insurance, actually, not the care itself. But I titled this post “healthcare reform” since that is what everyone is calling it.) There is no need to rehash the plentiful evidence that the current system is broken: [...]
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Here are three recent New York Times articles that caught my eye. On March 13th, Tara Parker-Pope’s health blog “Well” reprinted “The 12 Most Annoying Habits of Therapists.” Actually, the list comes from PsychCentral, a blog written by psychologist John M. Grohol, and in my opinion reads better there. I won’t list [...] This post has taken a while to percolate, and has turned into two posts. As often happens, what got me thinking was an article in the New York Times, this time on the expanding definition and use of service animals by the disabled. Service animals now go far beyond Seeing Eye dogs. The article introduces [...] I’ve been online quite a few years now. Actually, I first used the internet in college in the late 1970s. There were only a handful of non-governmental university sites back then, and I happened to be an undergraduate at one of them. A decade later, in the late 1980s, I was a member of the [...] In watching the concession and acceptance speeches last night, I was struck by the apparently sincere willingness of both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama to “reach across the aisle” and work together after their bitter campaign fight. To me, this feels much like a hard-fought sports competition, where in the heat of battle each side [...] Life seems stressful these days. With the current economic crisis and impending national election, there is a sense of instability in the air. Many Americans have seen their retirement investments dwindle, many others cannot find car or home loans. Most of us wonder what the future will hold. Acquaintances occasionally ask me if [...] |
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