You’re okay now
April 25, 2009 | 2 comments
A friend reminded me yesterday of something I told him a year ago, and of the healing effect it had on him. He was about to board a plane for an extended overseas trip. He was in terrible pain and
Category: health
Children overmedicated
April 7, 2009 | 5 comments
A thought-provoking article I just read in “The Washington Post National Weekly Edition,” states that the debate over the effectiveness of long-term drug treatment of children with hyperactivity or attention-deficit disorder has been reignited. For years, millions of parents have
Overmedication of America
April 2, 2009 | 6 comments
I read a book recently, titled, “Comfortably Numb: How psychiatry is medicating a nation,” by Charles Barber, a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. Barber contends that Americans are horrendously overdosed in psychiatric medicines, and provides
No long drawn out suffering
April 1, 2009 | 3 comments
I struggled with a little health issue for a few days recently that ordinarily would vanish with a short prayer. It was not a big deal, but I got a bit bothered by why it hadn’t yielded quickly this time.
Too many medicines
March 19, 2009 | 7 comments
As I sat at a restaurant table in the Los Angeles airport Tuesday morning eating breakfast, I noticed a businessman at a table near mine pull an 8 x 12 x 3 inch leather zipper case out of his luggage.