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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Union of Patients (part I)
I still wake up angry in the darkness. The setting moon bathes the smooth snow in small light, and I am angry about malpractice settlements. I hear George W. Bush is angry, too. Seems to me I heard that old … Continue reading
One to 6,868,700,000
I always wondered why God told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Then I read that it was because if humankind had knowledge then they would also have power, and humankind was not … Continue reading
Posted in Power, Spirituality
Tagged Allah, Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Gite, Brahman, Buddhism, charity, Christ, Christianity, Divinity, God, Hinduism, Holy Bible, humility, Islam, Judaism, justice, Koran, Lord, perfect love, Quran, Ravi Zacharias, Religion and Spirituality, religious tolerance, sacred scriptures, sacred writings, Thich Nhat Hanh, Wicca, world religions, Yahweh
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Mom’s Heart, and Mine
My mom was scheduled for surgery. In later years, neither one of us could remember what the surgery was for or whether she had it or not, but she was prepped and taken into the operating room where she was put under … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Health Care
Tagged death, doctors, end-of-life, Health, health care, Heart, Medicine, patients, Physician, physicians
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Suspicion of Medicare/Medicaid Fraud (part II)
You can learn all sorts of things on the Internet that people don’t want you to know. The first thing I learn is that I’m dealing with North Medical, P.C., “Five practices. Two locations. One Healthcare home.” It … Continue reading
Posted in Fraud, Government Services, Health Care
Tagged Business, diagnosis, doctors, Family medicine, fraud, Health, health care, John Merola, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, patients, Physician, physicians, Primary care, values
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Suspicion of Medicare/Medicaid Fraud (part I)
Last week my electric wheelchair lost power while I was out wheeling in the neighborhood and I had to deal with the police, ambulance company, medical transport and the bus company in order to get home. I thought the power … Continue reading
Posted in Fraud, Government Services, Health Care, power wheelchairs, Values
Tagged doctors, fraud, Health, health care, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, patients, Physician, Primary care, values
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Sunday Morning Going Down (part II)
When I get outside, I see that it’s stopped raining (the restaurant was a dark windowless cave) so I decide to continue on my original path to the Thornden Park rose garden. And what to do with the breakfast box? … Continue reading
Posted in disability, disability rights, Power
Tagged Garden, gardening, homeless, Thornden Park, values
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Sunday Morning Going Down (part I)
I woke around seven and checked the Doppler. It had been raining lightly and was going to rain heavily later but I decided it was clear enough to make a run for the garden. Humming “I come to the garden … Continue reading
Female Sexuality: How to Say No, Have Good Sex, and Get Married, Not Necessarily in That Order (part II)
We are animals and our bodies were designed for interactive life in the natural world. We are descended from apes—albeit God-given apes—and we must understand our sexuality in terms of what it took to survive in the natural environment. So here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Sex
Tagged clitoris, female sexuality, Human, human nature, human sexuality, intimacy, male sexuality, marriage, Mating, Orgasm, parenting, penis, pregnancy, Reproduction, security, Sexual intercourse, Sexuality, testosterone
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Female Sexuality: How to Say No, Have Good Sex, and Get Married, Not Necessarily in That Order (Part I)
Let us begin at the beginning. You are an animal, and—like all God’s creatures—a pretty fine one. Compared to a wildebeest or an anteater, you look pretty good. You are, however, the most complicated animal on earth, and therefore … Continue reading
Posted in Sex
Tagged Advice, female sexuality, Human, human animal, lovemaking, Mating, pregnancy, puberty, relationships, Reproduction, sex, Sexual intercourse, Sexuality, teenage sexuality
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Farm Boy
Jim is the only child of a Catholic farm couple in a farming county. Tearfully he asks, “Why’d they buy me a Monopoly game?” There was no one to play it with. When he was seventeen, his father died. … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Illness & Health, Spirituality
Tagged alcohol, depression, family, Farm, farm boy, farmer, God, hotline, mental health, mental illness, People, relationships
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