Patch Adams: Real Health is Compassion and Community
Patch Adams speaking to his audience about proactive health. He integrates arts, love, education, social service to promote healing. He sees health as holistic. He provided health care for free as he sees it as an human right. He worked in another job to enable him to be a doctor… Continue reading
The Economics of Social Medicine is About Bedside Manners
In truth in my view about the whole issue of Obamacare is about how we treat each other and ourselves. Interestingly the tension in hospitals can often be between brush bedside manners and really helping someone. It is the compassionate versus the detached. I know when I was sick in hospital I… Continue reading
Social Medicine
Here is some information from Patch Adams on a workshop he has run on social medicine.
http://patchadams.org/node/7229/
Social Medicine Symposium
For those of us immersed in the day-to-day practice of medicine, or in close study of health and health care, it is easy to lose sight of the big picture. The very intensity of our… Continue reading
Obamacare: Private vs Public vs Happiness for All
I don’t have a television and just had the feeling to explore this issue of Obamacare. I was intrigued to find out that President Obama is indicating that the group within the Republican party has shut down the government. Sounds like a double dissolution similar to Australia, makes me think back to Gough… Continue reading
A Sad Tailing? Is it OK to Mine Nature?
I went through a process of deep reflection on mining. I can see the sad tale here repeated across the globe in lots of different disputes between multinationals and indigenous people. I see the latter perceiving themselves as vulnerable as they don’t have the education or the money to receive justice. Our… Continue reading
Wastewater from Natural Gas Drilling is Radioactive
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=marcellus-shale-natural-gas-drilling-radioactive-wastewater
Wastewater from natural gas drilling in New York State is radioactive, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink
By Abrahm Lustgarten and ProPublica
WASTEWATER FOUNTAIN: Natural gas drilling in New York State… Continue reading