Who would have thought that self-advocacy for one’s own healthcare would become such an essential part of caring for ourselves and loved ones? But it is. Maybe the pandemic experience accelerated the process, but the resulting impersonal characteristics of the healthcare machine have become very visible. Where caring for one’s health was something that could…
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Paying Attention to Our Arguments
I am coming around to thinking that we no longer pay enough attention to our arguments. We go with the first loudly expressed idea and defend it without due consideration of that idea. The substance of the idea is lost in all the noise surrounding it. I know what you are going to say. “But…
Do We Label Life Too Much?
Funny how every life experience demands a label these days. In healthcare and fitness circles, complex physical conditions must first be reduced to a pathology with a trendy sounding acronym. That “disease”, and I use the term loosely, astonishingly happens to be best addressed through the use of the products they just happen to be…
COVID-19 Vaccine Injury: Building Back Stronger
As time has passed since its mass introduction, the logically expected COVID-19 vaccine injury information is starting to come in. While an emotional concern for many, some such outcomes were expected from the start of the vaccination program. Helpful (read: factual) information about vaccine injuries is trickling in amongst the emotional theories, charges and counter-charges…
Taking Command of Our Health Decisions
With a full blown healthcare system in our lives, taking command of our health decisions would seem to be an easy job. We have health insurance and doctors of all flavors (specialties) at our disposal. We have surgery available and pharmaceuticals galore. What could possibly be missing? We are all hale and healthy because of…