Losing my religion, part 3

In August of 2005, before my medical crisis that November, and prior to the long hospital stay and the thoughts and prayers offered by so ma...

Disability Carnival #8 at Medical Humanities

Yep, I'm late to post this, but all the links are over there , waiting to be clicked. And my fellow Minnesotan Mark Siegel of The 19th F...

Saturday Slumgullion #27

Lots of news articles to share: From the AARP Bulletin , June 2004, "Suing to get out in the world: San Franciscans break out of nursin...

Doctors involved with Ashley Treatment not as unified in support as previously indicated

From today's Salon.com, Rebecca Clarren reports in "Behind the Pillow Angel" that: Doctors at the Seattle hospital that opera...

Flannery O'Connor: The "crippled hillbilly Emily Dickinson"

It's nice to know I have people who read my blog, but even better is to know they are smart folks thinking through complex ideas even wh...

HIV discrimination in health care

From columnist Deb Price at detnews.com : Posing as discharge planners from hospitals or as HIV-positive patients, they contacted skilled nu...

Undergraduate memory

In my freshman year at Arizona State, I took a semester of art courses that assured me that I was not destined to live the life of a profess...