Forbes: We all know health care costs are a serious problem and most of us feel powerless to do anything about it. In this country, there is a perception that more health care means better health,…
Forbes: We all know health care costs are a serious problem and most of us feel powerless to do anything about it. In this country, there is a perception that more health care means better health,…
ABC News: Now that “Amour” has won the Oscar for best foreign-language film, let us pause for a moment to consider the significance of the Academy’s nominating such a film for one of the most prestigious…
Reuters: Ellen Goodman spent decades talking with Americans through her Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper column about social change and the women’s movement. But when her mother became severely ill several years ago, it struck her there was…
Medical Ethics and Me: In Twitter dialogues about end of life care and other areas of medical ethics, I tend to eavesdrop, rather than participate. There are quite a lot of such dialogues and they…
RLTV (NextAvenue): Among the many several shocking discoveries was that my very cautious and strategic father didn’t carry life insurance (well, a $5,000 plan from IBM, which basically covered the burial). Nor had he expressed any…
Covering Health (AHCJ Blog): It’s one of the certainties of life: everyone’s going to die. And most of us also will deal with the deaths of a family member or loved one. Writing about death,…