negligence

Emergency Room Care in hospitals: overcrowded and leaving people in the waiting room to die

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Whether you live in the city or suburbs, hospitals can be overcrowded, under-staffed, insensitive to ailing patients, subjective as to how certified, and board recognized staff deal with patients. Each person that steps inside of the hospital doors should be treated equally and with the same importance.  Read More »

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I Need An Adult!

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Unless you've been in hiding, I'm pretty sure that you're well aware of the eight students from Lakeland, FL that have been charged with kidnapping and battery, among other charges, for their collective attack on a fellow student. Although the media has covered many aspects of the story, I still have one question.
Where were these teenagers' parents?  Read More »

Confronting eating disorders -- where do we draw the line?

Eighty percent of the times that I have walked into the fitness center this year, her skeleton-like frame has come into view. She is on the elliptical, she is working out hard, and she looks like she is going to break in half. I can see her veins and bones through her pallid skin, and the dark moons under her eyes make me feel like I am staring at a walking (well, running) corpse.  Read More »

Watch What You Eat

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Whether you are a vegetarian, a vegan, or you eat meat regularly, we all rely on the USDA to keep our food safe to eat. Recent reports have surfaced indicating that they haven’t been doing their job as effectively as we might have hoped.  Read More »

America doesn't care about you

I read an article from Time Magazine called "when cells stop working". The purpose of the article was to discuss the mysterious illness called the mitochondrial disease. Yet what I saw was something much deeper, more sinister from within the structure of our science and medical institutions.  Read More »

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