Information and Critical Thinking for Your Health
Fifty years ago this month, the Watts riots began. Three years ago, I wrote how the community where I grew up rose from the ashes excelling athletically, allowing some of us to … Continue Reading →
Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital (HMNH) is being sued. This is not unexpected news as it is a health care facility caring for ill patients where expectations are high, and outcomes … Continue Reading →
Draping a shroud of 30’s Depression on any dust bowl child can thicken the skin, so my 88 year old patient learned to be fiercely independent with a “talk to … Continue Reading →
Once the 2008 economic spiral began and unemployment escalated with wallets and purses zipped closed, causes were not initially recognized. Since then, the causal details of this downturn were ferreted … Continue Reading →
Most of us sense frustration as we try to decipher our complex healthcare system. Yet this intentional confusion, forcing patients and families toward medical and economic peril, is fostered by … Continue Reading →