The Right to Keep and Bear Children
What happens when a routine doctor’s visit leads to a parent’s worst nightmare? Medical Kidnap - the nightmare of losing a child to the custody of a medical hospital, or to the State’s Department of Child Protective Services (CPS). The fact that the term medical kidnap is now part of the lexicon begs the question, [...]
The Declining Health of Children: Connect the dots
When it comes to the health of America’s children you only need to connect the dots to see that the picture emerging is not pretty. Everywhere we turn American parents are bombarded with the urgent message to “get your flu shot” or “see your doctor” for your wellness visit. Incessant talk of unusual infectious disease [...]
See Challenge As Opportunity
If you are alive on this planet now, you are bound to experience the challenge that rocks your world. It’s inevitable. Shift happens. In trying to make sense of it all, your mind will become a battle zone for all contradictory reasons and swirling thoughts. You will second-guess, question, and argue with yourself; the ego [...]
Shake-up to Wake-up
Now is a time of shake-ups. Whether the shake-up is a break-up, a job loss, a death, or a diagnosis, every shake-up has a reason for being. Consider it your wake-up call. Even though the call came out of nowhere, the call is not good or bad. Think of it as a gift. Your girlfriend [...]
Trust Your Inner Warrior
Opinions are like noses. Everyone has one. Opinions on the left. Opinions on the right. Conflicting opinions, strong opinions, weak opinions. The priest has an opinion. The doctor. So does the teacher, the astronomer, the botanist, the cell biologist, the geneticist, the meteorologist, the physicist, the strategist, the guru, the philosopher, the politician, the spouse, [...]
Ebola: Fiction vs. Fact
Problem - Reaction - Solution. Create a problem, foment a reaction, and roll out the solution. It's been the go-to playbook for all Crisis-By-Design. In any good crisis, there are those who do the spinning and those who are spun. To determine which side you are on, step back, separate yourself from the fray and [...]
