Stumped We didn’t know what was causing his death. When we walked on to the medicine wards of the San Diego VA many years ago, most interns were pretty ignorant. Yet we believed someone else knew what to do. As in what was causing the large stock of misery before us. In VA medical wards […]
Natural Versus Normal Sleep (7/1/13)
What Is Real Sleep? People always ask me how much sleep they should get to live and live well. I usually respond “it depends.” The individual answers encompass genes, jobs, habits, drugs and several dozen other factors – before the unknown ones. But what’s a proper society-wide answer? How much sleep do humans need? We […]
Dying Off (6/24/13)
Ending Lives Across America, communities are expiring. The average population decrease is 4% a year. Smaller, more endangered groups are disappearing at a rate more like 12%. Government records argue that if the die-off continues at this pace, half these communities will be gone in 20 years. Who are they? Rural farmers? Skilled urban industrial […]
A Modest Proposal to Save Countless Lives (6/11/13)
Liberating Health(y) Surveillance The American public has been shocked, shocked to learn the NSA has potentially tapped every phone and email account in the U.S. – for national security. Yet Facebook, Google and others have for years tracked your cat photos and car interiors, love affairs and esteemed nude self portraits, selling bits and bytes […]
15 “Rules” for a Less Stressed Life (5/31/13)
The Challenge Recently I was asked to write a guest post on “15 Rules For A Stress Free Life.” My first question was – what is stress? Here’s one definition – stress is how your body reacts to challenge. From that definition follow a few potential “rules”: 1. There is no such entity as a […]