There was a story not too long ago about a 13 year old boy who had cancer. His parent decided after one chemo treatment that they didn’t want any more for their son. They cited religious reasons why they stopped the treatments. The doctors reported them and a judge ruled that he get the…
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Sentenced For Spreading HIV
A former martial arts instructor has been sentenced to a 45 year jail term for intentionally spreading HIV to several woman without telling them he was infected. The women are now HIV positive and are of course not very happy about it. Wow, that’s really an awful thing to do to another human being….
China Fighting Smoking
China wants to put gruesome pictures of bleeding brains, rotten lungs, and other signs of smokers to deter people from smoking, They believe that the youth of China would think twice after seeing what can happen from smoking. Well here’s a heads up China. I’m a smoker and I’ve seen all those photos and…
Swine Flu Numbers
I’m looking occasionally at the numbers of folks who have caught swine flu and died from it. What I’m seening is headlines saying that the number of dead from swine flu are on the rise, when in fact we’re talking about four or five more people. I know that it kills even healthy young…
Buriel Finally
On this coming Monday we are finally putting my parents ashes into their graves. I had a lot of problems with the insurance, which did just pay. I am still, and will probably always be haunted by the final days my father had to endure, and I am still asking why he had to…
More on Swine Flu
The World Health Organization has decided that they will not be declaring the swine flu outbreak as a pandemic. They say that it will not help governments to fight the flu any better. They and others were sure throwing that word around a lot when the outbreak first started. I was expecting thousands of…
Medical Residents and Sleep
I have watched my share of medical shows on TV and one of the things you learn from these shows is that doctors in training work very long shifts, somtimes 24, 36, or even more hours straight. That has always worried me. As a patient walking into an ER, I don’t want an overtired…