Dr. Chris Johnson, former director of Mayo Clinic’s pediatric ICU, has written an important book. It was published by New Horizon Press and is titled “Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face.” Chris makes the case for personalizing care, informed mutual decision making and trusting America’s families to make the right […]
Author: Mike Magee
Have you thought much about long-term care insurance? I’m sure that depends on your age, the age of your parents, and your income – but I want you to know it’s worth consideration, no matter where you are in life. Why? Because 60% of current 65 year olds will need some kind of long-term care in […]
Here’s a startling fact. According to a study by Philips Electronics, product returns in the U.S. cost $100 billion dollars a year; and over half of those products returned have nothing wrong with them. Why are they returned? In at least half of the cases, the customers either can’t get them to work or find them too […]
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Riding the Santa Monica Freeway
I was recently out on a visit to the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s long-term care facilities in Woodland Hills, CA (very impressed), and in the process experienced, for the first extended period, traffic on LA’s Santa Monica Freeway (not so impressed). That is why my eye caught the May 7, 2007, issue of U.S. […]
Not paying attention to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming would not have been a great idea under even normal circumstances. But as it turned out, that moment of opportunity occurred at a time when carbonization of the planet’s atmosphere was reaching a critical point of self-escalation. Why? Because global warming is complex and one […]
Back in 1998, as head of the WHO, Gro Harlem Brundtland, a physician and public servant from Norway, spoke with confidence from her global platform and saw her message being amplified by the exploding Internet. She repositioned health as part goodness and part fairness, emphasizing science, training and technologic discovery in equal measures with equity, justice […]
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Redux Redoes Cocaine
Thank you, FDA! After going to the Redux Beverages Web site and viewing its marketing for the high-caffeine “energy drink” Cocaine, the FDA spoke up. Self-defined as “Speed in a Can” and “Liquid Cocaine,” this beverage had already been bulled off shelves in various chains in several states and is now being pulled from all […]
