Sometimes a friend with a bee in their bonnet about some issue suggest that it would be a good subject for this column. Friend Ruth was one such, suggesting I write about the health hazards of data centers. She hooked me up with Erin Sanzero, president of Protect Stafford (https://eidsolutions.net), who in turn has a bit…
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People Who Have Died and Lived to Tell About it
Maybe it’s a little semantic to question whether talking about near death experience (NDE) is appropriate for our End of Life Conversations (EOLC) group – but that didn’t stop Tom Rotella, who has been a hospice worker and leads a group on NDE’s, coming to do just that. He was telling us about these phenomena that happen…
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Am I Still a Doctor?
I used to be a doctor. Maybe that’s a bit of a maudlin thought because I’m sitting at my desk in the completely deserted Moss Clinic - which of course just closed its doors. Since some 55 year's after that momentous day of becoming a doctor, of graduating from Guy’s Hospital in London, I am now out…
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The Moss Free Clinic Closing – a Case of “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till it’s Gone”
I keep telling everyone “it’s been like a death in the family.” But my take is that it was a preventable death. I liken it to a diabetic who dies for lack of insulin. Not because insulin hasn’t been invented. Not because no one knows that’s the right treatment. But because there’s no money to…
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