| Comment about: Danger on Our Roads and Bridges |
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| December 13, 2007 | | Jud-
Thanks for your comment. Regurgitation or not, the facts are pretty impressive and reflect broader issues on the priorities of our society, how we direct our limited resources, and how we embed confidence, trust and hope in a populace increasingly surrounded by chaos. It all comes back to the definition of Health and Politics. For me Health is about each individual reaching his or her full human potential and Politics is about the people asking of themselves and their government a committment of service and stewardship of resources to best serve the "we" rather then just the "me". For maximum mental, physical and spirtual health we must invest properly in true homeland security - that includes roads, housing, transportation, health delivery, our environment, our police and fireman, our food and medicine supply system, and our information infrastructure. To believe that these are segments of society unrelated to each other and non contributors to our general health, challenges Cardinal Bernardin's instruction to the AMA more than a decade ago. He said, "There are four words in the English language that have common English routes. They are heal, health, whole and holy. To heal in the modern world, you must provide health. To have health, you must keep the individual, the family the community, and Society whole. And if you can do all that, well that's a holy thing." My intent then is not simply to rehash, nor to create further fear, but rather to ask why are we increasingly "not whole" and what should be done about it?
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