Safe Driving For Seniors

Why in-person driver’s license renewal might be a good ideaMore than 40,000 Americans die each year in motor vehicle crashes. Many of the drivers involved in these crashes are senior citizens. Statistics show that motor vehicle fatality rates among senior drivers are on the rise, particularly for those drivers who are 85 or older. According […]

Indiana Revisited

April 4, 1968 Tomorrow is the Indiana Democratic Primary. One of the dominant themes, discussed on and off over the past few months, has been the issue of race, and the fears and emotions that come with it. In my lifetime – in my 60 years – I have seen fear before, in many shapes […]

Measles Cases from Overseas

Another factor reinforcing the need to immunize In January, February, March and April of 2008, 64 cases of Measles have been documented in 10 states across the US, and Dr. Anne Schuchat, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC says, “We haven’t seen the end of this.” The reason why? […]

Fear Levels and Health

What we’re still learning from 9/11In a recent Health Commentary essay I addressed the need for positive leadership in our society, specifically in creating the potential for a unified approach to reforming our health care system. I’ve been interested in positive leadership for many years, have written about it extensively, and believe we are suffering […]

Let Your Voice Be Heard

The ‘Health Care Idea Generator” — an interesting new concept from American Public MediaI recently received a nice note from Brad Robideau at American Public Media, producer and distributor of public radio programs, including Marketplace. He was alerting me to a great participatory platform they’ve created called the Health Care Idea Generator. According to Brad, […]

Academic Medicine 70 Percent There On Lifespan Planning

Boston’s Ken Mandl and Issac Kohane in an NEJM “must-read” Doctors Ken Mandl and Issac Kohane of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children’s Hospital Boston; and the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School — both in Boston, have written a "must-read" article […]

School Bullies

The damage they do is serious and long-lastingRecently the problem of school bullying reared its ugly head. The airwaves featured a youngster in Arkansas, progressively and deliberately isolated, abused, tormented and damaged. The problem is large, complex and pervasive, according to the American Medical Association. How large a problem? A 2001 study of nearly 16,000 […]

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