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“We The People.”

Comments are encouraged. To contribute a comment, click on word “comments” above. ——————————————————————————————————- Mike Magee With the 2024 Presidential election four weeks away, I continue to struggle with the fact that up to 75 million of our fellow citizens may vote for Trump. On the surface, it feels like a broad recrimination of the goodness […]

Advise From A Young Woman: Vote For Someone You Admire.

Mike Magee We have six weeks to go before choosing a new leader for our still young and evolving democracy. The results will have a profound impact on the health of our citizens, their relationships with each other, and the health of our form of government under the rule of law. When making a choice, […]

Dobbs’ Created “Moral Distress” – Country Responds “We’re Not Going Back!”

Mike Magee When Andrew Jameton, a Nursing Professor at the Department of Mental Health and Community Nursing at UCSFin 1984  published “Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues”, the term “Moral Distress” was a novel term in clinical health care. It focused primarily on “care that they were expected to provide but ethically opposed.” Over the past […]

What Do Biden/Harris, Superman and Clean Energy Disruption Have In Common?

Mike Magee The formal casting of Electoral College votes this week marked the moment that I felt comfortable in removing the Biden/Harris sign from my front lawn. In that moment, with the first Covid vaccines going in and Bill Barr going out, I allowed myself to believe that our new leaders were up to the […]

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