As I said earlier, there’s something terribly wrong with the whole notion of patients as “consumers” and health care as simply a financial transaction. Medical care, after all, is an area in which crucial decisions — life and death decisions — must be made. Yet making such decisions intelligently requires a vast amount of specialized knowledge. Furthermore, those decisions often must be made under conditions in which the patient is incapacitated, under severe stress, or needs action immediately, with no time for discussion, let alone comparison shopping.
- Maria Niles
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Thought provoking post: http://www.blogher.com/dancing... -- Dancing (While Black and Disabled) | BlogHer. Be sure to read pg 2 for bird position photo.
Those are some thought provoking questions. I'm happy for her that she's doing what she loves regardless of being in a chair. It's a shame that others in her class look down on her.
- Anika
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acarvin: Glynn Washington: My African-American daughter speaks 2 her Punjabi friend in Spanish about eating sushi on her b-day. That's their world. - http://twitter.com/acarvin...