Archive for September, 2008

• Act now or regret it later

  Monday, September 29th, 2008

  Each election is important but it has been a long time since one will mean the life or death of our way of life as we know it.
  Look around us what do we see? In California those of us who bought houses and thought we had built up nice healthy equalities to be tapped into [...]

• Death by Emergency Room care or lack there of

  Friday, September 26th, 2008

  More and more stories are coming to light of the deaths of people being brought to emergency rooms where they die. Two of the latest cases have been patients in the ER who were there for long periods of time and nobody went to see about their needs. Both patients were psychiatric patients and both seemed to [...]

• The Flu season is upon us

  Friday, September 26th, 2008

  I don’t want to sound like the town crier but its here again.. The  2008-2009 Flu seasons is here and its time to stick out our arms and be brave. All kidding aside, those of us who are senior citizens or have a chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease. or respiratory problems, should be [...]

• Health workers and their lack of confidentiality

  Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

  There is a story online of workers in an ER taking pictures of patients and posting them on their Myspace Page. This is such a breach of a patient’s confidentiality that there are no words to express my anger.
  Why would a thing like this happen? Well I know in part this is due to people [...]

• Viagra miracle or monster maker?

  Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

  I have been alone for many years now. With so much time on my hands and a strong desire to have a social life, I am amazed at the sexually aroused 60 and 70 year old males. It is not a pretty thing. If I thought dating in my twenties was a chore, fighting off the [...]