Last week, the Obama administration reversed rules set up by Medicare officials in November that would have reimbursed doctors when they had annual end-of-life planning discussions with their government-insured patients. The quick reversal, according to The New York Times, was likely the result of the president’s desire to limit public oppositionto the health care bill that passed… [Read more…]
March 14, 2010
A person’s body is like a world, except even larger and more complex. If our veins were rivers, our muscles were hills, our bones were stone quarries, there’d be no place to fit them all on planet Earth. And just as our earth has snakes and poisonous animals that threaten life, so this world of… [Read more…]
March 7, 2010
The Third Meditation: Confined to the sick bed We’re proud that we don’t crawl around like animals, that we walk upright on two legs. We like to stand tall and think lofty thoughts. We may walk around proudly, as though we’re kings and queens, but it only takes a fever to land us flat on our backs.… [Read more…]
February 28, 2010
The Second Meditation: As the body begins to shut down When the young shepherd David approached king Saul, he knew who was in charge (I Samuel 16:14-23). Years later, when Mephibosheth, Jonathan’s crippled son, entered David’s chambers, he acknowledged David as king (2 Samuel 9:6). Nevertheless, David spoke face to face with Saul, and Mephibosheth… [Read more…]
January 9, 2011
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