Another quick project
April 28th, 2008 at 10:06 am (Knitting)
From: HERE
End of life care in MA
April 24th, 2008 at 7:07 am (Bioethics, Ethics, Healthcare)
Report: State must do more to curb health care costs
A report from a state panel says hospitals, nursing homes and doctors need to better communicate with a patient about their wishes for end-of-life care.
The recommendation is included in a report issued by the Health Care Quality and Cost Council that urges Massachusetts to curb rising health care costs while also improving care.
Silly spammers
April 24th, 2008 at 6:45 am (life)
It seems that A few of my posts have been hijacked by spam. The filter did not see them, but they seemed to be nestled in there snugger than a puppy in a pile of old clothes. So a few posts from the last months have been deleted to get rid of the pests. The filter seems to be working on all new posts. A word to the wise - keep your Wordpress software up to date!
Summer reading for children and families?
April 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm (Libraries)
Have you started thinking about your summer reading plans? Well there is a great resources for you from the American Library Association http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/summerreading/recsummerreading/recommendedreading.cfm . Better yet, you can always go by your local public library (in the US) and see if they have a summer reading program planned!
Is healthcare a right?
April 15th, 2008 at 10:23 am (Bioethics, Healthcare)
Does every human on earth have a right to healthcare? Do you? Is it an innate right? If you have a right to healthcare do I have the responsibility to provide it to you? A moral obligation to do so? whats the difference? why should you care?
Perhaps you should care because this is a major topic that is floating around under the US elections and is a major political/social question facing the entire world. Particularly, now with the rising cost of food, what responsibilities do we have? Is our responsibility only local? global?
Moving ahead slowly!
February 18th, 2008 at 6:12 pm (Knitting)
5 wishes
February 12th, 2008 at 7:28 am (Ethics, Healthcare, life)
Have you heard of the 5 wishes document from aging with dignity? I looks like an easier way to get people to consider advance directives. I know that it has a minimal cost but it looks to be well worth it. $5 is manageable to most of us, just the price of one skein of yarn or less!
“The Five Wishes document helps you express how you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself. It is unique among all other living will and health agent forms because it looks to all of a person’s needs: medical, personal, emotional and spiritual. Five Wishes also encourages discussing your wishes with your family and physician.
Five Wishes lets your family and doctors know:
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Which person you want to make health care decisions for you when you can’t make them.
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The kind of medical treatment you want or don’t want.
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How comfortable you want to be.
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How you want people to treat you.
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What you want your loved ones to know.”
Illegal Kidney Trade
January 29th, 2008 at 3:21 pm (Ethics, Global Health)
The Pope, the Media and the Ethics
January 25th, 2008 at 7:39 am (Ethics)
The pope has called upon media outlets to behave.
Pope urges ‘more ethical’ media
Pope Benedict XVI has called on the media to underpin its work with ethical considerations and do more to promote the “dignity of the human being”. CWS
Pope encourages study of ethics in media 
Vatican, Jan. 24, 2008 (CWNews.com) - “The media must avoid becoming spokesmen for economic materialism and ethical relativism, true scourges of our time,” writes Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) in his annual message to the world of communications.
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