Sometimes there is so much pressure in our society to be constantly on the go. Way too often when you ask people how their week is going the response is the same: “busy.” I first saw this at Georgetown – where there was almost a pathological desire by the student body to impart an imageContinue reading “Stop Being Busy”
Category Archives: Health
A tale of two health care systems
On September 9, 2009 President Obama delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress on the need to overhaul health care in the United States. In this speech, President Obama said that the United States’ “collective failure to meet [the challenge of health care reform] – year after year, decade after decade – has ledContinue reading “A tale of two health care systems”
Pragmatic and Compassionate: Aging in Place
It has become almost trite to write that one of the greatest challenges for many countries will be how to deal with aging populations. Nevertheless, it is true now more than ever that the long term strategic trajectories of countries from Canada to China will be shaped by how they respond to changing demographics. AndContinue reading “Pragmatic and Compassionate: Aging in Place”
Changing The Way We Think Of Unhealthy Habits
A few months ago I was added to a very interesting Google Group, where individuals with diverse interests send out thought provoking articles every Thursday. One article sent out this week particularly got me thinking. Eryn Brown of the Los Angeles Times writes of a new study that shows people tend to dismiss the negativeContinue reading “Changing The Way We Think Of Unhealthy Habits”
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