Today’s podcast talks about the new book called The Good Ones by Dr. Bruce Weinstein. Dr. Weinstein is also called The Ethics Guy.
I won the book on a Facebook contest, created by Dr. Weinstein. He asked what kind of ethical dilemma had we faced at work, and how did we handled it?
Today’s podcast is an introduction to what the book is about. Soon I will be interviewing Dr. Weinstein again about this excellent thought provoking book.
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I was struck by a statement in Tom Brokaw’s new book called A Lucky Life Interrupted and the quote is by Jesse Jackson.
“The rich are all about living and the poor are all about dying.”
This, of course, points to the inequities of our healthcare system Obama Care or no Obama Care. Obamacare is delivered by health insurance delivery systems which is a backward way to deliver healthcare.
Every other civilized country in the world has Single Payer. And their economic system flows much better as a result, serving all the people, not just the rich.
This is what today’s Podcast is about today as well as an opportunity to join the Awesomization Nation.
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Be Awesome
Today’s podcast is about my musings on Tom Brokaw’s new memoir called A Lucky Life Interrupted. Mr. Brokaw compiled a journal after a diagnosis of malignant melanoma. The memoir is a result of his recollections during that time.
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Where Is Your Mortality Zone?
What is your mortality zone? Does such a thing exists? It’s a term I just heard on Fresh Air, NPR public radio’s interview with Tom Brokaw. It is a clever term, and it got my immediate attention, but in the end what is immortality and mortality? Can they exist in the same space at the same time?
Apparently, Tom Brokaw was diagnosed with a serious form of Melanoma over this past year. He wrote a memoir called My Lucky Life Interrupted. The book is a reflection of his experiences confronting his own mortality.
Do these terms truly describe the true mystery of life? Yet the term mortality zone got my attention and I wanted to think about it.
In the Judeo Christian tradition, immortality can only be achieved by accepting Jesus Christ as your savior. That is about as suffocating a definition as any I’ve ever considered.
In spiritual thought traditions, immortality is a birthright and a death right. It is a consciousness that exists beyond what we are experiencing in this present moment. Yet the present moment is the only thing that exists. If mortality exist in the future, is it possible that immortality is the only thing that exists in this present moment?
This is what today’s podcast is all about.
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6 Ways People Face Death
There are six ways, possibly more, of facing the inevitability of our own death or those we dearly love. Perhaps there is a combination of mixing and matching the six ways of facing death.
1) Fearing Death
2) Denying Death
3) Defying Death
4) Grieving Death
5) Accepting Death
6) Liberation In The Face Of Death
Today’s podcast goes into all of these. I thank Joan Halifax and her book called Being with Dying, as one of the greatest books written on these topics.
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Dates Inscribed In Stone
My husband and I went to a funeral today after which time we went to the cemetery for the internment.
Then we walked around and visited Tom’s family and their tombstones. Tom knew every single person buried in that cemetery.
This reminded me of the time I went to a cemetery with my parents. They pointed out tombstones and remembered galavanting with people in the home town of Lancaster PA. They told story after story of nearly everyone in that cemetery. Dad said, “Remember Charlie?” and went on to talk about the experiences they had with that person.
It was like walking in a different time zone. It was the first time I felt like my parents in that cemetery so many years ago.
For some reason, we could not find cousin Gregory. And then we realized we had parked in a lot of people and we had to leave.
The funeral was in Littlestown Pa, where my husband grew up. “The town that time forgot,” is how our kids describe it. Yet that’s what it’s like in a cemetery, too. Time does not exist in those places. You are transported to another dimension.
I realized today that Tom’s dad passed a mere seven months after my dad, on July 7, 2001. I knew it at the time, then forgot. Seeing those dates inscribed on stone helped me remember.
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Today’s podcast is me walking around the Lancaster County Park smelling for chemical pesticides and Round Up because my nose is extraordinarily sensitive.
Unfortunately, as I came down the last part of a beautiful trail, I did smell that same sickening sweet weedkiller. There are no postings anywhere that these chemicals are being used.
There is a non-GMO rally all across the country on May 25, 2015. Check it out in your area and get involved. The aim of our non-GMO group here in Lancaster Pennsylvania is to make Lancaster GMO free by the year asap.
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I took Pearlie for a walk again today in the Lancaster County Park, to be greeted by a strong chemical smell of weed killer. In the past, the park would post signs, warning of upcoming chemical usage. This time they did not.
I caught up with a park ranger, who was holding a box turtle, getting ready to set her free.
I used the turtle to make my point about the delicate balance of nature, and how no chemicals should be used in the park at all.
That’s what today’s podcast is about.
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Nurses are the heart and soul of medicine. Yet, as always, doctors and other nurses have difficulty excepting one another’s beauty, excellence and nobility.
This evening I just got off a call in celebration of nurses week with a wonderful nurse, Elizabeth Scala.
We discussed LinkedIn as the go to place for professionals of all persuasions, Nursing included.
So I ramble today on the podcast about my conversation with Elizabeth and about nurses working for the good of all, and all the wonderful things in between.
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As we continue to celebrate Nurses Week, I can’t help but be honest about our healthcare system. Obama Care has never been a solution, in my opinion, as to how to fix the healthcare system. If you’re healthy, chances are you’re not going to get sick. Obama care is great for that.
But when you’re poor and ill, you still have to pay high deductibles. This becomes a human right’s issue.
Donna Smith, star of Michael Moore SiCKO, wrote an excellent expose about the brutality of our health care bureaucracy, from her own personal experience.
Yesterday, I did a podcast about how we are auctioneering off our entire health care system to pharmaceutical companies, health insurance, Wall Street, and CEO’s becoming Billionaires off the backs of the poor..
Today’s podcast goes into a little more detail about Donna Smith article about brutality and the healthcare system. I will leave a link here for those who want to read the article.
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