With the Governor of New York spending $80,000 on hookers — should we be surprised to learn 25% of teenage American girls are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, genital herpes and trichomoniasis? If you’re a Black female teenager, your infection rate is 50%.
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Eliot Spitzer — Client Nine — is now forever known as “The Empire State Governor John” — after getting caught up in an FBI/IRS sex ring sting where it was discovered he appeared to be cheating on the wishes of his wife while smashing the dreams of his three daughters and vetoing voter faith by simply seeking sexual release with a call girl.
The United States is now the number one nation of the incarcerated in the world. The Pew Center on the States released a new report that one in 99 Americans is a prisoner in the nation’s overcrowded jail and prison system.
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It is our responsibility as cogent human beings to ban all handguns. We’ve felt the massacre at Virginia Tech. We know the horror of the gangland killings in Newark. We live with the regret of eight dead in Omaha. We’re still freshly frozen from the aftermath of last week’s multiple Northern Illinois University assassinations:
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The last realm of the human mind is one of sexuality and gender identification. Are we our chromosomes? Or are we our genitalia?
What makes a boy? What makes a girl? What makes us universally human? Does gender conform to stereotypes — or are our preconceived notions influenced by gender?
When one has “genital reassignment” surgery — is one changing their sex or confirming it? Does it matter that answering that question matters to some?
How can we remove gender bias in the human equation? Is that a problem we need to solve?
If you bump your head and are taken to the emergency room for eight stitches — would you expect a rectal exam to be part of the diagnosis process?
The New York Football Giants are having a ticker-tape parade today to celebrate their Super Bowl XLII win. I hate a parade. Always have. Ever will.
Why does the number three have such power in cultures across the world?
Continue reading → The Power of Three as a Cultural Phenomenon
“Physician, heal thyself,” is an old proverb that resonates today as we seek context and meaning in healing as newer, more vicious, illnesses invade our bodies.
Continue reading → By This Wish, I Be Well: Mind-Body Medicine
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