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Come Together Right Now: The Mental Health Field Must Unite

Posted on April 10, 2013 by DrBeckerSchutte — No Comments ↓

Come Together Right Now: The Mental Health Field Must Unite This post was written by Dr. Misty Hook, and was originally published on the Counselling Resource website. It is a followup to her post, The Pay is the Thing. A…

Tagged with: advocacy, healthcare, mental health, organization
Posted in Community, healthcare

It just doesn’t add up: Saving premature babies only to risk their health later

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Ben Miller — No Comments ↓

By Deb Discenza Each of us knows someone that had a preemie and a tale to tell about the roller-coaster of the early birth. The stories often liken preemies to warriors and fighters as they struggle to live against all…

Tagged with: advocacy, healthcare, preemie, prevention
Posted in healthcare, Our Stories

The march

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Ben Miller — No Comments ↓

Like soldiers marching, we each charge ahead to our own cadence. And like soldiers, we have a mission. Our goal and focus is to be seen, heard, treated with respect and to be happy and healthy. No matter where we…

Tagged with: advocacy, health insurance, healthcare, stories
Posted in Community, healthcare, Innovation

Gambling for treatment: A rare disease profile of tuberous sclerosis

Posted on May 4, 2012 by John-Novack — 5 Comments ↓

By Marlo Schepper Grolnic When I was 41 weeks pregnant, after what was supposed to be a routine ultrasound, my OB gave me the shocking news: my baby had a tumor in his heart. This tumor had a fancy name–a…

Tagged with: advocacy, children, healthcare, occupy healthcare, rare disease, tuberous sclerosis
Posted in Our Stories

Answer the call to save graduate medical education!

Posted on November 17, 2011 by RichmondDoc — No Comments ↓

At this moment, Congress is considering steep cuts to graduate medical education (GME) programs in the interest of balancing the budget. This is a classic short term answer: cutting funding to graduate medical education will reduce the number of physicians…

Tagged with: action, advocacy
Posted in healthcare, medical education