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Health and Wealth: How Your Finances Affect Your Health

Money is just pieces of paper or numbers on the account. But it reallt matters what you convert them into….

Knowledge is power

I’ll never tire of watching Schoolhouse Rock! As a kid in the 1970s, I looked forward to each episode as…

The line between radicalism and realism in healthcare

Is it possible to be too radical in one’s thinking when it comes to changing healthcare? I guess with most…

Money matters

In a recent Harvard Business Review article on solving the cost crisis in healthcare, the following was written: “Making matters…

Community empowerment

Last week, there was post on this website discussing how to create a community contagion. The point of the contagion…

Vilified and Coerced, Pain Patients Desperate

In no other medical field are patients subject to such vilification, suspicion, and coercion as in pain management.  Chronic pain…

National Pain Day

I resent that we pain patients are essentially being called liars by the anti-opioid brigade, as they refuse to believe…

Hi There Mr. Elephant–Let’s Talk about Health Stigma & Privilege

Part 1 of a 3-part series on health stigma and healthy privilege. This post has been kicking around in my…

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…