Cannot Buy It
This is an essay about what you cannot buy at a store or anyplace else. Faith Hurtado (14) and Bob Howitt (considerably older) wrote alternating sentences about the capitalized words. RESPECT can’t be bought but is earned and not always deserved. Nobody can buy PASSION because it is something that is within a person. ANIMALS, although […]
LOVE
“Let’s have lunch at Brewpub.” When a woman who loves you makes a restaurant suggestion, you oblige without hesitation. It does not matter whether you have driven three miles or three hundred to reconnect after a lengthy period of being out of touch. So we got in my car and drove the five minutes to […]
Portals and Moral Injury
Portals and Moral Injury It was inevitable. When my local physical therapy company was sold to MegaTherapy, Inc., the first order of business was a requirement that I fill out a patient portal. So now I will vent. Could somebody demonstrate how the corporatization of healthcare, here represented by information portals, has contributed to patients […]