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If you are sent to live on the streets, it is for most people the same as being sent, without a mouth guard or helmet, into a boxing ring. A ring where the gong never sounds and there’s no rope to mark the place where someone could take a swing and blow out your eye […] Restaurant reviewer? Who, ME? The whole restaurant “evaluation” (yes, I did in fact just make air quotes with my fingers) is overwhelming to me – the analyzing, assessing, comparing, deciphering flavors, and parsing panache – that’s way outside my job description. Heck, I can scan a lab report faster than a menu. In fact, the […] This is one in a series of articles, running the 5 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, Hidden in plain sight: dying […] Both gratitude and altruism are good for your health and there’s nothing like giving a gift to a homeless person to help you experience both. Her are some easy, practical, cheap ways to be selfish and give a gift to a homless person. This time of year, no matter what your worldview, religion or culture, […] I’m en route to Haiti at the moment. Here are a sample of tweets (twitter posts) from the bus between Port-Au-Prince and Gonaives where we will be providing medical care in a remote mountain location that is housing refugees from the earthquake but that hasn’t had medical care at all yet. Just drove past tiny, […] How would you define the experience of truly engaging in healthcare issues online? For Regina Holliday , that moment was when her husband was diagnosed with kidney cancer. She found ePatient Dave online, and within hours he responded to her with information, referrals and advice on navigating an unresponsive system. Her husband, unfortunately, became sicker […] |
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