Over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020, leaving loved ones struggling with their unexpected death. Learn more about the complicated grief that follows, and ways to move past the stigma, blame, isolation, and shame that may come with their...
How do we balance risk and still live a productive - even exciting - life? David shares his perspective on how he applies his risk model from his professional and recreational life to the COVID pandemic.
Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead - has beautiful traditions to honor and remember the dead. We talk about beliefs, foods, drinks, and how to make an ofrenda or altar to celebrate loved ones.
As COVID-19 marches onward, we are discovering there is a surprising subset of young, healthy people who can also get very sick, or have mild initial symptoms, but have long-term effects. The people who also were hospitalized have long recoveries, due to the ravages of COVID, the body's immune...
This virus does not care whether you believe or not. The virus doesn’t care about your party affiliation. The only way to get our lives back, and get our economy back, is if we work as responsible citizens to defeat the murderer at the door.
From vaccines to cancer treatment, any new drugs go through rigorous testing called Clinical Trials before they are approved. Learn about what clinical trials are and how we benefit.
He then stops eating and drinking, is admitted to the hospital for dehydration, and returns to the Hospice care facility. He is still refusing to eat or drink and is now on his ninth day. As a family member, what are you supposed to do?
Adaptation is something humans that survive become very good at. We must adapt so that we can survive and live the best life that we can. Despite the reason for our needing to adapt to a new normal as well as those situations where we were fine with the old normal, (thank you very much!) the rules...
What’s all this fuss about COVID-19? Spoiler alert: COVID-19 is not a flu. In this podcast we will discuss the reasons why. We also have an eclectic array of stories for our other segments and learn some new (creepy!) words like Endocannibalism and Anthropodermic Bibliopegy.
We hear all sorts of opinions about opening our economy now…. after all, say some, COVID-19 is just a flu, and we don’t shut the world down for the flu. Do we really need to close business, stay at home and cancel our travel plans? Doesn’t this seem to be a hysterical, over-the-top response so...