National Trends

 Psychiatry is well known today for its deceptive, drug company induced marketing. Sadly to say too many real patients are lost in big drug company plans to shoot them up with drugs, many of which have horrid side effects and many of which actually affect honest real change in a patient’s well being. Below I encourage you all to listen to NPR’s interview with one doctor that well illustrates this sad but true practice. Read more »

Politics and profanity are nothing new but it a new book has recently come out studying the politics of profanity not only in politics but business and society. The NPR story below is a great taste of it.

No one doubts that smoking is not a healthy enterprise for smokers just as eating big mac's every day is equally unhealthy. No one doubts that smoking is unhealthy for those around smokers for extended periods of time. But it is just as unhealthy for innocent people to breathe ever increasingly pungent pollution from cars and factories. It is equally unhealthy and possibly deadly to drive on roads where freely drinking drunk drivers drive. It is equally unhealthy to everyone that fast food almost solely promotes eating unhealthy food without a choice. Read more »

America is, in many ways, a great nation. There is no question, our nation has it's perks and it's greatness in the face of history and place in the world today. We as a people share a lot of things other peoples might only dream of. But, that does not mean America is necessarily a perfect state free of all malignant vestiges of arrogance, greed and just plain fool hearted stupidity. America today, faces a great paradox between democracy and cancerous rogue rule of law. Read more »