Lt. Jason Redman is a Navy SEAL who was wounded in Iraq in 2007 and faced a years long rehabilitation. As he was recovering, he founded the non-profit organization Wounded Wear to aid other military personnel injured in battle. While Lt. Redman was in Bethesda Naval Hospital, he was awarded the Purple Heart by then Continue Reading
Navy SEAL Lt. Jason Redman was seriously wounded in the left arm and right face while on a mission in Iraq in 2007. During his recovery in Bethesda Naval hospital he posted a now famous, hand-lettered orange sign outside of his hospital door directing all visitors who felt pity for his plight to go elsewhere. Continue Reading
Where are you from? Quite possibly I was once younger than 18. I have vague memories of going to public school. It is equally possible, however, that those memories were implanted by a giant computer Matrix during time I spent in an ooze-filled vat, before taking the red pill. What did you major in in Continue Reading
Joseph Zuckerman, MD is a practicing orthopedic surgeon and Chair of Orthopedic Surgery at the Hospital for Joint Diseases at New York University in Manhattan. Earlier this fall President Obama made a comment that surgeons were responsible in part for increasing costs of healthcare by performing procedures that were not indicated, for instance leg amputations. Continue Reading
Jan Henderson is a medical historian who blogs at The Health Culture. This the last of a three part interview with her. Do you support the Obama healthcare program? It’s a first step. I think it’s important and historic that Congress was able to pass any legislation at all. Shortly before it passed, I saw Continue Reading
Jan Henderson, PhD, is a Harvard-trained mathematician and Yale-trained medical historian. She shares some of her thinking about healthcare in America in the second part of a three-part interview below. Which medical journals do you read regularly? I read the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. NEJM has Continue Reading
Jan Henderson is a medical historian and the editor of the thoughtful, well-written blog The Health Culture. We recently had a chance to get her thoughts on some of the ongoing developments in medical blogging and the healthcare delivery system. Where are you from? I was born outside Boston, but lived in California until college, Continue Reading
Pete Combs received his cooking training at the Culinary Institue of America and is the Executive Chef at the University of Kentucky/Chandler Medical Center. We recently met with him to get his thoughts on hospital food and other items. Where are you from? I was born in Pt. Pleasant, New Jersey. My parents then moved Continue Reading
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