I’m so excited today about surprising Sandy with a Thunderbird, our dream car. Even though we both agreed to get this car for our tenth anniversary, I’m driving to Harrisburg to pick it up a week early. Boy will she be surprised, I can’t wait to see the expression on her face. I think I’ll […]
From Trauma to Healing: a Love Story
A few months ago I wrote a commentary for the Philadelphia Inquirer in reaction to the news that some Boy Scout leaders have been abusing children. The news hit close to home, because my own scout leader and seventh grade teacher had sexually abused me all those years ago. In writing the commentary, I hoped […]
On Healing 3/31/2008: Building doctors’ emotional link to patients
In a recent column I described my experience dealing with a severe illness in a health care system that was often devoid of the compassion I needed but rarely received. Many of the doctors were probably very kind and caring people who had the compassion stripped away – first by unreasonably demanding training and then […]
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