Monthly Archives: August 2009

An Interesting Case Study: Phantom Limb Pain

An Interesting Case Study: Phantom Limb Pain A few months ago I read an interesting article, Brain Games, in The New Yorker magazine. A few weeks ago, I saw the author, neuroscientist, VS Ramachandran, give a lecture, On Your Mind, on the fabulous website TED.com. In both, a featured topic was phantom limb pain. Phantom...

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Follow the Money

Things are getting seriously ugly as the health care reform debate moves forward. That’s because we have a President who is determined to actually DO something. What it is that he actually CAN do, remains to be seen. Conservative and GOP-backed think-tanks along with the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance industrial complex’s media, advertising arms and hired guns/lobbyists have...

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On Vacation!

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