Former VP Dick Cheney recently announced that having suffered five heart attacks, he is interested in a heart transplant. I offer my best wishes for success—and for multiple reasons. In addition to prolonging his life, should his operation occur it will focus attention on reforming our thinking regarding organ transplants. This issue is economically and […]

Here is a story well known, but worth reviewing and appreciating. It’s one to share as environmental concerns grow. Its implications are increasingly important. Essentially, in ecology as in economics, many actions and beliefs are interdependent. It’s difficult to do one thing that doesn’t affect others. This has major ethical as well as environmental implications. […]

I have decided to devote my first Health Alert of the New Year to “tolerance” and “rational thought” — terms that are rarely conjoined. The next time you are in an argument with someone over a public policy, stop and ask yourself: Can you summarize your opponent’s position in words that he would recognize and […]

Janus is the Roman god of beginnings and endings, comings and goings, and time. As we enter January 2011, we sense that time is speeding up. Perhaps this feeling is a sign of age, but likely it is related to the increased connectivity of our lives. The word “surge” has, well, surged to popularity in […]