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There is a measurable shift in patient health care, coming from the most unlikely of sources: the patients themselves. As costs rise, insurance premiums skyrocket (in the U.S.) and all other forms of allopathic medicine follow suit, patients have had to become savvy. The time-constraint imposed on physicians has come at a cost to both…
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Virtually everyone is plagued by guilt at times in their life, including the kind that can seem crippling if we let it. In talks I have given to parents of special needs children, invariably there would be someone in the audience who brings up the word “guilt” or “guilty” as a way of signaling how…
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When Autism Becomes Your Life-Calling My life calling is not one I would ever have chosen as a career following college. I am an advocate, writer, mentor, speaker and activist for families who have a child with autism. My path was chosen for me when my son was diagnosed with autism at 18 months. Our…
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Some time ago we received the worst kind of phone call anyone can get. My niece’s 13 month old son had died suddenly and inexplicably. Autopsy results were inconclusive so the ensuing “cause of death” was labeled SIDS. The problem was that no one in the family could believe there was not a valid reason…