Monday, July 30, 2007

Haiti is Number One Again

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that nearly 80% of cervical cancer c...
Friday, July 27, 2007

Mauricio Accepted !

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Good news!! Mauricio, the seven month old baby boy in Port-au-Prince with congenital heart disease, was accepted yesterday into a major chil...
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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Luke and OSF

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As documented in previous posts, our four year old son Luke has been intermittently urinating blood. With a sonogram, we found that he has a...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

Common Good

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The common good may be defined as the sum total of those conditions of social living whereby citizens are enabled more fully and more readil...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Mud Pies in Soleil

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The incidence of childhood obesity is rapidly rising throughout the resource-rich world. In just two decades, the prevalence of overweight d...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Physician as Witness

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At the end of Camus' The Plague , the main character--a physician named Rieux--reflects on his role throughout the plague epidemic. He r...

Charity Assistance at OSF

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The OSF Healthcare system has a site on www.osfhealthcare.org. It is signed by "The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis". Th...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

Catholics, Capitalism, and the Gold Shovel

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Several days ago in Peoria, OSF broke ground for its new $234 million dollar hospital expansion. (The article and comments that appeared in ...
Friday, July 13, 2007

The Leavings of the Powerful

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My reading of “basic health care” ethics continues: “In our contemporary world, there are two predominant views about the relation of a pers...
Monday, July 09, 2007

Human Dignity

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“The root cause of all unjust discrimination is the failure to understand that human dignity is not based on physical or mental health, any ...

Ethics 101

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Yesterday morning I spent some time in the OSF-SFMC medical library catching up on some journals. The library is a quiet peaceful place on S...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Dishonesty in the Diocese

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The July 1, 2007 issue of The Catholic Post in Peoria has an article: “Bishop Reestablishes Diocesan Health Care Committee”. The article beg...
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Luke--Part III

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Luke’s OSF Bill I received Luke’s itemized bill from OSF a couple of days ago. The bill was for his outpatient tests done on June 15, 2007 i...

Once You See It, You Cannot Unsee It...by Tanya Sneed

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why why is it i wonder a child's problem to figure out how to survive the streets why do adults like me let children sleep there why do...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Haiti, Sickle Cell Anemia, and Vaccination

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Haiti is plagued by sickle cell anemia. The majority of Haitians are black. Sickle cell anemia is a disease that, for the most part, afflict...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

A Byte Out of Poverty

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Peoria Journal Star Tuesday, June 19, 2007 "Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries a...
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Monday, June 18, 2007

The Cuban Experience

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“It is increasingly rare for many of us to believe that people can be poor, but honest; poor, but deserving of respect. Poverty is no longer...
Saturday, June 16, 2007

Luke--Part 2

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Luke underwent his tests yesterday at OSF in Peoria. The tests reveal that he has a large kidney stone in his right kidney that will need to...

Haitian has Heart Surgery at Provena St. Joseph

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Marie Amazan, a 24 year old Haitian Hearts patient, received two new heart valves at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Illinois. ...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Haiti and Cuba--So Close, Yet So Far

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Haiti and Cuba are separated by 90 miles of water. Their geographic proximity is close, but the health of their people could hardly be furth...
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