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Binocular Vision as an Example for Politicians

April 13, 2017 Dr. Judy Cook Leave a comment

I watch the news, watch people interact, and watch our political parties hammer at each other, and wonder if there can’t be a better approach. Observations of vision after recent cataract surgery have inspired a suggestion. While constantly checking out vision in each eye, it became apparent that the vision in BOTH eyes was a little fuzzy, and yet with

When Will the Medical Field Start Responding Appropriately to Mental Issues?

April 13, 2017 Dr. Judy Cook Leave a comment

Having just read an article on Medscape titled “Nonpsych Hospitalizations Risky for Those with Mental Illness” I am nothing short of enraged. It is not the content of the article that enrages me as much as why the problem exists. Yes, mentally Ill patients have higher mortality, more complications, more untoward events and higher death rates. As someone with 40

Why we MUST Eliminate the Stigma of Mental Illness and Work to Prevent It

April 13, 2017 Dr. Judy Cook One comment

What Is Mental Illness – With all of our marvelous diagnosis and treatment of diseases like brain tumors and strokes and syphilis and other infections and endocrine disorders that used to be causes of ‘insanity’, and with all the hundreds of different medications that all provide the ‘magical cure’ for our ‘crazy people’, – how can it be that our

Training in Relationships and Sex for our kids

April 13, 2017 Dr. Judy Cook 2 comments

In Reply to Richard Branson’s comment that kids should get age appropriate sex and relationship education in the schools as mandatory info: Kids are not born knowing the social ‘rules’ for how to get along with each other, although they are born with normal drives to eat, breathe, move around in the world and reproduce. Todays kids have sex thrown

Roswell and The Alien Within

April 13, 2017 Dr. Judy Cook Leave a comment

I am struck by the irony of the recent tragic shooting event in Roswell, NM. Roswell has long been focused on the aliens from outer space and all the associated evils. Yet on Jan 14, 2014 a 12 y/o boy, described by others as ‘a nice boy’, a young man who was in band, who apologized to a classmate after

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