Health Care, Health Ethics

	"We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health." M. Scott Peck

Reflections on Health

• The Future of Healthcare
  The long-term solution to America's healthcare crisis requires a shift in our nation's values, not just its resources. It is not coincidence that heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in our country.
  
  
• The Country Club / Conference Center of the Future
  A description of BALANCE at its original inception in 1993 - an idea still waiting to happen. Want to join with me in creating it?
  
  
• Preventing Medicine
  My original letter sent to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (1995), asking hospitals to become wellness centers instead of just disease centers, suggesting that they add fitness centers, behavior change programs and evidence based primary preventive medicine techniques borrowed from other cultures, such as meditation, Tai Chi, and yoga.
  
  
• Campus Wellness Program ©
  Promoting Healthy Lifestyle and Public Health to Teens & Young Adults
  
  
• Personalized Wellness: Taking Charge of Your Health
  Most college wellness textbooks are written by physical education experts, and focus on fitness and nutrition. This textbook is being written with a more comprehensive and balanced approach. There are six important areas of wellness, and starting on any of them will eventually lead you to all them - they are shared paths.
  
  
• The Truth Mystery Series
  A work in progress, this section is an overview of the 24 books in The Truth Mystery Series, a series of fiction books that center around a Bombay cat named Truth, her owner, a holistic health practitioner in a Mid-Atlantic rural town, and the interesting and enlightening adventures of her family, friends and clients.
  
  
• Same Game .... Different Names
  Multi Level Marketing, Network Marketing, Relationship Marketing, Dual Marketing .... Amway, Quixtar, Una Vera, Oasis, Mary Kay, the list goes on and on ... Different Names, Same Games -- How to exploit your family, friends, neighbors, dates and co-workers for your own personal and financial gain. Please, let's work together to stop this abusive business practice called "direct sales" that circumvents personal integrity, ethics and morals in the name of selfish money making.
  
  
• Wolfram Syndrome
  During my brief stay in Silicon Valley, I was a life coach for a child living with the progressive neurodegenerative disease Wolfram Syndrome, also known as DIDMOAD (Diabetes Insipidus, Diabetes Melitus, Optic Atrophy and Deafness).
  
  

Contact Information:

sharedpaths@yahoo.com