When healers are replaced with bureaucrats

… it can become ridiculously hard to get help.

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Book review: A Special Mother Is Born

Gerard Nadal writes: This book addresses one of the burning issues of our day. With prenatal diagnostics leading to the abortions of the less-than-perfect among us, with parents who are frightened into paralysis by these diagnoses and a medical establishment increasingly surrendering to the cowardice of eugenics, over thirty mothers and three fathers of special [...]

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Dakotas doing well

John Hinderaker shares good news out of North and South Dakota. (If for no other reason, follow the link to take a look at the photos of a children’s hospital built to look like a castle.) hat tip: Jack Niewold (Facebook)

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Washable ties…

… seem to be catching on thanks to an innovative company in North Carolina. (This is good for hospital settings, amongst other things.) Even if you’re not a fan of ties, it’s an interesting story about a family with a drive for excellence, and a desire to build a regional industry.

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Countries without abortion…

… are also the safest for mothers. Hats off to Chile, Poland, and Ireland. Well done. (If you haven’t watched the video embedded in the above-linked Thomas Peters’ post, I suggest you take a couple of minutes and watch. Delightful ads.)

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Boy Scouts in Libya…

… rise to the occasion.

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7 Quick Takes Friday

I haven’t participated in Conversion Diary’s 7 Quick Takes Friday in while. But here goes: 1. While hanging around a Catholic hospital’s emergency room earlier this week, I saw on the wall a cross with Jesus on it, but Jesus was oversized for the cross, was fully robed, and wasn’t nailed to the cross. His [...]

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Toddler survival story

How about some good news? How about a little boy who survived after about 25 minutes under water? More than survived, actually. He’s back to keeping his family hopping. (He’s two. He hasn’t learned the fear thing yet.) For two days, he didn’t show brain activity, but doctors didn’t give up. They used an experimental [...]

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Cracked crystal ball update

Our friend who was in a coma a couple/three months ago, with his parents standing between him and medical experts who thought it would be best to “pull the plug”, moved home earlier this month. The last we’d heard before yesterday was that two of the biggest problems his parents were having were, one, that he was [...]

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Crystal balls aren’t what they’re cracked up to be

A few weeks ago we heard that a young man we know was in a horrible road accident and although he was still alive, in a hospital a few hours from here, there was no hope of him surviving. A while after that, we heard that he’d survived but was in a coma and the doctors [...]

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