Modern medicine has given illness care a miss

The quote below is one of the many brilliant sayings of that great brain, Sir William Osler. “One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicines.” Continue reading

New meaning is gradually born….

I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going thorough a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself, while something else, still indistinct, were arising from the rubble. Continue reading

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

All this talk about “stimulus packages” and “bailouts”…

billion dollars…

hundred billion dollars…

Eight hundred billion dollars…

One TRILLION dollars…

What does that look like? Continue reading