In April 2020, 72 percent of Americans trusted physicians and hospitals. That number fell to just 40 percent by January of 2024. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic is to blame. After years of lockdowns and mandates, less than half of Americans trust their medical system.
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As a mother, I’ve always tried to do what’s best for my children. I trusted our pediatrician implicitly, believing that his advice was rooted in unquestionable medical expertise. However, the events of 2020 forced me to confront some uncomfortable truths about the medical care my children had been receiving. For years, I accepted without question
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. —Viktor Frankl Are human beings primarily motivated by sex and power? The first two great psychoanalytic schools, one founded by Sigmund Freud and the other
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The US Surgeon General, Dr Vivek Murthy, just issued an official advisory warning against the stressful nature of parenting and labelling it “an urgent public health issue.” The document says Surgeon General Advisories “require the nation’s immediate awareness and action.” So, according to the Surgeon General, what exactly is the urgent issue and what immediate actions should be
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The noon sun beamed high in the sky as I began warming up my daughter’s team in the outfield grass. It was the start of another 12U softball Saturday in the Chicago suburbs. As I lined up the girls, I watched our head coach pull up in his minivan about 15 minutes late for warm-ups.
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Violence hangs over the 2024 election. Well before the botched assassination of President Trump, half of the country already expected to see a civil war within the next few years. Riots have become commonplace—as have outbursts of the oldest form of hate. But in a sense, none of this is surprising. It is the natural
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