Health and pain in the 21st century

I’m in a lot of pain at the moment. One of the reasons I’ve seemingly disappeared off the face of the planet. I haven’t had a chance to check all my personal and work emails, which now stand with over 1000 unread mails (not because people love me, but because I have tonnes of Bacn […]

Filed under: Decision Theory, Ideas, Medicine, Science by Andrew la Grange
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All I want is a chat with my President

During the Great Depression, and afterwards during the New Deal (which could be argued was pretty depressing for many) Franklin Roosevelt spoke to the American people with the so-called ‘Fireside chats’.  I think that sort of direct passive communication between the leader of a nation and its citizens is a good thing.
Thabo Mbeki may […]

Filed under: Business, Commentary, Corruption, Crime, Economy, Education, Ideas, Language, Law, Medicine, Politics, Rant, Society, ethics, work by Andrew la Grange
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Speaking the truth about mental health

I’m no Scientologist when it comes to modern mental healthcare. I believe that medicines should be used to treat mental illness when necessary.
But I do believe that an industry of prescription has developed where ever widening groups of the populace are being drugged with mood altering chemicals at their own insistence. Everyone today knows […]

Filed under: Ideas, Medicine, Society, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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