Free Birth Control??

I recently read an article were a health group has come out saying that women should receive free birth control with health care reform. And one of the first comments from the story stated that conservatives would hate any type of mentally sound plan. I found this to be true from the politics you here on television. The right wants to end federally funded abortions, yet they do not want to help take care of the children after they are born. How are the mothers these children have been imposed on suppose to take care of them properly if they didn't want them in the first place. Where do our conservative counterparts stand ethically, when they have yet to address the full situation and not just one side or as Fox News likes to call it the other side of the story. I feel until both sides can come to some sort of agreement we will forever be in the battle of women's rights..which leads to my next point, how can a man decide what is best for a woman's body when he has no clue what they go through. But that is for another time.

Blowing the Whistle

So I've always wondered when someone decides to blow the whistle, what put them over as to why they did it. What did that person do to cause this to happen and more so how long had it been going on before they decided to act. What thoughts go through their heads and how do they come to the decision to call someone about it. For example, if you knew one of your coworkers was stealing office supplies for personal use would you call, or if they were stealing them for sell online would you get upset because you didn't think of it first. Would you try to go in on the business venture with them? Or blackmail them in the end, I think the same could be said for healthcare. On Grey's Anatomy, one of the doctors changed the medicine for a patient in a trial and was caught by another doctor. They were friends, but because they were both competing for the same position; he told the chief of staff about the incident hoping to get them pushed from the job opportunity. What ensued was the staff was upset that he told and he was not given the job in the end because of it. Was what he did ethical? Yes and no. Yes because by the other doctors actions she had pretty much caused the trial to not be considered valid anymore. And no because he told for the wrong reasons, not because of the trial but because he wanted the position and felt that telling would help him get the position. So what should he have done. In that case it's hard to say. But it always makes you wonder, when should someone blow the whistle?

Alternative Medicine

These days I feel like you can't go anywhere without some peddling the newest herbal remedy or energy bracelet

to keep you healthy. I always wondered if the people who believed in these remedies changed their mind about them when they finally got sick. Now I understand leading a healthy life, taking my vitamins and eating my veggie but what about when a cold or flu is caught, is being healthy enough. There are old wives tales and I've always wondered how many are true. The only one that I have tried is the chicken soup one and I will admit it did help a lot with keep my colds away.

For those who believe in non-western medical help. I've always wondered what do they think of our version of keeping people healthy? When someone is sick, we as westerners want to keep them alive and will probably do everything possible. But with others, do they think when someone is sick and it can't be cured do they accept the fate and leave it be?

According to Wikipedia: A witch doctor originally referred to a type of healer who treated ailments believed to be caused by witchcraft. It is currently used to refer to healers in some third world regions, who use traditional healing rather than contemporary medicine. In the first world it usually refers to chiropractors, homeopaths and faith healers.

In its original meaning, a witch doctor was emphatically not a witch himself but rather the person who had remedies to protect others against witchcraft.

As different as this sounds to be, someone out there swears buy this persons powers and follows their every word. So should we as westerners doubt their powers or embrace them for what they are. Another form of healing.