75% of healthcare workers have used some form of alternative/complementary medicine as compared to 63% of Americans in non-healthcare fields. This is according to the National Health Interview Survey done in 2007, results being published in the Journal: Health Services Research. This is interesting to me as none of Dean's doctors ever suggested any type of complementary treatments to his chemo/radiation. Doctors and nurses are using this for themselves, however.
It is a reminder that we are responsible for our own health and healthcare, and must become knowledgeable consumers.
Another interesting news bit: the University of North Texas opened a strictly vegan cafeteria this year, the first mainstream university in the nation to do so, to provide for a student body whose tastes are growing increasingly diverse and to respond to an overwhelming student demand for meatless meals. This is great news.
Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.
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