by Don Ingwerson Recently, many from Southern California traveled to Washington D. C. to visit with members of congress or their legislative staff members to discuss health care reform. I’m sure in the near future we will receive reports from these individuals and I will share their comments with you. In the meantime, you will find the following on the
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by Don Ingwerson Years ago, I had my office and car windows shot out because of community resistance to a school that I was closing. This created a fearful condition for me and for my family. As I tried to resolve this stressful situation, a painful and unbearable thumping in my head developed. I was able to handle it, as
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by Don Ingwerson As you know from previous blogs, GWish (George Washington University Institute of Spirituality and Health) has been at the forefront to promote the concept that spirituality is tied to health and is an important component to healing. I found this article from George Washington University Newswise to be especially interesting because it details a recent conference in
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by Don Ingwerson This post was originally posted July 30, 2012 Early in life, I discovered the importance and the relationship between health and performance. While in the military, I worked in a chapel located where all new recruits in that region were sent to do basic training. As the chaplain’s assistant, I saw their loneliness first hand and often
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by Don Ingwerson People are discussing health everywhere – in the grocery store checkout lines, at friendly gatherings, on the news, and through advertising. Christian Scientists have a different perspective on health and joining the conversations around you can raise thought and give a cup of cold water to someone who is searching for health! The information in this blog
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by Don Ingwerson In January I posted a blog on previous Templeton Prize winners – people who have affirmed life’s spiritual dimension – and wondered who the 2013 Templeton Prize winner would be. Well, the new winner was awarded April 4 to Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, for his life-long work in advancing spiritual
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By Don Ingwerson I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Neil Wenger, Director of UCLA’s Health System Ethics Center, by phone about his highly regarded opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times, “When CPR Isn’t the Right Medicine.” One clear message Dr. Wenger gave in his conversation and in the article was that each person needs to be an
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by Don Ingwerson Each Thursday, I present information about legislative items to keep you informed. I wanted to share with you a new biweekly column in the Sacramento Bee on answering questions about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which contains a mandate for most everyone to have insurance by January 1, 2014 or pay a fine. Emily Bazar,
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by Don Ingwerson When the subject of placebos enters into the conversation, what’s the perception? That the brain can fool the body? That doctors sometimes use it to convince the patient that a substance or pill will change the existing conditions of the body? Are there ethics guiding the use of placebos? The 60 Minutes interview concerning placebos brought to
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by Don Ingwerson “Mindfulness Meeting This Way” proclaimed a small sign at the entrance of one of the many medical buildings on the UCLA Campus – and suddenly I felt invigorated. I was not there to attend a mindfulness meeting, but to interview the GWish (George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health) project director, Dr. Margaret Stuber, about a Templeton-funded
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