There comes a time in the career of a healthcare professional when making a living should come second to doing the right thing for the patient. That time passed with the opioid crisis and the doctor and the pharmacist failed miserably. While heroin and fentanyl are the primary killers now, the epidemic will not stop unless Continue Reading
A few years ago my wife started doing the crossword puzzles in the National Post and in the Globe and Mail on the week-end. I must admit, she very rarely finished the puzzles correctly but left the empty spaces if she did not know the answers. My nature is to finish, so of course, I Continue Reading
This book is by my daughter, AVIVA RUBIN, and is an excerpt from the last chapter. Cancer can leave the body but eliminating it from the mind is an ongoing job. “It’s time for cancer to step away, but it won’t leave the building. It’s hanging around begging me to play mind games. Sometimes (at least three Continue Reading
The world is finally taking the problems associated with warming and pollution seriously. In December 2014, 78% of respondents to a large global survey by Ipsos agreed with the statement ” In the future, renewable energy sources will be fully able to replace fossil fuels ” In my opinion Uranium and Nuclear energy are renewables. Mankind Continue Reading
The Jewish people throughout written history and well before, have always felt insecure and this insecurity is reflected in their jokes. They are great story tellers and in so many cases they are the butt of their own jokes. To illustrate this idea I have chosen some jokes that illustrate this point. Two Jews took lessons Continue Reading
When I was a thirteen year old in the 1940`s we rented a basement apartment to a homosexual. It was my first experience in seeing a person who did not live his sexual life in a traditional way and he had many visitors , usually young men. It was a time when men did not come out Continue Reading