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Before summer’s out, we’ll repeal/replace Obamacare w/ system based on personal responsibility, free-market competition & state-based reform pic.twitter.com/JzCyxX9kJb This tweet has recently come to my attention from our vice-president as part of the dialogue on...
Even in Brokenness There is Beauty
I work up close and personal with disability every day. When people found I was going into child neurology their first question was often, “why?” I often hear about how it’s too sad or too depressing. Fellow physicians struggle with the fact that there often isn’t...
Becoming whole
In the medical field and the scientific world in general we are moving away from the idea of a mind separate from our body or brain. In general there are some real benefits to this conceptualization. For example, take the thorny issue of addiction. Traditionally...
Book Review: Ezra and Hadassah: A Portrait of American Royalty
Ezra and Hadassah: A Portrait of American Royalty is the gripping account of author Heather Young’s tumultuous childhood at the abusive hands of those into whose care she was entrusted, both her foster and Latter-day Saint adoptive parents. With remarkable courage,...
Life interrupted
Trigger Warning-death of a child As a pediatric neurologist I am called upon to witness more than my fair share of tragedy. I have seen near drownings, child abuse, horrific brain infections that have left children devastated. It is without a doubt the most heart...LGBTQ Mormon Crisis
Two Printable handout for bishops and stake presidents that talks empirically about LGBTQ suicides:
The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide
Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis
The Barker Brothers’ Projects
These videos were created for Latter-day Saint parents and allies to voice their love for their LGBT brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. They want to give a message of comfort and support to other parents who are navigating the difficult conflicts that can arise in families around this issue.
“Cogito!” (“I think!”) follows the intellectual adventures of a recovering academic outside the walls of academia.
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