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‘The American Nurse’: Five Health Care Workers

WEBJason Short, a home health nurse in Appalachia, has found in nursing a way through judging himself. As he puts it — and as the film reveals in photos of a longhaired kid, mugging like a monster

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Dr. Golem: How to Think About Medicine by Harry Collins …

WEBThe medical establishment has become a major threat to health. — Ivan Illich. In 1975, Ivan Illich radically claimed that medicine had become its (our) own nemesis.

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Better by Atul Gawande, MD PopMatters

WEBPopMatters Staff. / 4 April 2007. Near the end of Better, Atul Gawande takes us inside a pediatrician’s office. And like the rest of the book, the context is well researched, but it’s the

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‘Forks Over Knives’ Is About Bucking a System PopMatters

WEBIt begins with a montage of news reports reminding you that the United States is in the midst of a “massive health crisis,” with some 40% of the population overweight and diet-related health

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Ghost Light: The Healing (Album Review)

WEBGhost Light's guitar-driven '70s rock sound on 'The Healing' dazzles the senses, thanks to extra psychedelia. The creative electricity is evident in each song.

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Susan Tedeschi’s Blues Still Won’t Burn

WEBJust Won’t Burn ‘s title track is more of a vintage-sounding tune in the classic blues form, with lyrics that attest to the enduring staying power of the blues. “The song is basically about

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Body Image Horror 'Shapeless' Explores the Anorexic …

WEB4 November 2021 (Raindance) Director Samantha Aldana’s Shapeless (2021), co-written by its lead actress Kelly Murtagh and Bryce Parsons-Twesten, is a confrontational work. Based on Murtagh’s

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AIDS Play ‘The Normal Heart’ Is a Guide During COVID-19 …

WEBThe lessons of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart are as pertinent now, while the world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic and an indifferent presidential administration, at best, as they were during

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Kobayashi's The Human Condition Remains Bleak and …

WEBMasaki Kobayashi's nine-hour epic, 'The Human Condition', is a Sisyphean journey through WWII-era Japan.

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Better Living Through Therapy: Six Feet Under’s “The Plan”

WEBThe opening shot of “The Plan” is a man packing the trunk of a car in preparation for a trip. A dog barks off screen. The man tells his wife, also off screen, not to forget the dog. The scene

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Connie Smith: The Cry of the Heart (Album Review)

WEBOn the new album The Cry of the Heart, Smith revisits classic Nashville while showing off an unexpectedly sharp voice with a series of smart and memorable tunes. The sound of Smith’s album

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Nu Shooz on Bringing the ’80s Back for COVID-19 Relief

WEBNu Shooz, the duo of Valerie Day and John Smith, discuss participating in the '80s virtual concert Back to the Basement, airing this Saturday.

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Eric Holt-Giménez: A FOoodie's Guide to Capitalism interview

WEBOctober 2017. When people talk about the food system being “broken”, Eric Holt-Gimenez is quick to correct them. There’s nothing broken about the food system, says the executive director of

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Sci-fi/Fantasy Writer Elizabeth Bear on Diversity, Mental Health, …

WEBImage by Aaron Olson from Pixabay. In the Synarche, public services like health care are provided for everyone, and medical innovations that have caused controversy in our own century – mood

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Parallels of HIV/AIDS in Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels in

WEBThe Y2K anxiety around the turn of the calendar on 31 December 1999 seemed to come to nothing when the sky didn't cave in on 1 January 2000.

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Changed by Circumstances: An Interview with A.J. Croce

WEBIndeed, A.J. gives us music with layers, angles, depths, and sparks of light. He tosses in some authentic-feeling strides while exuding his showmanship ability to lead not by caper or stunt but by

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32 Films That Begin With Leaving a Mental Institution

WEB4. A Bill of Divorcement (dir. George Cukor, 1932) John Barrymore plays WWI veteran Hilary Fairfield, returning home “like a lost child” after 15 years in a mental institution. Discovering his

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Better Times: Remembering Jonathan Brandis PopMatters

WEBTO2B, the MSN Group set up in 2001 for fans to discuss the actor and his career. When Elise posted her comments on the 17th, the actor had been dead for five days. Jonathan Brandis died at Cedars

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