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Food for Thought: Become Your Own Best Doctor

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by Dr. Dave Schemberger

There are times when we all need a good doctor to fix some problem like a broken arm or a serious infection, but the best doctor to guarantee optimum health and long life is in our own hands and minds. Over the past hundred years, we have surrendered our responsibility for good health to an elite group of medical professionals. I will admit these professionals have made some great advances, but many of us now live in fear that without a doctor, a hospital, or an insurance policy we are sure to succumb to some dreadful disease.

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Who’s Leading?

by Eudemon

Eudemon found an obscure record with William Burroughs, John Giorno, and Laurie posing on the cover. He lined up to have her sign the album. She sat at a low table, resulting in the supplicants having to kneel to have her sign. Eudemon knelt and asked her about the lyrics of a song as she drew a bubble circle over Burrough’s head. “Hi,” she made him say. “What did ‘Milwaukee, Big dogs!’ mean?”

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Art as Band Aid

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by Judith Ann Moriarty

Who in their right mind really believes that the arts will reduce crime rates, keep our neighborhoods intact, solve environmental issues, bring nations together, prevent teen pregnancies, or do anything other than provide a transient moment between the viewer and that which the artist has produced? Well, lots of folks, it seems, for art has for many years been cast in the role of easing all manner of ills, both social and otherwise.

Posted inMusic & Events

Making Healthcare a Right

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“Making Health Care A Right,” a talk by Kathryn Hall, founder of the Birthing Project, www.birthingprojectusa.com, and a leading organizer and motivator concerning healthcare disparities and how to remedy them, will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 7pm, at Centennial Hall, 733 N. 8th Street, in the main Milwaukee Public Library.

Posted inNeighborhood News

Not Your Everyday Health Fair

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Imagine a health fair where you really learn about health. Where the guy who looks like a heart attack waiting to happen gasps, grabs his arm, and falls to the ground. As the paramedics dash up and start working on him, a woman in a white lab coat addresses the gathering crowd, talking about heart attacks, what causes them, how modern medicine deals with them, how to prevent them. That would get your attention, wouldn’t it?