The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When it comes down to the last weeks and days of an excruciating dying process, it’s all about options. If I am terminally ill, determined by my physician to be within six months of dying from an incurable…
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For anyone facing surgery, the possibility of pain looms large. Imagine back to a time when options for “anesthesia” were limited to alcohol or the danger of opium. When a Boston dentist demonstrated the “power of ether” back in 1846 at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Jospeh Warren – a well-respected surgeon…
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With the election just three weeks away, I started thinking about the last presidential election and discovered that I had not added those results to our “elections” page. I’ll put them there now, but here they are in case you’re interested: 2008 Election Results In Massachusetts in 2008, the presidential…
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