Extracting Riches from Time
In Houston waiting for the flight to Pittsburgh now 4 minutes late. Plane pulls up to the gate. Me: “oh good, the plan is here!” Everyone around me: ” grumble grumble late grumble grumble”
Perspective people, perspective. You are all blessed with the freedom and income to travel. Unfortunately complaining and bad attitudes seem to be included.
I have learned so much from those who have fewer material goods than I do, but whom are far richer in extracting the most from each moment in life.
(Source: Mr. Hassle's Long Underpants)
Source: Mr. Hassle's Long Underpants - September 28, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doc Shazam Tags: Honduras Life Source Type: blogs
Lights, Stethoscope, Action!
Safely arrived in Honduras, met our transportation to the village, saw many old friends already, it almost feels like home.
The Sun is setting, the breeze is cool, the kids at everywhere, the meal was great, the parrots are chirping and the strangest thing is there are lights coming on in the village.
2 years ago there was no electricity here at all, then all of a sudden electric poles went up, now lines and lights.
We have seen one patient already, a boy with a leg infection from a motorcycle accident. (Source: Mr. Hassle's Long Underpants)
Source: Mr. Hassle's Long Underpants - September 22, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doc Shazam Tags: Clinical Honduras Source Type: blogs
Los Angeles Dental Students take Carestream Dental Equipment to a Community that Needs it Most
ATLANTA—According to the World Health Organization, Honduras has only two dentists per 10,000 people; the United States has eight times that number. To address this need for dental professionals, Carestream Dental recently loaned an RVG intraoral digital imaging system to members of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) Philanthropy Committee, comprised of University of California, Los Angeles dental students, for their 2014 dental mission trips to Guaimaca, Honduras. Four fourth year dental students; three third year dental students; four pre-dental students; and two UCLA faculty—one periodontist and...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - August 19, 2014 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
“Give me your tired, your poor…”
The rapid influx of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the last few months has spurred a national conversation regarding the United States’ role in offering refuge to these children, the majority of whom are fleeing widespread gang violence and delinquency in their home countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. A key talking point for some in the debate has become the supposed threat to public health that these children pose.
Pundits and politicians, from city councils to the U.S. Congress, have latched on to the alarmist claim that immigrant children are carrying diseases with t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 1, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy Consumer Health Care Disparities Global Health Policy Politics Publc Health Source Type: blogs
House Border Bill Would Treat Children Worse than Adults
Alex Nowrasteh
After much debate, the House finally rolled out its version of a supplemental appropriations bill to deal with the surge of unaccompanied children (UAC) entering the United States. The bill would treat Mexican and Central American UAC equally under the law - meaning they all would have fewer due process protections than many adults.
1. Interviews: The bill would treat Central Americans the same as how Mexican children are already treated. But Mexican children are subject to fewer due process protections than adults in two ways. First, apprehended adults ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 30, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
DACA Did Not Cause the Surge in Unaccompanied Children
Alex Nowrasteh
In June, 2012 the Obama Administration announced that it had authored a memo deferring the deportation of unauthorized immigrant childhood arrivals in the United States, a program known as deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA). The memo directed then Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to practice prosecutorial discretion toward a small number of unauthorized immigrants who fulfilled a specific set of characteristics. In essence, some unauthorized immigrants who had come to the United States as children were able to legally stay and work–at least temporarily.
Did DAC...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 29, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Border Crisis: Fictions v. Facts (Part 2 of “Children from Central America”)
Despite extensive media coverage, there is probably much that you don’t know about the history of the border crisis—and what we can or should do in response. Too often the headlines are designed to stir passions, rather than inform.
At the end of next week, Congress will leave for its five-week August Recess. Between now and then legislators will be debating the issues, and no doubt many of your friends will be taking positions.
Here are the facts you need when weighing what you hear–whether on television or at a neighbor’s barbecue.
Are you aware that since President Obama took office, it has become...
Source: Health Beat - July 26, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: unaccompanied children border Border Crisis Central America illegal immigrants Immigration Reform National Guard Obama and border crisis refugees August recess Congress El Salvador Guatemala Honduras rape Vox Source Type: blogs
Children from Central America Surge Across Our Border: Congress Must Now Decide Whether to Change the Immigration Law that George W. Bush Signed in 2008
If you think fertilized eggs are people but refugee kids aren’t, you’re going to have to stop pretending your concerns are religious– Syd’s SoapBox
News reports have been filled with conflicting theories explaining why tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, have been streaming into the U.S. Some observers say that their parents are sending them here, so that they can take advantage of the social services and free education available in the U.S. Others argue that they are not coming here willingly, but that they have been forced to flee gang violence in their hom...
Source: Health Beat - July 18, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: Central America children George W. Bush law murder rape refugees Senator Patrick Leahy 2008 law deported El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Source Type: blogs
House Bill Eviscerates Asylum System, Deports Child Trafficking Victims
Alex Nowrasteh
President Obama recently asked Congress for authority to treat Central American children in the same way the government treats Mexican children. The Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act (H.R. 5137), introduced today by Reps. Chaffetz (R-UT) and Goodlatte (R-VA), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, goes beyond the President’s request. The bill eliminates any sort of review for juvenile victims of trafficking and the requirement that an immediate return of a child be voluntary.
Under current law, Mexican children may be immediately removed if they are:
Not severe victims of trafficking,
Not asylu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 17, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Mexican Immigration Policy Lowers the Cost of Central American Migration to the US
Alex Nowrasteh
One persistent American complaint about the Mexican government’s opposition to immigration laws like Arizona’s SB-1070 is that Mexico’s immigration policy is far more restrictive than that of the United States or anything proposed in Arizona. In 2010, Representative Ted Poe (R-TX) articulately pointed out the Mexican government’s blatant hypocrisy. Brutal Mexican immigration laws were not only bad policy for Mexico but exposed an absurd level of hypocrisy.
After Representative Poe’s comments, the Mexican government passed a Migratory Act in 2011 that went into effect on November 1, 2012. This law ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 17, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Nicaraguan Unaccompanied Child Migrants - Where Are They?
Alex Nowrasteh
U.S. policy is equally generous to unaccompanied children (UAC) from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua – but today’s child migrants are not coming from Nicaragua. Explaining why Nicaraguan UAC are not part of the recent surge may help explain why so many are coming from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras - the so-called Northern Triangle.
Nicaragua has low rates of violent crime, gang membership, and fewer family connections to the United States than the Northern Triangle. If U.S. policy was the main reason why there is a sudden surge of UAC, it should also pull UAC...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 15, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Polarized Politics Led To Cantor’s Defeat– and Cochran’s Victory. Why the “Uncommitted Center” Is So Important (Cantor part 2)
Please scroll down for Part 1 of this post.
When House Majority leader Eric Cantor lost his seat to ultra-conservative David Brat, the Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus summed up the majority view among political pundits: “The episode offers a disturbing commentary about the poisonous, polarized state of American politics.”
I cannot agree. I don’t think “polarization” is toxic. To the contrary, as the poet William Blake once wrote “Without Contraries, No Progress.” Conflict can clarify issues, and help us move forward. Indeed, the clash of opinions is a time-honored way of testing their validity.
Do ...
Source: Health Beat - June 27, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: Cantor centrists Cochran and McDaniel compromise Mississippi run-off polarization Tea Party ultra-conservative Uncategorized American Values conservative Republicans global warming gun control immigration reform liberals mini Source Type: blogs
Family Reunification and Other Explanations for the Border Surge of Unaccompanied Children
Conclusion
All three of these theories explain at least part of the sudden increase in UACs in recent years. As more data is made available by the government and more surveys are conducted of current UACs, a more complete picture will unfold and explain why the sudden increase in UACs is occurring. Only then will an effective administrative long term solution be possible. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 25, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
