By RICK RADER, MD * EDITOR-IN-CHIEF I was cleaning out my wallet the other day, a bi-annual ritual to purge the detritus of business cards offered to me at the numerous conferences, meetings and presentations I attend (or at least show up at). As I was triaging the findings (invoices, credit card chits, movie ticket stubs, scribbled notes, and yes some losing door prize tickets) I found the biggest stack was a mound of official […]
BY: Rick Rader, MD So what came first, our inherent stupidity or the lawyers who insisted that we be protected from ourselves?
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams Sixty plus years ago, when the disability rights movement started to get traction, there was a common landmark for most of the pioneering advocacy organizations. The Formica kitchen table with chrome legs served as the epicenter for most of the “mom and pop” groups popping up across the country. These grass root groups […]
by RICK RADER, MD * EDITOR-IN-CHIEF “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” –John Quincy Adams Sixty plus years ago, when the disability rights movement started to get traction, there was a common landmark for most of the pioneering advocacy organizations. The Formica kitchen table with chrome legs served as the epicenter for most of the “mom and pop” groups popping up across […]
by RICK RADER, MD * EDITOR-IN-CHIEF From time to time cute things cross my desk and instinctively get my attention. Most of the “cute things” are in emails that friends and colleagues send my way in the ongoing belief that most of us need a daily “cute fix” to ground us. Recently (it’s the life cycle) the “cute things” are paraded past me by colleagues showing me cell phone photos of their “cute” grandbabies. As […]
