Author Archives: dgermann
Sickness Doctors and Wellness Lawyers
We see our physicians as sickness doctors. What an absolute difficult thing it would be for us to turn that around and think of them as wellness doctors. Our whole society thinks this way, patients and doctors, insurance people and … Continue reading
Posted in Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
Our whole work is conversation.
Our whole work is conversation. Whole, as in rounded, full, complete, healing. Our, as in each person on this globe. Conversation, meaning turning with, a picture of dancing, and a picture of turning over a compost heap to keep it … Continue reading
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
I fell into a hole
I fell into a hole For a project & on a mission To get some wrenches Striding through the door My forward motion —Turned straight down Surprise, lost, unknowing Words insufficiently strong For my disorientation My world, my purpose—disappeared Scraping … Continue reading
Posted in Emergency/Crisis Medical, Poetry
Leave a comment
Crotchety is okety-fine
Crotchety is okety-fine when conversing: just stand clear of our itty bitty egoity keep to our universality! :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
Don’t use these passwords!
Here are the 25 most (stupid) insecure passwords. http://www.ic3.gov/media/2011/111229.aspx Don’t use these passwords! :- Doug.
Posted in News
Leave a comment
Working on my compassion
I am working on my compassion. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
Caring is compassion
Care can be a commercial transaction. Caring is compassion. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
Caring who
Care is a word people use to say what they sell; Caring is a word I use to describe who I am. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring
Leave a comment
Many ways to advocate
There are many ways to advocate. We can advocate by counseling. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering
Leave a comment
Doctors may become mere technicians
I’m hearing from my elder clients’ children that they cannot get a time to talk with the doctor about what is going on with their parent, what the prognosis might be, and what the best course of treatment ought to … Continue reading
Elders, doctors and consults
A few days ago I learned that doctors are in some settings expected to see 40 patients a day. What’s the math on 40 patients in a day? Today I spoke with a couple of therapists about getting the doctor … Continue reading
There’s a pill for that
Far more than “There’s an app for that” Our medico-economic complex teaches “There’s a pill for that” “There’s a pill for every that” :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Long-Term Care and nursing homes, Poetry
Leave a comment
Divine are the snowflakes/…
Divine are the snowflakes dancing, floating, flying divine is each each faces me and asks do you see me? :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
Leave a comment
Why we are frustrated with one another
We’re frustrated with one another and so we shout at “them.” We’re frustrated with one another because we have forgotten how to dialogue. We don’t know how to hear, how to meet. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family
Leave a comment