DR. PATRICIA A. FARRELL

Hospice, a word that came into the American vernacular subtly around the end of the 1960s, is now deeply entrenched in the care of those...

Asylums were originally intended to be comforting places of both isolation from society and environments where those with mental illness...

Waiting for someone to recover from anesthesia can provide an unexpected opportunity for conversations that never would've been. The...

Science and the advances it has brought to our lives has been incredible when you think about it. Our lives have been enriched by new...

“If we are to reach real peace in this world… we shall have to begin with children.” — Mahatma Gandhi Adults have the unsupported belief...

Facebook was never a favorite anything of mine. I joined it to share things I was writing, photos I was taking and to see if some friends...

New York City, to my mind, is one of the most fascinating and fluid cities in the US. I grew up here, but the city I knew exists only in...

A few years ago, a neighbor at a New Year's Eve gathering, was waxing enthusiastic about the wonders of shopping at Costco. Proudly, she...

Is there any relationship between a religious belief, aka a belief in a god, and our physical/emotional health? The question will, most...

One of the many chores in our lives, unless you have a housekeeper or a mom at your service, is the need to shop for our daily bread and...

Media reports abound and no one needs to tell you how many kids, teens and young adults have been permanently scared by either...

"Feet don't fail me" is a line from a song (Queens of the Stone Age) that has more meaning than the writer ever intended perhaps. The...

All of us, at one time or another, must rely on medical professionals' care for some physical or mental difficulty and we expect those...

Nora Ephron, a woman who had, as they say, a way with words of all manner, used to muse about life and its vicissitudes. When not...

Remember those infamous robo signings of mortgage applications that almost sent us into the hell of a Depression? Well, we have another...

A walk on the sidewalk near my home would prove to be more than just a refreshing day out of doors in a brisk winter. I'd walked around...

As a child, I knew our family physician as a kindly guy who came to the house with his small medical bag, checked my temperature, wrote a...

Cancer, once thought to be a death sentence, can be treated, but never cured, according to experts. They always refer to it as "in...

Truman Capote was a superb author of a number of short stories, two of my favorites would be "A Christmas Memory" and the other, a sequel...

Television is, for many older Americans, the medium where they receive their news and, in the process, are exposed to ads directed...