Hospice is a concept of caring borrowed from medieval times, where travelers, pilgrims and the sick, wounded or dying could find rest and comfort. The contemporary hospice offers a program of care to patients and families facing a life threatening illness encompassing medical, nursing, spiritual, a...

Not too many books take you into the world of mental illness. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey does. It is told through the eyes of a mental patient named Chief Bromden. He is a northwest Indian, who is disturbed with hallucinations about machines taking over the world he knows. The...

The Tone in Mind The imagination is the reader's most important tool on the path to enjoying a good book. One can only hinder their enjoyment of the story by disregarding the vivid images created by the mind. Nothing can compare to a landscape so exquisite that it would make a cinematogra...

Not too many books take you into the world of mental illness. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey does. It is told through the eyes of a mental patient named Chief Bromden. He is a northwest Indian, who is disturbed with hallucinations about machines taking over the world he knows. The men...

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest This movie demonstrates much of what I despise about my fellow feeble-minded Americans. In this movie, I saw stereotypes galore, and almost every cliche in the book. For example, one voluntary patient is seeking therapy for his marital problems. It seems that h...

A Closer Look at On Death and Dying One of the most well known studies of death during the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying was created from an interdisciplinary seminar on death, originated and directed by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. In On Death and Dying, Dr. Kübler-Ross fir...

In March of 2002, a girl by the name of Sarah Lanski was a runaway criminal. At the tender age of eighteen, Ms. Lanski committed the major crimes of grand theft auto and credit card fraud. She escaped the law and traveled to Florida from Michigan with a friend who was involved in the previous crime...