Posted February 24th, 2010 by diane in category
Trauma
As a grief therapist and psychologist who has worked on Columbine, and other school disasters, tornadoes and private grief with individual patients, There is stricking differences in individual grief and loss to mass grief and disaster trauma.
Disasters such as earthquakes, tusnamis, school shootings, terror attacks, envoke deep feelings.
In my Son’s words ……winding down…….
I just arrived safely back in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. I spent the bulk of last week working in an orphanage that we turned into a hospital down the road from the real hospital. This is where the surgeons did non stop surgery. There was loads of orthopedic trauma,
Posted January 20th, 2010 by diane in category
Medicine,
News
Last Saturday, my son Ross Isaacs, M.D. called and shared with me that he was leaving for a trip to aid the needy through an organization he has donated his medical services to: The group is called RAM, or Remote Area Medicine. This trip was scheduled for a week long commitment to the frenzied, frightening country of Haiti. Ross is a