A Place to Hang Our Hats

Our Place in Nature

One of the deepest assumptions of Judaism and its offspring, Christianity, is that there is an important difference between human persons and everything else that exists in Creation. We alone are made in God’s image. We alone are the stewards of the earth. It is said in Genesis that we have “dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the ...

We cannot hang our hat on occupation alone.

The Guide to Occupational Therapy Practice by Moyers (AJOT, 53[3], 247–322) is an attempt to define the general scope of occupational therapy for practitioners, health care professionals, teachers, reimbursement organizations, and policymakers. The document, however, raises a major concern about what truly is our profession’s scope of practice. There is an overriding emphasis placed on occupati...

Our Place in a Vast Universe *

Scientists have measured that what we can see of space is about a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion (10 81) times the volume of an average human. Inflationary theory suggests that the entirety of space is vastly larger. Quantum theory suggests that there are very many different copies of space of the same basic kind as ours (same laws of physics). String th...

Hats Off to HIT: A Case Report.

Thrombocytopenia is a well- recognized complication of heparin therapy. The diagnosis is mostly clinical and the main value of laboratory testing is in excluding the diagnosis. We describe here a patient with stroke who had aspiration pneumonia leading to sepsis. She developed atrial fibrillation and received heparin which had to be stopped prematurely due to melena. Within 5 days of heparin, s...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries