(Jeannie Kever, Houston Chronicle)
With a final snip of the scissors, Krenie Stowe moved one step closer to taking control of her cancer. She believes in science – chemotherapy and the other things Western medicine has to offer. After all, she is a doctor, a pediatrician who has practiced in the suburbs north of Houston for almost 20 years.
But she also believes in alternative healing, in eating the right foods, in taking responsibility for her own life. So she gathered with friends and family on a Friday night in late March to bid goodbye to her hip-length hair before the chemotherapy intended to kill the last of her cancer could take her hair with it…
…While Stowe has an Ivy League education and a busy medical practice, she has made choices that mean, like many of her patients, she has struggled to find insurance and to pay for her medical care….
But Stowe was never particularly good at being quiet. Sharing the journey, she decided, would become part of her healing… And so began Stowe’s adventures on the other side of the stethoscope: surgery, chemotherapy and a crash course in the Byzantine world of health insurance. (Read the full story at Houston Chronicle)
OTHER HEADLINES:
- Rick Perry To Unveil Budget Compact In Houston (Texas Tribune)
- Houston Church a Beacon for Faithful After 100 Years (KTRK 13 News)
- Asia Society Celebrates Opening With Festival (Houston Chronicle)
- Texas Fights EPA Over Clean-Air Rule (San Antonio Express)
- Texas Hearing Exposes Ongoing Dental Board Issues (DrBicuspid Blog)
- Program That Sends Urban Students to Elite Colleges Comes to Houston This Fall (New York Times/Texas Tribune)
- The Tax Man Cometh! But For Whom? (KUHF Public Radio)
OPINIONS ON THE NEWS
The Pursuit of Happiness
- Can We Measure Gross National Happiness?
(Editorial, Houston Chronicle)
“According to Thomas Jefferson, the United States was founded in part so that its citizens could practice the “pursuit of happiness.” But despite the subtlety of Jefferson’s mind, it probably never occurred to him that we could actually measure happiness, and thus see how our pursuit is coming along.” - The Global Happiness Derby
(Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post)
“We ought to leave “happiness” to novelists and philosophers — and rescue it from the economists and psychologists who think it can be distilled into a “science” and translated into pro-happiness policies. Fat chance.”