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Raising A Child: A “How-Not-To” Book

May 9th, 2010 by Jon LaPook, M.D. in Better Health Network, Book Reviews, Interviews, News, Video
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Dr. Jon LaPook talks to author Lisa Grunwald and psychiatrist Bill Fisher about the history of childrearing as it relates to Grunwald’s new novel “The Irresistible Henry House.”

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Don’t Date This Guy!

The guy is Henry House, the title character of my friend Lisa Grunwald’s latest novel, “The Irresistible Henry House,” and in addition to the fact that he’s fictional, he’s not a good bet. Henry knows how to please women — how to talk to them, react to them, how and when to touch them.
 
The problem is that he is — or at any rate seems to be — utterly incapable of making a true connection with any of them.
 
Though pure fiction, Henry is based on pure fact: From the 1920s until the end of the 1960s, college home economic classes around the country borrowed infants from orphanages to be used as “practice babies.”  I kid you not.

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Donut Shop Owner Brutally Attacked, Can’t Pay Hospital Bill

November 12th, 2009 by Emergiblog in Better Health Network, True Stories
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Sam Nouv runs a little donut shop about a mile from my house.

When John was in the hospital, that’s where I bought the donuts for the nurses.

After immigrating to the U.S. from Cambodia in 1987, Sam started working at the shop and by 1990 he owned it (Update via Steve in comments: When he was 13, his parents were murdered by the Khmer Rouge. He spent several years in a displacement camp in Vietnam before finally being sent to the States as part of an entire plane load of orphans).

With the exception of a few holidays, Sam is in the store every morning at 3:30 am and works until 6:00 pm.

Seven days a week.

His wife, Lori, works with him, but she wasn’t there on that Wednesday morning in October.

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*This blog post was originally published at Emergiblog*