Bob CollinsA 12-year-old girl took her own life in Bismarck, N.D., on Saturday. Her obituary didn’t hold anything back.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Health
In the buttoned-down world of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Elvis Francois and William Robinson are finally getting the payoff from their years of studying and the rigorous and exhausting pace of being orthopedic surgery residents: they got to meet Ellen. Read more →
If not for science, what would we do for a daily reminder of the power of education, research and the human capacity for greatness?
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Much ado is being made today of a study purporting to show that the thrill of a hockey game may be bad for a guy’s heart. I say, is there a better way to go? Read more →
US News claims to use 80 indicators across 10 categories that drive health outcomes. ‘Population health and equity are the most heavily weighted categories, based on the assessments of more than a dozen leading experts on what matters most to a community’s health,’ it says. Read more →
There are angels who walk among us and they are mostly unrecognized until they pick up a paintbrush in a hospital and turn a necessary mask that scares kids with cancer into a Star Wars character who could be the difference between living and dying.
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Increasingly, basketball and urology is going hand in hand. Read more →
Norm Ornstein, a Minnesota native, writes in the New York Times today about his son, ill served by a mental health system that does not serve those who are too ill to know that they need help. Read more →
A panic attack during a November game changed the way the ex-Timberwolves player thinks about mental health. Read more →
When the world’s first heart transplant was performed in 1967, it felt very much like news that the Wright Brothers had flow something called an airplane. Taking a heart from one person and putting it another? Unfathomable.
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You have to love the resilience and creativity of farmers who figured out that people would pay a premium to to do yoga poses with goats.
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Irony. Because someone drove drunk, a sheriff dies. Because of alcohol, his wife does too. Read more →
For sure, it’s become easier for people to talk about providing access to mental health care, too often talk is all it is. Politicians are failing Minnesotans on this issue and failing big. It’s a testament to the resiliency of people that some of them can navigate the roadblocks and fear that exists and get the help they need.
So Brian Murphy’s story should at least provide inspiration that it’s possible. Read more →
There’s a war going on inside the brain of 26-year-old Sioux Falls school teacher Katie Blunck. Either that one or the one she’s waging with an insurance company could kill her. Read more →
Will Buckley, 62, of Eau Claire, needed a kidney once his University of Minnesota doctor told him the ones he had were done for. He would be too if someone didn’t step forward. Read more →