Insights

<p>If you live in California, you see it all of the time.&nbsp;Big rig trucks driving alongside you on freeways and roads. Freight trains carrying goods up and down the coast. Ships docked at container shipping ports both in southern and northern California.</p>

<p>Sadly, in the city of Long Beach and the surrounding South Bay region, the topic of air pollution is nothing new.</p><p>Asthma and lung disease rates are among the highest in the nation. It is simply an unavoidable consequence of living nearby the massive twin ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.</p>

<p>Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is defined by the National Institute of Mental Health as an anxiety disorder that some people get after seeing or living through a dangerous event.</p>

<p>My mom used to take me to&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-10-18/business/17137174_1_mervyns-natio… "husky" jeans. My mom tried to sugar coat this embarrassing ritual&nbsp;by telling me I&nbsp;was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=big%20boned">big boned</a>.</p>

<p><strong>My Journey With Heart Failure</strong></p>

<p>Here’s what we’re checking out today:</p> <p><strong>Octomom: </strong>This one’s a jaw-dropper. "Octomom” Nadya Suleman's fertility doctor, Michael Kamrava, endangered the mother of 14 by <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/health/7252316.html">implanting her with a dozen embryos</a> in the pregnancy that gave her octuplets, a state attorney charged at the doctor’s license hearing, the AP’s Shaya Tayefe Mohajer reports.</p>

<p><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sometimes it seems like all I ever hear about is the bad in Del Norte County.</p>

<p>Women in Redding, Calif. face a major dilemma should they decide to try to have a natural birth after a previous Cesarean section.</p> <p>Redding may be a regional medical hub serving basically every rural county adjacent to the northern Sacramento Valley, but the doctors here refuse to perform vaginal births after a previous c-section (VBAC).</p>

<p>Kristin Molini has five reasons to celebrate this year. The 22-year-old is recovering after five organ transplants – liver, stomach, pancreas, and small and largeintestines. Only 300 similar interventions have been performed worldwide. The story – reported in the New York Daily News this January – could be the script for a movie. It could be an episode of a TV series, it could, most importantly, get people interestedin organ donation, giving them information about the importance of the procedure.</p>

<p>One of the reasons that state medical boards frown on doctors who start relationships with their patients is because of the power differential. The doctor is in a position of authority, like a teacher or a preacher, and is not supposed to abuse that position by using it, even in a subtle way, to coerce a patient into intimacy.</p> <p><a href="https://techmedweb.omb.state.or.us/Clients/ORMB/Public/VerificationDeta…. Gregory Gomez</a> was not subtle about it.</p>