Medical Procedures
Posted by David Wallace on September 2, 2021
Ya Gotta Wonder! Today, U.S. Healthcare ranks dead-last—Bottom of the Class*—among the most privileged countries in the world. Our Worst-in-Show Report Card just got personal. I have been diagnosed with a potentially deadly disease. Deadly now because for six months I wandered around the American Healthcare Desert being either misdiagnosed or waiting endless amounts of […]
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Tags: Cancer, healthcare, medicine, surgery
Posted in blog, Medical Procedures, Medicine, Politics
Posted by David Wallace on September 2, 2021
Ya Gotta Wonder! Given the recent goings on in Austin with Texas politicians treating the abortion issue as nothing more than a rodeo event, I feel the need to share two true stories about abortion from my book Stories from a Global Cowgirl. Abortion is a serious issue. Choosing to have an abortion leaves skid […]
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Tags: Abortion, cowgirl, Supreme Court, Texas
Posted in blog, Conservative, Liberal, Medical Procedures, Politics, Politics, storytelling
Posted by David Wallace on January 22, 2021
Cherish Your Imperfections Olivia’s face is perfection. Flawless features and buttery skin. Quite a change from the face I’d seen months earlier. Back then, Olivia’s face looked like it had been put through a food processor. Misplaced eyes. Craters instead of cheekbones. Twisted nose. An out-of-kilter, lopsided mouth swollen around bunched, protruding teeth. Neither machine […]
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Tags: cowgirl, maxillofacial, medical procedures, personal victory, plastic surgery, Texas
Posted in blog, Medical Procedures, Stories of Personal Victory
