When the team takes on the case of Emily, a six-year-old girl who has numerous preexisting health problems, they must work with her mother Elizabeth (guest star Jessica Collins), who happens to be a doctor herself, specializing in her daughter’s condition. The team must also deal with the battles raging between Emily’s mother and father who have conflicting views on how to handle her health issues. When searching the family’s home for clues to Emily’s illness, the team realizes that Elizabeth’s determination to cure her daughter could be the very thing that is killing her. Meanwhile, House and Wilson take a little vacation. Video Rating: 0 / 5
“I did not expect this… ” 4.5 stars – Edmonton Journal “Life at its most naked … the actors escape gravity.” – SEE Magazine Jonathon cares for his mother with Alzheimer’s, and, he believes, a bad attitude. Full of hope, he tries to inspire her to get off the couch and join him in ecological action. When a caregiver does everything right, but still everything is wrong, what can he do with repressed rage? Carlynn cares for her son with inexplicable crippling pain. When completely-debilitating pain hasn’t been cured after 12 years, what can a family do? Struggling to transform their desperate homes, to their families they propose: “Let’s do a project together, where the project is a play, and the play is about us.” Let’s Play House sincerely tests the idea that caregiving can be rewarding, and healing. The event includes the drama/dance show, and excerpts from the film documentary. “Heavy subject … Light and entertaining … Powerful” – VUE Weekly Let’s Play House was originally called “Heal Thyself” to express our frustration (“we’ve done all that should be necessary to bring about healing, now heal!”), and to acknowledge that the caregiver may need healing/changing. From a different angle, we realize that if we cannot heal our friends we must heal ourselves of our need to heal them. The title “Let’s Play House” better conveys the energy of the show, which invites people into our process – sometimes fun, sometimes dramatic. ================================ Alberta … Video Rating: 5 / 5
Florida Health & Human Services Quality Subcommittee discuss PCB HSQS 12-03, now HB 7091 on January 31st, 2012. Bill information: Health Care Coverage Mandates (HB 7091) Deletes provisions providing health insurance policies, health care services plans, or other contracts be construed to require payment to podiatrists & chiropractors for services within their scope of practice; repeals provisions relating to required coverage for bone marrow transplant procedures; repeals provisions relating to payment of acupuncture benefits to certified acupuncturists; deletes requirement that health insurance policies covering massage must also cover services of person licensed to practice massage; deletes provisions relating to mandated eligibility for participation in provider networks by therapists, counselors, psychologists, or certain psychiatric nurses; repeals provisions relating to required coverage for home health care services; repeals provisions relating to requirements that optional coverage for mental & nervous disorders be made available; repeals provisions relating to required coverage for individuals with autism spectrum disorder; repeals provisions relating to required coverage for cleft lip & cleft palate treatment under certain circumstance; deletes provisions relating to payment for treatment at osteopathic hospital, required coverage for cleft lip & cleft palate treatment, & payment for services provided by massage therapist.
