A new mother who had just worked nine hours as a retail associate entered a medical clinic to seek care for her four-month old son who has been coughing over the past three days. Her google search yielded a clinic in the economic upper echelon of the southwest suburbs, between her place of employment and her condominium, which she recently purchased to give her infant son a chance at a better life, far from the violent community of Austin on the westside of Chicago. After a two-hour wait, a...

How should we view trauma? We live in a society where we have a pharmacological agent for almost every ailment, real or imagined. When we are sick, we go to the doctor and we get a prescription for a drug. Prescriptions are usually written, but can be a verbal order. The drug is prescribed to heal an illness, or disease, or at least, to provide some relief. What happens, though, when an ailment is so deep within one’s core that it cannot be treated by any medication? As a seasoned...