Religious poems based on the author's experiences relating to his search for God, relationship with Him, and his life journey. Presented with the hope that the reader will find them to be inspiring, comforting, or in some other manner helpful in their search for, or journey with, the Lord.

How safe is you workplace? How safe are you? This is a straight-talking, easy reading, humorous guide for assessing the safety culture of the workplace and of an individual as well. Offers suggestions, things to look for, and questions to consider when assessing the workplace safety culture.

Love can be like a roller coaster taking you up, down, and all around. You fall in love hoping for the best. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. These poems, originally written as song lyrics, are from life's experiences with love. Some are happy, some may be depressing, and some are somewhere in-between. But, together they share examples of a simple truth about love - you never really know what to expect or what may happen when love comes your way.

A critical, quantitative look at the future supply and demand of surgical specialists that may foretell rationing of surgical services. The Coming Shortage of Surgeons: Why They Are Disappearing and What That Means for Our Health is the only quantitative analysis of the workforce in orthopedic and thoracic surgery, otolaryngology, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery, neurosurgery, and urology. It analyzes the demand and supply for these surgeons and gives the causes and remedies for these shortages. The Coming Shortage of Surgeons quantifies the demand for the surgical workforce, then examines the constraints to supply, which include soaring tuition and medical students' debts, the demand for a controllable or scheduled lifestyle, malpractice premium expenses, early retirement, and perhaps the most difficult hurdle to overcome: the provision in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 that caps all medical and surgical residencies at 1996 levels. Presents the theories of three academic experts objectively analyzing a significant public health issue Offers an extensive bibliography culled from medicine, health policy experts, think tanks, governmental institutions, and economists to educate the reader in all aspects of this complicated but important topic