Wellness & Well-being Highlights March 3rd
Wellness & Well-being Highlights
for the
Week of March 3, 2025
This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at how long waits, misinformation, access to the internet along with the chaos caused by the insurance industry have changed the doctor-patient relationship—to a couple of effective, yet short, “No Gym” workouts—to a great story exposing how religious institutions have left many retirees with seriously underfunded retirement accounts…no thanks to a legal provision that excludes these organizations from ERISA. This week I would like to take this opportunity to discuss the need to address the proverbial “elephant” in the room…and that is the notion of when you tell a lie long enough…it becomes the truth.
Having taken a number of ethics courses while in a variety of grad school programs, this aforementioned saying often became the focus of discussion. And, since my doctoral major was organizational leadership, building trust was another oft-mentioned topic…as well as issues like transparency, clear communications, modeling, etc. This brings me to the NYT articled mentioned below.1 Herein, this author shares a number of these “alternative facts” currently being professed by very influential people in Washington, DC. People who are in positions to sway vast swaths of public opinion…in the name of “aggressively reshaping” the US and, some suggest, the world. The problem is that these same people rarely cite specifics and, if and when, they do…those “facts” have been seriously distorted. Food for thought: There is a reason why when one testifies in a US court s/he must swear to tell the WHOLE truth.
Which leads me to the 2nd related article from the WP which cites Musk as saying something along the lines that DOGE has made mistakes but when we do, we immediately fix them.2 Sadly, when one takes a chainsaw to a project vs a scalpel, in the name of swift efficiency…because that is what Americans voted for, damages done are rarely “immediately” fixable. Case in point, cutting USAID workers and contractors without fully understanding their roles—here and abroad—in the efforts to fight Ebola in Africa. Once funds are frozen and/or contracts canceled, those impacted workers need to move on with their lives. Trying to restore what once was is not a simple matter of merely hitting the reset button on one’s PlayStation.
As a history buff, I enjoy studying the US Civil War, wherein, our military losses totaled, as follows:
* ~600k deaths
* ~500k wounded
* ~400k missing
Going forward, I, for one, pray that clearer heads begin to prevail because the lives impacted by carelessly scaling back global public initiatives today will dwarf those just cited.
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/elon-musk-ebola-prevention-usaid-doge/
Have we lost TRUST in doctors?
Wall Street / Drug Misuse / Insider Trading
Measles / Unvax Child’s Death / TX
No Gym: 7-minute Low-impact Workout
Does “Red Light” therapy work?
When Distorted Reality Drives Change
Update: Secty of Labor Nominee
DOGE’s waste: Techies not using Tech?
AGC / Congress / Environmental Permits
Does RTO push cover Commuting Costs?
ERISA: How Churches are Failing Workers
Appealing a denied insurance claim
Point Shaving: Byproduct of Sports Gambling
GW Carver: Tribute to a True Hero
Upcoming webinars, etc.:
Suicide Prevention: QPR & Ag (3/20)
Snowball: Alcohol Movie (short)
Africa / Faith / Suicide Prevention
CEEP: Campus Emotional Emergency Program
Team Resilience: Leading thru Change toolkit
NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact jgaal@moworks.org with related questions or comments.
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