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Congenital Heart Defects

Words, Music & Impact

A few hours before watching the memorial service to my favorite singer and entertainer, Michael Jackson, I was on YouTube seeing “The Making of Live Aid for Africa” – a musical extravaganza spearheaded by Michael and Lionel Ritchie that went on to raise over $60 million dollars in 1985 for fighting hunger in a famine-ravaged [...]

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Questioning Gates Foundation

A paper in today’s issue of the medical journal Lancet raises questions about the governance of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Gates Foundation is among the biggest charities in the world that funds, and thereby drives much of biomedical research, globally. I heard about it from this article in our daily newspaper, “The Hindu”.
With [...]

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Pick Your Battles

In 2005, more than 135 million children were born; a little under 10 million children under the age of 5 died.
As a medical professional who has devoted his career to caring for kids, my heart aches at these statistics.

No child should die.
That’s my dream. It’s also a gargantuan challenge to meet.There are battles to [...]

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Perspective!

For years, I have operated on little children born with heart defects.
The surgery is complex, risky, even life threatening at times. Families are stressed to breaking point, but weather that storm with courage and fortitude.
While I understood it intuitively, I’m not sure I really ‘get’ it emotionally.
Because today, I took my 2 nieces for [...]

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Do You Say 'Thank You'?

I don’t often keep copies of comments I leave on blogs, but
this time something prompted me to save it to my hard drive.
Glad I did, because for some reason, the comment has NOT been
moderated on Kivi’s Non Profit Communication Blog – so I’ll
just share my thoughts here about saying ‘Thank you’ when
someone donates to your [...]

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Why I Cried Last Night

“Give me one moment in time
When I’m all that I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away…”
I cried last night.
Bitter tears. Of frustration. Pain. And anger.
All the while, words of my favorite Whitney Houston song kept ringing in my mind. A decade and a half of [...]

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Red Letter Day for CHD Foundation

In case you didn’t know it already, I’m a heart surgeon using my infopreneur business and fundraising efforts to help sponsor life-saving surgery for children from under-privileged families born with congenital heart defects.
Surgery is expensive. Many families cannot afford it. My goal is to help them.
Some years ago, in an effort to systematize [...]

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Strategy or Tactic?

Dr.Harlan Kilstein is a fantastic copywriter, effective marketer and one of the brilliant people I engage with in interesting conversations on Twitter.
We were discussing my recent blog post about Frank Kern. And something Harlan said got me thinking about the impact and power of strategy versus tactics. It isn’t always easy to know [...]

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Are YOU In The Heart Kids Tribe… Yet?

Seth Godin’s post on January 19th (Martin Luther King day) said:
“I wonder how those that are lucky enough to be web savvy can create work that really adds leverage.”
He listed things to do – and asked “What if you do one of these things every day?”
It made me think about trying something new on February [...]

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How Far Ripples Reach!

Have you ever dropped a pebble in a pond, and watched as the ripples spread in increasing concentric circles, often reaching far beyond the spot where your stone hit the water?
In just the same way, things you say, think about and begin ripple and grow in the cosmic whole of humanity that connects us all [...]

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