Extreme Weight Loss-"Jami"

Has anyone else watched this episode?  My heart is just broken right now watching it on my Hulu Plus.  At the beginning of this episode, I just wanted to give her one gigantic hug.  This young lady has never felt loved which has attributed to her weight, 292 pounds, her psoriasis which was probably exacerbated by her poor health and finally her extremely low self-esteem.  She was adopted at 2 years old.  I don't want to say a whole lot more because this blog is such a public forum and I am extremely opinionated and I don't want to sound mean.  In short I want to say that if one chooses to adopt--it should be to make some one else's life better.  Ironically, she goes to Chile' to meet her birth mother--and Jami states, "...it's just an example to me of how you can live well with so much less."  She felt so much love from her birth mother who now lives in a very small place in Santiago.  
I wish for her to continue on her journey and I love a happy endings.

Obesity, Organ Donations, Prescription Pain Medications

The holy trinity of our healthcare system and it was all tackled on the season finale of Monday Mornings.  I have always loved lawyer and doctor shows, huge fan.  I really love David E. Kelley, LA Law, series; he and Aaron Sorkin are my favorite writer/series creators.  Anyway, if you get a chance to watch it, it's the episode entitled, "Family Ties."  I am sure this was a statement episode.  The obese 16-year-old male patient who has a heart attack at school.  The woman who is injured by a skateboarder, brought to the ER by and dies; even though she's an organ donor (signed the back of driver's license) her son sues to stop the harvesting.  The man who is addicted to painkillers going from hospital to hospital (he also looks very normal) seeking more painkillers; he is denied a prescription by the Attending (Ving Rhames); he then approaches another ER physician in the parking lot whom he has previously manipulated and when she tells him no, she is attacked and severely injured.  

While I was watching this show, I was astonished that these "issues" with healthcare were being addressed.  The obesity part was particularly poignant.  The doctor was angry and definitely crossed many lines but she was correct in addressing it.  "...this country spends $190 billion in obesity related healthcare costs...as physicians we just stand idly by and we should be outraged..." I promise that I haven't given away the episode because it's packed with revelations and aha(s).