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An Open Memo to Medical Facilities using Ethylene Oxide as a Sterilant

by Janette DeFelice August 11, 2019 0

Talking Until We’re Blue in the Face About Climate Change and Carbon Dioxide

by Janette DeFelice May 5, 2017 0

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by Janette DeFelice September 7, 2017 2

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The World is Ending and All I Have to Wear is this Chambray Shirt

I don’t mean to sound apocalyptic, but stuff is getting real. Hurricanes, fires, floods. Rampant overt racism. Plans to roundContinue Reading

by Janette DeFelice August 31, 2017 0

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Not Anymore

This year, we have received many compliments from friends, neighbors, and teachers about how our children behave. We are toldContinue Reading

by Janette DeFelice July 10, 2017 2

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Teaching Children to Help in Emergency Situations

Fun Shopping Trip Turns Traumatic So today, my daughter and I took a trip to Goodwill. She wanted to lookContinue Reading

by Janette DeFelice June 30, 2017 0

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Goin’ Local: Willowbrook Wildlife Center

We can’t take an Alaskan Cruise or a cross-country road trip every day. But that doesn’t mean we stop exploring. Today,Continue Reading

About

Janette DeFelice, MD, MA is a writer currently focusing on how the changing environment affects our health. Her new novel Delia Rising: A Ballet in Three Acts is available now. She has also published at Be The Change Mom, ChicagoNow, and Medium.com.

She holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Chicago Medical School and a Master’s degree in Humanities from the University of Chicago, where her major essay was Hegel and Ibsen: The Evolution of Consciousness in Ibsen’s Prose Play Cycle. She also has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Indiana University.

A former professional dancer, former adjunct Humanities professor, and former lecturer in Medical Clinical Skills, as well as a mom of 9-year-old twins, she currently finds herself at a career/life crossroads at which she is trying to figure out how to use all aspects of herself (her art, her medical and scientific knowledge, her philosophical explorations, her interest in popular culture as a teaching tool, and her unique perspective) for the good of humanity.

Read along with her journey.