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By Louise Kinross

Please read January’s BLOOM e-letter.

Here are some quotes to draw you into the content:

-From one of the few Black physiotherapists in Canada working as a clinician, educator and scholar: ‘What I noticed is that power moves just like people. Through people and organizations and systems. It determines who gets seen, who gets believed and, often, who gets to live.’ (See Trailblazer)

-From the website of Orchid, a company that promises ‘healthy babies’ through genetic testing of embryos, and discarding those affected with genetic conditions. ‘Now, obstetric genetics can be profoundly proactive; embryos at risk of genetic forms of developmental and cognitive disabilities are, for the first time, identifiable and avoidable prior to pregnancy.’ They include autism, even though only 20 per cent of autism cases are caused by a known gene change. (See From The Editor)

-From the author of a memoir about being born without one ear, and the efforts of plastic surgeons to make her ‘look normal.’ 'The very idea that there is something so wrong with your body that we must do violent things to it to make it okay made me feel that my body was bad.' (See Book Shelf)

-From a pediatrician in the complex care service at Boston Children’s Hospital and an author on a new framework for tracking well-being in families with a child with medical complexity: 'We should think of assessing and improving family well-being as being essential to clinical care, like assessing and improving nutrition and sleep, not something extra.’ (See Research Hits)

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