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I met a nice fellow named “Hymie.”

That was the name on his name-tag when he sidled up to me in one of the inexpensive discount stores my husband and I frequent.

He sidled up, of course, while my husband was out of sight. Read more on Dr. Estelle Meets “Hymie”…

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I’m not exactly drunk with power, being a psychiatrist. I fight with insurance companies on a daily basis, — begging for one generic brand the patient can take over one that makes them sick as a dog, and such.

I don’t pretend to have control over everything that happens inside my office. I have a basic idea of the territory that should be covered, but the reactions to what I bring up are rich and individual and creative and tell me the essence of my patients’ spirits. Read more on Unhappy? Go Outside And Play!…

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Patient Profiling: Are You a Victim?

I’ve read things by Dr. Pamela Wible before and she is definitely on a piece of the right track. Read more on “Patient Profiling” as a cause of medical error….

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She was an older woman, gray-haired and distinguished, one of those Canadian imports who had never forgotten her British roots. They were as close by as her slight English accent. I had known many people in Canada just like her, who would say “I’m just an old Brit” because that is what they felt like, in the “melting pot” America was alleged at one time to be, or in rich ethnic salad of Canada.

We knew her from her singing. We sang in a “showcase” of sorts in the San Diego region. My husband’s rich and jazzy baritone, my humorous songs or French songs long before my post-menopausal “croak” set in. Read more on Back To The Blitz…

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We are like horses with blinders on.

We see that a compound does one thing, and rarely think of it as capable of doing another. Read more on “Like Horses With Blinders”…

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What power do we have to survive burnout? Some folks study “resilience,” the ability to withstand trauma. Like foreign medical graduates, who have come — maybe — from war-torn countries. Or former military docs, docs who have seen combat.

They are actually telling me that a doctor is more likely to avoid succumbing to burnout if their life has been rotten beforehand.

AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!

But wait, there’s more. Read more on Who Gets Burnout?…

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“The Fringe Benefits of Failure” by J.K. Rowling

First, I must acknowledge James Clear. Without him, I would not have found this speech by J.K. Rowling, or a myriad of applied psychology writings that often hit me like a bulls-eye of a target — his website is recommended for perusal by the (applied) psychologically-minded, who might be reading me anyway. Read more on Failure Has Its Benefits…

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This looks to me like a pretty well-designed research study. It is what they call a “meta-analysis,” which means the authors put together studies other people have done and analyzed the lot of them, in that process which poetess Anne Sexton touched me a long time ago by calling “that awful rowing toward truth.”

Truth is hard to find and I basically believe in the scientific process that tries to get to it. Read more on This Bit About Girls And STEM…

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Often they are working women.

But people with no employment and no financial responsibility are not immune.

It is surely the illness of our time for everyone complains of it sometimes as if it has a specific treatment and they think I can change the deficient choices they made several years ago in their lives to make things fine and dandy with an instant prescription.  W.H. Auden wrote the (long) poem ” Age of Anxiety” in 1947 or so describing man’s attempt to find meaning and substance in an industrialized world. Read more on All The Stressed Out People…

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No matter whose statistics you believe, there are more than 100 thousand people a year dying from drug overdoses, interactions, and errors.

The bottom line is people lie. They stash drugs and find things in dumpsters and tell me with great pride they know the best for their bodies and think marijuana is harmless when it isn’t. Read more on How To Not Die From Prescription Drugs…