It was a local cabaret night fundraiser for the community theatre, a spirited mixture of volunteers and professionals, performing Broadway numbers. One of the performers was a young man, about 30, with phocomyelia. You may not have heard of this condition, but fortunately there is always Wikipedia for background.
Those born with this defect have shortened limbs, somewhat like the flippers of a seal. Read more on Phocomyelia Reappears…
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Gag me with a spoon.
Psychiatric diagnosis is never a controversy. It is always a mess.
Within the first week of my residency training, my respected preceptor in child psychiatry told me “You aren’t going to child psych very much, Estelle. There isn’t much evidence for most of what we do. The research is about 20 years behind adult psychiatry.” Read more on The Alleged Controversy About Childhood Bipolar Illness…
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The unvarnished truth is that when somebody lives in a nursing home their next address is usually the cemetery.
I am proud of the two exceptions I have known.
One was my own father-in-law of blessed memory, a life-long smoker afflicted with COPD. He was the first recipient of my tapping lessons (Emotional Freedom Technique) who tapped on his own acupuncture meridians successfully enough to improve his breathing. Read more on How To Leave A Nursing Home…
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What do you love? Do more of it with Meet-Up.
The key is that you have to love it first before you look for it on meetups.
Love includes belief. Read more on Self-Improvement Meetups…
When I was in seventh grade in prepschool everyone except me delivered a book report on “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle. It also won a LOT of awards, so I decided it needed to be avoided at all costs because anything that was so popular had to be bad.
I knew that it was some kind of science fiction, something I believed to be a degenerate form of literature until my beloved husband turned me on to the writings of Robert Heinlein some years later. I read a few days ago the (would-you-believe) Wikipedia article on the book. Read more on Disney’s Female Empowerment Flick…
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America has created wonder drugs for the world.
Then it rendered them unusable.
Both antibiotics and corticosteroids are not what they once were. Read more on Meds To Cure (or Harm) The World…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Diagnosis, Disease, Doctors, medicine, News by on Apr 23rd, 2018. Comment.
When push comes to shove, any psychiatrist can prescribe anything they damned well please.
Oh, there are a few particularities. Like needing to have a “triplicate’ pad if you are going to prescribe speed, or a “tamper proof” pad if you are going to prescribe something wildly addictive. But any licensed MD can just phone those in legally if you give your “magic numbers” like your DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) number — even if not a psychiatrist. Read more on Antipsychotic Medication For Children With Autism…
Filed under Doctors, medicine, prescription drugs, Psychiatrists by on Apr 27th, 2018. Comment.