It is probably Oscar Wilde who said it. “Youth is wasted on the young.”
He was clever and witty and literate and gay in the days when being gay could land you in prison. (In his case, it did.)
Youth comes along with a feeling of being invulnerable. This is a false feeling, for the average human life expectancy gives a person plenty enough years to feel in her or his body the consequences of the decisions made when he or she was young. Read more on You Don’t Want To See Your Brain On Drugs…
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There is one thing I heard in medical school in France that, if anyone ever heard in America, well, they have long since forgotten it.
He was a little country doctor who came in from the country. He was one of the kind, he told us, that was the “backbone” of French medicine.
He taught us to keep the financial records of our (general) practices in a bound school-notebook. To enter each receipt for service on a separate line, and to cross out entries with a single line made horizontally with a ruler, leaving the original (erroneous) entry legible, so that we remained always above reproach. Read more on Science And Reality…
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There are a certain number of patients who come to me suffering from autoimmune disease. Yes, more than one.
Sometimes Lupus or Celiac disease or rheumatoid arthritis or such.
Often they get through life dragging along with them unidentified articular pains, which are themselves probably an unidentified autoimmune illness. Read more on Depression As Auto-immune Disease…
My preceptor in Kansas taught me — while I was finishing my training and in my psychopharmacology fellowship — how to do “ECT”, which stands for “Electroconvulsive therapy.”
AKA: Electroshock therapy Read more on Yes They Can Still Force Electroshock Therapy…
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I have vivid memories of the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard, where they let me hang around when I was still in high school but trying to learn some very fascinating things about medicine and science.
There was a hall lined on both sides with pictures of famous doctors who had made great contributions,
One of my favorites was Sir William Osler, a pioneer in Medical Education who spoke several wonderful aphorisms that were supposed to condense medical knowledge into some sort of easy to swallow bits. Read more on How To Increase STEM…
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