Okay. So some folks at Northwestern have figured out folks remember more when they sleep with regulated bursts of “Pink noise,” which sounds kind of like a waterfall and is definitely more agreeable than “white noise,” the irritating product of a small round machine that people have placed inside my office or outside my door for many years.
I have never used it. It is supposed to mask discussion noises coming from my office. Me being me, those noises coming from my office include at least one “happy song” and at least one shriek of laughter. “White noise” at enough volume to stamp out anything like that would make me intolerably irritable. Read more on Using Noise To Get To Sleep…
Filed under News, Sleep by on Jan 8th, 2018. Comment. 
I was never much interested in the business of medicine. At least, not like those guys who end up employing multiple assistants and owning hospital complexes.
Me, I had approximately two hours of instruction in “the business of medicine” from a loveable and rotund French country doctor with a delightful victorian-type handlebar mustache. Read more on Learning The Business Of Medicine…
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I was nine or so when my classroom teacher at my “special school” for gifted children had a bunch of us at a “secret meeting” for which she had closed the front stage curtain on the auditorium stage and sat us all around her on the well-waxed stage.
“This year, we are going to perform Gilbert and Sullivan. We will be doing the ‘Pirates of Penzance’.” Read more on Giddy For Gilbert and Sullivan…
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One of the several wonderful things about my husband (there are far too many to enumerated here) is that every morning when I wake he asks me if I have slept well and feel rested.
I grew up in a household where my parents thought it was normal to fall asleep in front of the TV, wake up, and decide to “finish the night off” in bed. They slept late on the weekends.
I think they were both chronically sleep-deprived for all of their adult lives. Read more on Sleep…
Filed under News, Sleep by on Jan 3rd, 2018. Comment.
When I get to choose what I read, for the great majority of my life, I have chosen non-fiction.
Or at least what I thought was non-fiction.
I was about eight years old when I convinced my parents to open the cover of the bookshelf in the living room that housed the Harvard Classics and to let me take one volume at a time upstairs to my room. Read more on Ben Franklin Bent The Truth…
Filed under News by on Jan 2nd, 2018. Comment.
Some say it is the biggest controversy in psychiatry; even the only controversy in psychiatry.
Me, I think it is rubbish, really. Someone ought to cut to the heart of the matter.
Every single edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatry (Current edition is DSM-5) has been based on the description of behavior. Clarified with counting of behaviors. To assign one of the diagnostic codes necessary to receive a pension takes counting how often someone has a panic attack, how many nights a week someone has trouble sleeping — things like that. Read more on Damn The DSM!…
Filed under News, Psychiatrists, Research by on Jan 1st, 2018. Comment.
I taped two interviews on Rev. Meri Crouley’s program “Now Is The Time” on The Cross TV network. This airs via satellite for those who have dish antennae and is also archived on YouTube. Read more on Now Is The Time Interviews…
Filed under abuse, life, News, Sexual Misconduct by on Dec 31st, 2017. Comment.
I can’t believe how many people come in to my office telling me that I don’t understand that their pains are from “getting old,” and that everyone, as they get old, has aches and pains and that is how it is. Read more on How Old Is Your Doctor?…
Filed under Aging, Doctors, End Of Life, life, News by on Dec 27th, 2017. Comment.
You never heard of Ignaz Semmelweis?
There is a sentence about him in lots of medical books.
I first heard about him scrubbing in for surgery with the Chief of General Surgery at the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati Ohio. Read more on Ignaz Semmelweis Saved Lives With Three Words…
Filed under life, News, Research by on Dec 26th, 2017. Comment.
I always considered myself a naive person in many ways.
From my overprotective family, who had serious worries about my crossing the street without someone holding my hand even when pushing forty, I moved, through several exotic domiciles, into a marriage where my husband would never dream of permitting me to cross a street without holding my hand. Read more on You Think YOU Got Stress?…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, depression, Diagnosis, Disease, Dissociative Disorder, Doctors, medicine, Mental Illness, News, prescription drugs, Stress, Stress Relief by on Dec 26th, 2017. Comment.