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?…
Filed under medicine, News by on Oct 17th, 2018. Comment. 
https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/the-fringe-benefits-of-failure-and-the-importance-of-imagination-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…
Filed under Family, life, News, Psychology by on Oct 16th, 2018. Comment.
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…
Filed under News, Psychiatrists, Research by on Oct 15th, 2018. Comment.
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…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, depression, Diagnosis, Disease, Doctors, Education, life, medicine, News, Religion, Stress by on Oct 12th, 2018. Comment.
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…
Filed under Diagnosis, Doctors, Generic drugs, medicine, News, prescription drugs by on Oct 4th, 2018. Comment.
I was 20 and I had just settled into the apartment above her cafe “Les Arcades” at 19, rue Leon Blum, right next to the marketplace of Amiens, France.
It was not exactly a tourist region. It produced neither wine nor cheese. But its medical school was one of two which Napoleon had said was okay to provide surgeons for his army. More important, with 650 students in the first year class and 110 in the second, it had the BEST such ratio in all of France for an aspiring doctor. Read more on My French Mama — Mme. Mareschal…
I am eating a low-carbohydrate, “ketogenic” diet. I have lost a considerable amount of weight, increased my energy, and have done a pretty good (almost-perfect) job of reversing diabetes along with the gazillion supplements I take.
There are an awfully lot of folks publishing research on an awful lot of things, with the overwhelming amount of those publishing in “traditional” medical journals (like Lancet) being professional “academics,” or university professors. Read more on You Gotta Handle It When The Truth Changes…
Filed under eating disorders, Education, News, Research, weight by on Sep 27th, 2018. Comment.
It was a particularly beloved patient who asked me if I had any advice about improving creativity. She believed, as many people do, that it is a side effect of treating (even a relatively minor form) of bipolar illness. A lot of research back in the days of lithium, one of the first really robust treatments for bipolar illness, strongly suggested it just wasn’t so. Read more on Will Bipolar Treatment Kill Creativity?…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Brain, Diagnosis, Disease, Doctors, Family, medicine, Mental Illness, News by on Sep 21st, 2018. Comment.
On a beautiful, warm Sunday, our Fashionsta is escorted to Original Mike’s in Santa Ana to take in a novelty (for her) musical soiree — Hillbilly Jazz.
With a tasty bowl of clam chowder to remind her of Boston, she enjoyed the music and a few dances with her dashing beaux.
Of course, she was the best-dressed belle of the ball and a good time was had.
A Fashionista doesn’t live by Fashion alone! It takes good food, good company, and good music!
Filed under Fashion by on Sep 10th, 2018. Comment.
I’ve been keeping this under wraps, but now the cat is out of the bag. Or at least the film is out of the can. Read more on Mini Documentary About — ME!…
Filed under Doctors, life, News by on Sep 1st, 2018. 1 Comment.