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Reminder: FDA VRBPAC Meeting June 5, 2024 on Covid Vaccines for Fall 2024
There will be an FDA VRBPAC meeting on June 5, 2024, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ET to discuss Covid vaccines for this fall.
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Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry as a Supraspecialty
I just rediscovered this old blog post below from 2010 in my files. The literature citations are dated, of course. I just wanted to reminisce about how I used to think through issues in consultation-liaison psychiatry. The post is old enough to contain the former term for the field-Psychosomatic Medicine. “At the annual Academy of…
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Old Blog Post on Decisional Capacity Assessment
I just found a blog post I wrote about assessing decisional capacity. It’s over 13 years old and you can tell I was a little frustrated when I wrote it. It was back in the days when consulting psychiatrists were called psychosomatic medicine specialists. Here’s to another blast from the past. Blog from 2011: Thoughts…
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Rounding At Iowa: Smoking and Vaping
I just want to give a shout out to University of Iowa Health Care and the Rounding@Iowa podcast for an outstanding presentation on the hazards of smoking tobacco, vaping, and dabbing. The program originally aired on May 14, 2024 and the guests included two ICU doctors who are pulmonologists I’ve worked with as a psychiatric…
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Dirty Dozen on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in WordPress Shortcode
May is Mental Health Month! Have I said that already? Anyway, this is yet another one of my Dirty Dozen lectures. It’s on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. It’s in WordPress shortcode. A few pointers: click in the lower right hand corner of the slide if you want to view the slides full size. Use the directional arrows…
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Reblogging The Good Enough Psychiatrist Latest Post, “How to Love”
I haven’t seen any posts from The GoodEnoughPsychiatrist in a while. This one was posted yesterday-just in time.
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Dirty Dozen on Interpersonal Psychotherapy in WordPress Shortcode
Hey, because May is Mental Health Month, this is another one of my Dirty Dozen lectures. It’s on Interpersonal Psychotherapy. It’s in WordPress shortcode. A few pointers: click in the lower right hand corner of the slide if you want to view the slides full size. Use the directional arrows on your keyboard to click…
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Dirty Dozen on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in WordPress Shortcode
In keeping with May being Mental Health Month, here’s another slide set on psychotherapy. This one is on the basics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Once again, it’s in WordPress shortcode. A few pointers: click in the lower right hand corner of the slide if you want to view the slides full size. Use the directional…
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Submitted My Two Cents on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Proposal to Minimize the Importance of the Delirium Diagnosis Code
I found out that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is planning to reclassify the diagnosis code for delirium, making it less serious than encephalopathy. Many clinicians are challenging it and organizations of consultation-liaison psychiatrists and the like, including me, don’t understand or agree with the plan. Even though I’m a retired C-L…
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FDA VRBPAC Meeting on Covid Vaccines Postponed
The May FDA VRBPAC meeting on Covid vaccines, originally scheduled for this month has been rescheduled to June 5, 2024, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM EST.
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