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Reminisce About the Old Days on the Psychiatry Consult Service
I reminisce once in a while on my early days running the Psychiatry consultation service at University of Iowa Health Care. I was involved in a delirium prevention committee back in 2011. The old blog post below shows my frustration with how slow progress seems to be in committees. I used to watch Hogan’s Heroes…
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Rounding@Iowa Podcast on General Inpatient Hospice Care
This is an excellent podcast episode about General Inpatient Hospice Care and I am proud to have been part of her early professional career when I interviewed her for residency at The University of Iowa Health Care. She and Dr. John Wilde gave an absolutely stunning presentation about hospice and palliative care in response to…
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My Comments About the Deprescribing Issues
I just had a few comments to share related Dr. George Dawson’s post I highlighted yesterday. This whole discussion about deprescribing is complicated and naturally leads to further thought about how to approach the complicated clinical relationship issues involved. There was a relevant article in Psychiatric Times which addressed some of the factors involved in…
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Big Shoes Friday Blues Show is a Kickin’ Mule!
Last night I finally got it straight from host Ed English what the new name is for the Friday night blues show on KCCK-FM. It’s the Big Shoes Friday Blues Show. Ed has a lot of good energy, his voice is bright, he’s smart, and he makes sure that women and local blues artists get…
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Iowa City Sculptors Showcase 2026 to 2028!
This is just an update about the Iowa City notice regarding the upcoming Iowa City Sculptors Showcase for 2026-2028. This means that the date is fast approaching for sculptors to remove the current sculptures to be removed between July 21-28, 2026. We have enjoyed the Art in Parks sculptors showcase and anticipate another great set…
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Reblog of the Post “When Do We Get Out of the Woods?”
This is a different kind of reblog of the post “When Do We Get Out of the Woods” because I want to mention my invented lyrics for the song from the film “The Wizard of Oz” when Dorothy and the oddballs get out of the haunted woods into the land of Oz. The original song…
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Big Shoes Blues Show with Ed English
Well, “Hello” to the Big Shoes Blues Show hosted by Ed English on his inaugural Friday night on KCCK radio 88.3 in Iowa! Bobby D hung out with Ed for a short while at the start of the show. Ed flew just fine solo the rest of the evening. He’s got a great radio voice.…
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Blast from the Past Reblog of “Hoofing It Around the Hospital”
I thought it would be interesting to reblog this post “Hoofing It Around the Hospital,” originally posted on July 10, 2019. It’s a landmark of my path to retirement, which was a 3-year phased pathway. I was not on duty all the time in the hospital as a consultation-liaison psychiatrist, so it was sometimes a…
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Remarks about “James Alan McPherson:On Becoming An American Writer: Essays & Nonfiction”
I couldn’t think of a less complicated title for this post about the book “James Alan McPherson: On Becoming An American Writer: Essays & Nonfiction.” It’s a collection of James Alan McPherson’s essays, but this humble blog post is not intended to be a review, nothing as grandiose as that. Nobody should think I have…
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New Book on James Alan McPherson
We just got the new book about James Alan McPherson, “On Becoming An American Writer: Essays & Nonfiction.” Well, new to us anyway. It was published in 2023. I started reading the book yesterday. Sena and I talked about it and she’ll read it herself. I started in the middle, by reading “Crabcakes.” I usually…
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