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Winter Storm Watch in Iowa
The National Weather Service has a Winter Storm Watch out for several counties in Iowa, starting Monday evening, January 8, 2024 through Wednesday evening. There’s a possibility of 8-13 inches of snow and blustery winds.
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Martin Luther King Jr Day 2024!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day is officially the third Monday of January every year. It’s January 15, 2024 this year. It’s really a community affair, which hopefully expands more broadly out to all people. There are a number of events planned. In the spirit of emphasizing the community projects, here’s the high points: The…
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Complexity Intervention Units Past And Present
Here’s another blast from the past about Complexity Intervention Units (CIUs) or what used to be called Medical-Psychiatry Units. I co-staffed one for 17 years at Iowa Health Care, the organization formerly known as Prince. No wait, that used to be called the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics. They’re rebranding. I was looking up CIU…
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Happy Holidays!
Here’s wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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KCCK Big Mo Christmas Blues Show!
I heard this funny Christmas tune last night on the Big Mo Blues Show on KCCK. And if your family’s Christmas was like this-you have my sympathy.
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An Old Blog Post About My College Days in Texas
There’s something embarrassing yet fascinating about reading my old blog posts from years ago. The one I read yesterday is titled simply “I Remember HT Heroes.” I make connections between my undergraduate college days at Huston-Tillotson College (now Huston-Tillotson University (an HBCU in Austin, Texas) and my early career as a consultation psychiatrist at The…
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Another Look at an Old Blog Post on Psychiatric Case Formulation
I just had a look at a blog post on case formulation I wrote about 12 years ago. Aside from sounding a little pompous, I decided to check on the title I gave it back then: “What Kind of Disease Does the Person Have And What Kind of Person Has the Disease?” I looked at…
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Gratitude to Pastor Robert Stone
I came across a couple of items that prompted my renewed gratitude. One of them was an article in Bloomberg on the web, “US Medical Schools Grapple With First Admissions Since End of Affirmative Action” by Richard Abbey, Ilena Peng, and Marie Patino, published on December 14, 2023. It’s about how hard it is for…
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Time for Another Blast from the Past
I found an interesting blog post from my previous blog, The Practical Psychosomaticist. I wrote it in 2011 and it’s about the patient experience of delirium. I was delirious briefly after a colonoscopy many years ago. I don’t remember much about it. But from what Sena tells me about it, it was similar to other…
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Whirlpool Care Counts Laundry Program Cleans Up!
Sena and I just recently saw the TV commercial about the Whirlpool Care CountsTM Laundry Program, which has been providing washers and dryers for schools. It was launched to address school absenteeism, one cause of which is bullying of kids who don’t have clean clothes. They are also more likely to drop out of school.…
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