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Reblog: “Bent Out of Shape”: About a Cell Phone Right Out of the Fred Flintstone Era
This is a reblog of “Bent out of Shape,” the story of how my old cell phone’s battery swelled up and posed a risk of exploding in my ear. OK, it never did and that’s a good thing. I had that stone-age phone for so long, you’d think I’d have just bought a new one.…
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Way to Go Dr. David Mair!
I just want to make a shout out to a former psychiatry resident I helped teach about 18 years ago. He and a group of other residents did an outstanding and hilarious job of making a couple of teaching videos about how to cope with violent patients. I realize that news stories about health care…
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Update on Pagliai’s Pizza Building Historic Landmark Status
I just wanted to post an update about what’s going on with Iowa City’s Pagliai’s Pizza building, which is still for sale with the owner’s asking price of $5 million. I mentioned it in a previous post a couple of years ago because it was up for consideration as an historic landmark. The building at…
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Liaison Psychiatrist appointed to Wexford General Hospital in Ireland
A few days ago, I read a news article announcing that a liaison psychiatrist was appointed to Wexford General Hospital, which is located in Ireland. It has around 280 beds. I didn’t see the name of the liaison psychiatrist who will be the lone ranger psychiatric consultant there. That person has my deepest respect as…
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The Buck Moon & Buck Rogers July 2026
I got a few pictures last night around 9:00 p.m. or so of the full (or nearly so) Buck Moon. Although the best night would have been on the 29th, the pictures still showed the moon having a rusty reddish-orange color. This morning at around 5:00 a.m., it was the usual whitish color. I saw…
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Reblog Acts of Kindness Spotted in Walmart
This is a reblog from 3 years ago that is really worth a repeat for the message about kindness it sends. We really need this nowadays.
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Reblog of “Mighty Hawk”
Hey, this is a reblog of my post about the Red-tail hawk that couldn’t come up with a meal on this date in 2025. This season is different for the young hawks, though. We’ve seen them feasting on rabbits and mice!
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Big Shoes Friday Blues Show with Uncle Ed (or Unka Led)
Well, the big news, at least for me, is that Uncle Ed (Unka Led?) did a long version of the shout outs last night—and the first one was Jim the Shrink, which Big Mo had been announcing first for a good while. I about fell out of my chair. I thought after Big Mo retired,…
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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…
