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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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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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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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Old Blog Post: Volunteer to Prevent Delirium
I ran across an old blog post I wrote in 2011 on preventing delirium and thought it would be interesting to share it. In all fairness, I think attitudes have changed for the better in the last several years. Blog: Do you have to be interested in Psychiatry to Volunteer for the Delirium Prevention Project?…
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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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Looking Back in My 6th Year of Retirement from Psychiatry: A Reblog and More
This is partly a reblog of my post in 2022, “Overdiagnosis of Psychiatric Disorders Still Happens” and partly a shout-out to my colleague and friend, Dr. George Dawson, MD on his recent post “The Politics of Deprescribing: Deconstructing the HHS Mental Health Agenda.” I’m also looking back on another one of my posts with a…
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Reblog of Post “Maybe I Should Be More Optimistic About Humans”
This is a reblog regarding my thoughts on July 13, 2023 about humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Marvin the Paranoid Android had a brain the size of a planet. I have a brain the size of a chickpea. I point out this comparison in the post. I still have doubts about how smart AI really…
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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…
