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Reblogging the Psychiatric Polypharmacy CPCP Post
I think it’s worthwhile to reblog my post “Psychiatric Polypharmacy: An Opportunity to teach with CPCP,” originally posted on this date in 2022. CPCP stands for Clinical Problems in Consultation Psychiatry, which was started by my consultation-liaison psychiatry teacher, Bill Yates. Staying current with what the medical literature says about the safest and most effective…
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Roadkill Story and the Circle of Life
This is not about the TV series. This is just a short note on finding out the right agency to contact if you find a dead animal either in the street or at the side of the road. It’s nothing spectacular, but it was a new one on me. I took my usual walk down…
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Reblogging “Hit Them Back with Love”
I ran across a blog I posted on August 24, 2024 back when we were staying in a hotel waiting for our house to be built. John Heim (aka Big Mo) was the DJ on KCCK back then (Ed English is doing a great job nowadays!) and played a tune called “Hit ‘Em Back” which…
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The Little Ironies
I scheduled this morning’s early post about the Iowa State Fair Cribbage Tournament yesterday afternoon. Well after that, later in the evening Sena told me she read a news story about Rusty Martin, a former Iowa state senator, who had Stage 5 Alzheimer’s Disease and traveled to Switzerland to end his life via the assisted-dying…
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Stop the World
The title of this post, “Stop the world,” is weird and it’s an exhortation by the fictional Yaqui brujo, Don Juan Matus, a character in a book by Carlos Castaneda, “Journey to Ixtlan.” I don’t want to get hung up on the personal history of Castaneda, a fraud who got mixed up in some kind…
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Frog in Our Window Well!
Last night, Sena kept hearing something tapping against the window in the window well. Then she saw a little critter sliding down the window. It was a frog that probably jumped into the window well and couldn’t get out. I got a photo of it although it’s a little hard to see because of the…
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Living in the Arms of the Common People
The other day Sena was shopping at the grocery store and she was standing in line at the checkout lane. An African American woman (age maybe thirtyish) was having trouble with her WIC card. That’s the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC for short) debit card. It’s the federal assistance program…
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Reblog of “Ten Month Countdown to Retirement”
This is a special reblog that always pangs me when I think of it. It was when I started the 10-month countdown to my retirement from my career as a consultation-liaison psychiatrist at University of Iowa Health Care. It’s not easy leaving what I’d come to consider a calling. That was hard. It’s being a…
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Reblogging “Holes in Our Heads”
You know, I’m reblogging this post “Holes in Our Heads” because it was fun to write several years ago. I hope people think it’s fun to read.
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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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