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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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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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Look On Our Wonders of America
Sena and I have been talking lately about how we would reimagine the Mt. Rushmore monument in South Dakota. We’ve never gone to South Dakota to see it. We discussed supplanting the current former U.S. Presidents with various other leaders like Helen Keller, Dr. Jonas Salk, Mahatma Ghandi. We had trouble coming up with a…
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Remarks on Reblog of Big Mo Pod Show “Absorbing Influences”
This is a reblog of my post “Absorbing Influences,” which was the title of an entry of John Heim (aka Big Mo from the former Big Mo Pod Show). It was a regular review of Big Mo’s Friday blues music show (see link below in the original post). In my blog, I noted that I…
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The Day the Firefighter Retired Reblog
Today is the day I retired back in 2020. That feels like such a long time ago. It was the end of a phased retirement pathway to giving up my role as a consulting psychiatrist for the University of Iowa Heath Care. We were in the process of moving to an older house. And we…
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KCCK Friday Blues Edition with Bobby D Which Inspired My Song Bowel Prep Blues
Well, last night was Bob DeForest’s last Friday night bridging the path for the new Friday Blues guy, Uncle Ed English. He’ll be starting to spin the records on July 10, 2026. I really appreciate Bobby D’s great work and dedication for filling the time gap between Big Mo’s retirement and Uncle Ed’s arrival. Last…
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Reblog of “New Namesake for Johnson County”
My blog post entitled “New Namesake for Johnson County” on this date in 2021 is reblogged below. The name of Johnson County had originally been named for a slaveholder. That was changed on June 24, 2021 when it was renamed in honor of Dr. Lulu Merle Johnson, a distinguished African American scholar.
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Happy Father’s Day June 2026
The radio station KOKZ Mike Water’s Wake-Up Call show was on a few days ago, making various jokes and taking calls from the public about Father’s Day. I could say that I haven’t thought about my dad for years, but that’s not true. I think about my family. All of them died within a few…
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