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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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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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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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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…
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