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November is National Blog Posting Month NaBloPoMo!
I’m going to go out on a limb and give a shout-out to anyone who wants to participate in a national month-long event for blog posting. I just found out about it and it’s unofficial, but National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) has been going on for a while and the history along with other guidance…
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KCCK Shout Outs List Included Jim the Shrink Last Night
I was listening to Ed English doing the KCCK Big Shoes Blues program last night and got surprised to hear him do the archival (really long) Shout-Outs list starting off with Jim the Shrink. The last time I heard Ed do that was on July 24, 2026 when Ed did it. If you don’t know…
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Reblogging “Reading My Old Book in a New Light”
I’m reblogging my post “Reading My Old Book in a New Light” because when I first wrote it, I didn’t know that my former chairman of the University of Iowa Health Care Psychiatry Dept, Dr. Robert G. Robinson, MD was nearing the end of his life at the time, which was in December of 2024.…
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Hey, It’s Active Aging Week!
OK, it’s the first day of National Active Aging Week and I’m urging you to stop that right now! No kidding, that title is comical because it suggests you should actively age, meaning adopt the attitude and habits of sedentary old fart—hey, everybody, let’s all get older right now! Actually, that’s the real name for…
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Reblogging “Hanging In There”
I’m reblogging the post “Hanging In There” which I posted on this date (9/12) in 2020. It’s one day past 9/11. I haven’t forgotten that important date in American history. I remember where I was when the news broadcast the attack. In fact, I saw it on the television in one of the lobbies at…
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Watch Out for Fake Columns Juggling!
Hey, I just found out that September is Aging Awareness Month. No wonder I’m bad at juggling columns! I’m just unaware that I should have started juggling way before retirement a few years ago. There’s no getting around it—I need to practice columns if I’m going to juggle fake columns. It looks really cool when…
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Reblogging “Should Doctors Be Funny”
I’m reblogging the post “Should Doctors Be Funny?” just to remind you I have not changed much since I wrote it three years ago on this day. I still think it’s better to look for the funny edge in life. It helps me get through most of the time. It’s probably the main reason I…
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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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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…
