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Dental High Jinks!
I’m having a dental breakdown. Over the weekend, one of my crowns popped out while I was flossing. What do you think about that? Trying to do something healthy for my teeth and I had to see a dentist about the hazards of flossing. Flossing doesn’t usually hurt your teeth, but this reminds me of…
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Rounding at Iowa Podcast on Ultra Processed Foods & Other Tomfoolery
There’s a recent Rounding@Iowa podcast on Ultra Processed Foods that’s interested. Right off the bat, it fits in with June being National Dairy Month. It’s interesting that the less processed foods tend to be at the outer perimeter of the grocery store where they can be kept cooler and the more processed foods tend to…
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House of Svengoolie Show Movie: “Idle Hands”
Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast!” The movie “Idle Hands” was released in 1999 and, according to the Sven Squad, cost $25 million to produce and made only about $4 million at the box office. I can see why. But hang on, there are…
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Psilocybin in the News
Sena alerted me to an interesting news item about psilocybin which a case report describes the agent improving a Japanese American woman’s dementia. It was a whopping dose of 5 grams, which I guess is much larger than usual. She also received a second 3-gram dose: Lago M, Cerveira M and Simonet JX (2026) Transient…
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Baptism for a Lightweight
This post is a blast from the past. Before I published the handbook for consultation-liaison psychiatry over 15 years ago, I suggested a blog post for the Cambridge University Press author web site. I can’t remember if they bought the idea-probably not. But I was pretty proud of our little book, since it weighed zero…
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The Lantern of Diogenes and Diogenes Syndrome
I’ve been looking at my old WordPress blog posts from 16 years ago. I found one entitled “The Lantern of Diogenes.” It’s connected to Dr. Jenny Lind Porter, who published her book of poems in 1954, entitled The Lantern of Diogenes. I guess I can repost the first part of that blog post, in which…
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Could Ray Bradbury Have Been Lyrical About Isolation & Ebola?
I got this fascinating comment on one of my posts, (Do We See Each Other”), I wrote last year about one of Ray Bradbury’s short stories, entitled “I See You Never.” Judy’s remark was right on target, “Sometimes fiction mirrors life too painfully.” I don’t know whether Bradbury’s short story she called “The Lighthouse” is…
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Svengoolie Show Movie: Dr. Cyclops
Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast!” Here’s my deal; I fell asleep last night while watching another TV show on a different channel, “The UnXplained” hosted by William Shatner (Shat’s in the house and he’s 95 years old!) before the movie Dr. Cyclops came…
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Iowa Governor Reynolds Signs Iowa MAHA Bill Into Law Today
We watched the live-stream newscast of Iowa’s News Now video of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signing the Iowa state version of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) bill HF 2676 into law just about an hour ago. U.S. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr was a guest and delivered a short speech in praise of…
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Talk About Talk Therapy
I saw this great blog post about psychotherapy by Dr. George Dawson a couple of days ago and it reminded me of an academic research rounds presentation made about 15 years ago by University of Iowa Health Care Dept of Psychiatry faculty member, Dr. Bruce Pfohl, MD Professor Emeritus. The title of his talk was…
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