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Verbal De-escalation: University of Colorado School of Medicine Video Series cont. Chapter 5
Simpson, Scott & Sakai, Joseph & Rylander, Melanie. (2019). A Free Online Video Series Teaching Verbal De-escalation for Agitated Patients. Academic Psychiatry. 44. 10.1007/s40596-019-01155-2.
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Verbal De-escalation: University of Colorado School of Medicine Video Series cont. Chapter 4
Simpson, Scott & Sakai, Joseph & Rylander, Melanie. (2019). A Free Online Video Series Teaching Verbal De-escalation for Agitated Patients. Academic Psychiatry. 44. 10.1007/s40596-019-01155-2.
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Verbal De-escalation: University of Colorado School of Medicine Video Series cont. Chapter 3
Simpson, Scott & Sakai, Joseph & Rylander, Melanie. (2019). A Free Online Video Series Teaching Verbal De-escalation for Agitated Patients. Academic Psychiatry. 44. 10.1007/s40596-019-01155-2.
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Verbal De-escalation: University of Colorado School of Medicine Video Series cont. Chapter 2
This is Chapter 2 of the free verbal de-escalation video series. This one is “Basic elements of verbal de-escalation.” Simpson, Scott & Sakai, Joseph & Rylander, Melanie. (2019). A Free Online Video Series Teaching Verbal De-escalation for Agitated Patients. Academic Psychiatry. 44. 10.1007/s40596-019-01155-2.
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CDC Covid Information
Often, I see news agency headlines claiming to have insider information about what’s going on with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), FDA, etc. I respect the opinions of others about government agencies. On the other hand, I like to get information straight from the horse’s mouth. With that in mind, here’s what the CDC…
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Are These Compass Flowers?
I have misidentified plenty of plants and the compass flower is one of them. We were walking the Clear Creek trail the other day and saw what I thought was a patch of compass flowers. See what you think, judging from the featured image. Anyway, I thought the flower itself pointed in a particular direction,…
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Rounding at Iowa: New Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease
This is one of the latest Rounding@Iowa podcasts and it’s about new treatments for Azheimer’s Disease, with one specific agent called Lecanemab. I’m an old psychiatrist, and I remember my clinical impresson of the previous medications for Alzheimer’s Disease, one of which was Donepezil. The scientific literature seemed to suggest that patients and families were…
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What’s the Skinny on Indoor Saline Pools and Vitamin D?
We saw a sign in the hotel elevator that made us curious. Part of it said: “There are also lots of ways to get out and soak up some good ‘ol vitamin D from our saline pool to our grill and patio area.” Not to quibble or get too sciency (“sciency” turns out to be…
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The Svengoolie Movie the Leech Woman and What About the Pineal Gland?
OK, so I watched the Svengoolie movie, “The Leech Woman” a couple of weeks ago and I think I missed the part where the June Talbot was told that the potion containing the pineal gland secretion and powdered flower parts entailed the requirement that the pineal gland secretion should come from a man. You can…
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The United States Postal Service is in Code 101 Lockdown!
No matter what I do, the USPS Change of Address (COA) snafu team makes the situation worse. It reminds me of this scene in Men in Black 2 in which the MIB headquarters goes into something called Code 101 Lockdown. Agents J & K return to headquarters and Agent J fires a sort of space…
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