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  • Let’s Promote Living Well to 100

    Let’s Promote Living Well to 100

    I get a big kick of this video every time I see it. It’s a YouTube about people who are 100 years old who are funny, wise, and talented. It’s included on the SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital YouTube channel. St. Mary’s Hospital is in Madison, Wisconsin. I worked as a psychiatrist there very briefly…

  • The Groundhog Effect

    The Groundhog Effect

    Last year, we noticed a groundhog waking up and bulldozing our back yard, even though snow was forecast that day. It’s pretty good at just putting its head down and pushing through almost anything in its path including leaves, sticks, small rocks, flowers, and so on. Their single-minded digging has helped uncover bones and pottery…

  • Dirty Dozen on C-L Psychiatry

    Dirty Dozen on C-L Psychiatry

    I’m back in the saddle again after a brief hiatus according to the terms of my phased retirement contract. During my time away, I thought about what a short introduction to Consultation-Liaison (C-L) Psychiatry might include to give medical students and other trainees a snapshot look at what CL psychiatrists encounter in their work in…

  • Clinical Problems in Consultation Psychiatry

    Clinical Problems in Consultation Psychiatry

    Long day on the C-L Psychiatry service. I logged 2.8 miles and 33 floors on my step counter. I barely had time to eat lunch. This post is going to be short. We were treated to outstanding presentations on fascinating topics over the last couple of days and they were given by top-notch medical students.…

  • The Last White Coat I’ll Ever Wear

    The Last White Coat I’ll Ever Wear

    I’m a big fan of the Men in Black movies. I’m not going to tell you how many times I’ve watched them on TV (78 million and if that number reminds you of a scene from Men in Black, you’re just as much a fan as I am, if not worse). One of my favorite…

  • A Little Too Exuberant

    A Little Too Exuberant

    I think a sense of humor is a wonderful thing. I was the class clown in my youth. I remember my English teacher, Miss Piggott, wrote in my report card that I was “A little too exuberant.” Actually, I was a great deal too exuberant. My sense of humor tends to fall into the broad…

  • Gauging My Readiness for Retirement

    Gauging My Readiness for Retirement

    I’m noticing something about my readiness for retirement. Certain activities are starting to be at least as interesting as my work as a consultation-liaison psychiatrist at the hospital—maybe even more so. For example, my wife and I are hoping that the cardinals will come back to our backyard evergreen tree. They were building a Hoorah’s…

  • Wes Ely Brings House Down

    Wes Ely Brings House Down

    I know I’d been saying that I probably wouldn’t have time to attend Wes Ely’s Grand Rounds presentation yesterday, “A New Frontier in Critical Care: Saving the Injured Brain.” But against all odds, I actually got to go, along with some medical students and a Family Medicine resident. As I expected, Dr. Ely brought the…

  • Delirium and Catatonia: Medical Emergencies

    Delirium and Catatonia: Medical Emergencies

    It was a very busy day on the consultation psychiatry service today. Besides that, I gave a lecture about delirium and dementia to the medical students. The talk is similar to the one below: As a reminder, Dr. Wes Ely, MD will be in Iowa City at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to…

  • Remembering My Calling

    Remembering My Calling

    Back when I had the blog The Practical C-L Psychiatrist, I wrote a post about the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observation in 2015. It was published in the Iowa City Press-Citizen on January 19, 2015 under the title “Remembering our calling: MLK Day 2015.”  I have a small legacy as a teacher. As I…