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- Meet Dr. Receptacle - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI first learned that I was a “receptacle personality” in Baltimore, Maryland. I was serving our fine country in the US Army Medical Corps as psychiatrist to the 82nd Airborne Division in Ft. Bragg. NC There was some sort of a training group there that all of the other active duty ...
Views: 1284 - Let Me Tell You ‘Bout The Bees (Maybe The Birds Later) - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinWhen I first saw in a headline somewhere that the earth’s population of honeybees was diminishing, I actually thought it might be a good thing. Less bee stings. I cannot count the number of patients I have seen (particularly males young enough to harbor delusions of their own ...
Views: 1283(1 vote) - Why Soldiers Commit Suicide These Days - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinThe current rate of suicide among soldiers should make us angry, maybe enough to destroy our computers or, heaven forbid, write to congress or even try to stop war. I checked out this institution¸ the National Center for Veterans Studies, the best I could. I am not sure why the Department of ...
Views: 1247 - “Listening to Prozac” and What People Really Want - by Submitted on May 24, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI was in my specialty training when I read Peter D.Kramer’s “Listening to Prozac.” I remember thinking he was articulate and observant and all kinds of wonderful things, riding the cusp of a great change in psychiatry, doubting him to be a “real” scientist who would hang out at a meeting of ...
Views: 1229 - (Poor) Substitutes For Birth Control - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinOkay, so you don’t care. You tell me you don’t have sex too much and that is kind of like birth control. It isn’t. It might be if it took having sex five times to have a kid, but it only takes one, so you are very likely to get pregnant. Once you get pregnant, the child is your responsibility ...
Views: 1217 - They’re Ba-a-a-a-ck!!! Zombie Diet Drugs!!! - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinTo paraphrase some recent political campaigns, the FDA was against Qnexa before they were for it. I’ve written about this diet drug compound before – HERE And HERE. Last time I wrote about this “drug,” I thought it was down for the count. Aauugghh!!!! Like a scene from “Night Of The ...
Views: 1197 - No More Cognitive Loss for Age - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinDo Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, that old Dylan Thomas poem, is a favorite of many mature adults, including me. Do not go gentle into that good night Rage, Rage against the dying of the light Let’s face it — none of us is getting any younger. And as we age, we’ve got to ...
Views: 1196 - Whose Birth Control is it, Anyway? - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinSo who is or is not going to pay for contraception under Obamacare? And this is a religious question? The truth of the matter is that even though the United States has promised religious freedom from the very start, they have not done a very good job, historically, of delivering on this ...
Views: 1185 - Rise in Measles From Lack Of Vaccination - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinHumans are … well, strange. A fixed problem can become unfixed. First, let’s take it on good authority this problem really has been fixed. It has been fixed with vaccination. Nobody wants problems. So why? Why is the number of measles cases suddenly rising? People seem to ...
Views: 1109 - Denied a Kidney Transplant for Taking Legally Prescribed Medicine? - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinWhen human lives are at stake, there is simply no room for emotional decisions based on pseudo-science. But since when does anybody listen to anything I have to say? Individuals are being removed from organ transplant lists because they are users of medical marijuana. Most recently, a ...
Views: 1107 - Hospital Accountability Is An Ideal (Not Always Reality) - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinI have spent as little time as possible on the staff of hospitals. The interface between doctors and administrators has always seemed to be dominated by petty politics. People are interested in money, and secondary to that, some vague sort of reputation or power. A large and prestigious ...
Views: 1095 - We All Need Inspiration — Here Is Today’s Dose - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinWe are in an era when all reporting — wire services, networks, whatever — looks the way tabloid reporting did when I was small. Aggressive, emotional, mostly verbal renderings of disasters that are meant to strike terror into the heart of the reader. Sometimes, something miraculous or near ...
Views: 1091 - Lessons On How To Evaluate & Adjust Your Professional Rates - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2008 from Estelle GoldsteinEvery professional deserves fair compensation for his/her level of experience and expertise. But most have no idea how to calculate a fair rate. I've just completed a series of free lessons on how to evaluate and adjust your professional rates so that they are fair to the patient and fair to the ...
Views: 1083 - How Brominated Vegetable Oil Found Me - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinMost of my early drafts of blog posts start with “I was minding my own business, surfing the net….” That is something I often do; “surf the net,” I mean. Not “minding my own business,” something which my Mother-of-Blessed-Memory would attest I haven’t done since the beginning of high school. ...
Views: 1073 - We Can Fix This Vaccination Bit - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinIf I haven’t convinced everyone yet, I don’t know how. I have written on this before. Vaccination keeps kids alive. Kids who could die dead as door nails from preventable diseases. Vaccination has very few side effects. All kids should get them (except for specific and quite rare ...
Views: 1065 - Facial Diagnosis - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI grew up with the Reader’s Digest, although I do not think that was what my parents had in mind. I was a very early reader. I had the activity pretty much nailed by the time I was three. I could even do phonetic “sounding out” of words, as well as the obsessional “dictionary searching” that I ...
Views: 1056 - Marketing for Healers - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2009 from Estelle GoldsteinMarketing for healers? I'll bet you have trouble even reading those words! Somebody taught you somewhere that these are God given gifts that you have, healing others, and you should not even think of them as a way of making money. My first medical textbook said I was so lucky to be becoming a ...
Views: 1041 - Thanking Veterans - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinTurns out, while most veterans appreciate a stranger saying “thank you” for their service, it can also be a bit uncomfortable. I wonder how these same guys feel about the “Have you thanked a veteran today?” bumper stickers. I’ve been thanking veterans for a long time. Sometimes, not as ...
Views: 1008 - To Aspirin or Not To Aspirin; That Is the Question - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinWarning: Daily use of aspirin can lead to side effects which may include total loss of impulse control, man boobs, toe hair, and third nipples. Please consult your doctor before taking this and other over the counter medicine. Well, not really. But your really should know the risks and ...
Views: 1006 - A Few Extra Pounds Might Not Be So Bad - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinLike many others, I am of the type who has been made to feel less. Less than healthy, less than human; whatever, the kind of feeling that sells diet food and diet plans. When some of the wire services picked up on the latest meta-analysis about obesity and mortality, I had to smile. I’ve ...
Views: 973 - Where Have All the Psychiatrists Gone? - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinA lot of people are whores; it is just a question of naming the price. Even in psychiatry. The psychiatrist interviewed — and he does sound like a fairly decent fellow — says he can only do drug therapy. He cannot change to a talking practice that pays less because he and his wife want to ...
Views: 948(1 vote) - Antibiotics in Livestock Feed Endanger The Entire World - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinAs it turns out, this whole bit about the use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry is a complex issue. It’s well beyond anything that anyone would guess at first blush. The best online summary is the position paper put out by Food Marketing Institute. Curiously enough, it doesn’t have a ...
Views: 940 - Bouncing Back From Adversity - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinI do surf the web — I do not do so aimlessly. I was impressed by an article published by AARP on things people should not do after 50. Despite the fact that I absolutely abhor anyone telling me “laws” about what to do or not to do, I checked it out. I decided most of them were so stupid ...
Views: 926 - Less Football = Less Death - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinCutting back on football practice during excessive heat in order to diminish death can only be a good idea. About a year ago, scientists studied the surge in heat related deaths on the football field and noted some real problems. Problems like the tripling of the average death rate from one ...
Views: 913 - What is there to Treat? - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinI enjoy having friends, like just about everyone does. But that’s not why I’m in this business. When a patient needs help, I will do my best for them every single time. And if a few colleagues get bruised egos along the way, so be it. She was a 53-year-old woman, but I don’t think she even ...
Views: 912 - Headache or Tumor - by Submitted on Oct 05, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinI don’t think I know anyone who can say they’ve never had a headache. And some have them often enough that they’re given about as much attention as a hiccup or a sneeze. But sometimes, a headache can be more than a headache. I was in Minneapolis doing a rotation in neurology through a ...
Views: 868 - Stem Cell Benefits Masked By Fear and Misinformation - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinMaybe the folks who continue to argue against stem cell research are just afraid their own stem cells could beat them at a game of checkers. Listen, I want to live forever. Not like in the song “Fame,” but like in the way that most of us would do anything to live. Or like the guy who had ...
Views: 864 - Science and War (and Ethics) - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinIn the National World War II museum, it is easy and even triumphant and pride-generating to look back and see some of the scientific advances made during World War II. There’s no doubt that science is advancing. But I wonder if our ethics can keep pace. I am fairly proud of Teflon. And ...
Views: 785 - Meningitis and Hershey Bars - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinStrange, that the meningitis-tainted steroids in Tennessee make me think of the chocolate bar case from Oklahoma. Two young, and it seemed to me, perfectly honest if somewhat histrionic young women who found worms in their Hershey bars — the hard way. Both were unemployed and mothers of ...
Views: 708 - Research Fraud Isn’t Reported To The Public - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinTopic: Research Fraud For someone who has been a part of many clinical trials, I will be the first to admit that I have very little training in research design or statistics. Oh, the hours I’ve spent surreptitiously curled up on the sofa of a doctors’ lounge or my own apartment, thinking ...
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