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To Go Gently, or Not: Does Slow Medicine Make Sense in Psychiatry?
ISSUE: DECEMBER, 2008 Faced with the mystery and power of an illness, we try to embrace science, but when that fails to deliver us back to the kingdom of the well, our minds quickly fill in the gestalt with moral rationalizations and metaphors. So, too, for the kingdom of aging, an inevitable destination for us all that we both revere and dread in a sort of Manichean struggle between the light of wisdom and vitality and the darkness of illness and death. read more & comment | |
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If I Forget Thee …
ISSUE: NOVEMBER, 2008 Columnist Marc Agronin, MD, would like to think that even in the last days of dementia, there are still traces of memory that allow patients to keep someone in their hearts; so how can caregivers and clinicians respond to the relentless loss of persona inflicted upon its sufferers? read more & comment | |
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Bereft
ISSUE: OCTOBER, 2008 The Hippocratic Oath does not discriminate on the basis of creed, even if it is a disturbing one. And in the rush of treatment, the doctor’s ignorance of a patient’s past sins may provide a protective wall. read more & comment | |
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Strength in Numbers
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2008 We have all seen a flock of birds, or a swarm of bees, but what about a parliament of owls? Or a shrewdness of apes? According to James Lipton’s wonderful compendium, most animal groups have terms that, to a greater or lesser extent, capture the meaning of the collective. read more & comment | |
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Savant, of Sorts
ISSUE: AUGUST, 2008 Imagine how different the world would be if we could simply look at or listen to something just once and then remember it in its entirety. read more & comment | |
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A Sage From the Prairie: An Interview With George S. McGovern
ISSUE: JUNE, 2008 On March 16, 2008, former South Dakota senator and 1972 U.S. Democratic presidential nominee George S. McGovern was a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry in Orlando, Fla. read more & comment | |
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Blessed
ISSUE: MAY, 2008 There is a tendency to sometimes compare the youngest and oldest generations, in effect infantilizing our most aged and debilitated citizens by assigning them the same expectations for incapacity and dependence. And why not? read more & comment | |
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Stumped
ISSUE: APRIL, 2008 There is still the fantasy of absolute authority among many physicians, coupled with a desire for decision-making prowess. read more & comment |
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