February 2012
1 post
Mass hysteria →
June 2011
1 post
Culture, person, critical theory →
January 2011
3 posts
“Daniel C. Dennett: Post hoc ergo propter hoc! “After this, therefore...”
– http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/t-Ch.12.html
“If you widen the lens, the public is being sold a big lie — that our problems...”
– Robert Reich http://goo.gl/b189N
“To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting...”
– http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/
December 2010
15 posts
“The term culture is often applied sloppily across power gradients, inadvertently...”
– Bourgeois and Schonberg 2009: 14
“Nietzsche, put it this way: “Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying...”
– Book Review - Poser - By Claire Dederer - NYTimes.com
“There is a harmony, and it is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder....”
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQyQnXrLb0&feature=player_embedded#!
“Anas Mohammed is A. M., Pfizer’s patient 0001.
Eleven years ago, his...”
– Ibid.
“Of course, says Watters, the parents gave their consent, but orally. He says...”
– http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,517805-3,00.html
“As a patient on public assistance, Dan’s treatment would have normally...”
– Ibid.
“The judge also dismissed the case against AstraZeneca. He blasted Mary’s...”
– Ibid.
“Matson specifically dismissed the suggestion that Dan was mentally incompetent...”
– Ibid.
“But what if a research study is not really aimed at producing genuine scientific...”
– http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2010/09/dan-markingson-drug-trial-astrazeneca
“Somehow it reminded me of a gas mask from World War I. This is not a bright and...”
– http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/the-worlds-first-artificial-heart/63949
Anna Freud, on how children who become doctors are motivated by “curiosity
[and] a desire to know,” wishes often established in “a hospital for insects, frogs, or lizards. And these small animals will be tended carefully in boxes, fed and looked after and, as the child says, cured. …
“In 1949, Dr. Antônio Egas Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and...”
– Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Lobotomy
“In Japan, the majority of the operated cases were children, many of whom had...”
– Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Lobotomy
“he was dissatisfied with the messiness and length of the operation, Having heard...”
– Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Lobotomy
“You know what I want the headline to say? (long pause) I need a moment for this....”
– http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum92.html
November 2010
2 posts
“In December, a defense psychiatrist concluded that credit card thief Albert...”
– http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lamo/
“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have...”
– Roger Ebert (via psychotherapy)
October 2010
6 posts
Test
[Kandel (1998)][1] makes reference to the Pauling (1949)[2][2] article from Science on sickle cell disease as evidence that medicine has “transformed from a practicing art into a scientific discipline based on molecular biology… [while] psychiatry was transformed from a medical discipline into a practicing therapeutic art” (Kandel 1998; 457). We know that SCD and cystic fibrosis are…
[1]:...
Todo: post about privacy, my practice in...
Scour the lit
Form a succinct policy
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Ethics consultations & "gestalt"
After yesterday afternoon’s consult with the transplant surgeons, thinking about previous cases and how “clinical judgement” (a notion that deserves to be deconstructed and operationalized for ethics consultation practice if it hasn’t yet; td: scour the lit) plays into consults. The facts generally orbit some feeling of what is right or wrong, for each of us, with our...
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Progress in medicine and especially in psychiatry
Kandel (1998) makes reference to the Pauling (1949) article from Science on sickle cell disease as evidence that medicine has “transformed from a practicing art into a scientific discipline based on molecular biology… [while] psychiatry was transformed from a medical discipline into a practicing therapeutic art” (Kandel 1998; 457). We know that SCD and cystic fibrosis are two...
Civil rights vs. WWII
Thinking about the orientation of bioethics w/re: to WWII and protections, versus the orientation of social justice and medicine (see JAMA article?) to the civil rights struggles.
Feelings →
Inspired by perusing psychiatry articles on the subject of contextual threat.
September 2010
2 posts
“If you’re creative and technical, you’re unstoppable.”
– Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez speaks the truth.
(via roomthily)
(via feltron, ronenreblogs)
“Even the most reluctant prescribers encounter a marketing juggernaut that has...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/business/02kids.html?ref=health
July 2010
3 posts
The Beast (xvii)
“only my hunger turns the food into a meal” Adam Phillips
Food
“He recently discovered that a potato on the verge of rotting in the earth sprouts a network of smaller potatoes around it, and that these satellite parasites are tender beyond belief and redolent of hazelnuts”
Dream
Two encouraging conversationalists, with me and D, talking about our lives. Positive outlooks, made me feel like I was dragging in mood, though I was fine. Both psychologists. Oh yeah, now I remember, the man, I believe, said, that they have doctors become psychologists too. I know, I said, imagine if they let you be a heart doctor.
March 2010
2 posts
Big things
After the rain (6 inches in new jersey) stopped, we three went out. We left breadcrumbs around the block: chalk drawings of the sun, a whale, a butterfly, a wormy, and so on. “going to work.” “What does Silas do at work?” “drawing.” “what does daddy do at work?” “drawing.” (It used to be “play baseball” before the world...
“The least interested party has the most power”
– Willard Waller in 1938, quoted by M. V. Miller
February 2010
1 post
Heart & happiness →
“Impact of emotion was gender-specific: anger increased the odds of subsequent AF for men, worry for women. In stratified analysis, emotion triggered AF only in those not taking beta-blockers (data not shown). Negative emotions can trigger AF, while happiness is protective. Whether interventions aimed at reducing the physiological effects of emotional stress may lessen AF burden requires...
December 2009
6 posts
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/business/economy/... →
Almost enough money
“Thinking about a radiology residency kept Gentry up at night. When she did sleep, nightmares woke her, and worries knocked around in her brain./ Her scores for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination, otherwise known as the boards, were relatively low for that specialty. She would be competing with students who studied more, dressed snappier and got distracted by fewer...
“Men have become the tools of their tools.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via minimalmac)
“On the third day of Melanie’s experiment, as her boyfriend was asking her a...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/health/22prof.html?em
Index cards taken beyond →
Married (Happily) With Issues in NY Times Magazine →
“Dan had just flown home from London where he was working on a story about Fergus Henderson, a chef who defines half a pig’s head as “a perfect romantic supper for two.” Henderson has Parkinson’s but told Dan he stopped reading about the disease, because in his experience “the more I know, the more symptoms I have.” Following suit, we thought it best to stick to dissecting the good parts of...
October 2009
2 posts
“In medicine we are taught that any given collection of symptoms is far more...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/magazine/04FOB-diagnosis-t.html?ref=magazine
Parenting, Food, McD's →
“The milk was fortified with vitamins A and D and contained 1 percent fat. No harm there. With the fries and McNuggets, we enter the polysyllabic realm of ingredients I don’t keep in my kitchen: mono- and diglycerides, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a number of phosphates, dimethylpolysiloxane. The last one is used as a lubricant, a dry-cleaning solution, an aquarium sealant, a component of the...
September 2009
3 posts
“David: Why did you call it “stop making sense”? David: Because it’s good advice.”
– David Byrne interviewing David Byrne about the wonderful movie Stop Making Sense
“The field of bioethics also has a some responsibility for the commonly held but...”
– Cassell, Eric J. “The Schiavo Case: A Medical Perspective.” Hastings Center Report 35.3 (May 2005): 22-23.
“Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a grand...”
– Virchow, 1848
June 2009
1 post
April 2009
1 post
“The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird...”
– david foster wallace (via meaghano)
February 2009
1 post
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people...”
– Steve Jobs, 1998 (via uxquotes) (via simplify) (via mikehudack) (via jayparkinsonmd)