Neuroscience
- Pick A Doctor, Any Doctor
Some countries are worried that so many of their doctors are coming to work in the UK. Now Adrian Furnham and colleagues have highlighted another concern regarding the NHS’ increasing dependence on foreign doctors. They report that white British people...
- "the Brain, Within Its Groove" By Emily Dickinson
The Brain, within its Groove Runs evenly--and true-- But let a Splinter swerve-- 'Twere easier for You-- To put a Current back-- When Floods have slit the Hills-- And scooped a Turnpike for Themselves-- And trodden out the Mills-- -Emily Dickinson...
- Surrealism: Count On Kafka!
From The Guardian: Reading Kafka 'enhances cognitive mechanisms', claims study Subjects who had just read Kafka's The Country Doctor were better at recognising patterns in grammar test, psychologists found Alison Flood guardian.co.uk Thursday...
- Somatization Disorder
From today's New York Times: Doctors Give Hope to Patients With Long Histories of Unexplained Symptoms By DAN HURLEY 22 August 2006 People with a long history of medically unexplained symptoms — aches, pains, fatigue, dizziness and other complaints...
- About Vision Therapy
Got a few posts from people wanting to know what I did for vision therapy so they could do it themselves. Well, I'm a librarian, not a doctor -- and I started VT over 5 years ago -- so I don't feel comfortable promoting the exercises *I* did....
Neuroscience
Junkie On The Phone
Kirsten Emott is an MD from British Columbia who also writes poetry. The March 2010 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry has published a poem of hers that was originally printed in The Naked Physician: Poems About the Lives of Patients and Doctors by R. Charach.
Junkie On The Phone
You don’t have a headache.
The GP you named doesn’t know you.
The pharmacist recognizes your name.
You even called me before.
I won’t prescribe the drugs.
Play the game elsewhere.
Call up some other doctor.
Set out your lies:
"Doctor, here is my lie.
I want you to join me in my lying.
Pretend I am sick.
Give me what will make me sicker.
Give me a stick
with which to beat myself.
Help me to die."
Junkie On The Phone
You don’t have a headache.
The GP you named doesn’t know you.
The pharmacist recognizes your name.
You even called me before.
I won’t prescribe the drugs.
Play the game elsewhere.
Call up some other doctor.
Set out your lies:
"Doctor, here is my lie.
I want you to join me in my lying.
Pretend I am sick.
Give me what will make me sicker.
Give me a stick
with which to beat myself.
Help me to die."
- Pick A Doctor, Any Doctor
Some countries are worried that so many of their doctors are coming to work in the UK. Now Adrian Furnham and colleagues have highlighted another concern regarding the NHS’ increasing dependence on foreign doctors. They report that white British people...
- "the Brain, Within Its Groove" By Emily Dickinson
The Brain, within its Groove Runs evenly--and true-- But let a Splinter swerve-- 'Twere easier for You-- To put a Current back-- When Floods have slit the Hills-- And scooped a Turnpike for Themselves-- And trodden out the Mills-- -Emily Dickinson...
- Surrealism: Count On Kafka!
From The Guardian: Reading Kafka 'enhances cognitive mechanisms', claims study Subjects who had just read Kafka's The Country Doctor were better at recognising patterns in grammar test, psychologists found Alison Flood guardian.co.uk Thursday...
- Somatization Disorder
From today's New York Times: Doctors Give Hope to Patients With Long Histories of Unexplained Symptoms By DAN HURLEY 22 August 2006 People with a long history of medically unexplained symptoms — aches, pains, fatigue, dizziness and other complaints...
- About Vision Therapy
Got a few posts from people wanting to know what I did for vision therapy so they could do it themselves. Well, I'm a librarian, not a doctor -- and I started VT over 5 years ago -- so I don't feel comfortable promoting the exercises *I* did....