At the Grocery The process is magical. Perfect red-cheeked apples line up in stylish rows beneath transparent domes.. Next to them lie delightfully bright yellow mangos. Each perfect form is unique, demonstrating their shy markings of orange, brick red and lavender whose beauty declares their nutritious freshness. You inspect each through the transparent plastic, looking […]
No Treatment, No Problem (10/14/13)
Without Care If you’re psychotic and you don’t want treatment it’s no problem. At least until you harm or kill somebody. Navy veteran and computer contractor Aaron Alexis killed twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard. By all evidence he had been psychotic for weeks or months. He told his friends and neighbors that their […]
Psychotherapy While You Sleep (9/30/13)
Thinking While You Sleep Can’t we get people to learn stuff while they sleep? It’s been a dream (pardon the pun) of physicians, psychologists, industrialists and teachers for many many years. Why should eight hours – one third of life – be spent in such a “wasteful” manner? Now, media hype-hopes are rekindled anew with […]
Bugs in the Brain (8/25/13)
Gums Want to avoid cardiovascular disease? One way is to keep your gums healthy. Teeth gnash, bite, rip and shred the foodstuffs that let us live. And the gums that support them are necessary to keep the critters in those foods from making us sick. But gums also become ill. About 30% of adults have […]
“Evidence Based” Medicine? (7/22/13)
What’s the Evidence? Modern medicine’s recent mantra is to become “evidence based.” No more listening to anecdote. No more acceptance of poorly performed studies. Now we will look at “hard evidence” and properly designed trials to determine how to best treat human beings. And for evidence based medicine, death is a “hard” end point. These […]