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Tag Archives: holistic
When Open-Minded Doctor is not an Oxymoron (Part III)
I asked psychologist Paul Cohen, doctor of philosophy, what difference it makes—how am I different because I’m smarter? He said that intelligence makes you able to remember more things, understand things faster, think abstractly, and see the big picture. … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Health Care, Holistic, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health
Tagged doctor, doctors, Dr. Jennifer Daniels, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, Dr. Paul M. Cohen, Health, holistic, holistic medicine, I.Q., intelligence, medical school, mental health, Office of Professional Medical Conduct, Open-minded, OPMC, psychology
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How to Cook Fresh Beets
I don’t know why, but nobody knows how to cook fresh beets anymore. I learned from my mom and grandma. Fresh beets are delicious; canned beets should only be used for pickling. Ancient civilizations used beet juice to dye things. … Continue reading
Healing in Your Mind
A response to Carl Elliott’s “Placebo, RSI, Scrivener’s Palsy,” in particular to the statement “Many doctors continue to think that some individual patients are simply more susceptible to the placebo effect than others – more gullible, more neurotic or more … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Holistic, Mental Illness & Health, Spirituality
Tagged Alternative, body mind, Complementary and Alternative, doctors, drugs, healing, Health, health care, holistic, Hypnotherapy, Medicine, mental health, neurosis, patients, Physician, physicians, placebo, power, problem solving, Psychotherapy
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The Vacation Plan: A Way to Reduce Medicare/Medicaid Spending
Physicians know the healing power of vacations because they take them every year. My best favorite doctor takes one week with his whole family and another week with his wife alone. And one day he smiled sadly at me … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care
Tagged doctors, drugs, Health, health care, holistic, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, mental health, patients
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The Body of Mental Illness, part II
I was in the hospital and I needed to take a nap. I have severe obstructive sleep apnea, so I needed my CPAP (no, dearies, not a Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, but a Continuous Positive Air Pressure machine—it blows air … Continue reading
Under a Waning Moon
Around 1982, Dr. Jenifer Rich prescribed lithium for my bipolar depression. She failed to monitor it. She should have checked lithium levels every two months, kidney function every six months, and cardiac function once a year. I didn’t know; I … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Health Care, Mental Illness & Health
Tagged antidepressants, bipolar, chronic renal failure, DDAVP, death, dehydration, depression, diabetes mellitus, diagnosis, dialysis, diarrhea, diuretics, drugs, end-of-life, endocrinology, GFR, glomerular filtration rate, HCTZ, health care, holistic, hypokalemia, immune system, kidney failure, kidney infection, lithium, low potassium, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, nephrology, pharmaceuticals, physicians, psychiatric disorders, psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology, suicidal feelings, urine output, values
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Comes the Exterminator
It took a year for my sister’s to divvy up my mom’s personal effects and send some things on to me. Included were the “Memoirs of Elizabeth Hope Copeland Woodlen,” which are two volumes of essays my mother wrote and … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care
Tagged afterlife, ayurvedic, death, Elizabeth Woodlen, family, health care, holistic, Hospice, life, mourning
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The Spirit without Drugs
I took drugs every day for twenty-six years. They were all prescribed by physicians, but I make no distinction between the drugs you prescribe for yourself and the drugs your doctor prescribes you: they’re all chemical cocktails to alter your … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care
Tagged doctors, drugs, health care, holistic, illness, prescriptions, wellness
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