How it all went down. (II)
Omaha airport, day 0/7. The rental car is a Nissan Versa just like my first car. It makes me smile. I’m in Omaha a week before the exam day. My general psych graduation was more than a year ago, and...
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Day 4 is my live patient interview. It’s the last interview of the course, and the room is packed with doctors. The patient has chronic schizophrenia- her face is flat and she says very little. I sink...
View ArticleHow it all went down. (IV)
Exam day. I wake up before the alarm goes off. The exam is not until noon, and there is time to spare. I eat a leisurely waffles-and-yogurt breakfast in the hotel lobby, returning to my room only when...
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The 15 minute ride to the community mental health center is over soon. It’s a beautiful building, nestled between well manicured lawns. The clinic where I work looks nothing like this. Still, it’s a...
View ArticleThe shocking facts about shock treatment.
Have you ever heard a medical war story?I died on the table, and they brought me back twice. Broke two of my left ribs. The doc said it was a miracle. You probably have. How about a psychiatric war...
View ArticleProtected: Honesty
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View ArticleElection 2012
I read two articles in the newspapers today, one about Governor Romney’s 2011 tax returns and the other about a welfare mother. (Remaining cognizant of the fact that this is the NYT, a newspaper with a...
View ArticleOf guns
Newtown is half an hour away from here. When the shooting at Sandy Hook happened, I was at work. I could hear the clinicians talking about it in the hallway, and I started to Google for news. The...
View ArticleHello! I’m blogging again..
..and here’s why. Back in 2013 I stopped blogging- food was no longer all that interesting, and psychiatry was getting harder to write about. Offline life was getting more and more hectic- new job, new...
View ArticleThe second trimester ends.
It has been an interesting journey so far. If you recall, dear reader, the first thing I did after we received our diagnosis was to download a book called “Five Fingers Ten Toes” on Amazon and read it...
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