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Medicine and Applied Psychology
Three articles from the NYT:
People Say, ‘Be Positive’ When You Have Cancer. I Prefer to Complain With Friends.
Cancer Took Away My Ability to Eat, but Not My Love of Food
I Have M.S. This Is What It’s Like to Be Fed by Other People.
Technology and Research:
Doctors Transplant Ear of Human Cells, Made by 3-D Printer, also from the NYT
Liver Preserved for 3 Days With Machine Perfusion Successfully Transplanted
--Patient healthy and leading normal life at 1 year, from MedPage Today
Other tidbits:
My “Private” War against the Tobacco Industry, by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
(or, what can happen over time if enough people cause enough of a ruckus)
Sophie Freud, professor who challenged her grandfather’s doctrine, dies at 97
"...“I’m very skeptical about much of psychoanalysis,” she told the Boston Globe in 2002. “I think it’s such a narcissistic indulgence that I cannot believe in it.”Is Putin Sick – Or Are We Meant to Think He Is?, from the New Lines Magazine
"...Steroids – a common one is prednisone – attack malignant lymphocytes that circulate in the blood, but they are also known for two common side effects.
The first is a high risk of infection owing to how badly they deplete immune cells. “Anyone on heavy doses of steroids will find it much easier to contract COVID-19,” Grossman said, which might account for Putin’s extreme germophobia and recourse to Howard Hughes-like seclusion. Pneumonia, too, can easily kill an immunocompromised steroid user.
And the second side effect?
“Deeply irrational or paranoid behavior.”
People Say, ‘Be Positive’ When You Have Cancer. I Prefer to Complain With Friends.
Cancer Took Away My Ability to Eat, but Not My Love of Food
I Have M.S. This Is What It’s Like to Be Fed by Other People.
Technology and Research:
Doctors Transplant Ear of Human Cells, Made by 3-D Printer, also from the NYT
Liver Preserved for 3 Days With Machine Perfusion Successfully Transplanted
--Patient healthy and leading normal life at 1 year, from MedPage Today
Other tidbits:
My “Private” War against the Tobacco Industry, by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
(or, what can happen over time if enough people cause enough of a ruckus)
Sophie Freud, professor who challenged her grandfather’s doctrine, dies at 97
"...“I’m very skeptical about much of psychoanalysis,” she told the Boston Globe in 2002. “I think it’s such a narcissistic indulgence that I cannot believe in it.”
She dismissed “penis envy,” a developmental stage that Sigmund Freud attributed to young girls, as “nonsense” and the ideas of a “3-year-old boy.”
Of her grandfather’s theory of the parent-child dynamic, she dryly remarked, “I have some questions about this Oedipal relationship.”
She found particularly flawed her grandfather’s understanding of female patients. “My grandfather was a good and loving man,” Dr. Freud told the Associated Press, “but he understood nothing about a woman’s sexuality.”..."
"...Steroids – a common one is prednisone – attack malignant lymphocytes that circulate in the blood, but they are also known for two common side effects.
The first is a high risk of infection owing to how badly they deplete immune cells. “Anyone on heavy doses of steroids will find it much easier to contract COVID-19,” Grossman said, which might account for Putin’s extreme germophobia and recourse to Howard Hughes-like seclusion. Pneumonia, too, can easily kill an immunocompromised steroid user.
And the second side effect?
“Deeply irrational or paranoid behavior.”
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