Doctor Psychobabble

“Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you’re feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I’ll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?”

- Lyrics to “Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd

I’m home. Post call. Have not slept in 30 some hours. Dead. Want to share, but can’t. Impossible. Comfortably numb. Hello bed, I missed you.

Photo: Taken outside of the park just now when I walked my doggy with his uncomfortably full bladder.

I haven’t updated my links in forever. Anyway, I was inspired to do so. So here you go, some are a bit old!

• Why The Best Chocolate Is The One You Eat Last : The Salt : NPR
• Feeling Anxious? Soon There Will Be an App for That – NYTimes.com
  
• Novelty-Seeking (Neophilia) Can Be a Predictor of Well-Being – NYTimes.com
• Study Finds New York Hospitals Flout Charity Rules – NYTimes.com
• In Chicago, Mental Health Patients Have No Place to Go – NYTimes.com
• Alabama Plans to Shut Most Mental Hospitals – NYTimes.com
• In Israel, a New Approach to Organ Donation – NYTimes.com
• Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes – The Washington Post
• Nature Has A Good Beat, But Can You Dance To It? : NPR
• Doctor and Patient: Learning From Other Patients – NYTimes.com
• Clothes and Self-Perception – NYTimes.com
• Taking Responsibility for Death – NYTimes.com
• Where Have All the Neurotics Gone? – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: When Less Treatment Is More – NYTimes.com
• Doctors Have Feelings, Too – NYTimes.com
• Does Medicine Discourage Gay Doctors? – NYTimes.com
• Phys Ed: Getting to the Root of Runner’s High – NYTimes.com
• In New York City, Giving Away, and Taking Away, Condoms – NYTimes.com
• How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death – NYTimes.com
• The Science and History of Treating Depression – NYTimes.com
• How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: Reinventing Year Three of Medical School – NYTimes.com
• 18 and Under: Parents’ Mental Health Is Critical to Children’s Care – NYTimes.com
• Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, Noted Psychiatrist, Apologizes for Study on Gay ‘Cure’ – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: Increasing Organ Donor Enrollment at the D.M.V. – NYTimes.com
• Army to Review Its Psychiatric Evaluation Process – NYTimes.com
• Revived by Music – NYTimes.com
• Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? – NYTimes.com
• Role of Meditation in Brain Development Gains Scientific Support – NYTimes.com
• How Doctors and Patients Do Harm – NYTimes.com

• Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term – NYTimes.com
• Communities Learn the Good Life Can Be a Killer – NYTimes.com
• Feeling Strain When Violent Patients Need Care – NYTimes.com
• Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body – NYTimes.com
• Addicts’ Brains May Be Wired At Birth For Less Self-Control : Shots – Health Blog : NPR
• Recovery Rabbi Shais Taub Finds Wide Audience – On Religion – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: What Body Language Says About Doctors – NYTimes.com
• Tables Reserved for the Healthiest – NYTimes.com
• Tai Chi Benefits Patients With Parkinson’s – NYTimes.com
• In Search of the Elusive Definition of Heterosexuality – NYTimes.com
• Really? The Claim: Long Work Hours Can Cause Depression – NYTimes.com
• The Pet Problem – NYTimes.com
• What Doctors Can Learn From Musicians – NYTimes.com

• My So-Called Bipolar Life – NYTimes.com
• Depression Defies Rush to Find Evolutionary Upside – NYTimes.com
• The Insanity Virus | Mental Health | DISCOVER Magazine
• Who Else Is Paying Your Doctor? – NYTimes.com
• A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond – NYTimes.com
• A French Film Takes Issue With the Psychoanalytic Approach to Autism – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: Why Doctors Can’t Predict Life Expectancy – NYTimes.com
• Disgust’s Evolutionary Role Is Irresistible to Researchers – NYTimes.com
• Doctors Refer More Patients to Specialists – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: Using Symptom Checklists to Sell Drugs – NYTimes.com
• Avoiding Surgery in the Elderly – NYTimes.com
• Hard Truths About Disclosure – NYTimes.com
• Blogging as Therapy for Teenagers – Studied – NYTimes.com

• Navigating Love and Autism – NYTimes.com
  
• When Injuries to the Brain Tear at Hearts – NYTimes.com
• A study encourages people to take the doctor’s notes home after exams. – NYTimes.com
• Seeing Social Media as Adolescent Portal More Than Pitfall – NYTimes.com
• Really? Can You Die of a Broken Heart? – NYTimes.com
• Hospital Treatment for Anorexia Is Questioned – NYTimes.com
• The Shame of Filling a Prescription – NYTimes.com
• Nowhere to Go, Patients Linger in Hospitals, at a High Cost – NYTimes.com
• Really? The Claim: Listening to Music Can Relieve Pain – NYTimes.com
• When Doctors Face Death – NYTimes.com
• What We Can Learn From Old Animals – NYTimes.com
• The Provider Will See You Now – NYTimes.com
• Life Expectancy Rises for New Yorkers – NYTimes.com
• Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us | Magazine
• Philosophy and Addiction – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: Getting Patients to Take Charge – NYTimes.com
• A study encourages people to take the doctor’s notes home after exams. – NYTimes.com
• It’s Still the ‘Age of Anxiety.’ Or Is It? – NYTimes.com
• Mental Health – Study Links Immigrating at Young Age and Higher Risk of Psychosis – NYTimes.com

• Treating Stress, Speech Disorders With Music : NPR
• Nurses Threaten Strike at Three New York Hospitals – NYTimes.com
• As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: When the Doctor Gets Sued – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: A Web Campaign to Prevent Cancer – NYTimes.com
• N.Y.C. Sidewalks Getting More Crowded – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: A Medical School More Like Hogwarts – NYTimes.com
• Mad as Hell – NYTimes.com
• Coping With Addiction and a Mood Disorder – NYTimes.com
• Ex-Convict Uses Battle With Addiction and Mental Illness to Help Others – NYTimes.com
• A World Without Faces – NYTimes.com
• Robert Ader, Who Linked Stress and Illness, Dies at 79 – NYTimes.com

• Health Care Is Inexorably Changing, Despite Legal Uncertainty – NYTimes.com
• Why Doing the Ethical Thing Isn’t Automatic – NYTimes.com
• Man Uses His Schizophrenia to Gather Clues for Daily Living – NYTimes.com
• What I Still Hear: Sounds That Have Disappeared : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
• A Drug That Wakes the Near Dead – NYTimes.com
• More Military Dogs Show Signs of Combat Stress – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: The Doctor as Poet – NYTimes.com
• Depression May Slow Exercise Recovery – NYTimes.com

First off, happy 11 11 11!

Secondly, I still have not found a way to make my daily links auto-update again, so here is a list of links posted, old-fashioned style. Some are oldies, but goodies.

• Carsten Höller Exhibition at the New Museum – NYTimes.com
• Executive With Schizoaffective Disorder Uses Job to Cope – NYTimes.com
• Elyn R. Saks’s Memoir on Schizophrenia Inspires Others – NYTimes.com
• When Doing Nothing Is the Best Medicine – NYTimes.com
• The Next Death-With-Dignity Battleground – NYTimes.com
  
• The Downside of Doctors Who Feel Your Pain – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: Mindfulness Lessons – NYTimes.com
• The Once and Future Way to Run – NYTimes.com
• Preventing Hospital Delirium – NYTimes.com
• For Occupy Wall Street, Health Is a Growing Concern – NYTimes.com
• Doctor and Patient: L.G.B.T. Issues Neglected in Medical Schools – NYTimes.com
  
• Being a Med Student, Take Two – NYTimes.com

Somehow, my super awesome auto-blogging delicious links function got messed up. I’m still trying to fix it. In the meantime, here are all of the links that should have already been posted. Enjoy.

• Moods on Twitter Follow Biological Rhythms, Study Finds – NY Times
• Why Doctors Order So Many Tests – NY Times
• Coffee Drinking Linked to Less Depression in Women – NY Times
• Six Things Every Dog Should Know – NY Times
• How Exercise Can Strengthen the Brain – NY Times
• Safe Birth Kits to Reduce Infant Mortality – NY Times
• When the Nurse Wants to Be Called ‘Doctor’ – NY Times
• Your Medical Mind – NY Times
• Young Doctors Worry About Career Choices – NY Times
• Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting Voices – NY Times
• ‘So, Doc, How Much Time I Got?’ – NY Times
• Stuck in Bed, at Hospital’s Expense – NY Times
• Talk Therapy Lifts Severe Schizophrenics – NY Times
• Did Dropping Acid Make Steve Jobs More Creative? – Slate

• Suicide Draws Attention to Gay Bullying – NYTimes.com
• How One Small Group Sets Doctors' Pay – NYTimes.com
• Optimism, but Not Too Much, Can Be Good For You – NYTimes.com
• You're Only as Old as You Run – NYTimes.com
• American Goat Cheese: From Hippie Chick To Hip And Chic : The Salt : NPR
• Therapists Are ‘Seeing’ Patients Online – NYTimes.com