The Postman Brings Me Another Jewel
Every once in while, I get something practical and interesting in my mailbox. I posted about what the mailman brought me on November 15, 2011, (Bumpy the Bipolar Bear), shortlink...
View ArticleMight As Well Face It, You’re Addicted to Psychiatry
I fell asleep in front of an episode of public TV’s Nova the other night and had this nightmare about wormholes and time travel. I thought I woke up at the hospital, but everything looked different. On...
View Article“We Need a Journal of Practical Psychiatry”, He said…
The other day one of my residents remarked that “We need a Journal of Practical Psychiatry,” or something like that in order to more effectively guide psychiatrists in the every day clinical world in...
View ArticleGunslingers and Chessmasters
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat”—Sun Tzu. In 2003 the American Board of Medical Specialties approved the subspecialty...
View ArticleCPCP: Transplant Psychosocial Assessment and the SIPAT
We had a special Clinical Problems in Consultation Psychiatry (CPCP) recently, in which the residents presented a paper by Dr. Jose Maldonado about his new psychosocial assessment tool, the Stanford...
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