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There are many studies showing the health benefits of a more positive outlook. Other studies show how having that kind of outlook is actually a habit that can be cultivated. But, if your life feels like an endless series of stressful tasks, how do you start? Here’s a moment I had: […] Have you ever joined a group of people and then been appalled by them? What I mean is a love-hate kind of thing, kind of like the way some people feel about their relatives. Maybe you (like some of us) grew up in the kind of family where silent, protracted struggles are […] There was alarmist news in the Daily Mail this weekend. Specifically, that the human race would split into two distinct species within the next 3,000 years, a prediction by “evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by […] Hey, I had an article published in Salon, titled “Honey, I Shrunk My Breasts.” It’s about the fallacy of doctors claiming diseases–and I claimed one all for myself. Check it out. The Doc Gurley BOGUS Award is traditionally given to a Bonehead, Overhyped, Groundless, Unverified Study. This week, however, we’re awarding a special Bogus Award, to a case in the news of supremely flawed reasoning. Our BOGUS award this week is given for Bombastic Obfuscating and Grandstanding Under Scrutiny. The winner is America’s CIA chief, […] “Wow, it sure is quiet today.” No phrase is more likely to strike terror in the heart of a physician than that innocent comment, made by a patient, a nurse, or, even worse, another physician. Saying a shift is “quiet” is believed by many in health care to be the surest way to […] |
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