Grieving

2024-11-27T09:15:58-05:00November 27th, 2024|HEALTH|

On Thanksgiving we celebrate the feast that the Plymouth colony had with the Wampanoag tribe that lived in the area. The story goes [...]

Misdiagnosis

2024-11-21T11:36:43-05:00November 21st, 2024|HEALTH|

The Emergency Room is a busy place. There are lots of opportunities for things to fall through the cracks. A study published in [...]

Immunizations

2024-11-14T15:20:06-05:00November 14th, 2024|HEALTH|

When my mother was a child she caught diphtheria. She was able to survive. However, two of her siblings died from the same [...]

Anniversary Grief

2024-11-07T12:27:28-05:00November 7th, 2024|HEALTH|

I was ushering at one of our weekly Saturday evening Masses. I greeted one of the widows attending the Mass. She told me [...]

Origins of Halloween

2024-10-31T09:41:54-05:00October 31st, 2024|HEALTH|

Halloween is a fun time for children. We sometimes forget about the origin of the celebration. November 1st is All Saints Day in [...]

Projection

2024-10-24T10:11:19-05:00October 24th, 2024|HEALTH|

Sigmund Freud proposed many ideas as part of his psychoanalytic theory. Many of those ideas involve psychological defense mechanisms that humans use. One [...]

What is BRUE?

2024-10-17T10:26:56-05:00October 17th, 2024|HEALTH|

I was doing my monthly pediatric review material and came across BRUE. I looked at it and said what the heck are they [...]

Huntington’s Disease

2024-10-10T12:38:38-05:00October 10th, 2024|HEALTH|

When I was a second year medical student, they brought in a patient with Huntington’s Disease. It was called Huntington’s Chorea in those [...]

Anchoring bias

2024-09-26T12:23:12-05:00September 26th, 2024|HEALTH|

In the past I have written about something called justification bias. That occurs when we dismiss bad news about someone we like or [...]

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