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The Jan-Dec 2008 issue of MSM is a theme issue on Medicine, Mental Health, Science, Religion and Well-being. Go to: Editorials C. Robert Cloninger, M.D. Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics, and Psychology; Director, Sansone Center for Well-Being, writes an editorial, ‘On Well-Being: Current Research Trends and Future Directions’ [p3–9]. K.W.M. Fulford, DPhil, FRCP, FRCPsych. Professor of Philosophy and […]
Prof. Ravinder Lal Kapur expired on Friday, 24 November 2006, at Bellagio, Italy, while on a sabbatical. The rude shock of this sudden demise from myocardial infarction shook his immediate family and a huge fraternity of friends, colleagues, students, patients and admirers. Our hearts go out to his beloved wife, Prof. Malavika Kapur, a clinical
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So take good care of time, therefore and how you spend it.-from “The Cloud of Unknowing” Yesterday it was a thousand small coinsringing in your pocket, your hand dipping in, scooping threeat a time, giving them away. Often you’d drop onein the lush grass, unaware it was lost. Spent, tarnished, it is irretrievable. Today time
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Everyone has gone homebut you and the janitor. The nurseshave driven away, fluttering across the parking lotlike white confetti. Sparrows sing themselves to sleep and even the hospitallongs to dream. You read X-raysin the view box glow, your patients′ namesmarked in black, their lungssurprised in full inhale, hearts stoppedmid-pump, strangerswho keep you company as you
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Ever since David Healy first announced in 1991 that SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) have a causal role in some suicide cases, he has had to face ostracism from corporate psychiatry, has had a job offer from the University of Toronto withdrawn, been accused of practicing ‘junk science’ by the pharmaceutical industry and of covertly
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mensanamonographs/ (The mensanamonographs e-group discusses a number of issues related to medicine, mental health, science, religion, philosophy, man and society. One such it discussed recently was the editorial, ‘To cure sometimes, to comfort always, to hurt the least, to harm never’, by Singh A. R., Singh S. A. (2006), in What Medicine Means To Me,
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Response toWhere is Medical Practice in India Heading? – Sunil Pandya http://www.msmonographs.org/article.asp?issn=0973-1229;year=2006;volume= 4;issue=1;spage=50;epage=61;aulast=Pandya Q 1: Do you agree with the author and share his pessimism? If you do not, give examples of success stories in recent Indian medical education and practice benefiting poor patients. Ans: I agree with the author totally. I was fortunate to
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Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:18 pm My high school experiences were marked by excellence in academics and in sports. I was Valedictorian of my class and I amassed a record of 42 wins and seven losses in dual meet competition in wrestling. I was very competitive both in academics and in sports. My one romance
Abstract Moving in early career from public health physician to psychiatrist gives me a public health view of psychiatry and an interest in pursuing the goals of widening access to community-based services for people with mental disorders and promoting mental health in communities. Training in social medicine in the UK and psychiatry in Australia lead
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Abstract This is a personal account based on many years experience as a medical writer. It considers aspects of medical writing with particular focus on the intellectual and ethical dilemmas it can raise. What makes medical writing both so interesting and so challenging is the fact that it often takes place at the border between
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