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Dr. D
Before the Affordable Care Act
Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted, I wrote a number of vignettes based on real patients' lives. Once the ACA went into...
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Dr. D
- Sep 30, 2020
- 2 min
A Natural Treatment for Anxiety
Chamomile is a success story There are lots of alternative treatments that have questionable effectiveness. Chamomile isn’t one of them....
Dr. D
- Sep 14, 2020
- 2 min
Treat Anxiety on Your Own
Some Anxiety Can be a Good Thing Let me say first that a little bit of anxiety is okay. Lots of times it keeps us doing what we need to...
Dr. D
- Sep 14, 2020
- 6 min
Knitting Her Way to Abstinence
Conditions were right for becoming addicted Ms. C developed a drug problem when the conditions were right. Drugs were everywhere around...
Dr. D
- Sep 2, 2020
- 5 min
Sometimes You Don't Want to Know
Life In the ER Can Be Dull Life in the emergency room tends to be either feast or famine. Your shift might drag interminably with nothing...
Dr. D
- Aug 19, 2020
- 3 min
Where have I been?
God and Demons Battled for His Soul Raul was 16 when we met. He had diagnoses of learning disability and attention deficit disorder, but...
Dr. D
- Aug 5, 2020
- 1 min
He Said He Saw a Movie
I was pretty tired that morning. Hadn’t been able to sleep well. Mentally brought the hospital home with me and worried about what I’d...
Dr. D
- Jul 26, 2020
- 4 min
He Said He Would Never Harm Himself
He "caught" a heroin habit Jake "caught" a heroin habit when he was in Viet Nam. Despite that he earned some service medals; good...
Dr. D
- Jul 14, 2020
- 5 min
Guests for Dinner
NO IDEA WHY THE PATIENT IS THERE Becky, the nurse, had worked with psychiatric patients for years. She knew what to expect from them....