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Are Your Meds Making You Sick? (Anxiety drugs)
Many people come to see me because of anxiety. Life is full of stresses: getting the kids to school, keeping the boss happy, getting the...
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Dr. D
- Dec 13, 2021
- 6 min
Are Your Meds Making You Sick? (Sleep drugs)
Sleep trouble, insomnia, is one of the biggest reasons people go to see their doctors. It’s not surprising, then, that sleep aids are a...
Dr. D
- Nov 29, 2021
- 4 min
Are your meds making you sick?
In response to questions from readers and patients, I’m doing a series on how medications can make you sick. I've talked a little about...
Dr. D
- Nov 11, 2021
- 4 min
Why Do You Always Lose the Fight?
Jenny, 16, was sobbing. She and her father had just been fighting in my office. He called the girl a “a mean mouthed crappy kid,”...
Dr. D
- Jul 26, 2021
- 5 min
The song says "...suicide is painless..."
...but for whom? Suicide has been on my mind for a while now. The rate has been going up steadily for decades. Physicians and nurses are...
Dr. D
- Jun 17, 2021
- 4 min
Estrangement
I just read an interesting book, Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement, by Harriet Brown. Ms. Brown presents individuals who have had...
Dr. D
- May 24, 2021
- 4 min
Thank you for leaving the seat up
I try not to take sides when couples have a dispute. Sometimes one person is doing something that seems very wrong to me. In that case I...
Dr. D
- Mar 16, 2021
- 7 min
The ghost of a chance
The bad old days before the Affordable Care Act Aaron was nineteen years old. This was in the bad old days before the Affordable Care Act...
Dr. D
- Feb 25, 2021
- 4 min
Playing the "What If" Game
People, when they first come to see me, often think I’m going tell them what they should do. But this isn’t my job. My job is to help...
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