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Thank you for leaving the seat up
... focusing on little things and letting them build up from that small anthill to the giant mountain can be fatal to a relationship
Dr. D
May 24, 20214 min read
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
Mar 16, 20217 min read
Play the "What If" Game: how to reduce your anxiety
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...
Dr. D
Feb 25, 20214 min read
Treat Depression on Your Own
Medication for mood My patient told me she knew she was depressed, she’d had this problem before. However, she adamantly did not want to...
Dr. D
Feb 4, 20215 min read
Bright light therapy and sleep
Waking too early in the morning The patient, 81 year-old Mrs. A., told me she wasn’t sleeping as she should. She routinely woke up at 3AM...
Dr. D
Jan 9, 20213 min read
LET THERE BE LIGHT
...and improve your mood Sunny day/sunny mood It’s the time of year for feeling low, foggy thinking and no energy for many people. When...
Dr. D
Dec 23, 20204 min read
Dramatic child rescue
It was a terrible night on call and promised to be at least as bad a morning. We had run three "codes," protocols to try to resuscitate...
Dr. D
Nov 19, 20204 min read
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...
Dr. D
Oct 22, 20203 min read
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 30, 20202 min read
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