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Latest blog posts from Shrink Rap

Name that Book!
So it's been over two and a half years of Shrink Rap, coming up on 900 posts. With the help of our readers, we think we've gotten decent at talking about psychiatry in a way that makes it more understandable than the psycho-babble I read as a medical student. We thought we'd try a book, some...
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Published 11 hours ago

Shrunken Shrinks?
Midwife with a Knife writes:"Hm... so I'm not sure it's fair to make psychiatry residents have psychotherapy. After all, nobody made me have a gyn exam or give birth as part of my ob-gyn residency!"It's been a common theme in our comments, this idea that one needs to walk in the shoes of the...
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Published a day ago

Prayer, Psychiatric Care, and the Internet
Okay, the Sunday New York Times, again, and Alan Salkin writes in "If You Post it, They Will Pray": On the Web site prayabout.com, Steve’s wife, whose online profile notes that she is a Catholic from St. Charles, Mo., asked other users of the site to submit prayers that her husband will listen...
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Published a day ago

Congratulations, Fat Doctor!
Look! Fat Doctor and her family have a new baby girl. What a cutie. ------------------------------On a totally different note, I just read the strangest article in the Sunday New York Times. The author has a very detailed discussion of her sex life, of how she's no longer interested in her...
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Published 2 days ago

Should Psychiatrists See Patients for Psychotherapy?
The trend is for psychiatrists to see patients for psychiatric evaluation, treatment with medications, and a medicalized version of psychiatric care, while parceling out psychotherapy to non-MD psychotherapists-- social workers, psychologists, licensed clinical counselors, nurse therapists,...
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Published 4 days ago

Engage with grace: End of Life Discussions
Does your family know if you want to be put on a ventilator if needed?  Kept alive with i.v. fluids and nutrition? For how long?So you have a living will or advance directive?Can your family find it?It's a tough discussion to have, but even tougher to discuss when you have a feeding tube in...
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Published 6 days ago

Happy Thanksgiving!
From the Shrink Rappers to you.(And don't forget, Roy wants you to have a happy holiday discussion about your end of life issues!)----- Listen to our latest podcast at mythreeshrinks.com or subscribe to our rss feed.
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Published 7 days ago

Can I Have a Word With You?
A while back, one of our commenters took issue with the fact that I referred to a patient's complaint. It got me thinking about the way doctors word things, sometimes in ways that may sound pejorative.So the standard format of medical notes opens with the "Chief Complaint." If the patient...
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Published 7 days ago

Shrink Rap: Grand Rounds is up at Canadian Medicine
Grand Rounds us up at Canadian Medicine. Almost didn't link to them due to their flagrant {and fragrant} display of malpractice ads in their Google Ad section on the right (see that section in black). Maybe someone can let Stephanie in advertising know that they can tweak their GoogleAdsense...
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Published a week ago

I Am Not A Beauty Queen
I was doing productive work, I really was. I was doing some Internet research when I stumbled over this:Mrs. United StatesYes, Mrs. United States has an 'M.D.' after her name. She's a psychiatrist. Now THERE was a blog post in the making. I couldn't resist.According to the APA-sponsored web site...
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Published a week ago

Because I Said So....
I recently linked to an article on the Well Blog about a child with Asperger's Syndrome in NYC. The boy's parents were at odds with their housing co-op about the boy's need for an emotional support dog in the no-pets-allowed complex.Roy said that's what docs get to do: determine medical...
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Published a week ago

The Kreativ Blogger Award
Our thanks to Healthskills who passed along the Kreativ Blogger Award to us!I've been reading your blog for a while - this is a great post, as is the previous one on DSM v. I've passed on the Kreative Blogging award to you, as I love to read your site.Congratulations!Head to...
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Published 2 weeks ago