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I do not believe that my generation, my cousins who have been educated in the American way, all of whom are MDs or PhDs, have any comparable learning...I am not saying anything so trite as that life is fuller when people have myths to live by. I mean rather that a life based on the Book is closer to the truth, that it provides the material for deeper research in and access to the real nature of things. Without the great revelations, epics, and philosophies as part of our natural vision, there is nothing to see out there, and eventually little left inside. The Bible is not the only means to furnish a mind, but without a book of similar gravity, read with the gravity of the potential believer, it will remain unfurnished.
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Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind)
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Lastly, these findings tell me that the answer to the question of whether, as a group, MDs are primarily patient-serving or self-serving is . . . yes. They are each, depending on their attentional focus at the time.
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Robert B. Cialdini (Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade)
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The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilization drives itself to extinction. M.D. embraced my objection with mordant glee. 'Precisely. Our will to power, our science, and those v. faculties that elevated us from apes, to saves, to modern man, are the same faculties that'll snuff out Homo Sapiens before this century is out! You'll probably live to see it happen, you fortunate son. What a symphonic crescendo that'll be, eh?
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David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)
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MD’s letter finally reached the village. But no one opened it. Winds glibly carried it away in casual chase and whispers of ghastly horror through the bamboo bush. The house of the Monsoon rain and the pretty pink knitting was now deserted; front yard had fallen decrepit as though struck with the dark fever of pestilence. Branches from storm lay randomly across the yard as did poles and the shack roof. Doors hung from their hinges, in the process of coming completely apart. Ravens came and sat fruitlessly in the yard in search of salted fish.
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Mehreen Ahmed (Moirae)
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In our profession, we tend to name things exactly as we see them. Big red stars we call red giants. Small white stars we call white dwarfs. When stars are made of neutrons, we call them neutron stars. Stars that pulse, we call them pulsars. In biology they come up with big Latin words for things. MDs write prescriptions in a cuneiform that patients can’t understand, hand them to the pharmacist, who understands the cuneiform. It’s some long fancy chemical thing, which we ingest. In biochemistry, the most popular molecule has ten syllables—deoxyribonucleic acid! Yet the beginning of all space, time, matter, and energy in the cosmos, we can describe in two simple words, Big Bang. We are a monosyllabic science, because the universe is hard enough. There is no point in making big words to confuse you further.
Want more? In the universe, there are places where the gravity is so strong that light doesn’t come out. You fall in, and you don’t come out either: black hole. Once again, with single syllables, we get the whole job done. Sorry, but I had to get all that off my chest.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Welcome to the Universe: The Problem Book)
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The term “allopathic” was coined by a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann in the 19th century. It is derived from the two Greek words, “allos” meaning “opposite” and “pathos,” meaning “disease.” Hahnemann was a homeopathic physician (a type of Wholistic medicine), and he came up with this term to describe and separate himself and the members of his profession from the MDs of his time that espoused the use of dangerous and harmful medical treatments such as blood-letting, and the use of large doses of toxic substances, like mercury. Modern day MDs are not so happy with the term “allopath,” and will go out of their way to try to convince you that what they do is practice “Medicine,” - that they in fact are the sole proprietors of the entire medical field. But they are not. What they do is just ONE PIECE of the medical pie. “Allopathic” is an entirely appropriate eponym for what MDs do, and Hahnemann should be applauded for his insight.
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Peter J. Glidden (The MD Emperor Has No Clothes: Everybody Is Sick and I Know Why)
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The switchport rate-mode dedicated command is mandatory on oversubscribed modules or switches because ISLs must be configured on full-rate
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Gustavo A.A. Santana (Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals: Understanding Techniques and Designs for Highly Efficient Data Centers with Cisco Nexus, UCS, MDS, and Beyond)
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The next hour of canvassing was like a greatest hits tour for the worried well. Yoga, Pilates, massage, energy healing, and Rolfing specialists occupied space next to an optometrist, nutritionist, and a variety of MDs. You could have your aura checked, get your spine realigned, and have a colonoscopy, all without moving your car.
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Ingrid Thoft (Loyalty (Fina Ludlow, #1))
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Leopold Wilhelm Bernhard was born June 15, 1915 in Berlin, Germany, to parents from two old and well- known German families. His mother, Franziska, was a Bokelmann of Lubeck, of an aristocratic line with university educations, MDs, etc.
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Kathrine Kressmann Taylor (Day of No Return)
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Burns argues that virtually every negative feeling can be tied to a thinking error.
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Sumoreads (Summary of David D. Burns, M.D.'s Feeling Good: Key Takeaways & Analysis)
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For years she had lived on hatred—hatred toward physicians in general and one in particular. She had joined The Sisterhood to use the organization in order to put certain M.D.’s in their place. Where necessary, she had even manufactured data on patients to get the Regional Screening Committee’s approval and recommendations.
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Michael Palmer (The Sisterhood)
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As Mindful MDs, we become the force for healing that our healthcare system so desperately needs.
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Gail Gazelle, MD
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As Mindful MDs, we can be happy today, not with what we wish healthcare was like, but with what is.
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Gail Gazelle, MD (Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout)
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Utilizing mindfulness is a powerful antidote to burnout—one that gives Mindful MDs true autonomy over our own minds and the stories that only serve to multiply the difficulties we’re facing in our lives and careers.
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Gail Gazelle, MD (Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout)
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Everyone knew Sonja was destined for great things, but no one knew what to do with her until then. Even in academia, her natural habitat, she was an exotic species. Though her Russianness gave her certain dispensations, the idea that a young woman of any ethnicity could so excel in the hard sciences was a far-fetched fantasy. Their parents encouraged her at a distance. Neither understood the molecular formulas, electromagnetic fields, or anatomical minutiae that so captivated her, and so their support came by way of well-intentioned, inadequate generalities. Even after Sonja graduated secondary school at the top of her class and matriculated to the city university biology department, their parents found more to love in Natasha. Sonja’s gifts were too complex to be understood, and therefore less desirable. Natasha was beautiful and charming. They didn’t need MDs to know how to be proud of her.
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Anthony Marra (A Constellation of Vital Phenomena)
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It is possible that some people have been so mauled by life in this society that such a semi-suicide is the best alternative to real suicide for them. Curiously, a hell of a lot of M.D.s are using the same logic in relentlessly over-prescribing tranquilizers, many of which are quite habit forming (e.g., Librium) and some of which (e.g. Tofranil), are definitely linked with impotence according to psycho-pharmacologists. As Dr. Lawrence Kolb told a Congressional committee way back in 1925, “There is . . . a certain type of shrinking neurotic individual who can’t meet the demands of life, is afraid to meet people, has anxieties and fears, who if they took small amounts of narcotics – and I have examined quite a few of them – would be better and more efficient people than they would be without it.” Dr. Kolb also described two physicians who were opiate addicts and practiced successfully until they managed to “kick the habit,” after which they became hopeless problems to themselves and their families. “These two physicians that I am talking about didn’t get cured," Dr. Kolb said scornfully, “they should have had it (the drug) forever, because it (the cure) would not mean anything but an insane asylum for them, and they were doing a pretty good job of work as physicians when they were on the drug and regularly taking it.” American society has ignored Dr. Kolb’s pragmatic approach for decades and has struggled heroically to get all these lost souls off their depressant drugs. Or has it? The “war against heroin” continues; but in New York, the state has abandoned the hope of real “cure” and is satisfied just to get the junkies off an addicting drug it has made illegal – heroin – and onto an equally addicting drug it has made legal – methadone; and in the nation at large, prescriptions for central nervous system depressants are said to run into the tens of millions every year. The official attitude, by default, now appears to be, “If you can’t bear our society without being half-asleep, let us at least control which drug you choose to be half-asleep on.” This is not a formula for a non-addicted nation. It is a face-saving game to allow those bureaucrats whom William S. Burroughs calls “control addicts” to continue to believe that they are, by God, controlling everybody they want to control.
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Robert Anton Wilson (Sex, Drugs & Magick – A Journey Beyond Limits)
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Sherlock Holmes: The Coronet Conspiracy - Book I of the SINISTER HOUSE Series just got its third 5-STAR review here on Goodreads. It has also gotten a glowing review on Reedsy, a write up in the Sherlock Holmes Magazine: Volume 14, and a mention in The Strand Magazine (John Watson, M.D.'s old publisher). It is now available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at MX Publishing. The audio version should be available early in November.
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James Patrick Heatherly
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When the body is dehydrated, it will not have a restful night's sleep, be patient, have a quick temper, and be impatient.
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Everest Media (Summary of F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.'s Water)
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just want to hold you in my arms.” He pulled out his phone and a minute later Tender Love by The Force MD’s blared from his car.
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Chelsea Maria (Chasing Empty Hearts (The Kalmin Brothers #2))
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they catch initials -- STD, PMS, OCD, HIV, etc., as if MTV teamed up with KFC and licensed the Latin alphabet to the pharmaceutical industry so OTCs could replace MDs. If Romeo and Juliet were alive today, they’d be put on antidepressants, sent for counseling, and bundled off to separate boarding schools to meet socially acceptable partners with money-back guarantees.
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Paula Young Lee (How to Be a Homeless Frenchman)
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Types of Degrees for Professionals
When you begin to investigate therapists, you will probably see a wide array of initials following their names. That alphabet soup indicates academic degrees, licenses, and/or certifications.
Remember that just because the professional has a lot of impressive degrees, that doesn’t mean that he or she is the right therapist for you. The most important thing is to feel completely comfortable with the person so you can speak honestly about your feelings. If you are uncomfortable or intimidated, your time with the therapist will not be effective.
When finding a therapist, you should look for one with a master’s degree or a doctorate in a mental-health field.
This shows that he or she has had advanced training in dealing with psychological problems. Therapists’ academic degrees include:
M.D. (Doctor of Medicine): This means that the doctor received his or her medical degree and has had four years of clinical residency. M.D.s can prescribe medication.
Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) and Psy.D. (Doctor of Psychology): These professionals have had four to six years of graduate study. They frequently work in businesses, schools, mental-health centers, and hospitals.
M.A. (Master of Arts degree in psychology): An M.A. is basically a counseling degree. Therapists with this degree emphasize clinical experience and psychotherapy.
M.S. (Master of Science degree in psychology): Professionals with this degree are more inclined toward research and usually have a specific area of focus.
Ed.D. (Doctor of Education): This degree indicates a background in education, child development, and general psychology.
M.S.W. (Master of Social Work): An M.S.W. is a social-work degree that prepares an individual to diagnose and treat psychological problems and provide mental health resources. Psychiatric social workers make up the single largest group of mental health professionals.
In addition to the various degrees therapists may hold, there are also a number of licenses that may be obtained. These include:
M.F.C.C.: Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor
M.F.T. Marriage and Family Therapist
L.C.S.W.: Licensed Clinical Social Worker
L.I.S.W.: Licensed Independent Social Worker
L.S.W.: Licensed Social Worker
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Heather Moehn (Social Anxiety (Coping With Series))