Sleepy? My best friend in medical school and I used to study in the basement of the medical school library. The desks were like little cubicles to ensure privacy, although they made me feel like a horse with blinders on.
A library being a library, it was very quiet — with one exception. Snoooooooore!!!! One dude [...]
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a very interesting movie. Ellen Burstyn won an Oscar for best actress in 1975. (But she wasn’t there! I could have had Ebola virus and would still have shown up. Martin Scorsese, the director, accepted the Oscar for her.)
In this movie, her spouse dies at work. She [...]
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Las Vegas is sin city? It’s been four years since I’ve been to Vegas, and to me it’s pretty cleaned up. (Although to some people, that’s like saying a brothel going from cash to credit card is cleaned up.)
For example, it was almost impossible to find a raunchy postcard to send [...]
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Sweaty hands? Feel the pressure? When I was younger, I used to sweat at the drop of a hat. In high school, I was in a show choir, “The Top 20.” One dreaded night just before a performance, I ripped my pants in a bad place, but in Ethel Merman style, the show [...]
Addiction to drugs leads to a path of wanting more: more drugs, more often. It is a chronic disease of impaired control of using drugs/alcohol despite the harm they cause. The repeated use of the substance comes from craving and/or the compulsive need to use it whether from physical or psychological dependence.
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Munchausen syndrome is the most extreme form of factitious disorder. Munchausen’s want attention from the medical community. Munchausen by proxy makes other sick
“Fake it ‘til you make it!” I think we all fake certain things. We tell a happy mom her baby’s cute, even if it looks like a larva. We [...]
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects 2-3% of Americans. Anxiety-provoking intrusive thoughts (obsession) & repetitive behaviors (compulsion) occur in OCD
David Sedaris is-um-an interesting author. I was able to read 1.25 of his books (I read about a fourth of his second book, and that was enough). But the first book I read was hilarious-and shocking. [...]
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Poles are all over the place. With the upcoming elections, I have heard about 5 million too many poles. Bruce Jenner pole-vaulted his way to an Olympic medal (does anyone know if he got a face lift or is there stretched rubber glued on his face?). Even here in Charlottesville, there are [...]
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Flip? What does it meant to be flip? Supermodel and phone-throwing Naomi Campbell flipped in Culture Club’s “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya” video. (That was before the age of the flip phone.) Some people flip the bird, which I’m sure the Audobon society frowns upon. A flip jump in figure [...]
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“Borderline” is the first Madonna song I ever heard. Glenn Close’s femme fatale in Fatal Attraction is the first borderline character I ever saw. Joaquin Phoenix starred in Walk the Line, although lately he seems more like Walk the Borderline.
The brilliant comedienne Julie Brown did an amazing spoof on Madonna’s Truth or Dare. [...]
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Drive-thru beer stores in Ohio always fascinated me. You should not drink and drive, but you could buy beer and drive. Talk about getting a beer gut–you didn’t have to expend any energy to buy a case of beer.
Banks have drive-thrus as well, and I use them quite often. But while at a [...]
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“Fake it ‘til you make it!” I think we all fake certain things. We tell a happy mom her baby’s cute, even if it looks like a larva. We fake not noticing something unfortunate hanging out of a person’s nose. I won’t mention the most obvious one…to you women if you catch [...]
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Las Vegas is sin city? It’s been four years since I’ve been to Vegas, and to me it’s pretty cleaned up. (Although to some people, that’s like saying a brothel going from cash to credit card is cleaned up.)
For example, it was almost impossible to find a raunchy postcard to send to relatives. [...]
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“Cry me a river, cry me a river, I cried a river over youuuuuuuuuuu!” Go, Barbra Streisand.
We cry for many reasons: sadness, joy, relief, anger, Clay Aiken finally coming out. (Clay, we love you! Congratulations for being honest and brave!) Weddings are notorious vales of tears, which is why waterproof mascara is essential [...]
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Bad habits are hard to break. Cracking chewing gum drives me crazy like someone scratching a chalkboard (the birth of dry markers in classrooms?). Throwing cigarette butts from the car instead of putting them in the ash try! (How would litterers feel if someone threw used toilet paper inside their cars?) Bad talent who [...]
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Sweaty hands? Feel the pressure? When I was younger, I used to sweat at the drop of a hat. In high school, I was in a show choir, “The Top 20.” One dreaded night just before a performance, I ripped my pants in a bad place, but in Ethel Merman style, the show must [...]
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on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 at 3:00 pm and is filed under Dermatology, Psych.
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David Sedaris is-um-an interesting author. I was able to read 1.25 of his books (I read about a fourth of his second book, and that was enough). But the first book I read was hilarious-and shocking. When Sedaris was in Charlottesville for a reading, I brought my book for him to autograph. Personally, I [...]
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Louis Armstrong beautifully sang, “And I think to myself, What a wonderful world.” Joan Jett wore tight black leather pants and strummed, “I love rock and roll.” Nat King Cole sang the classic song, “L-O-V-E,” which I might add I do a great rendition of on karaoke. Captain and Tennille won a Grammy for, “Love [...]
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The Color Purple is one of my favorite books and movies of all time. In the movie, I was introduced to Whoopi Goldberg and someone you probably have heard of: Oprah Winfrey. Whew! She was a tornado of strength and emotions.
During the announcement of “Best Female Actress in a Supporting Role” at the Oscars, I [...]
I just went to a wedding, and the maid-of-honor gave some good advice to the new groom. “Henry,” she said, “all of you have to do to remember your anniversary date is forget it once.
“When a man and woman get married,” she continued, “he thinks, ‘I hope she never changes.’ She thinks, ‘I [...]
I would never survive in jail. When I was a UVA fellow, I interviewed at the local jail for a moonlighting position. I suddenly related to my mother’s experience as medical resident in NYC when she had to help at the local lock-up. Whooping, hollering (unlike Gwen Stefani, who ain’t no Hollaback Girl), and name-calling– [...]
There are many different types of death. Death of a family member or friend. Death of an era. Death of a Salesman. Death Becomes Her. Death Leppard?
But what happens in a relationship/marriage when there is Bed Death? When I was child, I was watching some TV show (surprise, surprise)¬ I think the Waltons or [...]
Dr. Christopher Winter came for lunch and told us about all sorts of sleeping problems. He said his office lobby is filled with patients who are snoring, bobbing their heads up and down– struggling to stay awake, drooping eyes red as Darth Maul’s. Hmm, sounds like my dinner parties. Maybe he should play techno dance [...]
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How do you read this advertisement? “It’s All About ME”
One of my best friends says this all the time, and so when he showed me this ad, I thought it was all about– him. However, it’s a vacation ad for Maine (ME).
In the show Medium, the psychic heroine keeps getting a message from [...]
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One of my favorite movies of all time is When Harry Met Sally. No, it isn’t because of Meg Ryan’s “faking it” scene in the restaurant. I love the movie because of the way Billy Crystal’s and Meg’s characters deal with their losses in love. Harry mopes a lot. Sally becomes a cold, distant person [...]
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Katie Couric used to be called “perky.” When I think of perky, I think of my mother’s old coffee percolator with Chock Full O’Nuts. Most patients and people I know say to me, “Where do you get your energy? You are so perky!”
My response is, “Better living through chemistry and a mortgage to pay [...]
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What’s the first thing most people ask when a baby is born? If the father of the newborn doesn’t stuff your mouth with a pink- or blue-ribboned cigar reading “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!” most people ask about the sex of the newborn.
What do you do if your newborn is intersexed? [...]
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Imagine sitting in a tropical paradise. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston– oops, scratch that. Okay, Catherine Zeta Jones-look-alikes serve you drinks and fresh papaya. Then the Creature From The Black Lagoon sits down beside you, starts to yell at his wife/girlfriend/date-of-the-moment, swears at the servers, and plays his Marilyn Manson music at 130 decibels. [...]
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on Saturday, April 2nd, 2005 at 10:03 am and is filed under Psych.
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We’ve all heard the question, “Is the glass half empty or half full?” Supposedly, the optimist opts for half full, while pessimists notices only what’s missing.
But in our complex world of so many personality types, is it fair to divide people into just optimists and pessimists?
I would imagine a realist like me [...]
When I moved to small-town Charlottesville from the big city, I expected everyone to be driving like Miss Daisy’s chauffeur: slowly, waving hello, making frequent stops. For months, I wondered where Morgan Freeman was.
One driver lived up to my expectations in his own special way. He stopped his pickup truck at every other block [...]
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on Thursday, January 13th, 2005 at 12:48 pm and is filed under Abuse, Psych.
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When I was in college, a hypnotist came to entertain us. I was chosen to go up, and I did– unwillingly. The hypnotist had a Barry White type of voice, and he wooed me a little with his, “You are becoming sleepy. Your eyes are heavy.”
I don’t know about the other contestants on [...]
