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Here’s a great article by Barron H. Lerner, “Doctors Examine Themselves: Books Explain How Errors Happen, How Patients Can Cope,” about two new books–“Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance” by Atul Gawande, and “How Doctors Think” by Jerome Groopman–that ran in the Washington Post a few weeks ago. Lerner says these two physician-authors are “seeking…

Thanks to readers Patricia and Lanette for asking for a conclusion to my Good Friday post. I think I’ve been reading too many fairy tales to Katherine before bed, because I’m annoyed with happy endings. That’s why I left mine off. Three hours after the Tin Man and Dorothy arrived at the Land of Oz…

One of my many book ideas: “The Psychiatric Guide to Annapolis: An Atlas of Shrinks in the Sailing Capital of the World.” Do you like it? My research was quite painful. Having a medical file with almost all of the head doctors in the area (or is it the same file, in which case I…

What do you guys think about this op-ed piece in the “New York Times” today by Maia Szalavitz? I have an opinion, but I want to hear yours first.

I fully support Katherine’s pacifier habit. Even though her preschool teachers, grandparents, and dentist say, at age three and a half, it’s definitely time to pull the plug, part of me thinks I should let her suck away on the thing until a clique of fifth grade girls start making fun of her. Because if…

Here are some addiction-breaking aphorisms that Halpern lists in his book, “How to Break Your Addiction to a Person.” They are helpful for me not only in ending dysfunctional friendships, but in trying to stop any kind of destructive habit–like devouring the four chocolates I just did before typing this. 1. You can live without…

Whenever I am in “Infant Time,” thinking a person, place, thing, or situation will bring peace to my restlessness, I always hear my mom saying, “No person, place, thing, or situation can disrupt your serenity. That is up to you and God is there to help.” The late Catholic theologian and writer Henri Nouwen basically…

As a graduate student pursuing a degree in theology twelve years ago, I took a course called Systematic Theology–by far my toughest class–by a brilliant professor who was dying of bone marrow cancer. No one knew she was dying. She kept her diagnosis to herself and, as best as she could, covering up her chemotherapy…

I was moved by David Kuo’s blog post about cancer (and all illness), his reaction to the news about Tony Snow’s cancer returning and spreading. David, a fellow Beliefnet blogger, has battled his own illness–a brain tumor–and speaks so candidly about the questions that arise in the heart of a person with cancer or any…

Good Friday and the narrative of the Lord’s passion will always be connected to the story of the hemorrhaging woman in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) for me, because just as I yelled out to God in the Garden of Gethsemane of my depression, “Why (the bleep) have you forsaken me?”, I got…
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