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Opinion | By September 09, 2007 | By Robert Yourell, MA | 2 Comments
The Neurodiverse vs The Cure
Who is neurodiverse? If you listen to the clinicians involved in brain scanning, the question is, “Who isn’t?” The definition of neurodiversity may come down to the line between, “how diverse?” and, “how much stigma?” Those of us who are diverse enough to lose jobs, be excluded from social groups, and have schools and workplaces resisting our needs for accommodation may get a boost from the idea of neurodiversity. Some of the biggest proponents of the idea have autism or Asperger syndrome. They object to being called abnormal or pathological. They reject the idea of being cured, because that would be like eliminating their current personality, and replacing them with someone else. Read more →
- In Medicine Everybody is Your Boss
- Genetic Discrimination: A Real Threat?
- Metrosexuality: A Personality Disorder?
- Paris Hilton’s Mystery Ailment - Back to Jail, But Suspicions Linger
- Defining Malpractice During an Emergency Evacuation
- Is War A Psychosis?
- The Virginia Tech Massacre
- Unconscious Competence in Medical Training
- Do You Have Panic Attacks?
- March’s Match Day
- Difficulties Teaching Mental Health in Med School: We Need More Answers!
I don’t think I’ve ever written that much about the workplace in the field of medicine. It’s something that has always bothered me at some level but I’ve come to accept as an inevitable evil that could not be changed. In medicine, everybody is your boss. It’s unlike any... Read more →
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2007 finally overcame the republican opposition in recent years, and got through the House of the Representatives. With a change in the recent composition of the senate, there is a good chance it would get through there as well. In the recent hearing... Read more →
It isn’t simply about paying nearly obscene sums for your haircut, or ordering your theta meditation-delta sleep system pack from Amazon.com. It’s about creating an image of yourself as an exceptionally groomed specimen, dressed and odored to kill. Nothings wrong with that at a personal level.... Read more →
Internet chat rooms are ablaze with speculations about the exact nature of the medical condition that allowed Paris Hilton to spend her remaining term of “imprisonment” in her Hollywood Hills mansion rather than the county jail. Whether it was the jail itself which was at risk of being contaminated... Read more →
There’s an interesting case going on in Louisiana that’s pushing the limits of the definition of medical malpractice. For those of you that don’t know, the jurisdiction for medical malpractice in the United States is held by each state. That’s right, what is malpractice in California... Read more →
I have no future but I am a force. – Robin Williams, as a terrorist, in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 1996 In 1967, the Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing wrote, “Insanity is a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. Normal men have killed 100 million of their fellow men... Read more →
I’ve been pondering exactly how to post about what happened this week at the campus of Virginia Tech. I’ve got so many emotions about the killings of so many innocent people. I’m deeply saddened by all of it. At times, I’m a little numb because death is really something that is... Read more →
There is a phrase in the medical world that a lot of doctors can relate to - Unconscious Competence. Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, first described the unconscious as part of the mind that lay outside of someone’s conscience, working behind the scenes. Freud eventually... Read more →
I’ve always considered myself a pretty healthy person. I was a high school and collegiate athlete, have had good friends at every stage of life, and have largely been successful in my academic and professional pursuits. I’ve always been a mentally strong person and have felt at one time or... Read more →
For many of us, March is associated with the madness and craze of NCAA Division I basketball. If you know anybody in medical school, then you know March is the month of Match Day for senior medical students. The National Residency Matching Program matches senior medical students to their residencies... Read more →
From our previous discussion, Scott (a commentator) proposed a very interesting basis for the disparity of mental health management in contemporary health care: lack of medical training on the subject. Typically, mental health disorders are covered in a short course in the classroom training of medical... Read more →
Friday, August 8, 2008
- The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Woman Comparable to Men in Domestic Violence: Stereotypes and their Consequences
- The Bipolar Trend
- The Implications of Implanted Chips
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn't Mess Around
- The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
- Unhinging from Theory: Autism and Opinions
- The Science of Brain Freeze
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads?
- Mind-Body: We Want Evidence, Don't We?
- Usually It's Cheaper to Pay Than to Go To Court
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Integrating Schizophrenia Management
- Is War A Psychosis?
- Rabies Virus Helps Deliver Drugs into the Brain
- Public Health Needs a Shot in the Arm
- Medical Students Can Make A Difference
- What Makes A Good Doctor? - A Patient’s Perspective
- Can this Economic Downturn Lead to Better Psychosocial Health?
- Fall Prevention - Who is Ultimately Responsible?
- Anti-Epileptic Drugs and the Risk of Suicide
- Real Life Medicine in Nepal - The Headache Phenomenon
- The Trans Fat Ban - Is High-Fructose Corn Syrup Next?
- The Lighter Side of Medicine
- Viruses Cause Cancer?
- There Is No Sham In Acupuncture
- Finding New Ways to Treat Depression
- Medicine and the Law - Part 5: Abandonment
- Brain Blogging, Thirty-Seventh Edition
- Why Your City Planner Is Making You Fat
- A Bad Mix - Cell Phones and Children?
- Emergency Rooms - Overcrowded and Understaffed
- Which Came First - Depression or Diabetes?
- A Fatal Lack of Data
- When Age Is Just A Number
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