I’ve been reading “The Divided Mind” by John Sarno. He is a physician rehab specialist who has made a name for himself identifying psychological causes of musculoskeletal pain. (See this previous post.) Alfred Adler joined Freud in 1902, but then
Charlie Munger discusses Max Planck a number of times in the book, Poor Charlie’s Almanack(1).Max Planck was a physicist who developed Planck’s constant, earned a doctorate at the age of 21, worked on energy emissions which lead to the “Quantum
My post yesterday was a riff on Charlie Munger and his use of mental models. Why is this of interest? I am searching for workable models to use for acupuncture and thereby improve its efficacy. I also think that the
My post yesterday was a riff on Charlie Munger and his use of mental models. Why is this of interest? I am searching for workable models to use for acupuncture and thereby improve its efficacy. I also think that the
This may seem off the topic of medicine, but I think if you stay with me, you’ll see the relevance. Over the weekend I was reading a book about and by Charlie Munger[i], a famous and successful investor and partner
In a bygone era in China, a physician was only paid if he kept his patients healthy. If they fell sick, he would not be paid. This is still the ethos in Chinese Medicine, and, of course, we don’t live
In an unprecedented move, the medical device industry has tried to block a report that examines new regulations on the industry. They are using the usual arguments that there was bias in the scientific report, that industry was not represented,
A month ago, I posted some discussion from the Atlantic Magazine (here) about Alternative Medicine. I didn’t excerpt this particular section at the time, but will now since it’s pertinent to yesterday’s post (here) about telomeres and Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn.
Dusted off this oldie also. By the same group looking at cardiovascular health and telomeres and stress. (This post is an offshoot of this earlier post.)*1: *Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2006 Apr;31(3):277-87. Epub 2005 Nov17. Cell aging in relation to stress arousal and
A bit of background from this earlier post, I had this in the deep freeze of my computer. This was the landmark study showing increased aging in mothers of handicapped children versus mothers of non-handicapped children.Department of Psychiatry, University of
