I have been writing a lot of posts about the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process and the latest one was an open letter about the requirement to solicit feedback from peers (see short link http://wp.me/p1glcu-1Ns ). I’ve also been wondering about when Maintenance of Licensure (MOL) will be coming on the horizon to Iowa. An […]
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The Geezer’s Dirty Dozen on Somatoform Disorders
This is another Dirty Dozen presentation, this time on Somatoform Disorders. It can be complementary to the Dirty Dozen on Factitious Disorder and Malingering. ADDENDUM: The DSM-5 and the book “Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Responding to the Challenge of DSM-5 by Dr. Allen Frances, MD have a lot to say about the somatoform disorders. The […]
The Geezer’s Dirty Dozen on Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal
This is another Dirty Dozen and it’s about managing alcohol withdrawal. I’ve included links to my other blog posts about this topic. An excerpt from Chapter 21 on alcohol withdrawal management in Psychosomatic Medicine: An Introduction to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (a book edited by myself and Dr. Robert G. Robinson): Because of toxicity concerns, the use […]
The Geezer’s Dirty Dozen on Catatonia
Catatonia is a complex neuromotor disorder which is not well-studied, partly because of its relative rarity. It can be seen in both medical and psychiatric disorders and is eminently treatable sometimes with benzodiazepines and most importantly, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which can be life-saving. Patients can suffer and even die from such medical complications as dehydration and […]
The Geezer on Integrated Care on a Medical-Psychiatry Unit
This is a video with powerpoint presentation I put together recently after realizing that there are some practical realities to staffing a medical-psychiatry unit that make it an interesting challenge in the era of integrated care. I owe a lot to Roger Kathol, MD who built the Medical-Psychiatry Unit at The University of Iowa Hospitals […]
The Geezer’s Dirty Dozen on Suicide Risk Assessment
This is another GeezerVideo, which is a Dirty Dozen on suicide risk assessment. Suicide risk assessmet is arguably the most important thing psychiatrists do. While it may be debatable that we can ever prevent suicide in general psychiatric practice (see references), there are ways to develop a more systematic approach to suicide risk assessment. Slide […]
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The University of Iowa, Charity Paves the Way for Helping Prevent Delirium
My wife and I just got a nice thank you letter from The University of Iowa (like many others got) about investing in the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Caring Fund. Although I’m not sure the UI leaders realize it, the investment could potentially go a long way toward fulfilling one part of the […]
The Neecham Confusion Scale and the Delirium Observation Screening Scale: Capacity to discriminate and ease of use in clinical practice
The Neecham Confusion Scale and the Delirium Observation Screening Scale: Capacity to discriminate and ease of use in clinical practice. I thought it might be helpful to share this open access article available at the link above about two delirium rating scales in the delirum rating scale poll for nurses on general medical units . This study compared the NEECHAM and the […]
Leaders In Psychosomatic Medicine: Dr. E. Wesley Ely, MD
It’s been a while since I’ve heard from Dr. Ely, the stand-out delirium researcher at Vanderbilt (see link http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/icudelirium/index.html). He’s a busy guy, but not too busy to share new data and insights about how to provide top-flight medical care for patients in the critical care unit. He’s also co-author, along with Dr. Valerie Page […]
Are We Caught in the Web?
A couple of items caught my eye lately. First, big pharma is accused of steering patients (customers) to mainly medication management of ADHD and PTSD via the internet. Like it or not, many of us get our information for almost everything these days from the world-wide web–which is probably aptly named, conjuring up images of […]
8th Annual European Delirium Association Meeting in Belgium!
I’m excited to report I just found out about the 8th Annual Meeting of the European Delirium Association (EDA), which will be held in Leuven, Belgium, September 20-21, 2013. Keynote speakers will be Dr. E. Wesley Ely, MD, a prominent ICU delirium researcher at Vanderbilt, http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/icudelirium/ and Dr. Donna Fick, PhD, professor of nursing, another delirium […]
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“Synergy…”
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“It is fully human…”
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