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From Robert Carroll, The Art of the Brain, Los Angeles, CA: Bombshelter Press 2004. http://artofthebrain.org www.bombshelterpress.com 44 pp $8 (including S/H) POETRY AND HUMOR ARE HEALING Ric Masten NO SLAM DUNK
Childhood hyperactivity and caffeinated colas At the May 23rd, 2005 annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association held in Atlanta, Dr. Alan Hirsch, the director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation and assistant professor of both neurology and psychiatry at Rush Medical College in Chicago, presented his findings on a double-blinded study
Intuition is any leap of logic in thought or action. When we know something without knowing why we know it, thats intuition. When we find ourselves in the right place at the right time thats the result of our intuition, as well. Everyone is intuitive to some extent, but those who enhance their intuitive awareness
A medical student chronicles his struggles to maintain a healing presence To all the students who went to bed crying or woke up screaming. To all those who needed to leave their hearts at the door. I just graduated with honors from Tufts University School of Medicine, the class of 1999. I dont feel honorable,
The challenges of meeting spiritual needs in a hospital I have never been very good at visiting people in the hospital. I am unsettled by the smells of disinfectant that do not quite mask the sick-room odors of medicines, and of the cloying, private aromas of the human body. I seem, always, to get lost