The next time you’re in a doctor’s office… and someone wraps a cuff around your arm to check your blood pressure, you’ll have to give thanks to a nice Jewish doctor named Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch. He called his device a...
Here’s a parlor game for psychologists… and the rest of us. Try to pick a popular song that captures the essence of a given type of therapy. Freudian psychotherapy focuses on the effect of your parents on mental health, just like when Loggins and Messina...
Not uncommonly, one member of a couple … will see me in the office with a concern about the sexual aspects of their relationship. Of course many things can go wrong when it comes to sex. We all know about erectile dysfunction since we are bombarded regularly by...
Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia … Rambo comes face to face with an Indochinese Tiger. A vicious battle ensues, with Rambo finally strangling the beast with his bare hands. Afterwards, he notices a long deep gash in his shoulder. Using some old fishing line...
In the olden days, and by “olden” I mean … last year, vaccinating patients against pneumonia was simple—we gave everyone one shot at age 65 and that was it, but new recommendations have created a lot of confusion. Let’s remedy that and rock your world at the...
Phenomenon of quantum entanglement. It was introduced to me during my undergraduate days at UCLA in classes in physics and physical chemistry. I, along with scores of other people, have been mulling over the disturbing consequences ever since. If quantum physics were...
