Of all the silly urban legends … this one seems particularly difficult to kill off. You do not need to drink eight glasses of water per day. You do not need to drink more water than what your normal thirst would dictate. The thirst mechanism has been subject to...
We’ve all seen the horror movie where … we think the bad guy has been killed off, but he is really hiding in the basement ready to attack the girls at the sorority as soon as the cops wrap things up and head home. This is just how shingles works. Shingles is 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 ever since the invention and...
The phenomenon of quantum entanglement 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...
In the olden days, and by “olden” I mean … last year, vaccinating patients against pneumonia was simple—we gave everyone two shots and that was it, but new recommendations have created a lot of confusion. Let’s remedy that and rock your world at the same time....
