Re: Interesting Blogger POET
- From: whistler <whistler-ab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:07:04 -0700
On Sep 28, 3:48 pm, whistler <whistler...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Who wants to sign that mean'ole permit now ? \w/
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Scape that Goat
Scape that Goat
Raise the drawbridge, build the moat
We'll be fine once we've scaped that goat
Appease the gods by slitting her throat
We needed one so we took a vote
We're scared of lions, tigers and stoats
We won't admit how much we gloat
Throw a passenger out of the boat
Sacrifice her to the dragon's throat
We're safe for now; that's all she wrote
9/21/07
Posted by Red Paw at 11:47 AM
Labels: history repeats itself, oooh
I forgot to mention she's an M.D.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Drug Companies
As a family doctor I am getting less and less enthused about drug
companies. I do think there are some good medicines. Exercise works
wonders though, and walking in the woods and on the beaches or
anywhere outside. I really do read some of the junk mail from drug
companies very carefully just to see what they are encouraging me to
do. Some of the pamphlets seriously creep me out.
I'm listing the talky part of the blog before the poem or song
starting today because I don't like reading it from the bottom up.
Also, I learned to spell questionnaire. I can now rest on my laurels.
Red Paw
Posted by Red Paw at 8:00 AM 2 comments
Labels: creeped out
The Doctor's Educational Blues
The Doctor's Educational Blues
Helpful pamphlets
Come in the mail
Primary care
Diagnosis and treatment
For bipolar disorder
Is particularly popular
Right now
An article or journal
Arrives nearly every day
I read one
Sponsored by a helpful
Grant from Astra-Zenica
They happen to make
A drug
FDA approved
For treatment
The pamphlet says
1 percent
of the population
Is bipolar
Using the DSM IV criteria
For diagnosis
(Developed by psychiatrists
Experts in mental health)
But it says
If we use a broader definition
Than the DSM IV criteria
Then 2-8% of the population
Is bipolar
They have a questionnaire
For me to use
On patients
To diagnose
This disorder
They fail to mention
If they used the strict
DSM IV criteria
Or the looser criteria
To make the questionnaire
I can see that Astra-Zenica
Will sell more drugs
If we loosen up the diagnosis
I sit and wonder
How helpful it is
To change the diagnosis
And put more people
On medicine
Helpful to Astra-Zenica
No doubt
The pamphlet has a chart
Showing the range of feeling
Normal to manic
Normal is listed as
Happy and joyous
I sit and wonder
How many of us
Would feel that we are normal
Looking at that chart
Not me
.
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