A former patient whom I’ll call Jack came to me for help after three back operations. He was on disability because of his pain. I treated him for about four years, struggling all the while to get his insurance to cover his therapies. I tried to get him to see a psychologist, but his insurance would not pay for the service. He was on what most physicians today would term a high dose of opioids a...

For eleven years I begged my obstinate elderly father to allow a caregiver to help him with my ailing mother, who needed full-time care after a massive heart attack. But he adamantly insisted on taking care of her himself. Every caregiver I hired lasted about three days and then I'd get the familiar call: "Jacqueline, I just can't work with your father. His temper is impossible to handle. He sc...

I. THE WOLSEY YEARS It is odd that Augustine de Augustinis, M.D., native of Venice but denizen of England for more than twenty years, has not drawn more attention from Tudor historians. Until the publication in 1960 of the first volume of the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Rome, 1960), which includes Mario Rosa's sketch, only meagre biographical details had appeared in print. And yet Aug...

After 18 years as a senior clinical psychiatrist at a New England inner-city mental health clinic, Dr Lawrence Climo was understandably surprised and saddened when he was given 2 weeks’ notice that his services were no longer needed. Financial constraints meant the clinic was replacing him with a nurse. Although his wife told him it was an opportunity, he remembers thinking that health care ref...

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Current leading figures in medical science usually focus on very specific topics and use cutting-edge technologies to broaden our knowledge in the field. The working environment of the nineteenth century was very different. Medical giants of that time such as Rudolph Virchow and Thomas Hodgkin had a wide-ranging scope of research and humanitarian interests and made enormous contributions to a v...

Paradoxal reactions to benzodiazepines may be presented in different ways. In some persons, primarily older persons and children, especilally with coexisting somatic disorders, paradoxal reactions may be manifested as logoroic speech, unapropriate social behaviour, and psychomotor agitation. Although benzodiazepines lower levels of agression, few studies described that in some persons levels of...