Hitting a Nerve
Hitting a Nerve
Music and the human brain
I don’t try to understand music any more than I try to understand my dogs. I just know I couldn’t live without either.
Hitting a Nerve
Sealing the envelope
Hitting a Nerve
The problem with samples
In many cases, the time you save handing out samples isn’t worth the time you have to spend on them down the line.
Hitting a Nerve
Death from despair
In a world where major advances have been made in many areas of medicine, including mental health, suicide shows no sign of abating.
Hitting a Nerve
Is common courtesy no longer contagious?
It is distressing that the amount of rudeness is increasing to the point where we need to remind grown-ups about its consequences.
Hitting a Nerve
The ripple effect
Our care may set off a chain reaction we can’t see.
Hitting a Nerve
The waiting room: Then and now
Placing limitations on the numbers of family members in the waiting room makes the difficult environment of being there easier for all to deal...
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Hanging on to the memories
In a world where we can often keep people physically up and around, our ability to do the same with their minds and souls is still desperately in...
Hitting a Nerve
It’s time to retire the president question
A simple, time-honored, cognitive assessment question has become so polarizing that it is clinically worthless.
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A ‘scary’ side effect
Once something is in a chart, whether it is accurate or not, it’s impossible to get it out.
Hitting a Nerve
Nota bene: Don’t change a note
A chart is a legal document; once a note has been signed off on, it cannot be changed.