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Prescribing lifestyle changes: When medicine isn’t enough
In prescribing lifestyle changes, it is important to offer most of these changes as suggestions, not as things we insist on.
Commentary
Will this trial help solve chronic back pain?
Physicians are trained that if there’s pain, there’s something wrong and we have to do surgery or there’s been some trauma. Most chronic pain is...
News
A primer on gender-affirming care for transgender youth
Gender-affirming care is a broad term that can encapsulate many different domains: social, legal, medical, and surgical affirmation.
Commentary
Lessons from the longest study on happiness
To some surprise, researchers determined that good relationships were the most significant predictor of health and happiness during aging.
Shrink Rap News
As psychiatrists, do we offer hope or do we offer death?
If you’re in favor of legalization of clinician assistance in a patient’s death, the term is “medical assistance in dying.” If you’re opposed, the...
Hard Talk
Death anxiety in psychiatry and society: Facing our fears and embracing life
The fear of death can be therapeutic and motivating, but it can also be pathological and lead to a lack of motivation or drive.
Feature
Should you dismiss a difficult patient?
Even if a reason seems legitimate, that doesn’t make it legal.
Opinion
How not to establish rapport with your patient
With COVID waning and masks doffed, I've found myself back to handshaking.
Commentary
Book review: “Sexual Citizens”
Many of the book’s valuable lessons fall under the umbrella of failures of language and communication.
Commentary
Are you a physician ... or a vending machine?
We stopped prescribing oxycodone and now people are on gabapentin in the highest doses, diversion is up, and so is its abuse.
Commentary
PTSD: Children, adolescents, and all of us may be at risk
Many mental health interventions need not be long in duration but client-centered, focused, and short term.