tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56292090574892499992024-03-19T04:47:07.062-04:00The Cockroach CatcherReflections of a Child PsychiatristAm Ang Zhanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07466386105122653445noreply@blogger.comBlogger1462125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5629209057489249999.post-59605139854756991412024-01-07T17:35:00.002-05:002024-02-07T17:31:52.842-05:00Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living: An Unusual Review!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Po7ggCljEjUNfH5H49B3zmPzReyEry0jAoxEExcm7_Nyv48kI1FEmWk771YEp5Ix3WonMteDgIi8Iuigs0bgnsMntCl3EjZsFC8rdJwF0-Zrg5jErmcWyNTUvkEetg2jwNxe1rt-q9OXUD8KXSUHDnAf6WthjkeDNY2goR8JO0FmqHklr-ViQkK2JTw/s1600/IMG-0346.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Po7ggCljEjUNfH5H49B3zmPzReyEry0jAoxEExcm7_Nyv48kI1FEmWk771YEp5Ix3WonMteDgIi8Iuigs0bgnsMntCl3EjZsFC8rdJwF0-Zrg5jErmcWyNTUvkEetg2jwNxe1rt-q9OXUD8KXSUHDnAf6WthjkeDNY2goR8JO0FmqHklr-ViQkK2JTw/w640-h360/IMG-0346.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">These notes represent thoughts that crossed my mind and lessons that
stood out when I read the book. They are by no means comprehensive and
complete. They do show that the book contains a lot of valuable lessons that
would benefit professionals and management beyond the Psychiatry field.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Audience</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The book
reads more like guidance for the making of a competent, caring doctor than random
thoughts. Dr. Zhang made specific, deliberate efforts to link his work and life
experiences.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">While the stories were told through psychiatry case studies, the
messages and lessons are applicable to all fields and professions. We are all problem solvers, strategists, decision makers
and management of self and others, regardless of what professions we are in. There
are many similarities in skills and operating philosophies for success in
various fields. The book will benefit a much
broader audience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">A case in point, I am an accountant, auditor,
risk management and governance professional, financial controller, and
corporate management by profession. We need a holistic and multidisciplinary approach
to train our staff. I have engaged professionals outside my fields (e.g., a coroner,
medical professors, chemist, inventors, news reporters, sport coaches, etc.) to
conduct training. The audience found their sessions inspirational, interesting
and memorable. </span><span lang="EN-US">The presenters’ diversified perspectives
expanded their horizons.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Therefore the audience for this book could include:<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Professionals
in all fields who want to develop their thought processes and skills for
success.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Leaders
and managers who want to improve their training and development approaches for
themselves and their teams.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">People
who want to be proactive in managing their relationships with doctors and
healthcare professionals. (Just like Dr. Zhang having to learn about the Jewish
culture to work with his colleagues and treat his patients. These parties
should know something about operating philosophy and backgrounds of their
physicians/psychiatrists!) </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsLiHfrgAIA6_RmbDXMvqxrsCc-vC4TS5NoBHN7b1GWie0-wfxkxbq9YIbjQciNHDG-5f1feD_B4dYT3RcigKYmWnGxh9vlW8xoccSZpLK9f9I7Z0VYEwF0LB-e6FhJziEB5ssxj10kv6OytmETnXNh2GrcWdMQKp6SgQOil58AehO05h6Wke4iTiSnEU/s1600/IMG-0345.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsLiHfrgAIA6_RmbDXMvqxrsCc-vC4TS5NoBHN7b1GWie0-wfxkxbq9YIbjQciNHDG-5f1feD_B4dYT3RcigKYmWnGxh9vlW8xoccSZpLK9f9I7Z0VYEwF0LB-e6FhJziEB5ssxj10kv6OytmETnXNh2GrcWdMQKp6SgQOil58AehO05h6Wke4iTiSnEU/w640-h360/IMG-0345.JPG" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /><br /></b></div><b><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">The Format</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The chapters were short and easy to read. Since the primary audience
are psychiatrists, a couple of cases were more technical for the laymen. The
photos added a human touch to the stories. The book captured a lot of lessons
learned. It would help the readers to recall these important lessons if they
were highlighted at the end of each chapter or consolidated in a chapter. I
gave some examples below on what I get out of the book as a
non-psychiatrist. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">What I Like About the Book</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; text-indent: -0.25in;">Integrating
lifelong hobbies (meeting people from all walks of life, travelling, savoring
food and wine, and photography), work experience, lessons learned, historical
perspectives and the latest medical research and advancements. I am sure Dr.
Zhang has many golfing-related stories that could be included in his future
books</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Amazing details about the people Dr. Zhang met. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Detailed, vivid
descriptions of the people involved in the cases (parents, patients, physicians,
nurses and even the secretaries).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Insights gained from case studies. Case studies provided a deep
dive into the context, the</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">facts, the
diagnoses and the solutions to create memorable lessons. Case studies should be
used a lot more in the business world.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">What Would Be
Helpful to Non-Psychiatrists</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">For readers outside the field, it would be
beneficial to have a brief overview of the main branches and hierarchy of Psychiatry
and how they interact and support each other. </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Lessons Learned, Observations and Comments</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some of the messages and lessons in the
book are explicit, some required the readers’ reflection and interpretation. I consolidated the examples under key
themes. Some themes ran through multiple chapters. Arguably, some of
examples can be classified under different and multiple themes. I tried to keep
it simple. <i>Specific references in italics</i> have been included to
facilitate review. <span style="color: #0070c0;">Feedback are in blue.</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Key Skills</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">A. Keen Observation Power and Ability to
Connect the Dots <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9SGrifLGzCDQfU93N0bzeACuO4-DUwmR0LlmfheAyN2ZM22WCUrZhOo4w7fwbCbZmu8joUsFCenVnWP4_nDLZo4JnLmOGdwwP73dmlvnra1AAiD2BnKRINdBYeFO0VBqjhteDgo9w_slP1ueYdilutORX-j1GSioxoHybJ6KATsCXnoXMN4GzzuLXWqQ/s3008/DSC_7730.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3008" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9SGrifLGzCDQfU93N0bzeACuO4-DUwmR0LlmfheAyN2ZM22WCUrZhOo4w7fwbCbZmu8joUsFCenVnWP4_nDLZo4JnLmOGdwwP73dmlvnra1AAiD2BnKRINdBYeFO0VBqjhteDgo9w_slP1ueYdilutORX-j1GSioxoHybJ6KATsCXnoXMN4GzzuLXWqQ/w640-h426/DSC_7730.JPG" width="640" /></a></i></div><i><br /> </i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.165</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> <i>It was at a stall in this
farmers' market that I unexpectedly came across an interesting medical case.
What caught my attention was a small poster titled "Climbing Back". A
lady… was promoting her book about her son's journey back to life after a very
serious accident. Elise Rosenhaupt is her name and her book is Climbing Back: A
Family's Journey through Brain Injury.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Elise's son Martin, at the start of his second year at Harvard, was
hit by a car and thrown 150ft</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">. He landed on his head, suffering severe traumatic brain
injury, and she chronicled in detail </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">her son's slow process of recovery. This conversation reminded me of
a six-year old boy I saw many years ago back in Wessex. He was involved in a
serious car accident, suffered fairly serious concussions and was unconscious
for around ten days. Of course we now know a lot more about the brain and the
nervous system, but more of that later.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.189 -90 “The nurses seem to know you do not like to use sedating
medication. Doesn’t that make their job more difficult?” Dr. V asked me. “They
were quick to grasp that it was my </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">preferred way and I had good reasons. Without the habitual
prescription of tranquilisers, we are able to assess a patient in the raw…”</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.283 </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">After all she spent a good five
years with Winnicott. Winnicott, like many of his generation, was brought up to
exercise very sharp powers of observation…</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.
463 Not being skiers, we have never stayed at Verbier, a popular village
boasting the most </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">renowned
Swiss skiing and thriving night life. However, Verbier reminded me of Cordelia,
an </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">overdose
patient, and the tricky business of protocols.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">Lesson:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;"> <b>Good doctors, psychiatrists and their teams must be
keen observers. They constantly absorb, filter, integrate and reorganize
information to develop new knowledge and solutions. The eyes see and the brain
connects the dots. Just like a kaleidoscope presenting new pictures all the
time. </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.4</span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333;"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">Dissecting
the cockroach salivary glands requires not only anatomical knowledge of the
said insect but also a degree of manual dexterity, which is required in many
branches of medicine. Little did our teachers know then that those same
salivary glands are now being studied for neuro-transmitters.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p. 4 I did practice dissecting them at home and getting good marks
for biology was never a problem. It could even be said that the cockroaches put
me ahead of others in my ultimate pursuance of a medical career!</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifmMMxKeNxeu0mFzImHcnZfZ47NP9tHH7Co_2T07HXrp7mDHn9p60r9HDsj0g5h9VezhG3f8ECjd9nbA8inPOqVxYiuZa_lQl8k8htA_lf6kvlms-45i0d3ahEiB7ed0NtZyuRLTdFNa3n8mI38J9_88Epqp6BBcWE4j52NzZUUMKjsZBe7oewr1VQg3I/s3008/DSC_7910.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3008" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifmMMxKeNxeu0mFzImHcnZfZ47NP9tHH7Co_2T07HXrp7mDHn9p60r9HDsj0g5h9VezhG3f8ECjd9nbA8inPOqVxYiuZa_lQl8k8htA_lf6kvlms-45i0d3ahEiB7ed0NtZyuRLTdFNa3n8mI38J9_88Epqp6BBcWE4j52NzZUUMKjsZBe7oewr1VQg3I/w640-h426/DSC_7910.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></i></div><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">p.222 My prime years of child psychiatric
training in a drug free environment were fantastic in ways that I only realised
years later. I am what you would call a true organic free range Child
Psychiatrist!</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Don’t overlook what seems trivial and
basic. They can have a significant impact on the profession and to the professionals. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-themecolor: text1;">B. Effective
Problem-Solving Strategies <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.228-229 <span style="color: #333333;">Others were more assertive and
felt compelled to make interpretations, not realising that often one was
limited by one's own psyche or understanding of it. Hence the need for some personal
analysis to deal with that aspect. There is of course a world of difference
between reflection and interpretation. My personal feeling is that there needs
to be a balance between the 2.</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Know our limitations. Balance
reflection with interpretation and synthesize the information. Conduct
independent analyses to validate where appropriate.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333;">p.229 Psychotherapy is thus quite far removed
from medical history taking. In a serious medical episode, there is a need to
get a clear view of the events leading up to the episode. This enables
appropriate investigations to be carried out, and the right course of treatment
determined</span></i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">p. 281 Her lead social worker, Miss W, was a
Quaker. They were the exceptions at the clinic,</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">which was staffed mostly with Jewish
professionals. I became extremely friendly with a psychologist who was an
Orthodox Jew and from him I learned a great deal about the Jewish way of life,
their customs and their culture. That was important because the majority of our
patients undergoing therapy at the clinic were, you guess right, Jewish.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">Lesson: Take a holistic view and go back as
far as necessary in time, event, and process to get a good understanding of the
problems/issues and their root causes. Don’t just focus on </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">the present condition and the symptoms.</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">An effective psychiatrist seeks to understand
the culture and background of his/her colleagues, the patients and their
families.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p. 297 I could well remember this boy with two extremely worried
parents. To me, Ataxia (clumsy voluntary movements caused by poor muscle
control) stood out to be the most significant symptom, not psychiatric ones.
And he had not been put on any medications at all. That was definitely worth
investigating.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Don’t be fooled by the symptoms.
Symptoms could be misleading. They may not be what they seem or what we expect.
Be curious. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.189 -90 “The nurses seem to know you do not like to use sedating
medication. Doesn’t that make their job more difficult?” Dr. V asked me. “They
were quick to grasp that it was my </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">preferred way and I had good reasons. Without the habitual
prescription of tranquilisers, we are able to assess a patient in the raw…”</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Know the downside of medications.
Medications could mask symptoms. A “true organic free range Child Psychiatrist”
is a vivid description of Dr. Zhang.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSogwnpXnuJ2Wm7Om_qmXLPyYEb3SZmnQVsnLBI7rwkmSE08VCBnlO-bKvrlJWeftzLnN4edg1bg9x_iryfh1E84areDhtCQq2egMoeLQjMTsbVVcQFGDyF6o3Slitei6-WKWgOEtDZwVcuvGnHBYGtv1O-qLdwZNxcVLQs3Npg5xkdf7OQQbF7PfSv-w/s1024/IMG-4450.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSogwnpXnuJ2Wm7Om_qmXLPyYEb3SZmnQVsnLBI7rwkmSE08VCBnlO-bKvrlJWeftzLnN4edg1bg9x_iryfh1E84areDhtCQq2egMoeLQjMTsbVVcQFGDyF6o3Slitei6-WKWgOEtDZwVcuvGnHBYGtv1O-qLdwZNxcVLQs3Npg5xkdf7OQQbF7PfSv-w/w640-h426/IMG-4450.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></i></div><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.332 In Finland, could they have found vodka to be the answer? No,
not the drinking of it, but the principle behind using simple ideas.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.391 </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">“Yes,
six huge bottles of Coke!” Ah, Caffeine.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Sometimes the answers are starring at
us, as in the case of Coke. We may miss the simple, obvious answers - the root
cause in this case was the caffeine in Coke.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.173 - 174 These families mostly had mothers who would never raise
their voice to their child. We have to be careful what we say to them as
whatever we say would be taken as 'gospel'. These were mums with sheltered
upbringing, living in quite comfortable homes, and married to husbands who
brought in good income. Yet most did not seem able to tap into their
instinctual pool. They were a generation of instruction readers, the generation
who spent time reading manuals on DVDs, microwaves and other kitchen
appliances. They were certainly not Ivan </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">Illich's great self- taught group who could figure out how the
mechanics of a bicycle or an old clock worked, without reading a single manual.
Unfortunately, babies do not come with a good </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">manual!</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.352</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Child Psychiatry is
one discipline where “tickbox” approach favoured by those in power does not
work. In dealing with Autism, it is often better to think outside the box! Do
not check the box as though from a list of the approved conditions. There is no
standard treatment.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">p.357 - 358 Dr. Temple
Grandin did not use the Asperger tag. At the age of three, she was diagnosed
with</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #212121; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">autism and her parents were told she should be
institutionalized. She would not talk until she was three and a half years old,
communicating her frustration instead by screaming, humming and peeping…most
professionals and parents assumed that an autism diagnosis was virtually a
death knell for achievement or productivity in life. She instead turned her
unique talent into the development of a behavioural tool that revolutionized
the cattle industry, and achieved fame as one of the world’s renowned experts
in two fields: animal welfare and autism.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: On the other hand, be aware of doctors
and people who rely on manuals. Human beings are not products of cookie
cutters; they do not come with manuals. Everyone is unique. There are no
instruction manuals, treatments and recipes in dealing with individuals.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">Similarly, straight application of tick-box
approach does not work for psychiatry, or for any other fields.</span></b><span face="Helvetica, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">Doctors have
to engage whole-brained thinking, combining analytical and logical (left brain)
with creative and intuitive (right brain) thinking skills with their people,
relationship and communication skills.</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Seek examples of individuals who break the
mold to achieve the inconceivable to show what is possible. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">C. Embrace Opportunities - Quantity as well
as Diversity</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.71 When a job was advertised at a premier
psychoanalytic out-patient clinic in England, I saw an opportunity to broaden
my horizon and was only too happy to send in an application. For some reason, I
got the job.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.210 There was a psychoanalyst who worked one day a week, as he was
mainly in private practice. He was kind enough to give us a weekly seminar on
psychoanalysis. Little did I know that this would pave the way to my next job.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Embrace enrichment opportunities.
Opportunities favor those who are prepared.
When there is a fork at the road, take the one that will provide new
experience and broaden our horizon. Each experience is a building block for
future jobs.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">The weekly seminar is a win-win. The
participants and the psychoanalyst learned about diversified practices,
experiences and perspectives. The psychoanalyst got the opportunity to practice
presentation skills and organize his knowledge. Teachers learn the most through
the teaching process. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.145 In part, I was enjoying my new role, being in constant contact
with over ten other Child </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">Psychiatrists in the county, forever trying to prioritise and
arrange for proper admission of some </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">very difficult patients especially adolescents.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-weight: bold;">Lesson: We get the most out of our work if we
enjoy the experience. Collaborating with our peers broaden our perspectives,
grow our experience and stimulate our minds.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.171 As time went on, Dr. CH would regularly "feed" me
cases so that I got to deal with a good variety. As I became more experienced,
I was assigned the younger children. Often it was not because their cases were
more complex or tough, but Dr. CH liked to get a feel of how well I could
communicate with parents who had very young children.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.173 There is no question that many of my trainees liked to
concentrate on how to deal with challenging cases.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.207 </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">On a night call in Internal
Medicine, it was not unusual to admit thirty patients with various serious life
threatening conditions… </span><span lang="EN-US">The extremely high caseload was
good practical training.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: We can learn from all types of cases.
We learn the most from difficult cases. High case load exposes psychiatrists to
a broad range of cases, provides opportunities to connect the dots, and develop
skills to make decisions and set priorities. Immersion is key to developing
deep knowledge and understanding of any topic. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.281 It was a total culture shock for
me to be suddenly immersed in the world of psychoanalysis, essentially
Freudian, and their special lingo, although I already had a taste from my
Jewish guru in prior jobs.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lesson: To learn something new and get new experience, we have
to be willing to step out of our comfort zone. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">D. Innovation
and Creativity Drive Changes</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">On p.13</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> <i>While reading “Fragile Lives”
by Stephen Westaby, it occurred to me that in most branches of medicine, there
was always someone who would have tried something that had never been tried
before and if they were lucky enough, it worked and a life was saved.</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCpG0_W7ZOm0js9mFE6cRkNN3Y3lhL3jZ8NfiATgjn797KhtECyeG2jyxmYuBD06ht0Jvr-IQHGFEZmeNAN4FD5Lu3mVm9gwQgR4YfrXf8_9j2qe-V3_2KMR_KMGHYP2-CPwniznHfpEHFCqM8YSqvr9AcczrJezka5IX6ZUiqNHMPkVtmVTXBZNo1y4c/s1721/IMG-9071-Original%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="1721" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCpG0_W7ZOm0js9mFE6cRkNN3Y3lhL3jZ8NfiATgjn797KhtECyeG2jyxmYuBD06ht0Jvr-IQHGFEZmeNAN4FD5Lu3mVm9gwQgR4YfrXf8_9j2qe-V3_2KMR_KMGHYP2-CPwniznHfpEHFCqM8YSqvr9AcczrJezka5IX6ZUiqNHMPkVtmVTXBZNo1y4c/w640-h342/IMG-9071-Original%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></span></a></i></div><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span lang="EN-US">Gateshead</span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">On p.13</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> <i>I was fortunate enough to be
at the Sage Gateshead Free Thinking Festival one year when Professor Westaby, a
heart surgeon and three others (a Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, a crime
writer, and a mathematician) took part in an open discussion about the pace and
rhythm of life, contemplating the speed of life and whether that runs fast or
slow depends on what you use to measure it.</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.204 We need to resurrect that and we need to let good doctors do
what they think is best, even if it is not yet NICE</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">approved.
Otherwise, there will be no free thinking, and no progress in British medicine!</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">Lesson: Thinking outside the box and bucking
conventional wisdom is critical for all fields. Progress depends on innovation
and creativity.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;"> <b>Leaders
should encourage creativity, innovation, and experimentation. They open new
paths to insights and solutions. Engage
in activities that promote free thinking. Empower good doctors to take informed
risks.</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.168 Now let me get back to my six-year old boy with brain injury.
It was one of Dr. CH's most </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">impressive cases, a case that set the direction for me in my
understanding of how our brain could recover, contrary to the neurology I was
taught at Queen Square Institute of Neurology three years before.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3eHImsqALGXR06injVwX3VgJed5jFePbZ-EquUiNfq_YzPesc6eyWfRp0cKR8oI6Dk3B78Dv_SI0et7MPggyGpNdZdqB5j1_JcBUyR3pCXMDvzoC42gFbGTRwOvyTEBMgB8j_7De8XLBiagHqNjDxlYUx3nvwAwfHWINRZcqX2bMsV5k35gd97NR9Gc/s1572/DSC-6493%20(1).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="1572" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3eHImsqALGXR06injVwX3VgJed5jFePbZ-EquUiNfq_YzPesc6eyWfRp0cKR8oI6Dk3B78Dv_SI0et7MPggyGpNdZdqB5j1_JcBUyR3pCXMDvzoC42gFbGTRwOvyTEBMgB8j_7De8XLBiagHqNjDxlYUx3nvwAwfHWINRZcqX2bMsV5k35gd97NR9Gc/w640-h380/DSC-6493%20(1).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></i></div><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050937;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Dry Falls</span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050937; font-size: medium;">p.268 -269 The Dry Falls was left high and dry
thousands of years ago as the last of several Ice Age floods swept through the
area… The theory of the colossal flood was first proposed by geologist J.
Harlen Bretz of the University of Chicago. In the summer of 1922, he became
intrigued… and after seven summers of hard work and detailed research, put
forward his hypothesis and published his conclusion: a catastrophic flood of a
scale greater than any geologist had ever imagined. It boldly defied the
accepted principle of "uniformitarianism," according to which
geological changes happen slowly and
steadily. To the general geologist community, his idea was unthinkable
heresy, and criticised as ‘wholly inadequate, preposterous, and incompetent’.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050937; font-size: medium;">p.270 Revolutionary theories are usually hard
to swallow.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: If we always do what we have always
done, we will always get what we have always got. Keep our eyes and mind open.
We never know when our next inspiration comes and where it comes from. We never
know which experiences, cases and information will open up new roads.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Learn to love opinions at odds with what is
generally accepted. Challenge conventional wisdom, regulations, policies, and
instructions with an improvement mindset. Be willing to accept new knowledge
that contradicts conventional wisdom and current practices. Integrate and
balance new knowledge and methods with the old and the tested to forge new
paths. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.340</span></i><span face="Helvetica, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">I had great
difficulty peeling a fat banana that we picked from a tree in our yard and
ripened in the kitchen, the ones that were particularly tricky to peel. However
hard I tried, I failed, and eventually I gave up my boyish pride and looked at
the window. Mother signaled that I should turn it round and try the other end.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: A great, simple example of keep doing
the same thing again and again and expect different results is insanity.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">p.226 Now that I had been thrown into the deep
end, I had no idea what to do. I had learned from Winnicott's squiggle game the
importance of the therapist's quick response and spontaneity. Why should
talking to the older child be any different? This approach helped the doctor to
establish rapport very quickly especially with parents and served me well all
the way through to my Consultant days. I learned from my gurus and teachers
that we did not have to be held back by rigidity.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.242 Not following the book. As we know, children cue parents in
how they respond. I have attempted to change relationships between mother and
her autistic child by suggesting an active attempt to bypass cueing, frequently
producing quite dramatic results.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: These
examples showed the merits of spontaneity, speedy response, flexibility and
thinking on our feet.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">E. Insightful Management Practices</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.189 -90 “The nurses seem to know you do not like to use sedating
medication. Doesn’t that make their job more difficult?” Dr. V asked me. “They
were quick to grasp that it was my </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">preferred way and I had good reasons. Without the habitual
prescription of tranquilisers, we are able to assess a patient in the raw. It
is not my primary job to make life easy for the nurses, and in many ways I am
proud that they have risen to the challenge…”</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Team members are trained to be
observant. Give people opportunities, they will rise to the challenges and
develop their skills. </span></b></p>
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“…The parents came in as they wanted to thank you personally. You've done
it." "No, WE, we've done it! All of us!"</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: All work is ultimately Teamwork.
Recognize team members’ contribution often and in public. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.97</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">I famously allowed her to bring
her 6-week old first born to work until she could sort out satisfactory
childcare. She became good enough for me to nominate her to become an Associate
Specialist – a success story!</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Loyalty are built on things big and
small. In this case, flexible work practices promoted dedication, diligence,
good performance and success.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p. 297 I could well remember this boy with two extremely worried
parents. To me, Ataxia (clumsy voluntary movements caused by poor muscle
control) stood out to be the most significant symptom, not psychiatric ones.
And he had not been put on any medications at all. That was definitely worth investigating.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Be mindful that to investigate or not
investigate an issue, a problem, an illness, or a topic always depends on the
organization’s culture, value system, resources and finance.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 187.9pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.381</span><span lang="EN-US"> … What could I
offer (to an Anorexia Nervosa patient)? You guess right: individual
psychotherapy. Really? With all my new patient load? When there was a will,
there was a way. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">Looking back, I realise I learned an awful lot from this single
case. It marked the turning point in </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">the way I dealt with anorectics. She became my ‘practice changer’.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: When there is a will, there is a way
if we are resourceful and set appropriate priorities. We should watch out for
potential "practice changers" and make use of them to improve our
strategies and practices.</span></b></p>
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various stages of our lives…</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">We realised that no matter how carefully we build, and how much
water you get on shore, the water will drain away in no time at all. We try to
repair this bit and that bit but when the next tide arrives all we have built
is going to disappear…</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">After a lifetime spent trying to sort out some strange, some twisted
and some really hilarious </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">minds, the psychiatrist retired and the next tide came and much of
his effort in building the best lakes and rivers evaporated. No trace
whatsoever. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">Do I want to leave some trace of my efforts? Perhaps some stories
are worth telling. As the water flows it changes course and it changes the
landscape Hopefully I have managed to effect a few changes along the way…
Things kept changing…</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Think about the legacy we want to
leave, the stories worth telling and what may help others in the forever
changing landscapes. As suggested in p.361, in retirement, we can turn our
profession into a hobby and side hustle. Why not take it to the next level and
leave our legacy in lessons learned from our life-long experience.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Operating Philosophies</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333;">F. Trust and Confidence Have
to be Earned</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.238 At this new District Psychiatric setup in west London, my
immediate boss, whom I often fondly refer to as my first guru, was somehow very
trusting of me and my abilities and virtually left all the day-to-day patient
management matters to me.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Earning trust could set us free.
Leadership and clients are more likely to support us in experimenting new approaches. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.190 “The nurses seem to know you do not like to use sedating
medication...” Dr. V asked me. “They were quick to grasp that it was my
preferred way and I had good reasons. Without the habitual prescription of
tranquilisers, we are able to assess a patient in the raw… Mother said to us,
“…So I have complete faith in what you might be able to do.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: One way to earn patients’ and their families’ trust and support is to
explain the reasons for recommending certain treatments and communicate with
confidence. Successful treatments build confidence within the teams and among
the patients’ families. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">G. Don’t Let Failures Go to Waste</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.376 We learn little or nothing from our successes. They mainly
confirm our mistakes, while our failures, on the other hand, are priceless
experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force
us to change our views and methods. C.G. Jung</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.377 …After a lifetime of seeing children and adolescents, I have
come to the conclusion that sometimes what you may see as failures are not
really failures. Some cases are ‘untouchable’…</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">all your best efforts at individual and family therapy and most of
other eclectic therapies just would not make an iota of difference…As Jung
assured us, failures are indeed priceless experiences, because they open up the
way to a deeper truth and may, if our future patients are </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">lucky, force us to change our views and methods.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lesson: Failures are priceless. We can learn more from failures
than successes. We should not be discouraged by and dwell on what appears to be
failures that are not actual failures. Learn from our failures and seek new
paths to success. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">H. Be a
Lifelong Learner - The World is Forever Changing</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p. 262 As our beloved professor put it nearly half a century ago,
“We know little about what we assume we know.” If you look at how medical
experts have struggled with the current Covid 19 pandemic, you will probably
agree. You might also wonder: What do we know, and what do we not know about
diseases and illness in general?</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.327 In medical school when we learned about medical conditions and
treatment methods, we had the impression that our knowledge on those subjects
was complete. How wrong!</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.360</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> <i>There are situations in
medicine that we cannot yet fathom, but often we are surprised at how a very
basic scientific principle is behind some apparently strange medical
circumstances. </i></span><i><span lang="EN-US">Despite my retirement,
medicine remains a great interest to me. In science, one should never </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">accept what is currently
known as the whole truth. Medicine cannot stagnate, nor should we forget first
principles.</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">p.448</span><span lang="EN-US"> The motto given to
us by our Professor of Medicine “One Patient One Disease” is a good one. I did
not believe that my patient had Teratoma and then encephalitis of unknown
origin. In medicine, one needs always to be asking questions. I was too much in
awe to question further the diagnosis given by the top British Neurological
Hospital then. My thinking was: if they did not know the answer, nobody would.
How amazing it would have been for London to be the first to describe
Autoimmune Encephalitis in 1978!.</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">p. 492 With some cases we often had to learn as we went along.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">Lesson: Be mindful of <span style="background: white;">Gomory's tripartite division:</span></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #0070c0;"> </span></span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">the</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #0070c0;"> </span></span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">known</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #0070c0;">, <b>the</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">unknown</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #0070c0;"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #0070c0;">which may someday become
known, and the</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #0070c0;"> </span></span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">unknowable</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #0070c0;">, <b>which will never be known.</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Knowledge will never be complete. More often
than not, we have to learn on the fly and execute. We should not assume that
experts have all the answers. We don't know what we don't know. Truth could
change.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Like many other advices in the book, the
importance of asking questions and listening is relevant to all fields, not
just medicine and science. Keep asking questions; it will lead to new
knowledge. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p. 281-282 In case discussions, there was often an assumption of the
‘given ‘, which a new comer like me found difficult to assimilate. It was all
new to me: Britain, psychoanalysis, and this strange psychoanalytic hot-house,
essentially ignored by British mainstream psychiatry, who happily carried on
with medication and ECTs (Electrical Convulsive Therapy). Later when I began to
attend World Conferences in Adult and Paediatric Psychiatry conducted by
American Associations, I realized American mainstream psychiatry had very much
embraced psychoanalysis, although this has now changed. My Tavistock background
stood me in good </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">grounds at these academic meetings.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Building a strong foundation is
essential. Don’t overlook the basic. The foundation should include disciplines
that go beyond our technical specialties. As we advance in our career, other
skills such as verbal and written communication, presentation, negotiation,
relationship building, networking, strategy development, etc., become the key
enablers for success. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Leaders and professionals will deliver many
presentations and training. When training team members and giving
presentations, pay attention to the “givens” we assume. The audience may not
have the “givens” to understand the content. We sometimes need to step back in
order to take the audience forward.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Throughout our career, we learn a broad range
of discreet topics organized by the institutions, the teachers, experts and
presenters. We have to take the initiative to integrate these knowledge and
information with our experience and expertise. We have to connect the dots. No
one can do it for us. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Our brain has immense capacities to store,
recall and connect information. We have to activate these capacities. Make it a
habit so we do this automatically.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.173 There is no question
that many of my trainees liked to concentrate on how to deal with challenging
cases. A valuable advice I gave them was much of what we had to do was to work
out what the patient omitted to tell you. Some of the trickiest cases proved this
point. Patients think that they have to tell you what you want to hear. I
totally agree that we learn a lot from difficult cases.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.284 “Your consultant is the best Child
Psychiatrist I have worked with. No nonsense and no jargon, Freud or otherwise.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.379 I followed their example as I believed
that listening gave me more information than asking multiple questions.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">What patients or parents withheld from you
might be as significant as what they told you in the </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">first place.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: Communication and people skills are
just as important as technical skills to successful practices. Psychiatrists
need to communicate clearly and avoid using technical terms. Often, the missing pieces (what we did not
ask or what people didn’t tell us) are the most important. Therefore, we must
not assume. Ask questions. Listen to the answers. Listen for what is not said,
watch out for gaps and missing information. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.281 To be an effective
psychotherapist, one needs to be comfortable and familiar not only with the
basic philosophy but also with the language and vocabulary.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Observation: In my experience, this is true
for all the fields and professions.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050937; font-size: medium;">p.266 What was interesting was that although
he did a science degree course, not much electronics was taught at university
then. He was entirely self-taught. On graduation, he became a science teacher
and during the first summer vacation, he took a summer job in a new transistor
company in Hong Kong. His superior was so impressed with his amazing knowledge
that he offered him a permanent job. He never went back to teaching and the
rest as they say was history. He is thus a prime illustration of: The best part
about education is the bits they do not teach you.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: We are so lucky! Experts are generous
in sharing their knowledge. With so much information on the Internet, and
YouTube videos in particular, if we take initiative, we can learn many topics
at our pace from a diversified group of experts.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.196 - 205 The chapter on
Heart and Empathy. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Comment: Many people thought empathy and
sympathy are the same. There is a huge difference between the two. When people
expressed their sympathy, they thought they were exercising empathy. I like the
explanation on the differences and the supporting examples. They made the
definitions more memorable.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">I. Good Begets Good, And Good Teachers Make
All the Difference</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.227 Good areas with intelligent students
attracts families that value education and good teachers.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lesson: High
performers are like magnets.
Organizations that attract good students tend to attract good management
and leaders who are interested in developing people. Competent, ethical leaders
and professionals turn good organizations into great organizations. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">p.168 </span><i><span lang="EN-US">Now let me get
back to my six-year old boy with brain injury. It was one of Dr. CH's most </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">impressive cases, a case that set the direction for me in my
understanding of how our brain could recover, contrary to the neurology I was
taught at Queen Square Institute of Neurology three years before.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.169 All of us knew that for our own good, we must pay attention to
Dr. CH's every single utterance, as at any time he was apt to throw in a gem
that would change our way of thinking. Good teachers tend to open up new ways
of looking at things which may be overlooked sometimes simply because they are
too obvious… he was a pioneer in establishing three inpatient units on site: a
middle age group children’s unit, where I was mainly placed, a unit for autistic
children, and quite uniquely a mother and child unit. At the time, I did not
know of another such unit in England.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.238 In return I received a great deal of inspiration from his
Tuesday clinical meetings, when he often made some genuinely astute remark that
would take me a whole week to digest but then remain with me for the next few
decades. I see that as the measure of a good teacher.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050937; font-size: medium;">p.267 From the first lesson we were spell
bound…She was able to capture our imagination and made riveting what we
previously found boring. For the first time what happened millions of years ago
fascinated us. Glaciers became hot. We were so inspired that the Meteorology
Club membership increased dramatically. A guided visit to the Royal Observatory
further cemented our new found interest.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Lessons: Good teachers make all the
difference. Pay attention to pioneers and good teachers at all times to catch
the gems that would inspire us to new thinking and perspectives. Their
inspirational and insightful remarks leave lasting impressions. People
sometimes overlook things because they are too obvious and assume that everyone
knows.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Be the teacher that we appreciate and pay it
forward. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">It is not enough to discover new knowledge.
Take actions to turn new knowledge to solutions.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">The Why’s</span></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">Some areas of the book raised interesting
points. </span><span lang="EN-US">They begged the question “Why?”<b> </b>The readers would naturally be interested in knowing the
reasons for those <strong>phenomena</strong>.
For example:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.3, It is extraordinary nowadays when many
medical schools do not even specify Biology as a prerequisite subject and many young
doctors have no idea about the biological world we live in.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Why: Biology seems
to have a strong linkage to medicine. It would be interesting to learn about
some potential reasons. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.12, It may be of interest to readers
that the current new generation of psychiatrists, including those in the US,
were no longer brought up in psychoanalysis and as a result, they probably have
little understanding of either the personal psyche or family dynamics. Of
course psychoanalysis has its many faults but to totally dismiss it is indeed
very sad for mankind.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Why: Readers would be curious about why psychoanalysis
was excluded, and how that impacted the diagnoses and effective treatments. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.12, “At some conferences the Anorexia themed talks were all about
which drugs to use to induce hunger and eating when treating such cases.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Why: Conference topics are based on demands
and interest. Readers would be curious about why the focus was on using drugs for
treatment and not on prevention strategies.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.71 However, I was a bit confused as I thought psychiatry was about
the soul and the works of Freud and Jung. In Hong Kong, hardly anyone talked
about them then.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Why: In U.S. we were introduced to Freud and
Jung in Psychology 101. The linkage of Freud and Jung to psychiatry seems so
natural. Readers would be curious about why the disconnect in Hong Kong.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.169
… Dr. CH… was a pioneer in establishing three inpatient units on site: a middle
age group children’s unit, where I was mainly placed, a unit for autistic
children, and quite uniquely a mother and child unit.</span></i><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">At the time, I did not know of
another such unit in England.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Why: Readers would be curious to know why
establishing three impatient units is beneficial to the patients. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.169 I was at first shocked by his take down of Eysenck and the IQ
test but never forgot his theory.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Why: Readers would be curious to know why the
take down and his theory.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US">p.214</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> <i>There were two or three such
referrals of overdoes a week and very few of them required a transfer to our inpatient
wards. They provided me with a strange glimpse of a world of which I had little
knowledge then, and later in child psychiatry I could see the roots of such
cases. What I could not fathom was why we were so hopeless in preventing them!</i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Why: I always thought that doctors are trained
to treat the root causes. Should child psychiatry be a foundational course for other
curricula? What are the root causes for lack of focus on the root causes of
problems and issues? This would be a very worthwhile research topic with
far-reaching impacts.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050937;">p.279</span><span lang="EN-US"> Why should
‘real’ doctors have anything to do with Psychoanalysis?</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Why: <span style="background: white;">Physical
health and emotional health are intimately intertwined - the Mind and Body
Connection. Our chemistry and biology impact our emotions, thoughts, beliefs,
physical health and well-being. Mind and body </span>are not <strong>two
separate entities, I am surprised that they are often treated that way. </strong><span style="background: white;">Readers would be interested in why</span> ‘real’
doctors should not have anything to do with Psychoanalysis.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.284
For anyone aspiring to be a paediatrician, a good understanding of child
psychiatry is crucial…Half our cases may have a psychological slant, and the
other half may have problems created by the doctors!”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Why: 50% of the cases may have problems created by the doctors!
This potential problem rate is very high and begs the question “Why?”. Doctors
should be part of the solution, not the problem.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;">p.454 Remarkably to some, quite a few of us in our year chose to go
into psychiatry.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Why: It sounds like a surprise. Readers would
be interested in knowing why usually few chose to go into psychiatry and why so
many of your classmates chose that path upon graduation. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">p.487 He said, “When you first start a new job, strange referrals
will turn up and you need to be </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">prepared for them.”</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Why: Why the influx of strange referrals for
newcomers? Was the intent to test them, to get different opinions, or something
else? </span></b></p>
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near-drowning experience perhaps? The cogs of my psychiatrist’s brain could not
help turning. A doctor is like a detective, as I often tell my grandchildren,
and he is always looking for clues. He does not ask questions though.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">Why: I don’t understand the statement about
the doctor is always looking for clues but does not ask questions. Other parts
of the book discussed the importance of asking questions and listening to the
answers as well as what is not said. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span>Other </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Observations: Many Chinese cities and
references (e.g., Hakka, jiao-chou,
Teochew, Swatow, dai fu) were translated from Mandarin or Cantonese into
English phonetically. They tended to slow the readers down as they tried to
figure them out. It would be beneficial to include their Chinese terms.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">The Chinese terms will also catch readers’
attention that this is not just a book about psychiatry, but also about the
journey of an immigrant.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">On <i>p.208, There is a Chinese saying: “When
the sky falls, take it as a blanket!”</i> This idiom is so much more vivid in
Chinese.</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: medium;">Chinese characters would also facilitate
recalling information. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: medium;">p. 256</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"> To me one of the
most delicious lobsters I have ever tasted was from Scotland and most times I
could get Scottish lobsters from our wholesale fish market Billingsgate round
the corner from where we lived in London. This was not to degrade my memory of
the</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">Observation: Interesting! My husband Frank
thought the same. He ate Scottish lobsters at Taipan, Thomas Yam’s restaurant
in Milton Keynes. That and the fresh turbot in black bean sauce were among the
favorite food he had overseas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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easy to admit to failures and harder still for doctors to do so especially if
they did everything right and according to protocol. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Doing the “right” thing is not an
indication of success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hardly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes. I am coming back to Anorexia
Nervosa again and I do not apologise for it. I am apologising for our failures
though.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I took over the adolescent unit</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as its consultant in charge there were six
Anorexia Nervosa patients in varying stages of emaciation or weight gain
depending on from which side you want to look at it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not always wise to have so many
anorectic</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>patients together as they do
share tricks with each other and it is often more difficult to customise
treatment.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What needed my urgent attention was of
course Sammy. Sammy had a very feminine name but preferred the nickname Sammy.
Sammy’s Section</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was due to expire in less
than 14 days and I had to compile a report for the Tribunal which would be
sitting to decide on her fate.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was perhaps a sign of our failure as
psychiatrists to effectively treat Anorexia Nervosa that eventually case law
was established to regard food in Anorexia Nervosa as medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore food may be used forcibly to treat
Anorexia Nervosa when the condition becomes life threatening. </span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The usual test of mental capacity no
longer applies. Instead the law is used forcibly to feed a generally bright and
intelligent person “over-doing” what most consider to be “good”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They try to eat less and eat healthily by
avoiding fat and the like and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wham</i> we
have the law on them.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have to admit that I have not liked
this aspect of Sectioning</span><span lang="EN-GB">. Unfortunately it is used often, judging by the high numbers of
tube fed patients.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <b> </b></span><b>On the other hand not everybody is able
to treat Anorexia Nervosa patients or, in reality, do battle with them. It
requires experience, energy, time, wit, charisma and often impeccable timing.
However, sometimes I do wonder if we are indeed doing a disservice when we take
things out of parents’ hands by agreeing to take over.</b></span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With hindsight and upon reflecting on a
number of cases I have dealt with, I often wonder: if hospitalisation had not been
an option at all, would improvement rate and, more importantly, mortality rate
have been any different.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We do not section people for smoking,
drinking, or doing drugs, which all endanger life. Nor do we stop people
running the Marathon or eating raw oysters
when these activities regularly lead to mortalities.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Society is coming round to do something
about over-eating in children but it will take some time before they apply the
Mental Health Acts. </span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To me, the moment a psychiatrist turns
to the law he is admitting that he has failed. </span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At least that is my view and if I
perpetuated the Compulsory Order with Sammy, I too would be part of that
failure.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There had been no weight gain in Sammy
despite the tube feeding and the debate was: shall we increase the feed or
shall we wait? Everybody just assumed that she would stay on as a compulsory
patient.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Despite bed rests and even more
embarrassingly the use of bedpans, many Anorexia Nervosa patients managed not
to gain weight whatever we pumped into them. The balanced feeds were in fact
quite expensive. There was no secret that they were aware of the exercises they
could perform even on bed rest and the determination not to put on weight had
to be seen to be believed. If such determination was applied elsewhere I was
sure these young girls could be very successful.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I had to find an answer, an answer for
Sammy and an answer for myself.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Being forced to eat by the State
remained the treatment of choice for everybody except for one stubborn
consultant.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“At least we did all we could,” my
staff constantly reminded me. </span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“And she is the most determined of all
the Anorectics we have right now.”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>More reason to show the others that
this new psychiatrist had some other means than brute force, I thought to
myself. </span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes, I could be as determined as they
were.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The hours of family therapy</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>only brought about accusations and counter
accusations with hardly any resolution. Middle class families have certain ways
of dealing with things where some branches of family therapy are not
particularly good at all.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The modern trend is certainly moving
away from blaming families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or that is
the rhetoric of most who write publicly about it.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whatever the official line, families
cannot help feeling blamed.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“If we are not to blame, why do we need
family therapy</span><span lang="EN-GB">?”</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“There are so many other families like
ours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do they not have the same
problem?”</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We may reassure them that there are and
that is the truth, but the truth is that there are also Anorexia-free families.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes, it might help if they do find a
gene like they did with obesity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet
that cannot explain why there are more extremely obese people in say the U.S.
which collects gene pools from across the globe.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So Sammy’s family had the full benefit
of eight sessions of family therapy</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by two very experienced therapists. In the
end, there was just a lot of recrimination between all parties including the
therapists and all agreed it would not be the way forward. That was when
tube-feeding started.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Minuchin</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5629209057489249999&pli=1#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="StyleFootnoteReferencegaramond12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="StyleFootnoteReferencegaramond12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dealt with over-involvement,
over-protectiveness and conflict avoidance in these families with no special
apology on whether he blamed the family or not. He used to start with a meal
session with the family. His success, like many such methods, probably had more
to do with his charisma than his method and is thus difficult to replicate.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For Sammy and her family the message was
simple and clear enough, no matter how hard we lied</span><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
family had failed and the hospital had to take over.</span></b></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That was the blunt truth. </span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <b> </b></span><b>But the hospital had failed too and we
had to resort to the Mental Health Act on one of society’s most sensible and
decent and safest citizens. </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I decided enough was enough. I could no
longer perpetuate the no-blame approach. I could no longer continue to hide
behind the power conferred onto me by the law. </span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB"> In short, I had to reverse just
about everything that had gone on before, and more.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Just two weeks before the tribunal sat
we had the big review meeting. To most at the unit, the review was fairly
routine as there was hardly any choice – a full Section</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for Hospital Treatment primarily intended for
difficult to treat Schizophrenics and difficult to control Bipolars in the
acute manic</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>phase. Sammy would be “detained
at Her Majesty’s pleasure”, and classed with the likes of the few psychotics
who had committed the most heinous murders. To save Sammy’s life, it would be
natural to continue with the Mental Health Act.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes there would be weeks of tube
feeding and bed rest, but the State had to take over the complete care of this
bright young thing for her own sake.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I could not see any other way either.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Unless …….I could reverse everything
that had gone on before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If our work is to be therapeutic then a
sort of therapeutic alliance is important, even if tentative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people do not realise that you can fight
with your patient and still have a sort of therapeutic alliance.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I had a plan.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>These meetings were attended by just about
everybody who had anything to do with the patient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were held at school times so that most
of the teaching staff could be present as well. These meetings also had a
tendency to drag on as everybody seemed to have a lot to say about very little,
a trait not just limited to psychiatrists but also seen in social workers,
therapists, nurses, junior grade doctors, teachers and visiting professionals.
People always seemed to have a lot to say on cases where there was the least
progress. </span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <b> </b></span><b>My personal view is that this was a
sure sign of anarchy which had unfortunately drifted into our Health Service,
encouraged in part by the numerous re-organisations that had gradually eroded
the authority of the doctor. </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Saul Wurman</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5629209057489249999&pli=1#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="StyleFootnoteReferencegaramond12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="StyleFootnoteReferencegaramond12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">, an architect by training but also an author of business and tour
books, famously wrote that meetings really do not always need to be an hour
long. Why can it not be ten or twenty minutes?</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Could I achieve that?</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After briefly explaining to all the
purpose of the meeting, I turned to Sammy, who still had the nasal feeding tube
“Micropore’d</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5629209057489249999&pli=1#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="StyleFootnoteReferencegaramond12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="StyleFootnoteReferencegaramond12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">” securely and said, “What do you think?”</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It is so unfair. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I shall not be able to go to Harvard.”</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is generally perceived as a given
that a U.K. citizen who has
been Sectioned</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will not be able to use the
Visa Waiver to visit the U.S.
If that person then has to apply for a Visa, having been detained under the
Mental Health Act must be a major hindrance, although I have never seen this
applied in practice. One of my patients did have to cancel a horse trial trip
to Kentucky
because she was sectioned at the height of a manic</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>episode.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I did not know she had aspirations to
get to Harvard but I was not surprised given what I already knew about mother.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Before I say anything else, can I ask
you a few things?”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What? Sure!”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Do you smoke, drink, take Ecstasy or
go out clubbing?”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why?”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Do you have piercings and tattoos on
you?”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Tattoos—yuk!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I having my ears pierced. That is all.”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Do you like Pop music?”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No way. I play the violin and I like
Bach</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Bartok!”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everybody was attentive now.</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Do you shoot heroin or smoke
Cannabis?”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No way!”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She was getting annoyed.</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What about boys and sex?” I felt bad
even to ask especially in front of her mother, who I thought would faint if we
knew something she did not.</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“How can you even ask and in front of
my parents? You know I don’t do things like that!”</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I can remember my own adolescence. I
did not do any of those things either and I did not even have pierced ears.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I then turned to the parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mother was a history teacher at a famous
private school in one of England’s
most middle class town. She also spent a year at Harvard, hence Sammy’s
ambition to follow her. Father was a prominent city lawyer.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You have always provided well for her,
a good education, European and U.S.
holidays, a comfortable home and expensive music lessons.”</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We are fortunate enough to be able to
do that. She is our only child.” Mother replied in a tone implying, “what’s wrong
with that?”</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“And she has always been a bright
child, strong willed and single minded. She passed her Grade 8 violin with
distinction at 14 and could have become a musician. But she wanted to do
International Studies.” Mother added.</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So she always had her way.”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“She has always got on with everything,
studying and practising the violin. And she keeps a tidy bedroom!”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A tidy bedroom! My goodness, everything
was falling into place.</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Sammy……”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yes……”</span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You know what? You are the first
adolescent I know that keeps a tidy bedroom, do not do drugs, do not drink, do
not smoke and you do not do a load of other things I asked you about. You are
by modern standards a FAILED adolescent!”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then I turned to the parents.</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“And you, FAILED parents!”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“And we FAILED you. We failed you
because we had to hide behind the law and force fed you.”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sammy said, “I can’t do all those
things even if you make me.”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ah, the turning point.</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No, don’t get me wrong. I don’t want you
to either.”</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I then told her that I would like to
take the tube off her despite lack of progress, or because of it.</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It simply had not worked. </span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I wanted her to take over, do what she
needed to do and I would decide in about ten days if I had to extend the
Treatment Order.</span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Forty five minutes. The meeting took
forty five minutes as people had to present summaries of different reports, the
details of which were irrelevant here. </span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The battle was over. Sammy looked
relaxed. Nobody was fighting her now. She was back in control. </span></div>
<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I took her off the Section</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as she started to put on weight and before
long she was discharged. </span></div>
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<div class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We forget how easy it is to entrench.
To entrench is a sure way to perpetuate a problem.</span></b></div>
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padding: 0px;"><dt id="c3766022599663302054" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em; text-wrap: nowrap;"><img alt="Anonymous" class="comment-icon anon-comment" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" style="border: 0px;" /> <span dir="ltr">Anonymous</span> said...</dt><dd style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Did she get to Harvard/do something else she wanted to do? Do you get to find out what your patients do after you've sorted them/fattened them up or do you just have to imagine what happens to them afterwards?<br /><br />I've had a whole series of psychiatrists over a space of half a century and most mean little or nothing to me, but there's one I'd love to track down and tell how much he helped me and how I'm getting on now, except that it might look a bit like obsessiveness or stalking or something so I don't.</p><p class="comment-timestamp" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">June 21, 2012 at 1:40 PM</p><div class="r" style="clear: both; font-size: 1px; height: 1px; line-height: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></dd><dt id="c3014521361848606013" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em; text-wrap: nowrap;"><div class="profile-image-container" style="float: right; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.2em 0.8em; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 2;"><span dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/14440000294855006966" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00838f; text-decoration-line: none;" target="null"><img alt="" class="profile" height="59" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX7bTuGsjPziZ8uyGbYp1rVFByiN9h9SSyWLPa8Q3iMJVBQltxRuuXuXMLZEhPdtCGwcCro5479nWeQIBB7EdwLLBhnojTHGNgyYHmL9N0lFHxpu8eunTe12vkUavXZQ/s220/author_photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); padding: 0.2em;" title="Cockroach Catcher" width="60" /></a></span></div><img alt="Blogger" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: -45px -117px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("/img/cmt/comment_sprite.gif") -45px -117px no-repeat; border: 0px; height: 16px; width: 16px;" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/14440000294855006966" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00838f; text-decoration-line: none;" target="null">Cockroach Catcher</a></span> said...</dt><dd style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">I have with my cases felt that my patients should not be fighting with me if they are fighting. A good therapeutic alliance could be formed in a number of ways and I am sure you will agree with me that Anorectics have much stronger will powers than most psychiatrists. Fattening was indeed not my aim but society is very strange in not sectioning people that over eat, or smoke or run the Marathon etc. etc.<br /><br />I suppose it is not revealing too much to say she went to one of the two top Universities this side of the Atlantic.<br /><br />I am very fond of my patients and I think they, me.<br /><br />Thanks for writing.</p><p class="comment-timestamp" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">June 21, 2012 at 5:48 PM</p></dd></dl></div><div class="gs-title" style="background-color: white; color: #de7008; height: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; overflow: hidden; position: static; text-decoration: underline;"><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in; position: relative;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: #370509;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cockroach-Catcher-Seven-Minute-Cure/dp/B0BRYZQQK8/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1J9G5D0C1KU94&keywords=the+cockroach+catcher&qid=1677698437&s=books&sprefix=the+cockroach+catcher+%2Cstripbooks%2C514&sr=1-2" style="color: #a71b5a; 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<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBoldChar"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Catherine,
aged fourteen, had not attended school</span></span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "<span style='mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt'>school refusal"</span> <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for some time and all attempts by the school
authority and educational psychologist failed to get her back to school. This
was a pity as Catherine was really university material.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She had eleven older brothers and
sisters. Two older sisters were married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of them had a little baby of ten months. The other had two children
at school. The youngest of the brothers attended a public school (i.e. an
English private school) on a scholarship, and with financial assistance from
the older siblings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After an initial visit by the social
worker, the team decided to approach the case in a family therapy<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "<span style='mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt'>family therapy"</span> <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sort of way – big family therapy in every
sense of the word.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At that time, family therapy<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "<span style='mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt'>family therapy"</span> <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was a relatively new development and had
probably grown out of some group therapy principles. One of the first courses
was established at the Group Therapy Institute in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place> when I was still at the Tavistock.
Little did I know then that it was history in the making. Of the people I was
with then, either teachers or co-trainees, many have become prominent
practitioners in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Even the rather adventurous social worker
was feeling a bit dubious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Do you
belong to the school that insists on everybody in the family attending?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asked, hoping I would be a bit eclectic
about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Let’s try and get everybody at least for
the first session.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I will do my best,” she promised.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Good old Miss Kimble. She always got
things done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As some of the family were working, the
session had to be organised for the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is so much mystique
attached to our kind of work that families often oblige without asking too many
questions, at least at the early stage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One of the older unmarried sisters took
it upon herself to organise the meeting. The main one that caused some problem
was the oldest brother who was a long distance lorry driver going all over <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
meeting needed to be on one of those nights when he was back from his delivery
tour. The brother at the public school had a cricket match and he was
apparently one of their best bowlers. One of the other brothers agreed to go to
the match and bring him to the meeting as soon as the match was over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sister with the baby would have to bring
the little one but the older children would look after her at the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I told them that they could all join in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Luckily with so many children the family
had a reasonable sized council house and the family room was fairly long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They moved the dining chairs through to
provide seating for everybody.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The scene was set. We just had to deliver
the goods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We have come this far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just have to do it,” I told Miss Kimble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She probably had more faith in me than I had
in myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Father looked after the parks and gardens
for the council and had been with them since leaving school. Mother had not
worked outside of home since the first child was born. She used to work in the
Council Offices and that was where she met her husband.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All the unmarried children who had left
school had jobs except for the one who organised the meeting. She was in fact
the eldest sister. All hope was on the boy and Catherine, except now Catherine
was not going to school and had not been for nearly a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of the sisters worked in an insurance
company, which was a very important local employer. Three boys worked for the
Parks and Gardens department. One girl was a life guard at the local public Sports
Complex that just opened and one boy looked after the gymnasium. The parents
had done well and you could see that it was a very close knit and caring
family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Only the truck driver was absent. We
chatted and waited. The baby in the meantime was crawling in the middle with
the two older children fussing over her. Catherine sat close to mother and now
and again would hold her hand. I was not too sure who was comforting whom but
then family therapy<!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
XE "<span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>family therapy"</span> <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was about observing the family interactions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cricket boy was busy devouring a plate of
food mum left for him as he missed his school dinner. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Others were exchanging various gossips
about boyfriends and girlfriends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I thought that this was fun but there was
also a lot to take in. The traditional approach would have allowed one to be
more focused but it would probably have taken a long time to get to where we
wanted to get to quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I heard air brakes, I knew that big
brother had arrived. Everybody else knew as well. Swiftly Catherine let go of
mum’s hand and went to the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of
the other sisters had the plate that had been kept warm in the oven set in a
tray complete with a big can of beer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
declined the offer of beer as I was working.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Big brother was quite a big fellow but
was friendly enough as he shook hands with me. After a few bites and some gulps
of beer he turned to me and said, “We are all here now. What is this about?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To this challenge, I explained in a very
simple fashion why I wanted to see the whole family. I went on to use what I
had since described to my juniors as a journalistic approach to history taking,
as distinct from the traditional topic-by-topic approach. With the journalistic
mantra – Who?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When? Where?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why? How? – the patient or the family would just enter the conversation
barely aware that you were taking a history. To keep focused, you do need to
have clearly in your own mind the information you are seeking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If you are not experienced, you can
follow a printed questionnaire and take three hours of history but you will
just end up with loads of seemingly unrelated information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With my favoured journalistic approach
you follow leads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole session
becomes more integrated and it is easier for patients and families as you are
not likely to appear to be jumping from one thing to another. It also comes
across as more professional.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One thing led to another and my break
came when one of the boys let slip that he remembered mother going into
hospital after Catherine was born and big sister gave up a good job at the
insurance company to stay home to look after the rest of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mother was in the local mental hospital
a</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />nd had electrical shock treatment.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mother started crying<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "crying" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and big brother was rather upset and asked me
what relevance this had except to upset mum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At this point, the little baby who had
been crawling around stopped in her track and crawled to Grandma and started
touching one of her slippers. She started crying<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "crying" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have my own theory that even before
acquiring language, babies are able to retain emotional memory of early
experiences. Later on in life it becomes difficult to grasp the source of the
upset as there are no words to describe such emotional experiences. Traumas in
early life have diffused effects; those happening later on in life are more
focused and perhaps easier to deal with. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One famous psychiatrist once talked about
his own experience of his mother’s depression<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "depression" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]-->. He talked about having
images of a wooden arm and it was through years of psychoanalysis<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "<span style='mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt'>psychoanalysis"</span> <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that he reconstructed the whole image of his
very depressed mother who had a rather catatonic posture in the deepest depth
of her depression. He could remember himself as a toddler running into the
house after play to be met with the wooden arm, sharply quietening down and
then backing off. It was a rather moving seminar he gave at one of the
conferences and a rare occasion when a British psychiatrist talked about
psychoanalysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Back with the big family – all went
rather quiet. A couple of the girls were sobbing. Catherine tried to comfort
mum who said she knew it was all her fault. The eldest brother thanked me for
making things clear for him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All were relieved to hear that I would
not be forcing Catherine back to school and that mother would not be
prosecuted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All agreed that Catherine would be
wasting her brains if she did not have some form of education and I explained
that I would be looking into alternatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Miss
Kimble told me later that I was lucky to have that break and that it was a good
job the baby was there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was uncanny that in my thirty plus
years of experience, over half of the children who had problems attending
school<!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE
"<span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>school refusal"</span> <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in a big way had mothers who had serious
puerperal (post-natal) depression<!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:
field-begin'></span> XE "depression" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]-->.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was the school refusal a clinical
manifestation of genetically transmitted depression, or was it the
psychological effect of living with a depressed mother? I really do not know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Catherine never managed to return to
“proper” school but with a fair bit of individual therapy we managed to get her
to attend a tutorial unit. This we achieved by getting mother to find some part
time work. Big sister too started working part time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was daunting for me to think that a
single family session brought about so much change, but then I was reminded
that the strength was with the family – we just tried to tap it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Catherine had good exam results on the
limited subjects she could sit but was immediately offered a trainee post at
the insurance company.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Years later I bumped into one of the
older sisters at the Sports Centre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
thanked me again for what I did for the family and told me that everybody was
fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I told her I was scared by the lot of
them especially her big brother. She told me I did all right. Catherine was his
favourite sister.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I cannot remember seeing another big
family since and with the disintegration of families it became increasingly
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box-sizing: inherit; font-family: interfaceregular, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Do No Harm</em> is a remarkably simple book. So much so, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Guardian</em> (the book was short listed for <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Guardian</em> ‘First Book Award’) asks, ‘Why has no one ever written a book like this before?’ Each chapter’s starting point is a real life case. The clinical and extra-curricular vignettes recited allow the reader the privilege of being a fly-on-the-wall during moments of incredible personal and professional strain, sometimes during frank disaster, and occasionally during enormous relief and hilarity. In total, the book makes up a lean, unadorned, honest memoir of just some of the emotional thrills and surgical spills from a life spent in a busy tertiary neurosurgical unit. There is no twisting, confluent, fictional, engineered storyline because the quotidian of Marsh’s operating theatres, clinic rooms and foreign trips provides a surplus of heroes and heartache to sate the appetite of even the most demanding reader, publisher or dramaturge. </p></span></span></span></span></span></div>Am Ang Zhanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07466386105122653445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5629209057489249999.post-41762504578367539422023-09-05T17:05:00.004-04:002024-01-24T16:21:33.670-05:00The Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFG2gZikKAshelK1SgFbZWzZMPhmNCJxmwVAU5QXenBIxUlwNFj4MxFS3_A0n5VrH5wtUZGe1Gi49Uls4D2Y5g73aYVNuCA3u95UBQqLKxlnm8wnF54pvYTL58_ir2m9uyjCGXpHGulZdLh7Hvmg8_Pjf7Lzha8kOfsIPNRKL5KhwT54mbFXt9apV/s462/CC2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="308" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFG2gZikKAshelK1SgFbZWzZMPhmNCJxmwVAU5QXenBIxUlwNFj4MxFS3_A0n5VrH5wtUZGe1Gi49Uls4D2Y5g73aYVNuCA3u95UBQqLKxlnm8wnF54pvYTL58_ir2m9uyjCGXpHGulZdLh7Hvmg8_Pjf7Lzha8kOfsIPNRKL5KhwT54mbFXt9apV/s320/CC2.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just published on Amazon</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span>In medicine, we have often been brought up to accept terms that were traditionally used without asking questions. After encountering many cases from my very early medical career in Internal Medicine, through Adult Psychiatry and eventually Child Psychiatry, attempted suicide is a term that puzzled me on and off. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> One such case eventually changed my mind and it is described in the Chapter that carries the book title: Attempted Living.</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Attempted Suicide</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">or</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Attempted Living!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFIyrQqyp_YUaCX6yV7k2u4AaHyWXpKjiCvZWQPmR2D2rtiDZ3jNE9i3JgNtgZuqNIUnDZEL29F3gFiadlzRwm5B5RJT8jhvdFnfv7Ub1asoQf6JCf1HswTjWqV8FVhFkL-jam5FWyYSXvN4gr6DsXmC1RlQql51y1idyJo-saJecKkaC8vyH8KZpf/s1024/23-nn7%20al%20full%20double%20tt8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="1024" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFIyrQqyp_YUaCX6yV7k2u4AaHyWXpKjiCvZWQPmR2D2rtiDZ3jNE9i3JgNtgZuqNIUnDZEL29F3gFiadlzRwm5B5RJT8jhvdFnfv7Ub1asoQf6JCf1HswTjWqV8FVhFkL-jam5FWyYSXvN4gr6DsXmC1RlQql51y1idyJo-saJecKkaC8vyH8KZpf/w640-h228/23-nn7%20al%20full%20double%20tt8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="text-indent: 0px;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0px;">Ålesund , Norway</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">One day before the
meeting he asked me, "After Pretender, which Ibsen </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">are you now
reading?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">So he remembered
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syphilis." I valiantly ventured.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">“Substitute
syphilis with the other condition beginning with S…..”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">"Schizophrenia?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">“……And the son
Oswald went catatonic! And hallucinating about ghosts……”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">It was only after
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death that the term schizophrenia was coined and the disorder described.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">My guru was a
Freudian psychoanalyst and so it would not surprise you that he would like to
analyse and understand even the worst psychotics. We had an understanding not
to put any patient on medication for the first six weeks of admission, unless
they became too unmanageable. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
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Am Ang Zhanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07466386105122653445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5629209057489249999.post-21198522045837900942023-08-29T15:16:00.005-04:002023-08-29T15:33:01.466-04:00The Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living---The Answer.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLeicoFRIDiDsfwAdJ6Gv-Sczt9ynNYJKUXiAN4xzEVJSh1qjl0jjHhNrxBvBEOiJf4ffKZRHVrqFzxFiDgcVkGTW9gyjbZy76-kFQlNcSKpz3xHcJf-1sK-O-F1E7yjeVFi89JYbsDE/s1600/rainbow+latest+v8+more+beans.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="640" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLeicoFRIDiDsfwAdJ6Gv-Sczt9ynNYJKUXiAN4xzEVJSh1qjl0jjHhNrxBvBEOiJf4ffKZRHVrqFzxFiDgcVkGTW9gyjbZy76-kFQlNcSKpz3xHcJf-1sK-O-F1E7yjeVFi89JYbsDE/s640/rainbow+latest+v8+more+beans.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Coffee Finca, Boquete</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>The Bright Young Doctor now:</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>I was staying at our resort in Boquete and was having dinner with three friends all of them with medical connections. One was in hospital administration and one a nurse. The husband of the nurse was a pharmacist. Somehow the conversation drifted into medical topics and knowing that I am a Child Psychiatrist the pharmacist started talking about his nephew who was nearly sent to a mental institution as he suffers from catatonia and doctors eventually diagnosed schizophrenia and put him on antipsychotics. Luckily the catatonic symptom probably saved him as some bright young thing just read the book Brain On Fire and gave him the Clock Test. That led to the NMDAR antibody testing that proved positive. He responded well to the treatment regime that has been developed and is off all antipsychotic medication.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">My Teratoma patient was lucky as she belong to that group that improved without further treatment once the Teratoma was removed. 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The researchers analyzed 565 cases of this recently discovered paraneoplastic condition, called Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, and determined that if initial treatments fail, second-line therapy significantly improves outcomes compared with repeating treatments or no additional treatments (76 percent versus 55 percent). The research is being presented at the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.aan.com/" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #003366;">American Academy of Neurology</span></a>'s 64th Annual Meeting in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:city></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">565 cases! Not so rare!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The condition occurs most frequently in women (81 percent of cases), and predominately in younger people (36 percent of cases occurring in people under 18 years of age, the average age is 19). Symptoms range from psychiatric symptoms, memory issues, speech disorders, seizures, involuntary movements, to decreased levels of consciousness and breathing. Within the first month, movement disorders were more frequent in children, while memory problems and decreased breathing predominated in adults.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">My patient was under 18 and presented with catatonia symptoms. She later lose consciousness and was ventilated.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Our study establishes the first treatment guidelines for NMDA-receptor encephalitis, based on data from a large group of patients, experience using different types of treatment, and extensive long-term follow-up," said lead author<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><strong>Maarten Titulaer</strong></st1:city><strong>, <st1:state w:st="on">MD</st1:state>, PhD</strong>, clinical research fellow in Neuro-oncology and Immunology in the <st1:placename w:st="on">Perelman</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of Medicine at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:placename></st1:place>. "In addition, the study provides an important update on the spectrum of symptoms, frequency of tumor association, and the need of prolonged rehabilitation in which multidisciplinary teams including neurologists, pediatricians, psychiatrists, behavioral rehabilitation, and others, should be involved."<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The disease was first characterized by Penn's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g324/p37495" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong><span style="color: #003366;">Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD</span></strong></a>, adjunct professor of Neurology, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>David R. Lynch, MD, PhD</strong>, associate professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, in Annals of Neurology in 2007. One year later, the same investigators in collaboration with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD</strong>, professor of Neuroscience, characterized the main syndrome and provided preliminary evidence that the antibodies have a pathogenic effect on the NR1 subunit of the NMDA receptor in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18851928" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #003366;">Lancet Neurology in December 2008</span></a>. The disease can be diagnosed using a test developed at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:placename></st1:place> and currently available worldwide. With appropriate treatment, almost 80 percent of patients improve well and, with a recovery process that may take many months and years, can fully recover.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Teratoma: finally!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In earlier reports, 59 percent of patients had tumors, most commonly ovarian teratoma, but in the latest update, 54 percent of women over 12 years had tumors, and only six percent of girls under 12 years old had ovarian teratomas. In addition, relapses were noted in 13 percent of patients, 78 percent of the relapses occurred in patients without teratomas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, the most common and best characterized antibody-mediated encephalitis, becomes better understood, quicker diagnosis and early treatment can improve outcomes for this severe disease.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2607118/</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The study was presented in a plenary session on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 ET at 9:35 AM at the <a href="http://www.aan.com/" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #003366;">American Academy of Neurology</span></a>'s annual meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">[PL01.001] Clinical Features, Treatment, and Outcome of 500 Patients with Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.5pt;"><b><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc2607118/" style="color: #187f6d; line-height: 16.5pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis: case series and analysis of the effects of antibodies</a></b></span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>Of 100 patients with anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis, a disorder that associates with antibodies against the NR1 subunit of the receptor, many were initially seen by psychiatrists or admitted to psychiatric centres but subsequently developed seizures, decline of consciousness, and complex symptoms requiring multidisciplinary care. While poorly responsive or in a catatonic-like state, 93 patients developed hypoventilation, autonomic imbalance, or abnormal movements, all overlapping in 52 patients. 59% of patients had a tumour, most commonly ovarian teratoma. Despite the severity of the disorder, 75 patients recovered and 25 had severe deficits or died.</i></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="color: black;"></p><div style="color: black;"><div id="ftn1"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Who knows, I would not be surprised if he is eventually awarded the Nobel.</span></span></div></div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Related paper:</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #134f5c; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 新細明體; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=106753" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;">Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis: Diagnosis, Psychiatric Presentation, and Treatment</a></span></i><b><i><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br /></span><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2008/08/psychiatry-and-religion_27.html" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span lang="EN-GB">Chapter 29</span><span lang="EN-GB"> The Power of Prayers</span></a></span></h3><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"></h3><div><h4 style="color: #370509; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">The following is extracted from </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=1772066&fBuyItem=3" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;">The Cockroach Catcher</a></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Chapter 29 The Power of Prayers.</span></b><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBoldChar"><span lang="EN-GB">According to old Chinese advice, it is wise never to discuss politics or religion even amongst best friends. </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> Religious belief can often blur judgement in the wisest of people. In psychiatry it is sometimes not easy. This is particularly true in cases of florid psychosis</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">, which often presents with symptoms of hallucination, delusion and even vision.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"> I remember my early days of psychiatry in a mental hospital in <st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place>. Yes, it was the days of 2000-bed hospitals. Yes, it was the days of Medical Superintendents who had supreme power and all doctors of whatever rank and experience were Mental Health Officers with special authority to sign papers for compulsory admissions. The forensic unit was contained within the same complex.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> Those were the days when we encountered psychosis</span><span lang="EN-GB"> in the raw so to speak. All the colony’s really mad people were admitted to this one place set in the furthest corner of the colony. In our year seven of us decided without much discussion that we all wanted to go into psychiatry. That was over 10% and all had quite idealistic reasons. It was perhaps a bit of a disappointment to our parents that we did not pursue a more conventional specialty that might provide us with more status and financial reward. Then there was the fear of contamination that somehow one might become mad too. Recent day medical students are said to shy away from psychiatry for these same reasons.</span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"> Education seems to have little effect on superstition.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"> ......................................</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana;">….</span><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2008/08/psychiatry-and-religion_27.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #187f6d; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration-line: none;">read</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana;"> the full </span><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2008/08/psychiatry-and-religion_27.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #187f6d; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration-line: none;">Chapter</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana;">: </span><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2008/08/psychiatry-and-religion_27.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #187f6d; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration-line: none;">HERE</a></span></span></h4><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=106753" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;">Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis: Diagnosis, Psychiatric Presentation, and Treatment</a></span></i><b><i><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br /><br /></span><h3 style="color: #191d28; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16.36px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; position: relative;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #de7008;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2011/05/nhs-1978-hope-faith-supermarket.html" style="color: #de7008; text-decoration-line: initial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">NHS 1978: Hope, Faith & Supermarket</span></a></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div></div></div><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2008/08/psychiatry-and-religion_27.html" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span lang="EN-GB">Chapter 29</span><span lang="EN-GB"> The Power of Prayers</span></a> </span></h1></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">Cahalan's new memoir is called</span><span class="apple-converted-space" face=""verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></i></span><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2012/10/book-brain-on-fire.html" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;">Brain On Fire-My Month of Madness</a></span></i></b><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: verdana;">. </span></b></span></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2013/09/book-brain-on-fire.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;">Brain on Fire</a> </span></h1></div></div></div></div><div><div id="ftn1"><br /></div><div id="ftn1"><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h3><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Scientific America: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-on-fire-my-month-of/</b></div><div><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-power-of-prayers-teratoma-brain-nmda.html"><span style="color: red;">The Power of Prayers & Teratoma: Brain & NMDA!</span></a></span></span></h3></div><div><h3 style="background: white; 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</div><p></p>Am Ang Zhanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07466386105122653445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5629209057489249999.post-2683226133998359962023-07-28T03:14:00.026-04:002024-01-24T16:08:15.042-05:00First Do No Harm: Ketogenic Diet :Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease & Epilepsy!<p><span style="font-size: large;">Ketogenic Diet: over 100 years of history and first used in very young children.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAeeOzgjjqRC0I_7V2gM2EUjogPb7f8rROBgZXWK1u2bMVyvn5Iul6WYw-JcgjnflJuEwp7uN_-9kP2Tt3niwwyNsjwUjTCUvezJizXG7UtDM8yFGfFy80RwmqXLkie8cMJkLJlQijvUxRuMnAZc9o6X6Bo3pGO2X3NtDI2Y_fVYBFXawDrpCFy3zTnuM/s987/Fullscreen%20capture%207272023%2054604%20PM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="987" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAeeOzgjjqRC0I_7V2gM2EUjogPb7f8rROBgZXWK1u2bMVyvn5Iul6WYw-JcgjnflJuEwp7uN_-9kP2Tt3niwwyNsjwUjTCUvezJizXG7UtDM8yFGfFy80RwmqXLkie8cMJkLJlQijvUxRuMnAZc9o6X6Bo3pGO2X3NtDI2Y_fVYBFXawDrpCFy3zTnuM/w640-h304/Fullscreen%20capture%207272023%2054604%20PM.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Dr. David Unwin was worried about the abnormal liver function of a lady patient he referred her to some specialists in the Hospital and she was seen by a hepatologist and two gastroenterologists (I did wonder why!). </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>They all thought that she was drinking too much and the poor lady was very upset because she really really never touch any alcohol all her life and yet she was being told off by the specialists as they all assumed that her abnormal liver function tests were due simply to alcohol! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Then when she eventually gave up sugar and carbs, the liver function improved dramatically. It was such a relief for her and for Dr. Unwin who reckoned that the specialists had something to learn because all they did was to worry and humiliate her when the treatment could be so simple. A high percent of adults in Britain and other western countries suffered from such Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Syndrome.<br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEYtRiPKBVA&t=10s</b></span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b style="color: black; font-family: verdana; white-space-collapse: collapse;">Many are worried about Ketogenic Diet and yet it has over a hundred years of history for the treatment of Epilepsy in very young children that did not respond to a multitude of established medications. Dr. Unwin's experience with T2 Diabetes and now NAFLD is simply carrying on the first principle of medicine: Do No Harm.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Dr. David Urwin:</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Dr. David Unwin is GP based in Southport in the United Kingdom. After 25 years of attempting to treat diabetes by conventional methods, Dr. Unwin was introduced to low carb nutrition through one of his patients and the website www.diabetes.co.uk</b></span></span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>From this revelation, Dr. Unwin now ignores official advice and treats his patients with a low-carbohydrate diet. Since adopting the approach, his practice now spends £50,000 less each year on drugs for diabetes than is average for his area.
Dr. Unwin is the RCGP National Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning in Obesity & Diabetes, as well as a Clinical Expert in diabetes. In 2015 he won the North West NHS ‘Innovator of the Year Award’ and in 2016 he won the National NHS 'Innovator of the Year Award' for his work in treating diabetes with a low carbohydrate approach.</b></span></span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>More from Dr. Unwin:</b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><h2 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: warnock-pro, serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“It’s not just about diabetes; belly fat matters.”</strong></h2><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: warnock-pro, serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Up to 20% of the developed world now has a condition described as Fatty Liver Disease. This is split into alcoholic and Non-alcoholic Steatotic Hepatitis (NASH). The latter is in large part obesity related. In this way I worry that excess sugar and starchy carbs are leading to the three great modern epidemics; diabetes, obesity, and fatty liver disease. In 2008 The World Health Organization concluded there was convincing evidence that central obesity (defined as waist greater than 80 cms in women or 94 cms in men) was associated with significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, colorectal and breast cancer and overall mortality.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: warnock-pro, serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The good news is that I have often seen a low carb approach help not just Type 2 Diabetes but also liver function, blood pressure, lipid profiles (particularly triglyceride and HDL cholesterol levels), and central obesity.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: warnock-pro, serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Link: https://www.lowcarbtogether.com/science/who-benefits-from-a-low-carb-lifestyle/</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>History:</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #1c1c1c; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>On July 27, the Mayo Clinic’s Russell Wilder, M.D., first uses the term “ketogenic diet” to describe and propose a nutritional treatment for epilepsy that tricks the body into believing it is fasting. With 70%–90% of calories from fat and very limited amounts of carbohydrates and protein, the body becomes deprived of glucose and begins breaking down fat cells for energy. Wilder believes the diet could be just as effective as fasting in treating epilepsy. His colleagues at the Mayo Clinic test the theory on both children and adults with epilepsy and find it works. The keto diet is widely used after that by other institutions, including Johns Hopkins.</b></span></span></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; font-size: 2.19713rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 45rem; outline: rgb(102, 102, 102) dotted 0px; padding-right: 1.25rem; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><span role="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Charlie and his family seek care at Johns Hopkins</span></h2><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #1c1c1c; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 45rem;">Charlie Abrahams, a 20-month-old patient with epilepsy and the son of noted film writer/producer/director Jim Abrahams (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Airplane!</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Top Secret!</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Naked Gun</em> series), is admitted to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center after many epilepsy treatments and surgeries tried on him had failed. Within days of going on ketogenic diet therapy, his seizures completely stop. <a href="https://charliefoundation.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0068c1;" target="_blank">The Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies</a> is founded by his parents to raise public and clinician awareness, promote scientific studies and provide research funding for the treatment. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 45rem;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: red;">First Do No Harm</span></b></i><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">is a 1997 American
made-for-television drama film directed by Jim Abrahams about a boy whose
severe epilepsy, unresponsive to medications with terrible side effects, is
controlled by the ketogenic diet. Aspects of the story mirror Abrahams' own
experience with his son Charlie.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0in; position: relative;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: #370509;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFG2gZikKAshelK1SgFbZWzZMPhmNCJxmwVAU5QXenBIxUlwNFj4MxFS3_A0n5VrH5wtUZGe1Gi49Uls4D2Y5g73aYVNuCA3u95UBQqLKxlnm8wnF54pvYTL58_ir2m9uyjCGXpHGulZdLh7Hvmg8_Pjf7Lzha8kOfsIPNRKL5KhwT54mbFXt9apV/s462/CC2.jpg" style="color: #a71b5a; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="308" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFG2gZikKAshelK1SgFbZWzZMPhmNCJxmwVAU5QXenBIxUlwNFj4MxFS3_A0n5VrH5wtUZGe1Gi49Uls4D2Y5g73aYVNuCA3u95UBQqLKxlnm8wnF54pvYTL58_ir2m9uyjCGXpHGulZdLh7Hvmg8_Pjf7Lzha8kOfsIPNRKL5KhwT54mbFXt9apV/w133-h200/CC2.jpg" style="background: rgb(12, 63, 54); 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box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Link: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/centers_clinics/epilepsy/keto-diet-timeline.html</span></p></div>Am Ang Zhanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07466386105122653445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5629209057489249999.post-57325728564704314472023-07-27T13:43:00.001-04:002023-08-29T15:15:27.493-04:00BP & Dementia.<p> </p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Nature may teach us a thing or two: that there is a reason for everything!</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face=""Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4c5459; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">An adult giraffe’s blood pressure can reach 300/180 millimeters, according to zoologists. That’s roughly twice that of an adult human.</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="line-height: 150%; position: relative; top: 2.5pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie99IrowbI-zmlp821ZfRPh9smMEwTuVU2BEd28IfCzTkasuMMyWPCZhFDqpS58IvE8h1F_FNRnWikPskV6Zi3SjX3E0hwMpRV0GCIeYSwzXYIqMWQ7ixGfdZMhWryTNew8WGrnA_l8yWNUyh0XWr4hWuGIukZ_-X94HhrrL8VA9ysCvxD6691wwdP/s1602/DSC-2730-Original.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="997" data-original-width="1602" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie99IrowbI-zmlp821ZfRPh9smMEwTuVU2BEd28IfCzTkasuMMyWPCZhFDqpS58IvE8h1F_FNRnWikPskV6Zi3SjX3E0hwMpRV0GCIeYSwzXYIqMWQ7ixGfdZMhWryTNew8WGrnA_l8yWNUyh0XWr4hWuGIukZ_-X94HhrrL8VA9ysCvxD6691wwdP/w640-h398/DSC-2730-Original.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h3 style="background: white; color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0in; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Giraffe Kruger National Park</span></h3><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For the average person, they worry about BP over 120/80 as per FDA figures!</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Berlin Study showed that </span><span face=""Proxima Nova", "Proxima Nova Fallback", sans-serif" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">people aged 80 and over who had a lower blood pressure — of 140/90 mm Hg or under — actually had a 40 percent higher mortality risk than peers with blood pressure exceeding those thresholds.</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">Now in simple physiological terms, out brain needs perfusion, though not as much as the very tall giraffe.</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">Surprise, surprise, in countries with high prescription to treat high BP, dementia rate is also high. Did we or did someone forget their physiology.</span></p><div><span face=""Proxima Nova", "Proxima Nova Fallback", sans-serif" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bolder; text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13195-017-0262-x">A Norwegian
study</a> showed that the risk of high BP for dementia was in people who were treated for their BP.</span></div><p class="MsoHeader"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><i>We conclude that elevated BP does not seem to be a risk factor for dementia when adjusted for age, sex, education, and other covariates. In fact, in persons over 60 years of age, SBP was <b>inversely </b>associated with a prospective dementia diagnosis, whereas in the middle-aged subjects (<60 years old), elevated SBP and PP were associated with eventual dementia in participants who reported using BP-lowering medication. These findings are consistent with previously published studies and appear to be dependent on factors such as age, hypertension chronicity, and antihypertensive medication use. </i></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; position: relative; top: 2.5pt;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 24px; position: relative; top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">From: </span></span><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-cockroach-catcher-ii-attempted.html" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living</b></span></a></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 24px; position: relative; top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“For anyone aspiring to be a paediatrician, a good understanding of child psychiatry is crucial. Half our cases may have a psychological slant, and the other half may have problems created by the doctors!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 24px; position: relative; top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">BP lowering medication was indeed created by doctors. That was my Guru in the early 70s!</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="line-height: 150%; position: relative; top: 2.5pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 24px; position: relative; top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">How insightful!</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 24px; position: relative; top: 2.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="review-image-tile-section" data-reviewid="R16552D04HZHKY" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden;"><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 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Zhanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07466386105122653445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5629209057489249999.post-52560428972892019772023-07-22T15:43:00.000-04:002023-07-22T15:43:00.162-04:00Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living ------ Kibbutz & Memory!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ir8AZUujL8jSiWq2MhIy2m3kM_UqB-9U56bOcBvwIIe4VFcbuzv-ph6-5BEqPeRaBSgB6I1qnzZV9kV2gMo9NA2ct_2LZhRkQoF7hZ6hJDQtTw0Z9gy9IlpHtd0E11rCD8D5tgaISYeYIIzXGgzbpCQOBfnLzyEmYckmdtX36aIyVyqwO9u6jW35kgU/s960/IMG-4460.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="360" 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class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5806852162479945547" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 896.667px;"><h3 class="date-header" style="color: #050937; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">On our recent tour of Israel, we were having dinner with a couple on our tour at the amazing Kibbutz Hagoshrim. The lady herself said she volunteered and worked at a Kibbutz and talked a fair bit about her experience. Somehow the conversation turned to the husband who said he is a London Black Cab driver and asked if I have heard of Knowledge. It did not take long for him to work out that I am a doctor and he told me he had to go for tests at the Institute of ........</span></h3><div style="color: #050937;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><h3 class="date-header" style="color: #050937; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Queen Square" I jumped in as usual.</span></h3><h3 class="date-header" style="color: #050937; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Yeah".</span></h3><div style="color: #050937;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><h3 class="date-header" style="color: #050937; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It is interesting that looking back on the research by <span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/spierslab/Maguire2006Hippocampus" style="color: #a71b5a; text-decoration-line: none;">Eleanor Maguire</a> it is clear that out of 79 participants, only 39 pass the Knowledge test and they are the ones that showed the Hippocampi changes.</span></span></h3><div style="color: #050937;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div><h3 class="date-header" style="color: #050937; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So here we have it, a Jewish London Taxi driver who was one of MacGuire's Guinea Pig passing the Knowledge test.</span></span></h3><div style="color: #050937;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #050937; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Did he have an advantage from his <span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/bar-and-bat-mitzvah-101/" style="color: #a71b5a; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Bar Mitzvah</span></a></span><span> ?<span face="verdana, sans-serif"> I am pretty sure!</span></span></b></span></span></span></div><h3 class="date-header" style="color: #050937; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What a nice anecdote to our Israel Tour.</span></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b>Links: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3268356/</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></b><b>https://www.simplypsychology.org/brain-plasticity.html</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC18253/</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></div><h3 style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; position: relative;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: advpad10; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></h3><span face="verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: advpad10; font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></span><h3 style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: advpad10; font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></span></h3><span face="verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: advpad10; font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2008/02/knowledge.html" style="color: #a71b5a; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #339999; font-size: 10pt;">'The Knowledge' and the Brain</span></b></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><u><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #de7008;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2009/07/kandel-doidge-neuroplasticity-memory.html" style="color: #a71b5a; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></span><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2009/07/kandel-doidge-neuroplasticity-memory.html" style="color: #a71b5a; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #de7008; font-size: 10pt;">Kandel</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #de7008; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #de7008; 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<p class="Bodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustified"><span lang="EN-GB"> have never really come to terms with Elective
Mutes or, if preferred, Selective Mutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Where do they really fit in the schema
of various diagnostic categories, or more precisely, in what way can we
understand them? In terms of Freudian,
Jungian or Kleinian theories, or Erikson’s or Mahler’s more child friendly
models, or modern neuro-transmitter bio-physiology?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Yet we have all seen them in our career
as psychiatrists. Because we are
essentially rendered ineffectual in our therapeutic approach, they are often
treated as a novelty and one’s hope is that either the family come to terms
with what might best be described as a quirk of nature, for which little can be
done, or the patient grows older and never really commits anything that requires
hospitalisation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I can also see how in time, guideline
controlled health practice will allow little room for anyone practising child psychiatry
to be spending any time at all with these cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> We do not get to see them that often
and I can remember three cases in my three decades of work with children, or at
least, three that stuck in my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> To put it simply, Elective Mutes (a
term I prefer as it gives a hint of election by the patient) are not true mutes</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
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</span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB"> as they speak at home, often to only one
person such as the mother, but not to anyone else, especially at school. At
some point in the history of child psychiatry someone changed the diagnosis to
Selective Mute and so it was included here in case anyone thought I was talking
about a non-existent condition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Italicsquotegaramond12ptleftjustified"><span lang="EN-GB">A Chinese
Patient<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> An exceptional consultation was
requested by a psychiatrist friend of mine in a nearby town. He had a patient,
a Chinese mother who spoke little English and she was very concerned about her
son. Exceptional consultations are allowed within the NHS when the need arises
to call on the expertise of another consultant not working for the authority,
for a specified fee. In this case the expertise was not clinical but language;
although by asking a child psychiatrist instead of just an interpreter he was
killing two birds with one stone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> The family ran a Chinese Fish and Chips
shop and lived in the flat above the shop in the older part of the town. There
was an older daughter and a young baby. The referred patient had turned five
and just started school. Five is generally the age when these patients get
referred. I was offered a seat by a small table in a corner near the rear
window of the flat. Some steps led from
the shop to this sitting area at the back of the flat. Whiffs of frying oil
crept through the tightly shut windows. On the wall was the traditional
Buddhist shrine with remnants of the previous day’s incense sticks. I was not
entirely sure if I preferred the smell of incense stick or frying oil. On the bench across from me, the older girl
was diligently doing her homework. My patient was playing with his new looking
power ranger, possibly a bribe so that he would stay and see the doctor. The
baby was in mother’s arms sound asleep. She apologised that her husband was
busy getting ready for the shop to open in about an hour’s time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> This was fairly typical of Chinese
families in similar take away businesses. They probably made a reasonable
living but some of the money might have to be sent to their folks back in their
home village. Décor at home would be basic although most would have the latest
model of television set and video recorder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Mother was relieved that I could speak
fluent Cantonese, but her daughter would barge in now and again in perfect
English about her brother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> The boy conversed at home with both
parents and sister, although I could sense that with his sister’s talkativeness
he would hardly stand a chance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Both my patient and his sister spoke
fluent Cantonese with the parents and mother did not notice anything unusual
about the boy until the school complained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> To prove that he could really speak,
mother said that they had a video recording made during the last Chinese New
Year when they took the family to <st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place>.
He was even speaking to other relatives in <st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place>.
Dutifully the daughter put the tape into the video machine and played the
video. There were also bits of English spoken between him and his sister.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> What worried mother was that after
father received the complaint letter from school, he stood the boy in front of
him with a cane and said that he would cane him if he did not talk to his
teacher the next day. The boy did not wait and put out his hands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> His father did not hit him. He only
wanted to threaten him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> A week went by and another letter came.
The boy was again summoned before father. His sister urged him in English not
to be afraid of his teachers and to speak in school or he would be punished.
This time father held a clever and threatened to chop his hands off if he were
to receive another letter from school. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> The boy put out his hands again. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Suddenly I was extremely worried for
the parents. The town they lived in was hot on Child Abuse at the time. Although I had no fear at all that these
parents would chop their son’s hands off, some over vigilant social workers
might take it upon themselves to act. I
took it upon myself to advise the parents that any such threat might bring the
wrath of Social Service upon them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Chinese families and perhaps oriental
ones in general want little to do with authorities. The parents had in fact
resisted the involvement of Educational Psychologists and I was only let in
because I was Chinese. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Now, mother was worried.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> “Would they take him away?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> She asked if they should send him to a
private school or do something else. They just did not want to lose him. She
assured me that her husband loved him as he was his first son but he just did
not want to upset school in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I suggested that it was probably too
early to act, as the boy might soon decide to speak. It would be important to check if he was
making any progress, but on the video recording, he was reading with his
sister. If it became necessary for them to see a Psychologist I would help to
facilitate. I suggested that three months might be a good time for me to see
him again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Two month later, I received a call from
my psychiatrist friend. No follow up appointment would be necessary. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> “Did the boy speak?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I was anxious to know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> “No, they sent him back to <st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place> to live with the grandparents. They said he was doing well at school there.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> How stupid of me! I should have guessed from the tape and from
what I know of the Eastern way: avoid authorities more than you need to avoid tigers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> And who is to say that the boy would
have done better if he had continued here. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Who knows? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Italicsquotegaramond12ptleftjustified"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB">Norman</span></st1:city></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Paper darts or planes were one of my
favourite pastimes as a child and from a plain piece of paper I am able to
build one that will be able to do nice aerobatics in a small room by minute
tweaking of the under-wing rudder. Now
and again with the appropriate child I might resort to building one to start a
therapeutic relationship and most times it worked like a treat. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> So it was after weeks of struggling
with an elective mute </span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>XE "mute" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">that I decided to try my luck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Little <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Norman</st1:city></st1:place> was a handsome looking boy of six and
never spoke to anyone outside of the house. He would speak to his parents
indoors but not out. Of all other relatives he would only speak to his maternal
grandparents who lived nearby but only in his own home, never theirs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> He had made reasonable progress at
school as mother was an infant teacher before she had him and regularly checked
his progress. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> He just would not speak to anyone else.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> He looked like an autistic child and
certainly had the tendency to avoid eye contacts. However he acquired his
language at the usual times and mother had a normal uneventful birth. Father
was an accountant working in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>,
of the quiet type as mother put it. I only met him once on their first
appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Norman</st1:city></st1:place>
was their pride and joy, being the first grandchild on both sides of the
family. The paternal grandparents lived
in the West Country and did not see <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Norman</st1:city></st1:place>
too often.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> So, there we were, one of my first mutes
since I became a consultant. Despite all
recorded difficulties with Elective Mutes, I decided to try my luck with some
therapy sessions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> The boy got quite used to me after a
while. He would draw, write and often
look at all the story books I had around. He would play with Lego, assemble and
dissemble the train set but he just would not speak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I was young then and had the mistaken
belief that getting him to speak with me would be counted as some sort of cure.
This has not been written up anywhere and we had little knowledge of the long
term outcome of these cases. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I was determined, determined to get him
to speak, at least with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Paper plane. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I hit on the idea of my faithful
friend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I built one, then two. He had one and I
had the other. They flew, made beautiful loops, did aerobatics and he was
thoroughly enjoying it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I sensed that he wanted to take them
home to show his dad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> “You will have to ask me for them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> How nasty could I be?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> He turned solemn, then pale, then red. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I was beginning to hate myself. How
could I? He was my little friend. We could have gone on for months playing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> “Please may I have the planes?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I was shocked, so was mum when she
heard what happened. I was not pleased with myself. I had tricked the little
boy to give up his principles, whatever they were.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Mum on the other hand thought I was brilliant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Italicsquotegaramond12ptleftjustified"><span lang="EN-GB">Simone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Little Simone, aged five, had a
beautiful crop of blonde hair with the cute little face and blue eyes to go
with it. I was wondering if it was a genetic thing. Good looks and mutism. She
had a brother four years older. He was smart, too smart sometimes as he always
seemed to know what she wanted and would speak up for her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Simone did not even talk to her father
or brother. Only to her mother and only when no one else was around. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Her brother was doing extremely well at
school and they were thinking of sending him to a private school. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Father was a pilot and was hardly home
which might explain in part why Simone did not speak to him. At least that was
how mother tried to help me understand. Also, her brother might be too old for
her, especially as he had his own friends and she was a girl. “Boys of that age
don’t talk to girls” was the other lesson I received.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> I hardly needed to do any talking from
the first time I met mother as she would ask the questions and answer
them. Most were sensible answers and I
was sure many child psychiatrists would not have such a deep understanding of
children. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> No, mother was not worried, as she
could check on Simone’s progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> At the time, we had just moved to our
new clinic and we had a video link and recording facility in our playroom. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> What an opportunity to test out our
equipment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> So we had Simone set in a routine of
spending some time first with mother and then one of my female junior doctors
would join us in the second half of the session to talk to mother. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> At first Simone would stay quiet
throughout.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> After about three months, the
breakthrough came. Simone started talking to mother when she was alone playing
with her. When the door handle turned, she switched off. This continued for
some sessions. Simone by now would be reading story books with mother and she
was an avid and good reader for her age.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> One day, watching the proceedings, I
hit on an idea, a very naughty idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> What if my junior doctor played back
the video recording to her? It might disclose the secret. We knew she could
speak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> As if by magic, it worked. The rest you
might have guessed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"> Was it the right thing to do? Did
making an elective mute</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "mute" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB"> speak represent a cure? I do
not know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="StyleBodytextgaramond12ptlinespace18ptjustifiedBold"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span><span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">On
one cold April morning in 2007 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state></st1:place>
a former mute </span><span lang="EN-GB">went on a shooting rampage and many innocent lives were lost<a href="file:///C:/Users/mnc8b/Documents/USB2023/MNC%20BOOK%20FINAL/Book%201/book_1%20bkc.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></a>.</span></span></p></span>
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Brain! Brain! <p class="paragraph_paragraph__3Hrfa" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: abcsans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">The first known professional female athlete has posthumously been diagnosed with CTE. </p><p class="paragraph_paragraph__3Hrfa" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: abcsans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">Heather Anderson, who played for the Adelaide Crows, retired in 2017 after suffering on-field injuries including at least one confirmed diagnosed concussion.</p><p class="paragraph_paragraph__3Hrfa" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: abcsans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">Anderson took her own life in November 2022 at age 28.</p><aside class="ContentAlignment_marginBottom__jDkGS ContentAlignment_overflowAuto__rLnB0 ContentAlignment_floatRight__lKsUK LegacyWysiwyg_wysiwyg__FLnML" data-component="LegacyWysiwyg" data-print="inline-media" data-uri="coremedia://teaser/6597182" style="border: 1px solid var(--grey-border); 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border-bottom: 1px solid var(--link-border,var(--black-20)); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">she had "low-stage CTE" in her brain</a>.</p><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6026312201454450229" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 896.667px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><h3 style="color: #050937; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://www.ghostranch.org/" style="color: #a71b5a; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62JVtjmmoiRAcuyAZ9Xz7j5hwnj6tJ1qQLxkSACoeIB5edbaDfKJ8zjmFXhX2iaGGFEm6b2Zob0n8b3fyUzx6f4SQ2ABbBb0Mp3bqbSUM_nnSMWLHAFbvpVzsAB0FBFmqcnd_LH1OaAg/s640/DSC_2628+Stitch.jpg" style="background: rgb(12, 63, 54); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(133, 149, 229); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></span></div></span></b></h3><h3 style="color: #050937; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">A recent visit to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Santa Fe</st1:city></st1:place> reminded me of one of Dr. Haffner’s most impressive cases. A case that set the tone for me in my understanding of how our brain could recover contrary to what I was brought up in Neurology at <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Queen Square</st1:address></st1:street>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">It was our first visit to <st1:city w:st="on">Santa Fe</st1:city> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:state></st1:place> which arguably had some of the famous places that has been used in an impressive number of films. <st1:placename w:st="on">Ghost</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Range</st1:placetype>, White Sands and Bandelier came to mind and of course there is Alamos, home of the Atomic Bomb that eventually finished off the Japanese and their atrocity especially in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Yet it is often as exciting to visit the local market on a Saturday as it is to visit famous sites. We get to see some fresh local produce that local farmers are very proud of. Quite unexpectedly something caught my attention at one of the stalls that reminded me of Christopher Haffner.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">Everybody is afraid of Dr. Haffner at the Regional Child Psychiatric Clinic. O.K. He is tall and quite formidable. He still carries a strong Austrian accent. But he never shouts and he speaks very gently. Perhaps it is because he seemed to know a good deal both within and without the medical field. As a chief, he is unusual in knowing most things that people get up to. One day, I was late with a family and when I got back to the office, Dr. Haffner was there looking through a number of files by the filing cabinets. It was then that I knew how it was done. But I am not going to tell you if I pick up this little trick from him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">Secretly though, we do know that we must take note of his utterances as he would have thrown in some gems that would affect our thinking. Good teachers do throw in a new way of looking at things which may indeed be too obvious some times.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">I later found out that he probably was one of the first to establish the three unusual in-patient units in one setting in the whole of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region></st1:place>: a middle age group children’s unit where I was mainly placed, a unit for Autistic children and unusually a mother and child unit. All the time I was there, I have not heard of another mother and child unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">His take down of Eysenck and IQ test is the first shock I encountered and one of the side effects was years later when our girls were grown up, without prompting at all, they thanked me for never doing an IQ test on them. His most memorable example was how a very high IQ genius when asked to pick up 3 lbs of tomatoes would fail abysmally when a untested child that has helped father at a market would come very close to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">One day he announced that he is going to do a special presentation. This is not something that happened often and when it did, we all make sure that we rearrange our appointments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">This was about two twins that were hardly six years old; identical twins. One day father was taking the younger twin to some activity. The parents always felt that it was important to bring them up separately although other parents of twins have the opposite view. Unfortunately they were involved in a very serious car accident. Both survived. The boy suffered fairly serious concussion and was unconscious for around ten days. He was eventually referred to Dr. Haffner.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">The essence of his presentation was that he felt the brain can somehow recover and one advantage would be related to the young age of the patient. At the beginning, the boy could not remember who he was and there was hardly any speech. Mother decided to give up her teaching job to spend as much time with him. From Dr. Haffner’s presentation, he has suggested that the parents should perhaps treat him as a new baby so that he can learn everything afresh. It was a difficult first few months and then suddenly everything progressed rapidly. Nine months after the accident: “I arranged for an IQ test and he is now within 10% of his brother!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">Wow!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">“And IQ test does have its place!” He read my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://www.ghostranch.org/" style="color: #a71b5a; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ORuv7_RJT9Ix3jkNgktFdy4TbFazGDdjYt7DjBwaBIeM5gG_6VBhjN9Ep70lmF6DEm89O2roYBvPjbt4sZJfkOa4D92jbSBjYW4_6DQk-OVb1kOVbzJHkkSU-Nn_OP1rKVt2mmsCxKs/s640/DSC_2684+Stitchb.jpg" style="background: rgb(12, 63, 54); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(133, 149, 229); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">Back to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Santa Fe</st1:city></st1:place> Market:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;"> There was a little table with a pile of books and a little picture: Climbing Back. A lady was behind the stall and she does not look like the usual market vegetable selling person. So I started chatting to her. She was promoting her book about her son’s journey back to life after a very serious accident.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">Her name is Elise Rosenhaupt and her book is called Climbing Back: A Family's Journey through Brain Injury<a href="file:///C:/Users/mnc8b/Documents/2020%20Sept%20Book%20Final%20Version/Cockroach%20Catcher%20&amp;%20Tango%20Ch%2029%20only.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="color: #a71b5a; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">It was about her son Martin, who at the start of his second year at Harvard, was hit by a car and thrown 150 feet. He landed on his head, suffering severe traumatic brain injury. So if anything it was much worse than Dr. Haffner’s patient who was thrown about at the back of the car although not much was known about how badly hit he was. It was interesting to scan through her observation of the slow process of recovery, probably much slower than the much younger boy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 23.3999px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal;">It is a nice confirmation of how much more we know about our brain and nervous system.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; display: table-cell; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 120px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://borrow.bklynlibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb12264302__SClimbing%2520back__Orightresult__U__X6?lang%3Deng%26suite%3Ddef&source=gmail&ust=1614951896049000&usg=AFQjCNGFHQH_BZBtSxzbYu-9A6Xz9leRHA" href="https://borrow.bklynlibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb12264302__SClimbing%20back__Orightresult__U__X6?lang=eng&suite=def" id="m_-91776717864480260gmail-recordDisplayLinkComponent" style="background-color: transparent; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2329659538846764459" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 896px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: medium;">Book to read:</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6f6f6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: medium;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: interfaceregular, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/files/2015/02/9781780225920.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1c497d; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;"><img alt="9781780225920" class="alignnone wp-image-810" height="269" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px" src="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/files/2015/02/9781780225920-195x300.jpg" srcset="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/files/2015/02/9781780225920-195x300.jpg 195w, https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/files/2015/02/9781780225920.jpg 1527w" style="background: rgb(12, 63, 54); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle;" width="175" /></a></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: interfaceregular, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Do No Harm</em> is a remarkably simple book. So much so, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Guardian</em> (the book was short listed for <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Guardian</em> ‘First Book Award’) asks, ‘Why has no one ever written a book like this before?’ Each chapter’s starting point is a real life case. The clinical and extra-curricular vignettes recited allow the reader the privilege of being a fly-on-the-wall during moments of incredible personal and professional strain, sometimes during frank disaster, and occasionally during enormous relief and hilarity. In total, the book makes up a lean, unadorned, honest memoir of just some of the emotional thrills and surgical spills from a life spent in a busy tertiary neurosurgical unit. There is no twisting, confluent, fictional, engineered storyline because the quotidian of Marsh’s operating theatres, clinic rooms and foreign trips provides a surplus of heroes and heartache to sate the appetite of even the most demanding reader, publisher or dramaturge. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: interfaceregular, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> Link: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2015/02/10/the-reading-room-a-review-of-henry-marshs-do-no-harm/</p></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Old views on Brain.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">When I was training in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">London</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> in the 70s, I spent some time at </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">Queen Square</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">. Those in the know will recognize it as the place for neurology this side of the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">Atlantic</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">. It was drilled into us then that sadly we were given a number of brain cells when we were born and it was all downhill from then on or something to that effect. It was well known that neurologists were great diagnosticians but for most neurological conditions, not much could be done. How depressing indeed. Even as recently as four weeks ago, I heard a young doctor told his father that there was nothing he could do with his brain cells. One is given so many at birth and no more can be expected. Lord Brain (1895-1966) would have been so proud.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">Yet it was also </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">London</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> that shook the world with new discoveries about the brain, and the study was on the most unlikely group of people: Taxi drivers. Their </span></span><a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/taxisandprivatehire/1412.aspx" style="color: #de7008; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">“KNOWLEDGE”</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> was the basis of our knowledge on brain plasticity today. The “KNOWLEDGE” is a term officially used to describe the test the Taxi Drivers had to take to get the licence to drive Taxis in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">London</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">. Streets in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">London</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">have evolved over time and are not on any grid system at all. Early postmortem examinations led some pathologists to note the small size of the Taxi drivers’ frontal lobes. Yet actual weight measurement showed that size was all relative. It was the enlarged hippocampal region that created that impression. Later work using </span></span><a href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/327/7419/831-a" style="color: #de7008; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">modern scanning techniques</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> confirmed the early impressions.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If two to four years of “KNOWLEDGE” acquisition can change the size of the brain in a grown adult, what else could we do?</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The rest, as they say, is history.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">Kindle comes in very handy, literally. Yes a 3</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">rd</span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">generation gadget that allows you to store and read books and other printed material. You can pack with you thousands of books on this device that weighs less than a paperback.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br style="line-height: 18.2px;" /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18.2px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">This has inspired me to launch a Kindle edition of </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Cockroach-Catcher/dp/B0044XV30K/ref=sr_1_2?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285933099&sr=8-2" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;">The Cockroach Catcher</a><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"> (yes, the book). More importantly, the Kindle edition costs a fraction of the physical copy. If you do not yet own a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002Y27P3M/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=5559885207&ref=pd_sl_1btn594ibc_b" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;">Kindle</a>, you can simply download the free Kindle software and read Kindle books on your</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kindle/id302584613?mt=8" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">iPhone, iPad , iPod touch</span></a></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">& your <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000426311" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;">Personal Computer</a>. You can read the book within seconds from ordering. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Cockroach-Catcher-ebook/dp/B0044XV30K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1285934052&sr=8-1" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">US Verson</span></span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18.2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small; 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font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">Amazon Kindle UK</a> </span></b></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">£0</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="line-height: 18.2px;">.</b></span><b style="line-height: 18.2px;">99, </b><b style="line-height: 18.2px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Cockroach-Catcher-ebook/dp/B0044XV30K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1285934959&sr=1-1" style="color: #370509; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">Amazon Kindle US</a> $0.99</b></span></span></h3></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><b style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><b style="line-height: 18.2px;"><b style="color: #050937; line-height: 18.2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Here are some reviews:</span></b></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><h1 style="background: rgb(192, 161, 84); margin: 0in 0px 0px; position: relative;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://hypercryptical.blogspot.com/2011/12/cockroach-catcher.html" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;">HyperCRYPTICal<o:p></o:p></a></span></h1><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #eeddbb; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 20.286px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">I purchased Dr Am Ang Zhang's book last November and placed it at the bottom of my ‘to read’ pile – I should not have done so.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">Holidaying earlier this year – I decided that ‘The Cockroach Catcher’ would be my holiday read (even though it was still only half way up the pile) – it was a good decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">Am Ang takes you on a fine journey from his poor beginnings in China to his education in Hong Kong, his life and experience at medical school, his decision to enter psychiatry leading to a post as registrar at The Tavistock Clinic and to his role as a consultant paediatric psychiatrist within the NHS (and many interesting places in between).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">Dr Zhang had a common sense approach to the children in his care, intuitively finding the answer to their problems, cases ranging from sleep and toileting problems to those of anorexia, autism and psychosis - although towards the end of his career, red tape and ‘guidelines’ were to impact on his practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">His book also gives insight as to how we as parents may influence the mental health of our children and how childhood is being medicalised when behaviours are due to lack of parental authority and/or guidance and are not psychiatric illness at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">Although the back cover summary describes the book as a work of fiction, the contents are based on a good and a very real doctors’ journey through medicine. It is a must read for all those either working in medicine or interested in child psychiatry and indeed childhood itself, and an invaluable read for parents who have concerns regarding their children’s mental health.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">It is a fascinating well penned book with references documented in the footnotes and is available from Amazon. Visit the cockroach catcher here<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">Anna :o]<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjee1qvpRvIoAX9jyXBbeZlLVfOe1f8yqaodFHs0hOvb64JoTtcSneJxGxDPHFEq7q8fBjud2SJfpVJ5tncF16NZbOUjVVrEeCjgyx4ruJy3G7xuWyRi18fZ7uKvsjuHn2i_6gAHhP53NY/s1600/011-009-DSC_0471.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjee1qvpRvIoAX9jyXBbeZlLVfOe1f8yqaodFHs0hOvb64JoTtcSneJxGxDPHFEq7q8fBjud2SJfpVJ5tncF16NZbOUjVVrEeCjgyx4ruJy3G7xuWyRi18fZ7uKvsjuHn2i_6gAHhP53NY/w640-h360/011-009-DSC_0471.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></i></span></div><div class="mt4 ttl" style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 4px 0px 0px; overflow-x: hidden;"><span class="swSprite s_star_5_0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: -30px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/common/sprites/sprite-site-wide-3._V375430972_.png") -30px 0px no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 65px;" title="5.0 out of 5 stars"><span style="left: -9999px; margin: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left;">5.0 out of 5 stars</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"> <a class="txtlarge gl3 gr4 reviewTitle valignMiddle" href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R60RI0Q66VCD6/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0044XV30K&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=133140011&store=digital-text" style="border: 0px; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 4px 0px 3px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: middle;"><strong style="margin: 0px;">A Must-read for Students of Psychiatry</strong></a><span class="gry valignMiddle" style="color: #666666; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"> <span class="inlineblock txtsmall" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px;">August 10, 2014</span></span></div></div><div class="mt4 ath" style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 4px 0px 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="gr10" style="margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px;"><span class="txtsmall" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span class="gry" style="color: #666666; margin: 0px;">By</span> <a class="noTextDecoration" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A66ZQY3PKMXHJ/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp" style="border: 0px; color: #996633; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">John Yam</a></span></span></div></div><div class="txtsmall mt4 fvavp" style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin: 4px 0px 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="inlineblock formatVariation" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px;"><span class="gr3 gry formatKey" style="color: #666666; margin: 0px; padding-right: 3px;">Format:</span><span class="formatValue" style="margin: 0px;">Paperback</span></span></div></div><div class="mt9 reviewText" style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin: 9px 0px 0px; overflow-x: hidden;"><div class="drkgry" style="color: #333333; margin: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;">We all have stories to tell with regard to our experiences as physicians. Zhang is one of our medical school classmates who took it to a different level by writing and publishing a book. The book details how it all started, from the time his family moved to Hong Kong from China, to his years in medical school, to his experience as a child psychiatrist in the UK. The book is full of interesting case studies of actual patients he saw and the challenges he faced dealing with them.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I was captivated by many of the interesting stories in the book. It’s a must-read for all students of psychiatry. It also makes for good reading material for anyone during their leisure moments.</div></div></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">From another doctor friend:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The Cockroach Catcher has evoked many images, memories, emotions from my own family circumstances and clinical experience.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">My 80 year old Mum has a long-standing habit of collecting old newspaper and gossip magazines. Stacks of paper garbage filled every room of her apartment, which became a fire hazard. My siblings tricked her into a prolonged holiday, emptied the flat and refurbished the whole place ten years ago. ……My eldest son was very pretty as a child and experienced severe OCD symptoms, necessitating consultations with a psychiatrist at an age of 7 years. The doctor shocked us by advising an abrupt change of school or we would "lose" him, so he opined. He was described as being aloft and detached as a child. He seldom smiled after arrival of a younger brother. He was good at numbers and got a First in Maths from a top college later on. My wife and I always have the diagnosis of autism in the back of our mind. Fortunately, he developed good social skills and did well at his college. He is a good leader and co-ordinator at the workplace. We feel relieved now and the years of sacrifice (including me giving up private practice and my wife giving up a promising administrative career ) paid off.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Your pragmatic approach to problem solving and treatment plans is commendable in the era of micro-managed NHS and education system. I must admit that I learn a great deal about the running of NHS psychiatric services and the school system.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Objectively, a reader outside of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> would find some chapters in the book intriguing because a lot of space was devoted to explaining the jargons (statementing, section, grammar schools) and the NHS administrative systems. Of course, your need to clarify the peculiar <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> background of your clinical practice is understandable.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Your sensitivity and constant reference to the feelings, background and learning curves of your sub-ordinates and other members of the team are rare attributes of psychiatric bosses, whom I usually found lacking in affect! If more medical students have access to your book, I'm sure many more will choose psychiatry as a career. The Cockroach Catcher promotes the human side of clinical psychiatric practice in simple language that an outsider can appreciate. An extremely outstanding piece of work indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">From <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: verdana;">I have finished reading The Cockroach Catcher and thoroughly enjoyed it.</span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><u2:p></u2:p><br /></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: verdana;">Zhang, I particularly liked the juxtaposition and paralleling of your travel stories and observations with your case studies, Of course, I could appreciate it even more, knowing the author and hearing your voice in the text. Because I’m dealing with anorexia, ADD and ADHD students I was very interested in your experiences with patients and parents and your treatment. Amazing how many parents are the underlying causes of their offspring’s angst. It was an eminently readable text for the medically uninitiated like me. Keep writing, Zhang</span><o:p></o:p></i></span><i></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExAqhicbwLaNZsBojcyEGlOfx1TJ6SYRJvHeOjHkQ1CWyq6GEXjlKkW8fngUc0r0WPURHoL8Zi89Z0KAAOHqADi9g3TSKoiwxMclWoVNgbIIZuJ1aiiE6lIQRLuhrnWYloBpZ2QS7iIg/s1442/024-027-P1040275.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1442" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExAqhicbwLaNZsBojcyEGlOfx1TJ6SYRJvHeOjHkQ1CWyq6GEXjlKkW8fngUc0r0WPURHoL8Zi89Z0KAAOHqADi9g3TSKoiwxMclWoVNgbIIZuJ1aiiE6lIQRLuhrnWYloBpZ2QS7iIg/w640-h360/024-027-P1040275.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From another doctor:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Absolutely riveting! Brings me back to working (in NHS psychiatry) when work was really interesting! The tone is quite conversational; it is like hearing you telling stories. I ordered more copies for my family and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I knew it would be very special and it sure is. To us your trainees it is like going back on the rotation to have the joy of working with you again. The difference is that l can now learn at leisure from this book. Congratulations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The book is very well written and makes very easy and interesting reading even for the laymen. You learn a lot about the Health System, a lot about child psychiatry and a lot about the growing up and development of the author.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fascinating account of child psychiatry cases, including some creative yet effective treatments. Anyone who is a parent or around children or really anyone at all actually will find the book surprising, entertaining, thought-provoking, funny and moving.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The book makes me realize the difficult decisions with which a doctor is so often faced, the need for him to have faith in himself and, coupled with that, the need for continued idealism and enthusiasm. These don't, of course, apply only to doctors but are particularly important for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Great book. I have bought one to give to my son on his birthday.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5802396203286700070" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; position: relative; width: 896px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisjbnHXNID-Yz611KNqMq7o_M5RgT60keJO_tGWwNxSNB_lRymfuFrVuGQpsqUdyvQFfnyLjwYTTcdffGgLVT4R0Cwn4Lhs9PtJYpVZxeea764ovv7snNFXiAZ8BOwQ44xSbxW_Kj8CsE/s1299/038-061-31-DSC_9472+Stitch.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1299" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisjbnHXNID-Yz611KNqMq7o_M5RgT60keJO_tGWwNxSNB_lRymfuFrVuGQpsqUdyvQFfnyLjwYTTcdffGgLVT4R0Cwn4Lhs9PtJYpVZxeea764ovv7snNFXiAZ8BOwQ44xSbxW_Kj8CsE/w640-h360/038-061-31-DSC_9472+Stitch.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTDkLFWlO4P6ULKpuO4Fbs-nhvocQDMH_SqaUksgytsYcnixIVhq_l34miAmyFgRHlKqmecxoC_3s20guoz_-4BUmFqYfjlFWDqK0hQGbUGBVNQOByRU0dqOBPXoWgDYtNi49aXHvmIy0/s1600-h/rev-sing1.jpg" style="color: #bb00e1; font-family: verdana; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><br /><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: 18.2px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">From </span><a href="http://chezsams.blogspot.com/2010/09/quack-birth.html" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">Chez Sam’s</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">And CC, your book is amazing! I am only on page 44 but so far, so wonderful. I think how you turned this anorexia patient around just goes to show what human interaction rather than tick box protocols can do in a short period of time and at low cost too. This is an exemplary illustration on perhaps one of the reasons why a good health system like the one in Singapore can not be fully implemented in Britain. it's the change of perceptions and methodology to suit that's difficult.<br /><br />And, as a city girl, I found your early life in villages fascinating and very enriching for a bright child like yourself, I suppose, had I been your mother, I too would have not asked you any questions when you were told to leave that school ... but the school supplier of cockroaches! [shiver]Dearime! I run a mile when I see one, let alone catch them and dissect them! boys will be boys after all, now that I know that you weren't joking. you are a cockroach catcher, not only of the soul, but for real! @@<br /><br />The book is a must read doc, I am really enjoying it :-)”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">More </span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #187f6d;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1419804472159301534&postID=8540311008766081143&isPopup=true" style="color: #187f6d; text-decoration-line: none;">here>>>>>></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: 18.2px;"></div><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: verdana;"><br />From the <a href="http://www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=1772066&fBuyItem=3" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration-line: none;">LUL</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=1772066&fBuyItem=3" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration-line: none;">U.com</a> website, where you can preview the chapter Seven Minute Cure and if you so wish, order a copy of the book (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">after creating your own account):</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><br />Fascinat</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">in</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">g!</span><span lang="EN-US"> What a great read. Just read</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">ing th</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">e one chapter made </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">me</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> want to read the whole b</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">ook. Thank you!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">A beautiful opening! A piece written with of all that wit, intelligence and sarcasm! The author has managed to illustrate a boring NHS subject in the most interesting of ways. He has convi</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">nced me to read on. The NHS should </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">urgently seek help and advice from this doctor!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Thank goodness for doctors like these!! If the rest of the book is as good as the prev</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">iew cha</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">pter then it will be a fantastic resource for</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> practitioners and </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">the public.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">F</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">asc</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">inating preview chapter. I can't wait to read more.</span></i><i><br /></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Horrah for the doctor. Chapter 1: The Seven Minute Cure. The doctor overcame the obstacles faced from the establishment and freed a young child from her prison. Great read.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="verdana" style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaWp3VqWzF5ThSpJbw5QYLazjwlNYMPHGu9aZS_SG49GftA_4LkESxpi4Y82SvceTYm7IZ9O3-ZIrGMRE78SxBDQIugrUSyfzto6lhcSQYjOm8AlH8_csKnZrRoMKZjjAwBbFDP-G-XIOz/s1600-h/Rev-vert2.jpg" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179204654139895122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaWp3VqWzF5ThSpJbw5QYLazjwlNYMPHGu9aZS_SG49GftA_4LkESxpi4Y82SvceTYm7IZ9O3-ZIrGMRE78SxBDQIugrUSyfzto6lhcSQYjOm8AlH8_csKnZrRoMKZjjAwBbFDP-G-XIOz/s400/Rev-vert2.jpg" style="background: rgb(12, 63, 54); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(205, 205, 205); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0j-Iwp8zgeSvx3QXW79pAeVe1gaygr_bG5UlPNhIzgCaBbojIuhnrdvTboeeqAT_tDgtNiANLmD1WctG3nc73RpvrwMmnETuzEoQPUaS63ga94CP_7M51N1LoUCwntO2R25CZOtEPgE7/s1600-h/rev-vert3.jpg" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179205315564858722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0j-Iwp8zgeSvx3QXW79pAeVe1gaygr_bG5UlPNhIzgCaBbojIuhnrdvTboeeqAT_tDgtNiANLmD1WctG3nc73RpvrwMmnETuzEoQPUaS63ga94CP_7M51N1LoUCwntO2R25CZOtEPgE7/s400/rev-vert3.jpg" style="background: rgb(12, 63, 54); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(205, 205, 205); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Other reviews and feedback:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Absolutely riveting! Brings me back to working (in NHS psychiatry) when</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> work was really interesting! The tone </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">is quite </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">conversat</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">ional; it is like hearing you telling</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> stories. I ordered more copies for my family and friends.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p><br /></span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">I knew it would be very special and it </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">sure is. To us your trainees it is like going bac</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">k on the rotation to</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> have the joy of working with you again. The differen</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">ce is that l can now learn at leisure from this book. Congratulations.</span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The book is very well written and makes very easy and interesting reading even for the</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">laymen.<span style="font-size: 0px;"> </span>You learn a lot about the Health System, a lot about child psychiatry and a lot about the growing up and development of the author.</span></i></div><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Fascinating account of child psychiatry cases, inc</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">luding </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">some creative yet effective </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">treatments. <span style="font-size: 0px;"> </span>Anyone who is a parent or around children or really anyone at all actually</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> will find the book surprising, entertaining, thought-provoking, funny and moving.</span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic;">The book makes me realize the difficult decisions with which a doctor</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic;"> is so often faced, the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic;">need for him to have faith in himself and, coupled with that, the need for continued idealism and enthusiasm.<span style="font-size: 0px;"> </span>These don't, of course, apply only to doctors but are particularly important for them.</span></div><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Great book.<span style="font-size: 0px;"> </span>I have bought one to give to my son on his birthday.<span style="font-size: 0px;"></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 10px;"></span><span lang="EN-US">(Note: </span><span lang="EN-US">both father and son are doctors.)</span></em></div><i><span lang="EN-US"></span></i><br /><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><i style="color: #050937;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></i></div><i><span lang="EN-US"></span></i><br /><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">I was in Special Education for many years. I just love the way you dealt with </span><span lang="EN-US">the girl who was bullied, and the boy with Behaviour Disorder. I am buying two more copies, one for my friend who is a psychologist and one for a colleague in Special Education.</span></div><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br /><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">I wish I had </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993399;"><span style="color: black;">read your book when I was headmistress.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">I would have had so much more insight into why some of the pupils behaved the </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993399;"><span style="color: black;">way they did.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbe7hFd9bu7HFbYio3g8SR0C5rJa2Vvc2-v7uRziUXoC_cExTlzqMwOE4Y4Z4xUwsJsqj6bEWhPLbsChkElJsLJ3E0E9e0a04iSY120e2pSQLsr30tCzHMRrhIC1P44oCqU9yG0y3DEvY/s1600/075-073-P1030843.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbe7hFd9bu7HFbYio3g8SR0C5rJa2Vvc2-v7uRziUXoC_cExTlzqMwOE4Y4Z4xUwsJsqj6bEWhPLbsChkElJsLJ3E0E9e0a04iSY120e2pSQLsr30tCzHMRrhIC1P44oCqU9yG0y3DEvY/w640-h360/075-073-P1030843.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="color: black; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">I have been a school counsellor for 15 years a</span><span lang="EN-US">nd we have had regular</span><span lang="EN-US"> recommendations on books to read. None of the</span><span lang="EN-US">m taught us as much as your book, which would have been very useful for ou</span><span lang="EN-US">r weekly screening meeting </span>discussions.</div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="color: #6600cc; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">R</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">eading the book and his blog, you cannot help ad</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">miring the author's width and depth of knowledge, the light-heartedness, the humility, the humane </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">and the human side of </span></span><span style="color: black;">people.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="color: black; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">You learn a lot about the Health System, a lot about child psychiatry and a lot about</span><span lang="EN-US"> the growing up and development of the author. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGerE2PvcJyrmi7FqGwgffdMmRSkV_-dbwpkvrAwkzKA3mHCOHC_PZjEo19AgQ5Je3a3aXmKGs90HDqxttOMk0XpgRhiKFTwvmjAlcjGAbPY9dBzLdKATYNGrMtDN0ZfTrcrjd20Illb6q/s1600-h/rev-sing-n4.jpg" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178889278986317074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGerE2PvcJyrmi7FqGwgffdMmRSkV_-dbwpkvrAwkzKA3mHCOHC_PZjEo19AgQ5Je3a3aXmKGs90HDqxttOMk0XpgRhiKFTwvmjAlcjGAbPY9dBzLdKATYNGrMtDN0ZfTrcrjd20Illb6q/s400/rev-sing-n4.jpg" style="background: rgb(12, 63, 54); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(205, 205, 205); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a><span style="color: #336666;"><span style="color: black;">What a book! I cried a little. I laughed a little. I know I should not.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #336666; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 10.9pt 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: black;">Your stories are amazing. I really enjoy reading it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="color: black; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">My wife cannot put your book down and I shall not be able to get my hands on it until she has finished.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="color: black; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">I was horrified by some of the gruesome cases and agonised at </span><span lang="EN-US">the suffering of some of </span><span lang="EN-US">your patients.<span style="font-size: 0px;"> </span>But there are moments of laughter and smile at Dr</span><span lang="EN-US"> Zhang's </span><span lang="EN-US">wit in handling the cases and patients.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="color: black; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Am Ang, thank you for a wonderful book. You know I could not put it </span><span lang="EN-US">down.<span style="font-size: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">My husband is now reading it and he said it is such an easy read as </span><span lang="EN-US">he thought it was all going to be heavy and clinical.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="color: black; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">You have such a way with the little ones. What about the 12 year old pretending to be three and a half! My goodness.</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="color: black; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipMAlDCgXU67hb1LSjPufFUlD-6WF4-ejuAhJrdPr_n9dFGurURJIGR9bXSkbcaMuFy2C8eJ8k4o3wPYF7BnHZZQNTxsVuAbbU9ICVhwrQCT-_ZTtirH8Srm-SDuJD1N83WHbICZlSwGyd/s1600-h/rev-sing-n2.jpg" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178887105732865266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipMAlDCgXU67hb1LSjPufFUlD-6WF4-ejuAhJrdPr_n9dFGurURJIGR9bXSkbcaMuFy2C8eJ8k4o3wPYF7BnHZZQNTxsVuAbbU9ICVhwrQCT-_ZTtirH8Srm-SDuJD1N83WHbICZlSwGyd/s400/rev-sing-n2.jpg" style="background: rgb(12, 63, 54); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(205, 205, 205); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a><span lang="EN-US">Just the village life can fill a book. (Seriously an in-depth version will be much welcome!)<span style="font-size: 0px;"> </span>Book two can be Life at HKU. And so on... Fascinating!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #cc66cc;"><span style="color: black;">Having grown up in farming country, I love the Chapter on The Village. I know it is </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #cc66cc;"><span style="color: black;">different but so much about village life just clicked with me. Makes me wants to go home </span></span><span lang="EN-US">to have a look. I would like you to write more about yourself. Just all the little details you are so good with.</span></div><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: #993399; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">I wish I had your book when I was bringing up my kids. I am giving each of my two children a copy. I decided to put down Pillars of The Earth for a while and start your book on a flight. I could not put it down to go to sleep. Wow: it makes so much sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">I did expect the cover photo to be one of yours – after all, the crea</span><span lang="EN-US">tive mind needs full exposure, artistic and otherwise. I was </span><span lang="EN-US">just recommending it to some friends.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #993399; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRLBryK498DlI-zDvPPqyPvaHRJShQPCgOBrI0RYN2Ips9TSeDETeYrymKjk_7H_c2b6jnwjxMub60hRfg2CLGAM9CpHPAVvawA7TUmHvtrGB1QfZyykIcGW1KxFiviMlXBBvErxE_c_9/s1600-h/rev-sing-n1.jpg" style="color: #993399; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178877485006122210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRLBryK498DlI-zDvPPqyPvaHRJShQPCgOBrI0RYN2Ips9TSeDETeYrymKjk_7H_c2b6jnwjxMub60hRfg2CLGAM9CpHPAVvawA7TUmHvtrGB1QfZyykIcGW1KxFiviMlXBBvErxE_c_9/s400/rev-sing-n1.jpg" style="background: rgb(12, 63, 54); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(205, 205, 205); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a><span lang="EN-US">I never imagine I can have so much fun and gain so much knowledge by reading a book of</span><span lang="EN-US"> this sort by, of course, an author with a sense of humour and a deep understanding of</span><span lang="EN-US"> human nature. I really enjoyed reading it.<span style="font-size: 0px;"> </span>Life </span><span lang="EN-US">could be so much easier if we had the chance to do what we like, to let our thoughts be shared by someone we trust, to make sugar pills of nasty encounters and so on and so forth for bearing more positive thinking. Just by a mere short conversation, which hit exactly at the 'dead pit' of the hiccup boy, the hiccup was over. Human nature is just like that. After reading the author's accounts of his cases, I wish I could also be endowed with such wit and wisdom, not so much for curing others, but to let my own body and soul remain healthy and sound always.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="bodytextitalics" style="color: black; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Love it. I read it in three days flat. Not only should parents read it; I think all those in the medical profession should read it. There is so much common sense. I am </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=1772066&fBuyItem=3" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration-line: none;">recommending</a></span><span lang="EN-US"> it to my book club. Will you come and talk to them about it?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" face="verdana" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuafe0ykJLN5EpP-FrqaJ5iDJi4tA0txCDxJl5PeRe_UAZCAm2LU9ACb6HHlxtCRiMIk9O0gyHqmu9ca3Gw8y_pQc6lyD8n9DatL0zTFryiSsr8cW7K4MvvpoaTM9HKHkf3TYuXh0ONfc/s1600/101-1-IMG_0166.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuafe0ykJLN5EpP-FrqaJ5iDJi4tA0txCDxJl5PeRe_UAZCAm2LU9ACb6HHlxtCRiMIk9O0gyHqmu9ca3Gw8y_pQc6lyD8n9DatL0zTFryiSsr8cW7K4MvvpoaTM9HKHkf3TYuXh0ONfc/w640-h360/101-1-IMG_0166.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <a class="gs-title" href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2008/06/review-on-amazon.html" style="color: #bb00e1; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; height: 1.4em; line-height: 19.5px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b style="cursor: pointer; height: 1.4em; overflow: hidden;">Review</b><span style="cursor: pointer; height: 1.4em; overflow: hidden;"><span style="cursor: pointer; height: 1.4em; overflow: hidden;"> on </span></span><b style="cursor: pointer; height: 1.4em; overflow: hidden;">Amazon</b></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="post-header" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8245331751102197270" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 18.2px; position: relative; width: 896px;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><div id="ftn1"><div class="endnotetextgaramond8pt"><br /></div><div class="endnotetextgaramond8pt"><br /></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><br /><div id="ftn1"></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></b></span><b style="color: #993399; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.8px; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Ww6Fc1ir1dUC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false" style="color: #de7008; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">A Chapter on Anorexia Nervosa</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">, </span></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></div><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #404040; font-size: 19px; line-height: 20.2222px; margin: 0cm 1em 0.0001pt 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />Can it be that it was all so simple then<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #404040; font-size: 19px; line-height: 20.2222px; margin: 0cm 1em 0.0001pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Or has time rewritten every line<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #404040; font-size: 19px; line-height: 20.2222px; margin: 0cm 1em 0.0001pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If we had the chance to do it all again<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #404040; font-size: 19px; line-height: 20.2222px; margin: 0cm 1em 0.0001pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Tell me - Would we? 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occasionally stumble over the truth,</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> but most of them pick themselves up</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> & </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">hurry off as if nothing ever happened.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sir Winston Churchill.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a name="_Toc123938194"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Finland
– Settled and Unsettled Medical “Truths”</b></span></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Blood pressure is another medical question far from having been settled.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;">In 1988, a
paper came out of <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2546284/pdf/bmj00278-0014.pdf">Finland</a></span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> that was quietly unsettling. Generations of doctors have been trained to
work hard to get our patients to lower their blood pressure, no matter how old
or frail they are. Yet according to this
paper the highest mortality was observed in those in the lowest systolic and
diastolic groups, and lowest in subjects with systolic pressures at 160 mm Hg
or higher and diastolic pressures at 90 mm Hg or higher.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">This was further
confirmed in <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9183596/">1997 of a
5-year survey of seniors aged 75 years and over</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/58/7/M653/544200">Goodwin</a> who covered the above concluded:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Medicine is practiced in a cultural context.
One of the tenets of our culture is that high blood pressure is bad. In my
experience, levels of systolic blood pressure greater than 200 are often viewed
by medical personnel as a medical emergency. At a minimum, however, the
geriatrician can share the news that such levels of blood pressure are a good
prognostic sign.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The biggest problem according to </span><a href="https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/58/7/M653/544200" style="font-size: 16px;">Goodwin</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">: the geriatrician who does not treat such patients risks many calls from--wait for it: the grandchildren who are physicians. </span></span></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Verdana, "sans-serif"" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt;">In 2019 <a href="https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/40/25/2021/5364611">The Berlin Initiative Study</a> </span><span face="Verdana, "sans-serif"" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt;">found<b> </b></span><strong><span face="Verdana, "sans-serif"" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">that people aged 80 and over who had a lower blood pressure — of 140/90 mm Hg or under — actually had a 40 percent higher mortality risk than peers with blood pressure exceeding those thresholds.</span></strong></p><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: #370509;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-cockroach-catcher-ii-attempted_30.html" style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif";">The
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font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">£9.99 </span></span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></div></a></span></span><span class="tmm-olp-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 0px 11px;"></span><span class="tmm-olp-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 0px 11px;"><span class="olp-new olp-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; line-height: 15px;"><br /></span></span></span></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></h3></span></div>Am Ang Zhanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07466386105122653445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5629209057489249999.post-8251603948186114612023-05-27T16:38:00.018-04:002023-09-12T16:18:35.235-04:00The Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living---The Collection in Colour<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRh9ljDuEYUduPA_uxk0DdXllzMQNEl0BTcMFpFeYfATREUDHXY7DKzy4XqRMgPQHXfUQFlexQVZU5sXem3tkYAngTh7ggJZ0Mk_yZuwAkjeDo37jeOgRX3N265MIrZ45_4etATo_0fbJjokea1K0gA_viNhtIJj5EWVX1eM1LXSUtGwMN21qTq3ek/s2045/21-DSC04920-Original.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="2045" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRh9ljDuEYUduPA_uxk0DdXllzMQNEl0BTcMFpFeYfATREUDHXY7DKzy4XqRMgPQHXfUQFlexQVZU5sXem3tkYAngTh7ggJZ0Mk_yZuwAkjeDo37jeOgRX3N265MIrZ45_4etATo_0fbJjokea1K0gA_viNhtIJj5EWVX1eM1LXSUtGwMN21qTq3ek/w640-h362/21-DSC04920-Original.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Barracuda, Peter Island, BVI.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Life is a Beach</b></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"It is perfectly safe, only small fishes, turtles and squids!" This doctor's famous line to his wife's first snorkel attempt in 2002. This was used in my retirement presentation to illustrate how we may sometimes not be right. This photo appeared in Life is a Beach.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_uWKJdOtWnav2G1z_2DAr4OZKDukrcjpUCcWYkpuHF1edS9WXx9TPYQup__YtEKkHZhJJHtEDrP_iELACmXN8yl1v_2ZcDwpsI646leWbTUqnRKvBa4uav-FjV6RAQHumh6z7lk8Egv7F-d1IuVFl86hPY4ud0IhkUzBXuGw6UTxWr35bNBa4Vso2/s1024/23-nn7%20al%20full%20double%20tt8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="1024" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_uWKJdOtWnav2G1z_2DAr4OZKDukrcjpUCcWYkpuHF1edS9WXx9TPYQup__YtEKkHZhJJHtEDrP_iELACmXN8yl1v_2ZcDwpsI646leWbTUqnRKvBa4uav-FjV6RAQHumh6z7lk8Egv7F-d1IuVFl86hPY4ud0IhkUzBXuGw6UTxWr35bNBa4Vso2/w640-h228/23-nn7%20al%20full%20double%20tt8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050937; text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Ålesund , Norway</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Attemptd Living</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhteWFLRlMqD7f8dB11RXzPtgNzsFcFelV9wV4dAEGh8QcTDCd_KKO7qoOEgRZQqjvzhhi1ZryoXLLxs9qC1M01uPCGikWSQQGUFPClBh6Me7jMvFKl_yv7WG7_jbSyGOCLQDmEuVte65JR-W8tn9VR7L2HvoIeNigszFehuOK_z4KermaJKNc1X3/s1286/Windmill8.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1286" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhteWFLRlMqD7f8dB11RXzPtgNzsFcFelV9wV4dAEGh8QcTDCd_KKO7qoOEgRZQqjvzhhi1ZryoXLLxs9qC1M01uPCGikWSQQGUFPClBh6Me7jMvFKl_yv7WG7_jbSyGOCLQDmEuVte65JR-W8tn9VR7L2HvoIeNigszFehuOK_z4KermaJKNc1X3/w640-h426/Windmill8.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>Jack & Gill Windmills on Pilgrim’s Way</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg98n-O0QyUUSa-uV8AmZZ6UC4IdFtK0A6G4LycpdQ9R9wVH3lNkEEH4ODSwCUXVC61o3cm99SO6aLOivDNafrHg4oWzXCUnWj9ojIgsuaamkJNp5J8LSUGQc_frFPh3r7zvO5dWoMn0iIeCM_LErWWpk_PiFS2PkGMwi1yA8oJ_AAfeTGvkJOj7coZ-wY/s3008/DSC_7796.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3008" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg98n-O0QyUUSa-uV8AmZZ6UC4IdFtK0A6G4LycpdQ9R9wVH3lNkEEH4ODSwCUXVC61o3cm99SO6aLOivDNafrHg4oWzXCUnWj9ojIgsuaamkJNp5J8LSUGQc_frFPh3r7zvO5dWoMn0iIeCM_LErWWpk_PiFS2PkGMwi1yA8oJ_AAfeTGvkJOj7coZ-wY/w640-h426/DSC_7796.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><h1><a name="_Toc133508465"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">Failure</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div><a name="_Toc133508465"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">I
remember being awarded a first prize in a photo competition for a picture of a
deer making its rutting call under a beautiful tree in the park. It was taken with a high speed grainy colour
film that allowed for a brilliant show of early autumn hue. </span></span></a></div><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSau-4fPQPhruCB9fvL1lvNPfD56i_34V_A0xourO3qoLw-Bc6P3tIBsV1zDT1cBgD7WdZkpZfOIcCGtbyRRTq975l2AEc8WJo-bZWQlkYqA2xTCEfFjK4DoFqTRb53iDzBKE1ZI39e1y24nWZkMem_JRoaWXQ_nAGq8iZSLWwyitqLYwPG8rMI66H/s3894/DSC_0229.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1804" data-original-width="3894" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSau-4fPQPhruCB9fvL1lvNPfD56i_34V_A0xourO3qoLw-Bc6P3tIBsV1zDT1cBgD7WdZkpZfOIcCGtbyRRTq975l2AEc8WJo-bZWQlkYqA2xTCEfFjK4DoFqTRb53iDzBKE1ZI39e1y24nWZkMem_JRoaWXQ_nAGq8iZSLWwyitqLYwPG8rMI66H/w640-h296/DSC_0229.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Cade's Country</b></div><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a name="_Toc123938184"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>Daimler
and The Vagabond</b></span></a></div></span><p></p><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNGKb7mt59cVBEe2vJhbmkh5w0iWWGqrHZxKKl14FlpAsgqvhSlvlgeMw0NLnsN_8FHVbkjZjUz1UHuuDUAhKmEIdLVZw21FjbTguyFTAXT2lzjSTj1HldBsVChkD57uD_s01bXFbPxF_cSxMyjgznfJ5azWPj8Rdo3olrJAVBHBrvlUCGSiHE1x5O/s2929/P1170719-1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1947" data-original-width="2929" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNGKb7mt59cVBEe2vJhbmkh5w0iWWGqrHZxKKl14FlpAsgqvhSlvlgeMw0NLnsN_8FHVbkjZjUz1UHuuDUAhKmEIdLVZw21FjbTguyFTAXT2lzjSTj1HldBsVChkD57uD_s01bXFbPxF_cSxMyjgznfJ5azWPj8Rdo3olrJAVBHBrvlUCGSiHE1x5O/w640-h426/P1170719-1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></h3><div><b>Tango, Buenos Aires</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Tango</b></div></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkhBXUEiVLOnzlW9w8RkVgYTjeW1iJNS3Pz5hulzYSwB5FDh55X6PF9g4UCzMol_JxKw9O-IvSFqqF2EtiV8dPFqxVt-3NU71fXO3OdILT7EVI5p_wJqrwg8qDu-URyCN_C3imQKAb82pcajV707nQvUKqwYL8DXJHp8XAO0s7d9c9zv58_BBa55Z/s2817/P1170712-1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1617" data-original-width="2817" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkhBXUEiVLOnzlW9w8RkVgYTjeW1iJNS3Pz5hulzYSwB5FDh55X6PF9g4UCzMol_JxKw9O-IvSFqqF2EtiV8dPFqxVt-3NU71fXO3OdILT7EVI5p_wJqrwg8qDu-URyCN_C3imQKAb82pcajV707nQvUKqwYL8DXJHp8XAO0s7d9c9zv58_BBa55Z/w640-h368/P1170712-1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Findland</span></h3><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><b> Findland - Settled and Unsettled Medical "Truths"</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2fL6dqoc5VjhmeOF0e4CcphystpsWRJtPUthNL4hq1GEn0M_zVhed5Xgm3RXqS0CPiZ9YuFpXuC1C_SClusQib4LB7UCBJ2IMEkQYjPPMQ6OpRwEE5d4lhCSOUOqWoOIbs2eYWuP-JzMTqQr8mj1cVjHNX1sIeAAytQtMMQLgQ0-ja3KdAYXmQ1u9/s1024/04-DSC-0582-Original.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="1024" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2fL6dqoc5VjhmeOF0e4CcphystpsWRJtPUthNL4hq1GEn0M_zVhed5Xgm3RXqS0CPiZ9YuFpXuC1C_SClusQib4LB7UCBJ2IMEkQYjPPMQ6OpRwEE5d4lhCSOUOqWoOIbs2eYWuP-JzMTqQr8mj1cVjHNX1sIeAAytQtMMQLgQ0-ja3KdAYXmQ1u9/w640-h336/04-DSC-0582-Original.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b>Duoro Vinyard</b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Private Asylum</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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replaced my Hasselblad with its digital version.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">At a price equivalent to that of a RAV4, that
would have been a bit indulgent! </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">By the time we arrived at
picturesque Peggy’s Cove</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">, I
really wished I had the digital Hasselblad though....</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1TmfFbixQ5RW0U86hWp9uPIER4h68JjNnEDw6-gn_gt__exrPZ1huWXNKoMn0U4qvecbj0_cZzqBVlo3JzMpbfKDno11Uk8Ri4uR-eXafquaQ-lBJajjaXoLaFg7AZ2MSl1sDUrfpwdnvExpmVGOi1jqGMLJKw-NaRpncy9d2rbVy1Iu0vGWBbYp/s1600/IMG-4290.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="1600" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1TmfFbixQ5RW0U86hWp9uPIER4h68JjNnEDw6-gn_gt__exrPZ1huWXNKoMn0U4qvecbj0_cZzqBVlo3JzMpbfKDno11Uk8Ri4uR-eXafquaQ-lBJajjaXoLaFg7AZ2MSl1sDUrfpwdnvExpmVGOi1jqGMLJKw-NaRpncy9d2rbVy1Iu0vGWBbYp/w640-h330/IMG-4290.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div></div><div><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ylang-Ylang</span></h3><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijv5QdfjsOCOQ4Ym7hQJv5KTAPEYGJwoQrKaLZN6EgwBjFSTfYXsKok1q3d9TchSZ6sg2Uui4Pbvf3VRA6h11NegVGzk0zNJd8F4TlmGMjdAQYhnudGhKMitRgjFyqEmpyk5NvMY_APAYSmMbkHmNRYLRiPSuVd1M2mnn_5ol0mIIZ0UJRFI4LwQcz/s1600/IMG-4902.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1115" data-original-width="1600" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijv5QdfjsOCOQ4Ym7hQJv5KTAPEYGJwoQrKaLZN6EgwBjFSTfYXsKok1q3d9TchSZ6sg2Uui4Pbvf3VRA6h11NegVGzk0zNJd8F4TlmGMjdAQYhnudGhKMitRgjFyqEmpyk5NvMY_APAYSmMbkHmNRYLRiPSuVd1M2mnn_5ol0mIIZ0UJRFI4LwQcz/w640-h446/IMG-4902.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></h3>Custard Apple</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; 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font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>Milke Trnine Waterfalls, Plitvice Lakes</b></span></span></div><div><a name="_Toc123938196"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></a></div><div><b><a name="_Toc123938196"><span lang="EN-GB">Tesla</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> & Autism</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpoQiD2OXvhVAC53dEvrX6K21vxnm4F8bXbdEo47sYxvrsR4-QUnVwYzHUojngK4xwV6VKT8QZcd5veWnf5_Riq6ZGoUpoT7hSOBoAFfmumka3yyqh2rHPnzob3hWxASvQY0oTYnj0uaMD0WRU4qWlYLQrSbqNkKLr5XZXkWBgrp6OGGaisWTmSzWaYA8/s3008/DSC-3686-Original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3008" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpoQiD2OXvhVAC53dEvrX6K21vxnm4F8bXbdEo47sYxvrsR4-QUnVwYzHUojngK4xwV6VKT8QZcd5veWnf5_Riq6ZGoUpoT7hSOBoAFfmumka3yyqh2rHPnzob3hWxASvQY0oTYnj0uaMD0WRU4qWlYLQrSbqNkKLr5XZXkWBgrp6OGGaisWTmSzWaYA8/w640-h426/DSC-3686-Original.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>El Capitan, Yosemite</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Little Red Coat</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">"Little Red Coat": ...... A "mountaineering accident" of a small boy in London, not Yosemite; claimed by foster parents who previously wrapped a dead baby in a little girl's Little Red Coat......</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: right;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6uJ_3plTJzQECtNOW8r11ItKkgSqoOZiAJZeCKFEo0eEI2HfnC-sr4Zk4kXyWdxAxQ59Qi7LOH6nKpAQyNCpJMjy0QXPqwZ5k5VMQ3SqRrnKkIrE9htrY2k_2jNFUnAFB4A0iiJyAmj58Cww9t2uWIyCub_7CIfQRFYKy8zhzQNQ63hkjCQhDU-nG/s2048/IMG-4030.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6uJ_3plTJzQECtNOW8r11ItKkgSqoOZiAJZeCKFEo0eEI2HfnC-sr4Zk4kXyWdxAxQ59Qi7LOH6nKpAQyNCpJMjy0QXPqwZ5k5VMQ3SqRrnKkIrE9htrY2k_2jNFUnAFB4A0iiJyAmj58Cww9t2uWIyCub_7CIfQRFYKy8zhzQNQ63hkjCQhDU-nG/w640-h360/IMG-4030.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: center;"><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: center;">Gap of Dunloe</b><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span><b>Ireland</b> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Das Lied von der Erde</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-no-proof: yes;">Farewell Wang Wei (701-761)</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<i><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif";">Dismounting,
let me share your farewell wine <br />
Where, friend are you heading now?</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></i></div><b>Inverted Therapy</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeTYi9C8A-TL2UvnJ69zeUhhn5VZrQZCDQZmawwXbbUuNJnmbQdM9_2rwacgTXxiG4eMR6NPuQ-4P5qr4Gz2d0G_EvjgmvXaGH0OEqmke5wBt1mCAeIimOWIifH7e0m3NtC9bOmrRjuskI3FVZLsERb636csBKz9IJeEUo5Gvavt1HldHC5jxsXOfW/s960/IMG_2892.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeTYi9C8A-TL2UvnJ69zeUhhn5VZrQZCDQZmawwXbbUuNJnmbQdM9_2rwacgTXxiG4eMR6NPuQ-4P5qr4Gz2d0G_EvjgmvXaGH0OEqmke5wBt1mCAeIimOWIifH7e0m3NtC9bOmrRjuskI3FVZLsERb636csBKz9IJeEUo5Gvavt1HldHC5jxsXOfW/w640-h360/IMG_2892.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><b>Night Scene, Hong Kong</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Incestuous Failure</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP33ZLkYWdZTFSuqbY6UGYFocSDcWXe6O8eIpnhoRw0wQFg9Hz65aDWFhLktp8oGxi5zLJSrEqWcqF_1CY5e3VHAQdTlxVh3bSSktxOsfoJDYG9ko2tkf17Zc8TIU08aozFKXCt5-1NY-IwpbcCp0-1dI6DL4O4fJh0h2gyuZqX93CT8XQ1cLSeXqm/s640/IMG-4451%20(1).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="640" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP33ZLkYWdZTFSuqbY6UGYFocSDcWXe6O8eIpnhoRw0wQFg9Hz65aDWFhLktp8oGxi5zLJSrEqWcqF_1CY5e3VHAQdTlxVh3bSSktxOsfoJDYG9ko2tkf17Zc8TIU08aozFKXCt5-1NY-IwpbcCp0-1dI6DL4O4fJh0h2gyuZqX93CT8XQ1cLSeXqm/w640-h384/IMG-4451%20(1).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></h3></div><div><b>Boquete Coffee Finca with Rainbow</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Answer</b></div><div><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: #370509;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnypAnYTACKqiMiIx43A3uOdIirLkXdGLoxFboBJ_RlWniBepeT8ka3AFvrRyZmHULB232WzDo5brn8VH2nQLaYxEysuLjN4jWgHJsaSwnQNAqNOgsJbKYFxOFNpNi_8VT5T9Fi8Eqr-KwPorj0BpL_LxSr0X6wBCDzki6TMtwgIN6hjv9N2rhqo3j/s716/DSC-2314-Original%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="716" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnypAnYTACKqiMiIx43A3uOdIirLkXdGLoxFboBJ_RlWniBepeT8ka3AFvrRyZmHULB232WzDo5brn8VH2nQLaYxEysuLjN4jWgHJsaSwnQNAqNOgsJbKYFxOFNpNi_8VT5T9Fi8Eqr-KwPorj0BpL_LxSr0X6wBCDzki6TMtwgIN6hjv9N2rhqo3j/w640-h338/DSC-2314-Original%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Dawning at Laguna Azul, Panama</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Trauma and Human Resilience</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>There is always hope!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: #370509; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cockroach-Catcher-II-Attempted-Living/dp/B0BRM27117/ref=sr_1_1?crid=226JPCTZGZKNJ&keywords=the+cockroach+catcher+ii&qid=1677698804&s=books&sprefix=cockroa%2Cstripbooks%2C177&sr=1-1">The
Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living</a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 18px; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond, "serif"; font-size: medium;">Dismounting, let me share your farewell wine <br />Where, friend are you heading now?<br />Choking, fate has not been kind to me<br />Will retire to the southern slopes to seek rest<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Garamond, "serif"; font-size: medium;">Enquire no more when I am gone<br />Till the end of clouds, endless white clouds!</span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Garamond, "serif"; font-size: medium;">One of the poems sung in Das Lied von der Erde</span></b></p><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Garamond, "serif";"><br /></span></b><p></p><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><span style="font-size: large;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->Most of us assumed that therapy is about helping a patient in many different ways, but with the patient described in this Chapter he in fact introduced me to Mahler, his music and his struggles: a sort of inverted therapy. </span></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><span style="font-size: large;">........<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Garamond, "serif"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Joshua and I were able to talk about Mahler</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Garamond, "serif"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">'s struggles, the sadness brought by the death of his daughter and the Rheumatic Heart Disease that eventually led to his death</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">One day he was able to declare that his struggles were nothing compared to Mahler</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
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XE "<span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#333333;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Mahler</span>" \i <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
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mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">'s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It is interesting that he never really talked about his own sadness as Mahler</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
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XE "<span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#333333;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Mahler</span>" \i <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#333333;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">'s overshadowed his and yet in true traditional psychotherapy style he gained his own insight..........<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: #370509; font-size: large;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-cockroach-catcher-ii-attempted_14.html">The Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living---Opening Chapter.</a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #370509; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; 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<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">By </span><a href="http://www.margaretmccartney.com/blog/?p=793" style="color: #370509; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">Margaret McCartney</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In April, my good friend the cardiologist in <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place> received an email from one of his friends on the subject of <a href="http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.189380" style="color: blue;">“New AHA rules for CPR finally released to the general public”.</a></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><i>“</i><i>Thanks to you, I'd had a two year head start on this subject that's only this week published in the popular press. When you first advised me on it, I'd forwarded that info to all my friends. Believe it or not, a GI friend of mine actually saved a life at a wedding last year. Some elderly gent at his table suddenly collapsed to the floor without a pulse. He remembered the article I'd forwarded him and began vigorous CPR without giving mouth to mouth. That gent survived to thank him. Indirectly, of course, he's thanking you.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">My good friend has been interested in the subject of CPR for many years and provided me with some interesting material on the history of CPR, which I share with you below.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">1891: The first external cardiac massage in the Western world was reported to be done successfully by Friedrich Maass.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">1960: </span><a href="http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/60/7/1609.pdf" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Kowenhoven and Knickerbocker</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> reported their method in JAMA that chest compression was accepted as a method of resuscitation for cardiac arrest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">1966: The first guideline for CPR was published.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">1970: Teaching the lay public to do CPR was started.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">1974: American Heart Association (AHA) formally promoted the practice involving the combination of rescue breathing and external cardiac massage for cardiac arrest in a ratio of 2:15.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">2005: </span><a href="http://www.opa.medicine.arizona.edu/news/mar07/study.htm" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Ewy in Arizona</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> showed that hands-only CPR, at a rate of 100 per minute until the emergency crew armed with automated cardiac defibrillators arrive, was superior to the traditional method of CPR.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">My friend immediately drew the attention of his colleagues in Hong Kong to Ewy's work and suggested that the lay public should be taught this simplified method of CPR to encourage bystanders to give aid to victims of cardiac arrest. Many bystanders would otherwise be reluctant to help for fear of contracting AIDS through traditional mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to these strangers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">The AHA was hesitant to accept Ewy's idea in their new guidelines for CPR in 2005, but as a compromise, recommended a ratio of 2 breaths to 30 chest compressions instead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">2007: In March </span><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607604516/abstract" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">The Lancet</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> reported a Japanese study on a series of over 4000 cases in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Tokyo</st1:city></st1:place>, comparing traditional CPR to hands-only CPR by bystanders. The results showed that the latter was more successful in the resuscitation of cardiac arrest with preservation of neurological function.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">2008: In April, the AHA finally gave its approval on </span><a href="http://handsonlycpr.eisenberginc.com/resources.html" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">hands-only CPR</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> from bystanders. The link has a</span><a href="http://handsonlycpr.eisenberginc.com/resources.html" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> video</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> demo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">To date I could not find any hands-only CPR in </span><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=byTopic&o=7195&view=all" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">NICE</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> and the </span><a href="http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/first-aid-advice/life-saving-procedures/cpr-for-adults.aspx" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">St John’s Ambulance site</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> is still in the 2/30 era.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Luckily for the wedding guest, his friend did not wait for the AHA recommendation nor any British ones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">403-221 BC: (Warring Kingdoms period) External cardiac massage was practised as a method of resuscitation for victims of suicide by hanging. Some credited this to Bian Que.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">6 BC - 221 AD: (Eastern Han Dynasty) The first description of CPR for resuscitation of victims of hanging came from Zhang Zhongjing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">In his Essence of the Golden Chest, miscellaneous therapy #23, he described the method as follows: <span class="ecunmark"><i>"Lower the victim gently, don't just cut the rope, and lie him on the blankets. One person should put his feet against the shoulders of the victim and pull on his hair, rendering it taut (to open the airway). One person should put his hands on the victim's chest and compress rhythmically (external cardiac massage). One person should flex and extend the victim's limbs (to promote venous return). One person should press on the victim's abdomen (to enhance intrathoracic pressure during external cardiac massage). ....This method is the best and usually successful."</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Zhang Zhongjing's writings were handed down and read by Chinese physicians through the centuries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="ecunmark"><span lang="EN-GB">1186-1249 AD: (Sung Dynasty) The above passage in Essence of the Golden Chest was cited by Sung Ci in his book on forensic medicine “Washing Away of Wrongs (Xi Yuan Ji Lu)”, which is recognized as the first book of forensic medicine in the world and has been translated into many languages both in Asia and <st1:place st="on">Europe</st1:place>.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></div>
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anthropologists found that babies in the so called more primitive places hardly
cried. They were considered by advanced first world paediatricians to be
malnourished, yes, malnourished. What these paediatricians failed to notice,
but the anthropologists did, was that these babies were carried by mother all day while mother went about her daily chores of washing clothes,
sweeping floors, feeding and caring for animals, tending to vegetables grown in
the yard, cooking, and so on. Parent time was all the time. Contact was all the
time, awake or asleep. Now you know. Malnourishment indeed! I saw babies thus
carried around the Hong Kong markets too.</span></p><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in; position: relative;"><span face="Verdana, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;">AMAZON-UK <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cockroach-Catcher-II-Attempted-Living/dp/B0BRM27117/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FES0J7NYKT6B&keywords=am+ang+zhang&qid=1682183740&sprefix=%2Caps%2C49&sr=8-2" style="color: #a71b5a; text-decoration-line: none;">The Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living</a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #370509; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>Jack & Gill Windmills on Pilgrim’s Way</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">..................When I arrived I
saw this Daimler Double-Six in the car park.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">“Must be the
parents of the Section 136.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">A mismatch: Daimler and
Section 136!............................</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Father ran a very
successful shipping insurance company and mother was the head of the
mathematics department at a top girl’s school.
Their nice big country house was very near to where I lived. It was part of a bigger farm, but the owner
sold them the main house together with some farm land, where they kept a few
horses for riding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">They had an older
son who was a high flier and was a successful management consultant. Cocaine and other drugs eventually got the
better of him and he had been in and out of rehab. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">“That is why Kate
would not touch any drug.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">“Annabel, our
second child, went to Oxford to study anthropology but attempted suicide</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:PMingLiU;
mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span>
XE "<em><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'>suicide</span></em>" \i <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:PMingLiU;
mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> twice in her
second year. She never completed her
degree and we have built a separate cottage at the gate for her. Unfortunately she turned to alcohol and went
through the alcohol addiction programme a few times at a premier rehab centre
in Kent. Not quite the same as the one
her brother tried. She is good on the horse when she is not drunk.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“That is why Kate would not
drink.”..........</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">...........</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">I explained to
mother Kate's condition and our plan.
Our plan was to start her on Lithium</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> and
virtually nothing else, despite some depression</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, "serif"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> like
symptoms............</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: #370509;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-cockroach-catcher-ii-attempted_28.html">The
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><em>By DUFF WILSON, March 2, 2009</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><em>“In a first-year pharmacology class at Harvard Medical School, Matt Zerden grew wary as the professor promoted the benefits of cholesterol drugs and seemed to belittle a student who asked about side effects.”</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><em><span style="color: #3366ff;"></span></em><br />Very brave student indeed. And it did not stop him from finding out more:<br /><br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><em>“Mr. Zerden later discovered something by searching online that he began sharing with his classmates. The professor was not only a full-time member of the Harvard Medical faculty, but a paid consultant to 10 drug companies, including five makers of cholesterol treatments.”</em></span><br /><em><span style="color: #3366ff;"></span></em><br />Did he have anything to do with our </span><a href="http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/search?q=statin"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Statin Police</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> as featured in </span><a href="http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2008/04/can-we-trust-drug-companies.html#links"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">NHS Blog Doctor</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";">?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><em><span style="color: #3366ff;">“I felt really violated,” Mr. Zerden, now a fourth-year student, recently recalled. “Here we have 160 open minds trying to learn the basics in a protected space, and the information he was giving wasn’t as pure as I think it should be.”</span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><br /><em><span style="color: #3366ff;">“Mr. Zerden’s minor stir four years ago has lately grown into a full-blown movement by more than 200 Harvard Medical School students and sympathetic faculty, intent on exposing and curtailing the industry influence in their classrooms and laboratories, as well as in Harvard’s 17 affiliated teaching hospitals and institutes.</span></em><br /><em><span style="color: #3366ff;">They say they are concerned that the same money that helped build the school’s world-class status may in fact be hurting its reputation and affecting its teaching.”</span></em><br /><em><span style="color: #3366ff;"></span></em><br />The NY Times article continues:<br /><br /><em><span style="color: #3366ff;">“Among them: Some 1,600 of 8,900 professors and lecturers have disclosed financial ties under the school’s disclosure rules.”<br />“There were 149 with ties to Pfizer and 130 with ties to Merck. The school’s dean, Jeffrey Flier, previously received a $500,000 research grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb and consulted for three Cambridge, Mass., biotech companies, though he told NYT those relationships were over. The prior dean sat on the board of Baxter International for half of the decade he led the school, earning up to $197,000 a year from the company.”</span></em><br /><em><span style="color: #3366ff;"></span></em><br />There is more:<br /><br /><em><span style="color: #3366ff;">“Harvard should be embarrassed by the F grade it recently received from the American Medical Student Association, a national group that rates how well medical schools monitor and control drug industry money. </span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #3366ff;">Harvard Medical School’s peers received much higher grades, ranging from the A for the University of Pennsylvania, to B’s received by Stanford, Columbia and New York University, to the C for Yale.”</span></em><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana";"></span><br />
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Am Ang Zhanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07466386105122653445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5629209057489249999.post-6215584585502892572023-04-27T04:57:00.005-04:002024-01-27T10:56:58.533-05:00The Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living.---The Answer---Brain on Fire!<p> </p><h1 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/item_OseCEXxo6axZ8Uyig17QKL"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-size: 25pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">My mysterious lost month of madness</span></a></h1><h2 style="margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6.25pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">I was a happy 24-year-old suddenly stricken by paranoia & seizures. Was I going crazy?</h2><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><b><br /><br /><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2013/09/teratoma-one-patient-one-disease.html">Teratoma: One Patient One Disease?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2013/09/hospital-medicine-pride-world-class_1.html">Hospital Medicine: Pride & World Class Costs!</a></b></span><br /><div><div class="gs-relativePublishedDate" style="background-color: white; color: white; display: inline; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3em; position: static;">Nov 29, 2012</div></div><div><div class="gs-relativePublishedDate" style="background-color: white; color: white; display: inline; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3em; position: static;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.9pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 1.9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJygP-N3oCuwPo2-iVFPgHlJB9_UHJirHSnRTjJ_X2-7oGruLa9dMZ8v0y50_FUaOneW_DDpgv-AGDwh1jcWbS2c9o0dqEvfpPEK9CYD0Qp_54bnOd2Wu9pjWQsjxTfx82glSfN44GWQ/s1600/bof-cover_inner.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJygP-N3oCuwPo2-iVFPgHlJB9_UHJirHSnRTjJ_X2-7oGruLa9dMZ8v0y50_FUaOneW_DDpgv-AGDwh1jcWbS2c9o0dqEvfpPEK9CYD0Qp_54bnOd2Wu9pjWQsjxTfx82glSfN44GWQ/s200/bof-cover_inner.jpg" width="132" /></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10.5pt;">By SUSANNAH CAHALAN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Last Updated:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 10.5pt;">6:01 AM, October 4, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Posted:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 10.5pt;">3:49 AM, October 4, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">IT was a cold March day as I walked to work from my Hell's Kitchen studio. The weather was clear, people were out in their coats and scarves, but something did not feel right. The sky was so blue, it hurt my eyes. The billboards in </span><st1:place style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 15.6pt;" w:st="on">Times Square</st1:place><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"> assaulted me with violent reds, yellows and purples. It was like the world had become brighter, louder, more painful.</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">When I got to the Midtown newsroom of the New York Post, where I was a year into my first full-time reporting job, I asked a friend, "Have you ever not felt like yourself? Have you ever felt completely off?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">"Sure," she laughed. "Of course. I hardly ever feel like myself."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">I laughed, too, but inside I worried. Lately, there had been more and more days like this. I had started to feel numb on the left side of my body. My arm and leg on that side tingled. Until recently, I had been a healthy 24-year-old, happily starting a career in the Big Apple with a new boyfriend. Now I spent sleepless hours wondering what was happening to my body and my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Then, one Friday at my desk, I cracked.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">I had just finished an interview, was starting to write, and for no reason I began crying hysterically. Co-workers gathered, wondering what was wrong. Moments later, I brushed it all off, and skipped down an office hall, giddy with excitement.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Later, at home, I panicked. Was I going mad? Was I mentally ill?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">I contacted a neurologist. He sent me to a litany of tests, including two MRIs. Nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">"Maybe it's mono," he suggested. "Or a virus."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">He promised to follow up with more tests. In the meantime, I curled up with my boyfriend to watch the PBS show "<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region> -- On the Road Again." I remember thinking how much I disliked Gwyneth Paltrow. Then, he would tell me later, I started grinding my teeth, moaning and biting my tongue, until I finally passed out.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">It was my first seizure. And the last thing I would remember for a month.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">THROUGH interviews with family, my boyfriend and friends, I'm able to cobble together the darkest moments of my life. My father kept notes in a spiral notebook, details of what was happening that he could pass along to my mom as they took shifts caring for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">From my boyfriend, I know that I awoke after the seizure at St. Luke's Hospital next to a puking man.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Doctors ordered a CAT scan that came up clean -- but my behavior was becoming increasingly bizarre.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">"I'm dying of melanoma," I told my boyfriend. (I had been diagnosed with the skin cancer five years ago and was convinced that was the cause of my seizure.) I started ranting about suing the doctors and believed that they were out to get me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">But even after the seizure and the paranoid delusions, the neurologist didn't seem worried.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">"It's probably alcohol withdrawal," he told my stunned mother and me. He was convinced I was an alcoholic; I barely drank.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">My family packed up my clothes and took me to my mother's home in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:place></st1:state>, where I continued to deteriorate.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">I stopped sleeping. Refused to eat. Paced the halls. Couldn't control my rambling thoughts, and ranted to my mother. I convinced myself that I was bipolar and that I was having a nervous breakdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Then I had a second seizure. Blood and foam spurted out of my mouth onto the Oriental rug in my family room.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Overwhelmed by my erratic behavior, my mom dropped me off at my dad's house in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Heights</st1:placetype></st1:place> for one night before my doctor's appointment. My paranoid delusions got worse. I refused to sleep and started banging on the locked door, screaming, "Get me out of here!" I imagined that my father had murdered his wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The next day, my mother, stepfather and boyfriend took me back to the neurologist for an EEG, which records the electrical activity of the brain. On the ride there, I opened up the car door and tried to jump out. My boyfriend held me down and my stepfather child-locked the car. I screamed hysterically until we got to the doctor.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Horrified by my increasing paranoia, and despite my neurologist's hesitations, my mom and stepfather took me immediately to the hospital. They demanded that I not be placed in a psych ward.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">There I had my third grand mal seizure while waiting for a hospital bed, and was whisked up to the epilepsy floor of New York University's Medical Center.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">For the first three days, I shared a room with three other people, mostly suffering from epileptic seizures.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Technicians glued EEG wires to my head, which snaked into a child's pink backpack on the side of my bed. I was monitored 24/7 by two video cameras mounted on the ceiling.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Two times, I successfully ripped the electrodes off my head, tugged at my IV as blood erupted from my veins, and ran shrieking down the halls, trying to find an exit. Nurses tackled me and stuck me with a sedative. An imposing Jamaican nurse even sat watch with me for 24 hours so that I couldn't escape again.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">I had to wear an orange wristband that said "flight risk."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">"The physical discomfort of not being able to shower or wash her hair coupled with the fact that she was tethered electronically to a monitor started to take its toll," my dad wrote in his notebook. "She told me she was dying a little bit every day. I told her to trust me and I would get her out, but we had to find out what was wrong with her. She said, no -- get me out now."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">It's hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness. When I turned on the TV, I imagined I was on the news and that satellite trucks from all the major networks were camped out outside of my hospital room waiting to interview me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">I imagined the woman beside me was tape-recording my conversations and talking about me in Spanish to her family. I was convinced that I could speak Spanish and interpret her words.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Multiple times a day, residents, doctors and nurses would ask me: "What day is it? Where are you? What's your name?" Though it would take me over a minute to answer, I did so correctly, albeit a little pissed off.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">One night a nurse came by to do my vitals and ask the inane questions in the middle of the night. I had finally fallen asleep and was less than pleased. As she bent down to take my blood pressure -- which was spiking due to the illness -- I wound up and slapped her across her chest. She gasped in disbelief and fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">TWO weeks pass. Every day a new doctor comes to visit. There are internists, infec tious-disease doctors, immune-system specialists, psychiatrists, psychopharmacologists. They send me to MRIs, sonograms, X-rays, CAT scans, PET scans, multitudes of blood tests. All come back negative. No one could give my parents an answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">My dad came in the mornings, sat with me and fed me breakfast. My mom would come in the afternoons, and my boyfriend came in the evenings and stayed with me until I fell asleep. They never missed a day.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Two comforts for me were apples -- which I inexplicably craved, eating three a day -- and my boyfriend's iPod, on which he made a mix of mostly Ryan Adams tunes, which helped me sleep through the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">My father prayed. "I would walk across town on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">33rd Street</st1:address></st1:street> to catch the subway on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Park Avenue South</st1:address></st1:street>. There is a chapel between 1st and <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">2nd Avenue</st1:address></st1:street> that is dedicated to Jesus and Mary. Each time I walked by I begged God to help Susannah," he wrote. "I even tried to make a deal. I asked God to take me right there on the spot or do anything he wanted with me if only Susannah could be helped."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The paranoid delusions started to wane as the medications, anti-anxiety drugs Geodon and Ativan, increased. But I was losing the battle. I could no longer read. My tongue curled, making it hard to speak. I had difficulty swallowing. It took me a whole minute to answer the simplest questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Day after day passed with no answer. I became more withdrawn. I found it hard to walk with my father and mother around the hospital floor. Close friends were alarmed at my passive and incoherent state. Doctors secretly feared that they were losing me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The head doctors started speaking of a mythical miracle man named Dr. Souhel Najjar. "He would find out what it is," they would say. They even nicknamed him "Dr. House."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">My mom requested that we meet this Najjar in person. And after two spinal taps came back with high white blood cell counts -- an abnormal occurrence that signifies brain swelling -- the case was officially passed on to Najjar, a Syrian-born neurologist, neuro-pathologist and epileptologist at NYU Medical Center.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">When he came to speak with us, my family was buoyed by his confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">He grasped my hands and said, "I'm going to find out what this is and fix it."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Then he handed me a pencil and a piece of paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">"Draw a clock," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">I grasped the pencil and made a circle. Feeling a little confused and put on the spot, I drew in the clock face.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">My mother and father gasped.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">All the numbers were written on the right side of the clock face, and no numbers were on the left side.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">NAJJAR now had five clues as to what was overtaking me: the seizures, the catatonia, the high blood pressure, the high white blood cell count in my spinal taps and the bizarre clock. It was preliminary proof that the right side of my brain (which controls the left side of the body) was inflamed. He believed it was some sort of autoimmune encephalitis, or the swelling of the brain caused by an attack by rogue antibodies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">He decided to send my blood and spinal fluid to a well-respected neuro-oncologist from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:placename></st1:place> named Dr. Josep Dalmau to test to see if rare antibodies were present.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">But we had to wait two weeks for the results.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">In the meantime, a brain biopsy would be necessary, Najjar said. They would need to cut out a piece of my temporal lobe, my horrified parents learned.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">"I can remember being alone in her room when she began to cry," my dad writes in his diary. "I went over to her on the bed and hugged her when I began to cry. Next thing I knew, Susannah was laughing. I asked why. She told me it was the first time she ever saw me cry and I must have looked pathetic."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The next day, I was taken to ICU for surgery. I remember opening my eyes as they sliced into my brain and saying something like, "I'm awake."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The anesthesiologist looked at me and said, "Oh, s- - -."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">My mom thinks it was just another hallucination. It seemed so real to me, but I couldn't trust my own mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">After the surgery, the blood work and spinal fluid came back positive for rare antibodies called anti-N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor, or anti-NMDAR encephalitis. The name signifies that the receptors in the frontal lobe, responsible for cognitive reasoning, and the limbic system, or the emotional center of the brain, are under assault by the immune system. My body was attacking my brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Penn's Dr. Dalmau had discovered these antibodies in 2003. Until then, people suffering from my madness were misdiagnosed, likely ending up in mental hospitals, if not dead. Experts aren't sure what causes it, though they believe it's genetic, not environmental.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">According to his studies, the median age for the disease is 20. The youngest is 21 months. About 75 percent of those affected by it are women. All show forms of psychotic behavior, some show signs of catatonia. About 80 percent of patients have seizures and 70 percent of patients see psychiatrists before any other doctors, according to Najjar.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Najjar estimates that nearly 90 percent of those suffering from autoimmune encephalitis go undiagnosed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">"It's a death sentence when you're still alive," Najjar told me. "Many are wasting away in a psych ward or a nursing home."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">I was the first person in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">NYU</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Medical</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>'s history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Najjar wasted no time. He immediately hooked me up to an IV and started the treatments.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">First came the intravenous immune globulin, which reduces inflammation of the brain. Then came high levels of steroids, which also reduce inflammation. And finally he hooked me up to a plasmapheresis machine, which flushes out the harmful antibodies from your system, through an IV in your neck.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The initial treatment took about a week, until I was well enough to be released from the hospital. Six months later, I'm still taking steroids, but I'm back at work, back at home, seeing colors clearly and not breaking down at my desk.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">At a medical conference last week at NYU, Najjar presented my case and the wide spectrum of autoimmune encephalitis disorders, saying that I was back to "normal." A friend and co-worker laughed. "You're better, but you're not normal," she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">My father reflected on my time in the hospital. "Najjar told me she could have easily ended up in a nursing home for the rest of her life. Najjar thought she was extremely lucky. He was saying, with time, she could get back 90 percent of her cognitive abilities," he wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">I'm happy to say that today I'm at 100 percent, and marveling at the lost month of my life, paging through my father's diary like I'm reading about a stranger.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">"All I knew was that she was alive, and her spirit was intact," he wrote at the end, words that bring me to tears. "We had more hospital stays for treatments, doctor visits, and lots of medications to deal with, but my baby was on the way home."<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">AMAZON-UK <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cockroach-Catcher-II-Attempted-Living/dp/B0BRM27117/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FES0J7NYKT6B&keywords=am+ang+zhang&qid=1682183740&sprefix=%2Caps%2C49&sr=8-2" style="color: #a71b5a; text-decoration-line: none;">The Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living</a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #370509; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; 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Finland is one of the few non Asian countries where their educational results matched those of Singapore and Hong Kong without spoon feeding.</div>
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<span style="color: #070809;"><i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Although listening
to music is common in all societies, the biological determinants of listening
to music are largely unknown. According to a new study, listening to classical
music enhanced the activity of genes involved in dopamine secretion and transport,
synaptic neurotransmission, learning and memory, and down-regulated the genes
mediating neurodegeneration. Several of the up-regulated genes were known to be
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<span style="color: #070809;"><i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Listening to music
enhanced the activity of genes involved in dopamine secretion and transport,
synaptic function, learning and memory. One of the most up-regulated genes,
synuclein-alpha (SNCA) is a known risk gene for Parkinson's disease that is
located in the strongest linkage region of musical aptitude. SNCA is also known
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />In the early 1600s, a Jesuit priest came across a Passion flower in </span><st1:place st="on" style="font-family: verdana;">South America</st1:place><span style="font-family: verdana;"> and was taken by its complexity and beauty. That night he had a vision, so the story went, that the flower</span><st1:personname st="on" style="font-family: verdana;">'</st1:personname><span style="font-family: verdana;">s trio of stigma resembled the three nails used in the crucifixion; the stamens represented the wounds; the spiky purple crown above the petals, the crown of thorns; and the tendrils of the plant were the scourges. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The name was a direct reference to the Passion of Christ. I find it peculiar that the plant has been found in the wild in every continent except Europe and </span><st1:place st="on" style="font-family: verdana;">Antarctica</st1:place><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> </span><br />
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The fruit has some of the most concentrated fragrance of any fruit species. The charm is in its acidity which enhances the intense flavour and natural sweetness. With fine vanilla ice-cream it is a delight. It can be used as a topping for many desserts and famously for Pavlova. It is made into soft drinks and is often used in tropical cocktails. The golden variety is best eaten fresh and the dark skin ones can be left to mature as the flavour intensifies further.</div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">As it is Easter I am listening to </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Matthew-Passion-Cambridge-Cleobury/dp/B0000V86LY" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">St. Matthew's Passion</span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">. Would this indeed be the piece of music to take to your desert island? </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“On the Easter music note, it is perhaps appropriate to mention Mahler’s Second Symphony: The Resurrection. The text of the music made no biblical reference and it was Mahler’s very personal view of life and his life was full of tragedies and suffering, with the premature deaths of his siblings and daughter, and his own heart disease. There has not been a greater composer to emerge since his death.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The biologist Lewis Thomas when asked what message he would send to aliens famously said: “……Bach, all of Bach……”.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://richarddawkins.net/article,200,Evolution-of-a-delusion,Irish-Times" style="color: #de7008; font-family: verdana; text-decoration: none;">Richard Dawkins</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">picked it as one of his eight desert island discs.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now you know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #3333ff;">The Guardian:</span></b></span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/02/classical-music-children" style="color: #de7008; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: verdana;"><b style="color: black;">Why we are shutting children out of classical music</b></span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">.</span></b><br /><i>April 2, 2009</i> <i>Tom Service</i>Tom Service is a 33-year-old classical music critic. For 25 years of concert-going he found himself to be amongst the youngest in the audience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">But there is something else that is strange:<br /><i>“I've noticed that bus and train stations now pipe canned classical music, day-in, day-out, through their speakers as a way of stopping young people hanging around. So toxic have the associations become, that this experiment actually works: there is evidence that playing <span style="color: #990000;">Beethoven and Mahler</span> has reduced antisocial behaviour on the transport network.”</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">He went on:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><i>“An entire generation, aged between 10 and 30, seems radically disenfranchised from classical music. How, and when, did this happen?”</i><br />Then in Finland:<br /><br /><i>“A couple of years ago, I saw a class of seven-year-olds in Helsinki enthusiastically learning Finnish and maths by performing sophisticated little songs with astonishing tuning and rhythm. And this wasn't a music school - just a typical Finnish state primary. Finland only developed its curriculum in the postwar period, but it works: today, the Finns are classical music world-beaters, and their education system has produced more great instrumentalists, conductors and composers per capita than any other country on earth.”</i></span><br />
<a href="http://www.esapekkasalonen.com/" style="color: #de7008; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Esa-Pekka Salonen</span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> is of course the Principal Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Finland’s most famous music export in recent times.<br />I was at a concert recently and a large numbers of players in the orchestra were Koreans. Well apart from steel and TV and cars, the Koreans are now into golf and music in a big way. The LPGA is certainly dominated by Koreans. Could it be that music gave them the edge in golf as well, not just the chopsticks?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tom again:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“Here is a ready-made answer to the problems of renewing classical music's role in society. Make them statutory requirements for every local authority, and give them the responsibility for rebuilding the network of classical musical possibility that used to resound throughout the country.”</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">And perhaps throw in golf for good measure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was in 1990 that American troops played deafening pop and heavy metal music day and night outside the Vatican Mission to Panama City that Noriega surrendered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">In future, this strategy might have to be changed, Beethoven, Mahler and God forbid even Bach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Tom Service’s last words:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #993399; font-family: verdana;"><b style="color: black;">“We've already lost one generation - we can't afford to lose another.”</b></span></div>
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<dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-8380445077642965792" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 0.5em 0px;">It's a source of great sadness to me as a classical musician that classical music is no longer formally taught in the classroom as it was when I was growing up. It became the victim of a reverse elitism; that classical music was for snobs and also that ordinary folk weren't good enough to learn classical music and have it as part of their culture. It's a phemonenon that is particularly British; in Germany, they have big Bach choirs and in Italy everyone knows their Verdi and Rossini. The irony is that pop music is much more difficult to perform than your average Bach chorale, yet it's held up as the music of the common man. I think things are beginning to turn round, but I felt like chucking bricks through the telly when they were going on about these wonderful childrens' orchestras in Venezuala that were working wonders and keeping them out of trouble. We had a whole system of music schools and orchestras in Glasgow that were shut down one by one and the one that I teach at survived because we wouldn't give up and got various trusts to sponsor us.<br />
Anyway, sorry about the rant. Yep, I would definitely take Bach to a desert island and send it to aliens; particularly the six Bach Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin, but that's my fancy.</dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 1.5em 0px;"><span class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2014/04/easter-passion-classical-music-next.html?showComment=1333665596572#c8380445077642965792" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink">April 5, 2012 at 6:39 PM</a></span></dd>
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<dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-5304112804981109967" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 0.5em 0px;">Thanks Julie. I grew up in poor post communist HK and fought for my own music education and valued it.<br />
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Both my girls are good musicians.<br />
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But music does a lot more.</dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 1.5em 0px;"><span class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2014/04/easter-passion-classical-music-next.html?showComment=1333701830057#c5304112804981109967" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink">April 6, 2012 at 4:43 AM</a></span></dd>
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<dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-5203019026259213058" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 0.5em 0px;">As a child at primary and junior school level I lived in the leafy suburbs of a (then – don’t know whether it still is) affluent coastal town in Sussex.<br />
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Each morning assembly was rounded off with five to ten minutes of classical music and this is where my appreciation of it was born – love of opera was to come much later.<br />
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Classical music was not a feature of secondary schooling of either myself or any level of schooling in that of my children (who are now old(ish)) in the cold climes of my part of Britain where I moved pre-teen.<br />
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I have never seen opera live as in the city near to where I live now, despite its claim of culture for it does not offer it – or if it does it is so badly advertised I am never aware of it.<br />
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One of my memories of my late teens was to see The Red Army Choir live and I fell in love with the beauty of their wonderful voices. I still play an LP – slightly scratched as it is – I bought soon after this concert and it continues to ‘fill me up.’ (I have purchased DVDs but all – although being the songs on my lovely LP – are ‘modernised’ to such an extent that their awfulness has led to only one listening.)<br />
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I think my children (who bent to peer pressure and decided classical music was not for them) and indeed any child who does not know of classical music has a void in their life and unfortunately are unaware of it.<br />
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Anna :o]</dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 1.5em 0px;"><span class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2014/04/easter-passion-classical-music-next.html?showComment=1333712375881#c5203019026259213058" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink">April 6, 2012 at 7:39 AM</a></span></dd>
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<dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-6326977664734618211" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 0.5em 0px;">One of my reason to move to London after retirement.<br />
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Royal Opera House and New York Met have very reasonable tickets.<br />
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Opera is good value entertainment.<br />
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Thanks to Julie and Anna</dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 1.5em 0px;"><span class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2014/04/easter-passion-classical-music-next.html?showComment=1333749804333#c6326977664734618211" style="color: #bb00e1; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink">April 6, 2012 at 6:03 PM</a></span></dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 1.5em 0px;"><br /></dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 1.5em 0px;"><br /></dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="margin: 0.5em 25px 1.5em 0px;"><div><span style="color: #e46c0a; font-size: medium;">Amazon: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cockroach-Catcher-II-Attempted-Living/dp/B0BRM27117/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FES0J7NYKT6B&keywords=am+ang+zhang&qid=1682183740&sprefix=%2Caps%2C49&sr=8-2" style="font-family: Verdana, "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Cockroach Catcher II: Attempted Living</a></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #370509; 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background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 88px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 1px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: top; width: auto;" width="100%" /></a></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 5, 2023I told Am Ang that I should not do a book review at Amazon. Simply because a review, if I know how, should be about the book, and not about my own overwhelming feelings and connections with his life stories. At this late date, all the insightful and all positive comments have already been made. At the risk of accusation of plagiarism, the book is not an ordinary memoir indeed. Written by a gifted author of very high professional achievements and contribution to society. Fully covering most aspects of human endeavours, cultural and traditional activities, music, food and wine, history, geography and travel logs, contemporary world events, politics, and notable celebrities, all kinds of personalities, etc. etc. </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKuFqDAY4KXAYKMq1YGxFoWmlz6YeOSLD8rGGP9qBR7Yzh5PjTh8OnmbX6VzcvDM6gv8NEE3IJTIqjnaB9BbgnMpK-H6fdyTAZYgvxa39R25BcWZXcvjGdCEoBRuic4kkXrbBd4HrdHFhwp1yOx7mc4E04kuBkAg1kEJ4xucsykZfyYUf5KbhWKifd/s1476/DSC_4719KKKK.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1476" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKuFqDAY4KXAYKMq1YGxFoWmlz6YeOSLD8rGGP9qBR7Yzh5PjTh8OnmbX6VzcvDM6gv8NEE3IJTIqjnaB9BbgnMpK-H6fdyTAZYgvxa39R25BcWZXcvjGdCEoBRuic4kkXrbBd4HrdHFhwp1yOx7mc4E04kuBkAg1kEJ4xucsykZfyYUf5KbhWKifd/w640-h360/DSC_4719KKKK.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><b>Mateus Rose</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"><b>Private Asylum</b></span></div></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">Easy to read, interesting and entertaining. Backbone of the book is the case files of the doctor with his autobiography built in and linked up to it. I have no medical background what-so-ever. Anorexia Nervosa to me is Karen Carpenter. Schizophrenic paranoia is Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny. Autism is Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, and so on. Yet I find most of the cases are so written that if we read on, most of the unknown medical terms eventually became self-explanatory. Losing track of story sequence could similarly be restored. Yes, we are both movie buffs. Only Am Ang use them to make a point. I get my education from them. By the way, I am recently hooked on the CBS series Bull, about a psychologist turned trial scientist to psycho-read jury for selection in court. Every episode is a new case of different story that reflected society. May be Am Ang would consider a similar project with the case details expanded. I also like the way the story line jumping back and forth through time. Isn’t it how our train of thought works, one thing reminding of another in time long passed? Oh, before I forget, I must mention the tons of common sense employed in the cases, something that separates a great professional from a just tick-box trained one.</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4_3tg_kbSW4DgITAXuI8OSvaolfGk7-_F-Q9X8-qBnmJ9OKwN_pq3HIBD2GyjNSWmsqnUxr05k8MaZ_zjtsMwNQRmFk6zC0ZqcLpzxVft0s7MMzqKXNHXphNMcdge0gQUjRT99To37iWZS6GkfzRCwemaZHWVHZIkrQovpFk21tVfhK63Ybuk56wN/s2048/276137033_1420215278412307_3029055373031451450_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1094" data-original-width="2048" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4_3tg_kbSW4DgITAXuI8OSvaolfGk7-_F-Q9X8-qBnmJ9OKwN_pq3HIBD2GyjNSWmsqnUxr05k8MaZ_zjtsMwNQRmFk6zC0ZqcLpzxVft0s7MMzqKXNHXphNMcdge0gQUjRT99To37iWZS6GkfzRCwemaZHWVHZIkrQovpFk21tVfhK63Ybuk56wN/w640-h342/276137033_1420215278412307_3029055373031451450_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><br /></div><b>Class reunion: Laguna Azul</b><br /><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">So much, or so little left for me to say, about the book. It strikes me if Am Ang did not keep a detailed diary all through the years, then he must have exceptional memory. What should I say about the author? Not being long winded and for wanting of a better term, I will just say, to me, he is A Man of All Seasons. Not to be confused with the sixteenth century Englishman who lost his head by messing with the king with his eight wives. That guy they called A Man For All Seasons. How more original can one get? Rhetorically speaking, of course, just in case.</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">Now time to get close and personal. Am Ang just said to a group of us: “…. different bits of my book have a slightly different effect on different individuals and that its sharing is most treasured. …”. He spoke my mind. That established, I hereby challenge all comers to be the one most affected by the book.</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipaafPw1VZ6Ni66XW0ZcfuRUMbVyLLIKo1wdwB423PjmI68UFvPHg_i_Y5eNCcosKzM6EzbXbF0Y_ttLa07Sx8qdljzTaIe8cSLU9mU4ws3Tep4sMG8dmYZwsnXJaz2A3SLW6JLgxwxnZP2e-QNlYXkUUlKGifnARU6ORLzPas-yZXDrE2GHUYqfb6/s960/IMG_2892.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipaafPw1VZ6Ni66XW0ZcfuRUMbVyLLIKo1wdwB423PjmI68UFvPHg_i_Y5eNCcosKzM6EzbXbF0Y_ttLa07Sx8qdljzTaIe8cSLU9mU4ws3Tep4sMG8dmYZwsnXJaz2A3SLW6JLgxwxnZP2e-QNlYXkUUlKGifnARU6ORLzPas-yZXDrE2GHUYqfb6/w640-h360/IMG_2892.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><b>Hong Kong</b></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><a name="_Toc123938188"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><b>Incestuous
Failure</b></span></a></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />My case as follows. My family returned to Hong Kong after the war when I was a toddler. We still have pictures of riding a tricycle. We settled in some ancestral premises in the walled village of Nga Tsin Wai, near the Kai Tak Airport. My uncle, aunt, with two of their five children joined us shortly later. One uncle and father-in-law were fighter pilots during the war. </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfNdd_ekqzZndE-rSu6h6ZqzfejonNp9DzzAu67rPWuIXkE3n3k_F5z0so06yrpNH49Y_MDp5WxW0gEXdpTvIswOEReqlhEXZzHcWqO_maPoB4cL3iHYFHA7Is7FhcJfgMVg9YXpc80CWajllAfJDxwpPIePFyJd1fvyO0wMPQkb0tg2Uc6vyyvb-/s1600/1-DSC_5368.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="1600" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfNdd_ekqzZndE-rSu6h6ZqzfejonNp9DzzAu67rPWuIXkE3n3k_F5z0so06yrpNH49Y_MDp5WxW0gEXdpTvIswOEReqlhEXZzHcWqO_maPoB4cL3iHYFHA7Is7FhcJfgMVg9YXpc80CWajllAfJDxwpPIePFyJd1fvyO0wMPQkb0tg2Uc6vyyvb-/w640-h384/1-DSC_5368.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></b></div>Peggy’s Cove</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
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The tiffin lunch box, the first record player/radio/speaker combo with our first records. Train rides through the tunnel pulling down windows, and on and on. Then there were three last years of high school with Am Ang in the same class. With good marks he entered HKU Medical School and then UK to be British. With poor marks I ended up in Canada to be Canuck. We both enjoy non team sports. For him it is golf and snorkeling and for me is scuba and fencing. </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8kP7YOp7l9dSPxpuqQk2jM7fRo4XMijQ7WaTGOyj5JSWCH6j362bW6-47B7jU--GK_QmpccMls62f07FTGhuYL_RcB0rpTcJXtae1218ODfzTRTXK_n1yVRALJmM52dBTucVJSydEAERiImnCBOeO7p7-18hnq9RbqrQfl0wkjnqkosHRG6H1UQ8E/s960/277102671_1420215265078975_422691116844678506_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8kP7YOp7l9dSPxpuqQk2jM7fRo4XMijQ7WaTGOyj5JSWCH6j362bW6-47B7jU--GK_QmpccMls62f07FTGhuYL_RcB0rpTcJXtae1218ODfzTRTXK_n1yVRALJmM52dBTucVJSydEAERiImnCBOeO7p7-18hnq9RbqrQfl0wkjnqkosHRG6H1UQ8E/w640-h360/277102671_1420215265078975_422691116844678506_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><b>Snorkeling in Laguna Azul</b></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">After retirement, in our many reunion holiday cruises and trips we did snorkel together in Aruba and Panama.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Did I say I have no more to say about the book? Not true. Still have to tell what the effects are on me. I am lucky to have a career full of interesting anecdotes in a boring profession. Still that is where I lost many points compared with the case encyclopedia of our renowned child psychiatrist in Cockroach II. However, with the very similar childhood background, same secondary school, closely mirrored life path thereafter, and the many reunion trips later, I find my life story all over the book. Natural to think that it is a coincidence and unique. </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj52TM2ta2IQ48F2daFxcnC5Y4ArdG9HpNmhAmBKcneTqVW_v_O90Auzvumyz0OaHrJJj9Q-QoGY9hX8je4VDwXrLP6ychnBV-dVJG4KJ2btqudjz59j4lJYr7KeApWf8lzQk3_0ebxNW9DgHBJa7HSbISO0kB5vT3u46AtsSTkstj9QKMTLbxFoHBK/s2048/273207948_1388454491588386_7476741268168688047_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj52TM2ta2IQ48F2daFxcnC5Y4ArdG9HpNmhAmBKcneTqVW_v_O90Auzvumyz0OaHrJJj9Q-QoGY9hX8je4VDwXrLP6ychnBV-dVJG4KJ2btqudjz59j4lJYr7KeApWf8lzQk3_0ebxNW9DgHBJa7HSbISO0kB5vT3u46AtsSTkstj9QKMTLbxFoHBK/w640-h360/273207948_1388454491588386_7476741268168688047_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><br /></div><b>Class Reunion at Valle Escondido</b></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><b>Panama<br /></b><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">Then Am Ang tipped us off. With the huge scope of life experiences encompassed in the book, it is inevitable that anyone could find a piece of himself or herself in it. Just a matter of how much.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A great book of knowledge, no matter how good, is the author sharing his or her knowledge. A great book of wisdom, no matter how wise, is the author sharing his or her wisdom. Cockroach II, however, is my good friend Am Ang, sharing knowledge, wisdom, and his life story to remind all of us, whether know him or not, about our own lives. That is what this book is all about.</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2oXRwM2-LdQ0RuRULR1IN-uZRq6vJLiTH3HQdm4oeTtNi2CGIbLYXL2RUnSeVv-6c6XkMMSOKA40TngS30r_Az_WwMCGVPiQiuicC6qQUGGbgOAVhuOTcgL2vnJF29Gz5LQNVIwOyFkPsG4Ktn8y19xKqo_7nt23FLNufBSaoBs2318fBr2DmBhH/s716/DSC-2314-Original%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="716" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2oXRwM2-LdQ0RuRULR1IN-uZRq6vJLiTH3HQdm4oeTtNi2CGIbLYXL2RUnSeVv-6c6XkMMSOKA40TngS30r_Az_WwMCGVPiQiuicC6qQUGGbgOAVhuOTcgL2vnJF29Gz5LQNVIwOyFkPsG4Ktn8y19xKqo_7nt23FLNufBSaoBs2318fBr2DmBhH/w640-h338/DSC-2314-Original%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><b>Laguna Azul</b></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><b>Final Chapter</b></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: center; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><b>There is hope as the sun rises!</b></span></div><div class="a-section a-spacing-medium review-image-container" id="R16552D04HZHKY_imageSection_main" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin-bottom: 22px;"><div class="review-image-tile-section" data-reviewid="R16552D04HZHKY" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden;"><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #370509; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-cockroach-catcher-ii-attempted.html"><span>The
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href="https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/750449898/lithium-is-a-homage-to-a-drug-and-to-the-renegade-side-of-science" style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lithium' Is A Homage To A Drug — And To The Renegade Side Of Science</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #050937; font-size: small; font-weight: 700;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700;"><span face=""Helvetica","sans-serif"" style="color: #767676; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by<a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/750449898/lithium-is-a-homage-to-a-drug-and-to-the-renegade-side-of-science"> <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Walter A. Brown</span></a></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR70348ZggwC7rX6iVEv5BPR6QNzdlRhtbkzbb6UIi8YqqekJ_oohyaqfLMcci9ZYjaKF_4vxvnKtiEiqcLZ3mH-4FFlTkGRAdFueTLPKL_ONo-EIU1R_BP0ELUIcZElRjn174sk-9TfJ2aPIdtpoGCdQjRqPVYXLkZ-uasn4ooBSFSke5grTtDRex/s1024/02-Sydney9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="1024" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR70348ZggwC7rX6iVEv5BPR6QNzdlRhtbkzbb6UIi8YqqekJ_oohyaqfLMcci9ZYjaKF_4vxvnKtiEiqcLZ3mH-4FFlTkGRAdFueTLPKL_ONo-EIU1R_BP0ELUIcZElRjn174sk-9TfJ2aPIdtpoGCdQjRqPVYXLkZ-uasn4ooBSFSke5grTtDRex/w640-h244/02-Sydney9.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #370509; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="a-section review aok-relative cr-desktop-review-page-0" data-hook="review" id="R3QWJRWSOMNKV5" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 22px; max-width: 80em; position: relative;"><div class="a-row a-spacing-none" id="R3QWJRWSOMNKV5-review-card" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; width: 680px;"><div class="a-section celwidget" data-cel-widget="customer_review_foreign-R3QWJRWSOMNKV5" data-csa-c-id="t1snid-7eo9hq-5ajuwt-xm93c0" id="customer_review_foreign-R3QWJRWSOMNKV5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cade, John Frederick Joseph (1912 - 1980)</b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span face=""Helvetica","sans-serif"" style="color: #767676; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;">Taking lithium himself with no ill effect, John Cade then used it to treat ten patients with chronic or recurrent mania, on whom he found it to have a pronounced calming effect. Cade's remarkably successful results were detailed in his paper, 'Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement', published in the</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"> </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;">Medical Journal of Australia</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;">(1949). He subsequently found that lithium was also of some value in assisting depressives. His discovery of the efficacy of a cheap, naturally occurring and widely available element in dealing with manic-depressive disorders provided an alternative to the existing therapies of shock treatment or prolonged hospitalization.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px;"><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;">In 1985 the American National Institute of Mental Health estimated that Cade's discovery of the efficacy of lithium in the treatment of manic depression had saved the world at least $<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> 17.5 billion in medical costs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.72px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: arial; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Many shy away from Lithium not knowing that not prescribing it may actually lead to death by suicide. 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font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 680px;"><a class="a-link-normal" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_avp?nodeId=G75XTB7MBMBTXP6W" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #007185; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span class="a-size-mini a-color-state a-text-bold" color="rgb(196, 85, 0) !important" data-hook="avp-badge-linkless" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px;">Verified Purchase</span></a></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">The Cockroach Catcher 11: Attempted Living by Am Ang Zhang reads like a fascinating blog from an author with a plethora of diverse interests and an insatiable curiosity about the world. His subject material reveals his keen interest in medical research, the environment, travels to exotic destinations and even savouring a wonderful meal accompanied by an excellent wine.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Zhang interweaves stories of his impoverished childhood in the New Territories after his family fled mainland China with details of his later life, particularly as a highly successful child psychiatrist in London. Permeating the book are several case histories (names changed) to illustrate the theme, "attempted living" which is continued through to a positive conclusion about the choices one makes.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In retirement Zhang pursues his interest in golf, snorkelling, photography and travel. Photos from his travels are scattered throughout the text. A pity the photos are not in colour.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />One does not need a medical background to enjoy The Cockroach Catcher 11. It's an informative and entertaining read in an accessible, conversational style from a talented storyteller.</span></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 400;"><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.2222px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; line-height: 20.2222px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Will the new generation of psychiatrists come round to Lithium again? How many talented individuals could have been saved by lithium?</span></span></span></b></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #370509; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="a-section review aok-relative cr-desktop-review-page-0" data-hook="review" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 22px; max-width: 80em; position: relative;"><div class="a-row a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; width: 680px;"><div class="a-section celwidget" data-cel-widget="customer_review_foreign-RTYLB24G3BYXS" data-csa-c-id="bemu0p-repztl-tewpc5-j9sz3" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050937; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal">APA <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Nassir Ghaemi, MD MPH</strong></div><div class="MsoNormal"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050937; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">In psychiatry, our most effective drugs are the old drugs: ECT (1930s), lithium (1950s), MAOIs and TCAs (1950s and 1960s) and clozapine (1970s)<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">We haven’t developed a drug that’s more effective than any other drug since the 1970’s</li><li style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">All we have developed is safer drugs (less side effects), but not more effective</li></ul></li><li style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050937; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Dose lithium only once a day, at night</li><li style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #050937; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">For patients with bipolar illness, you don’t need a reason to give lithium. You need a reason not to give lithium (Originally by Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin)</li></ul></div></div></div></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><p style="color: #050937; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"></span></p></span></div></div></div></div></h3><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; position: relative; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #370509;"><a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-cockroach-catcher-ii-attempted_12.html">The
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #015782;">A short while back I blogged about GBM and how an innovative treatment may have helped. Being a doctor </span></span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/surgery-radiation-and-chemo-didnt-stop-the-tumor-but-an-experimental-treatment-did/2013/09/23/1b8e8f92-0f4f-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html?hpid=z9" style="color: #187f6d; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">Dr Anderson</a> noted this:</span></b></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">My wife, Carmen Alicia, called a local friend, also a cardiologist, who sent us to a nearby hospital; there, an MRI exam revealed a small spot on my brain. The neurologist felt it needed to be biopsied to obtain a tissue diagnosis. I immediately returned to Virginia and went to several specialists, who suggested further testing before I decided to have an invasive brain biopsy. I also had a blood test for cysticercosis, an infection that results from eating undercooked pork contaminated with <em style="font-weight: inherit;">Tenia solium</em>. This common parasite produces cysts all over the body, including the brain. It is the most common reason for seizures in many countries, particularly in India, where children with seizures are first treated for this disease even before other studies are done. My blood test was strongly positive. I started a course of oral medicine to treat it. The test reassured me.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Neurocysticercosis (NC) is the most frequent and widespread human parasitic infection of the central nervous system (CNS). Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a neoplasm of CNS in elderly population and may have a similar clinical and radiologic presentation as of NC. The coexistence of NC and neoplastic intracranial lesion in an individual is a very rare entity. The incidence of NC among intracranial space occupying lesions is reported to be 1.2-2.5%.[1–4] Though cerebral cysticercosis may be associated with glioma,[5] but this rare coexistence of NC and brain tumors puts into question a causal relationship between the 2 diseases. Here we report a case in which glioma and cysticercosis appeared concomitantly, with continuing progression of low grade Glioma to high grade Glioma (GBM, WHO grade IV).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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All the patients and their families adhered to Orthodox Jewish dietary laws, which forbid the eating of pork. Moreover, <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T. solium</em> taeniasis due to the ingestion of contaminated pork is extremely unlikely in the United States. Cysticerci were detected in only 3 of more than 83 million hogs examined after slaughter under federal inspection in 1990.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 1.4em;">The most likely sources of infection in the patients described in this report were women living and working in the patients' homes who had recently emigrated from Latin American countries where</span><span style="line-height: 1.4em;"> </span><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T. solium</em><span style="line-height: 1.4em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4em;">infection is endemic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">At some point in my research, I was surprised by an article by a Johns Hopkins-trained cardiologist who now practices in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>. He had collected data on 23 invasive radiologists and cardiologists who had developed tumors, of which 17 were GBMs on the left side of the brain. I wrote to the author, who told me that he had learned of several more such cases since his article was published, and he added mine to his file."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">" I had a glioblastoma multiforme (commonly called a GBM) grade IV. This is the most malignant brain tumor; no grade II or III exist. A glioblastoma is what killed Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) in 2009. While rare, it is the most common of the brain tumors. The prognosis is dismal; on average, patients survive only 14 months after diagnosis even with chemotherapy and radiation. After five years, only 5 percent of patients are still alive."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">"I returned to Duke a month after the infusion, and though an MRI showed some expected swelling, the more significant fact was that the tumor had stopped growing. I have gone back to Duke every two months since then, and the tumor, initially the size of a grape, is now a scar, the size of a small pea. It’s been two years since the initial biopsy and radiation, and one year since the experimental polio viral treatment, and I have no evidence of recurrence nor tumor regrowth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Thirty years ago, I saw mountains as mountains, and waters as waters.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana";">I see mountains once again as mountains, and waters once again as waters.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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