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Death and the Doctors
Readers of this column may recall that I had a near-death experience fairly recently. Not the good kind, where you meet all the dear ones who’ve gone before you up the golden stairway. Rather, the kind where you get to … Continue reading →
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Tagged admitting responsibility, Aristotle on taking responsibility, betrayal of trust, betraying one's calling, betraying one's oath, Cain and Abel, consequential medical mistakes, coordinating instructions between medical institutions, coordinating medical instructions, coordinating medical prescriptions, criminal indifference to patients, culpable carelessness, doctor failure, doctor-caused fatalities, doctor-caused injuries, dodging responsibility, evading responsibility, fatal indifference, go along to get along, healing arts, Hippocratic Oath betrayed, iatrogenic emergency, iatrogenic fatality, iatrogenic near-fatality, in-house politics, institutional politics, involuntary accidents, irresponsible doctors, judging intentions, lawyers representing hospitals, lawyers who represent doctors, malpractice, medical academies, medical accidents, medical fratricide, medical malpractice, medical manslaughter, medical murder, medical politics, my brother's keeper, politics of experience, practiced evasions, professional irresponsibility, profit motive, taking advantage of the vulnerable, taking advantage of weakness, unchivalrous, unromantic, voluntary accidents, was it intentional
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The Real-Life Whodunits
Every few months, Jerry and I fly out to California (no longer a fun thing to do in current travel conditions) to get neuropathy treatments for me. The treatment, available only at a clinic out there, is innovative and appears … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, above all do no harm, angels still at work, approval for insurance coverage, avoiding gossip, bad guys being bad, bad news believed, betrayal of trust, breaking trust, bringing character down a notch, character loss, company expansion, creative innovator’s vulnerability, credibility of bad news, cunning vs naivete, dealing with a bad guy, dedication and healing, defamation believed, defaming the deserving, defending a treatment plan, defying the norms, desecrating the norms, devils at work, disappointing legitimate expectations, discounting achievement, discounting genius, discouraging the patient, discrediting the creditable, envying the achiever, ethics of healing, evil and good manners, evil’s unpredictability, explaining treatment modalities, Francis Thompson, Francis Thompson’s In No Strange Land, group dynamics, heroes and heroines, hippocratic oath, holistic treatment, ill intentioned objections, Indian wedding, innovative treatment, interfering with a prescribed treatment, jeopardizing recovery, jeopardizing trust, justifying a mode of treatment, kindness in healing, loss of grace, medical breakthroughs, medical ethics, medical frontier, medical malpractice, medical pioneer, minimizing original work, moral courage, moral cowardice, moral damage, moral default, moral disappointment, moral loss, moral reflexes, moral suspense, negative temptation, neuropathy treatment, normative fitness, patients’ rights, personnel relations, pitfalls of success, politics of group relations, politics of ordinary life, politics of social life, powers of darkness, professionalism in healing, real life whodunits, real motivation vs stated reason, reality of evil, recovering moral character, relinquishing improper control, responding to objections, romance of the world, spiritual dangers, spiritual harms, spoiling the picture, spoiling the romance of the world, taking objections seriously, the power to shock, treating evil politely, treatment breakthrough, treatment plan, types of malpractice, undermining character, undermining the boss, undermining trust, uninformed objections, unmanly behavior, unprofessional behavior, unprofessional conduct, upholding the norms, workplace betrayals, workplace transitions
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Battered, Bruised … but Unbowed?
Battered, Bruised … but Unbowed? Last week, reflecting on my deep reluctance to do anything that would promote my newly-released book, A Good Look at Evil, second edition, I determined that the real barrier isn’t that I believe I have … Continue reading →
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Tagged A. G. Eric Scheniderman, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", abusive men, abusive relationships, Amazon’s “Look Inside”, amazon’s books, assertiveness training, bad guys winning, being outnumbered, betrayal of trust, Bible study, Bill Clinton, book endorsements, book promotion, chariots of fire, cheering the sick, combatting adversity, compliance with abuser, coping with setbacks, decent manhood, defending one’s work, demands of nature, distance healing, electronic preview, embezzler, evil diagnosed, evil portrayed, female receptivity, female vulnerability, feminine pliancy, feminine sensitivity, femininity as social construct, feminism’s counsels, fictional stories, getting evil’s number, giving up the fight, hype, II Kings 6:15-17, internalizing real problems, jacket blurbs, Juanita Broaddrick, king of Syria, life as story, lifemanship, mirror of evil, modern cynicism, modernity’s worldview, mug shot, nameless adversary, narrative view, nature v nurture, neuropathy treatment, nineteenth century novels, nonfiction narrative, not giving up, Pentateuch, persistence as key, persistence as victory, prayer guidance, prayer-based healing, predator in disguise, projection, protecting one’s book, publication date, puffery, rabbinic duties, satanic attack, sexual predator, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, sting operation, stress fracture, string of accidents, taking oneself seriously, the sleeping dogs, thwarted story, Torah Study, true stories, unexpected guest, Victorian novels, woman's nature, women’s disguising armor, yin and yang
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Woman’s Search for Meaning
Woman’s Search for Meaning I’ve talked two friends out of committing suicide. Don’t recall exactly what I said, but I do know what went into my general approach. First, I ignored their existential/metaphysical pronouncements, eloquent as they were. Life, they … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", absurdity, alternative healing, betrayal of trust, canceled engagements, canceled speech, chance happenings, charlatan healers, clues to the plot, Coincidences, contemplating suicide, correct diagnosis, crisis of meaning, desecration, desecration of woman, despair, dislocation, distance healing, Divine interventions, divine/human partnership, existential anxiety, expectations frustrated, focused mind, friendship, God as Co-Author, hopeful signals, indifferent world, invisible crisis, invisible suffering, life crisis, living one’s story, loss of grip, loss of meaning, meaningful life, meaningless world, mental healing, mental labyrinth, metaphysical materialism, metaphysics, mind and body, mind and matter, Mind Control, MRI's, negative energy, neuropathy treatment, Nor'easter, novelistic lives, ordinary miracles, personal defeat, power outage, precognition, preserving self image, Providential happenings, public speaking, quieted mind, Raiki healing, reorientation, rescheduling, saving the story, search for meaning, self image, sense of self, senselessness, small defeats, speaking events, spiritual malpractice, spiritual seduction, spiritual temptation, suicidal thoughts, suicide, suicide prevention, the right name, Thomas Hardy's Tess of The d'Urbervilles, travel plans, true north, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, world out of joint
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