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  • Act Like Wonder Woman And Become Wonder Woman - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Nov 07, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    For most of my life I have been more or less overweight. I figured my body was just something I used to carry my brain around. Tentatives at presentation (clothes, makeup) were just not as serious as with my women-friends. I mean, it was just not as important to my identity as “smart” ...
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  • The Man Who Was Born With His Feet On Backwards - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Dec 14, 2012 from Estelle Goldstein
    You probably know by now that I’m all about helping people relieve chronic pain and live longer and healthier lives. Just the other day, a gentleman visited me at the clinic to request medical marijuana. He said his feet had rotated 180 degrees from normal when he was born. He was literally ...
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  • Cefaly, the Anti-Migraine Device - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Mar 08, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    This thing might work for some. Proof of its working is thin, but that tends to be a chronic problem with this kind of device. The patients studied with Cefaly had migraines not over a few times a month. My patients — who use marijuana, generally of the sativa type — have the most intense ...
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  • Take Care Of Yourself So You Can Take Care Of Others - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Nov 06, 2008 from Estelle Goldstein
    Greetings fun-seekers and brain lovers! I want to tell you about a profound realization I've had and I hope it saves you from going through what I've gone through. Whenever you fly, you hear the safety instructions and they tell you, if the oxygen masks come down, make sure you put on your own ...
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  • This Is Not A Diet Book - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Estelle Goldstein
    WARNING: Don’t spend hundreds of dollars on diet or exercise programs that seem to work for everybody but you until you read this important information I have to tell you. I Lost Over Half My Body Mass WITHOUT Diet, Exercise, Drugs Or Surgery And I Am Going To Tell You How! By Estelle Toby ...
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  • Emotional Freedom Technique Sjogren's Syndrome Success - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Nov 07, 2008 from Estelle Goldstein
    Mr. P.D., a 50 year old married male, presented to this examiner asking if anything could be done for his Sjogren’s Syndrome. Sjogren’s Syndrome is a chronic illness in which white blood cells attack various glands in the body that produce moisture. Initial symptoms occur in the ...
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  • Penn State Child Abuse: The Coverup Is Worse Than The Crime - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Nov 19, 2011 from Estelle Goldstein
    So many times the cover-up seems to me to be worse than the crime. It might be something as President Nixon and Watergate or as trivial as Sarah Palin and her … um … improvisation on the ride of Paul Revere. (Don’t try to fool a Boston girl – I know all about Paul Revere). I think most of ...
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  • MEMORY TESTS - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Oct 24, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    The fastest, easiest test of the memory that I know is the one where you have to remember three objects five minutes after you’ve been told what they are. This is part of a standardized test of cognition (typically testing for dementia) known as the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). ...
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  • Cefaly, the Anti-Migraine Device - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Mar 08, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    This thing might work for some. Proof of its working is thin, but that tends to be a chronic problem with this kind of device. The patients studied with Cefaly had migraines not over a few times a month. My patients — who use marijuana, generally of the sativa type — have the most intense ...
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  • Being A Quitter Isn't Always Bad -- With Cults - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Estelle Goldstein
    I do remember when I was a university student seeing the glassy-eyed young students selling second rate (a bit dry or petals missing) flowers on the major thoroughfares of Boston. I remember reading all the newspaper accounts and finding out these people were somehow part of a "cult," before I ...
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  • Cialis, OTC, and Men - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Jun 26, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    I love men. I mean, I actually went and married one, and I am delighted. I understand their senses of “maleness” are sometimes a bit more fragile with women challenging them on absolutely every front imaginable. But they still do quite well. I absolutely love them. I may have simply ...
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  • I Lost Over Half My Body Mass WITHOUT Diet, Exercise, Drugs Or Surgery And I Am Going To Tell You How! - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Feb 24, 2012 from Estelle Goldstein
    I was heavy all of my life – no, to be honest, I was FAT. My weight caused me severe health problems, including more than one “near-death” experience in comas. And as you can guess, my romantic life was non-existant. I couldn’t weigh myself accurately, because normal scales only go to ...
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  • What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Sinus Headaches - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Sep 07, 2012 from Estelle Goldstein
    I read a joke once about a husband’s preemptive strike in the bedroom. He walks in holding two aspirin and a glass of water. When his wife asks what it’s for he says it’s for her headache. She replies “But I don’t have a headache.” “Gotcha!” Headaches are no fun, so we might as well get ...
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  • Penn State Sports Scandal Destroys Lives - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Nov 13, 2011 from Estelle Goldstein
    A beloved football coach – I might even say a living legend – finds his life destroyed after a luminous career. All because of alleged inaction – perhaps to shield a friend, perhaps to preserve the “old school” or for other reasons. And the sad story of Joe Paterno is only one more chapter ...
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  • Freedom And Mental Health - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Oct 24, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    Freedom is healthy. I have always believed this, and still do. My perspective comes from many places — my upbringing, when I was bombarded since an early age by my Russian-immigrant grandmother how wonderful it is to be in the United States, where we are free, unlike the oppressed and ...
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  • A Lesson In Dealing With Anti-Social Personalities - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Aug 18, 2009 from Estelle Goldstein
    He really looked down on his luck, as do most people who came into this particular urban mental health clinic. He was receiving drug samples from a nurse practitioner somewhere in the system; drugs too expensive to continue getting samples to give him. Drug companies stop giving out samples of ...
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  • Teens and Inhalant Addiction and — K2 Spice? - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Aug 31, 2012 from Estelle Goldstein
    The first time I heard about using empty whipped cream dispensers to get “high” was a long time ago. I was living at my parents’ house after I had finished medical school in France. I had done my thesis as quickly as possible, in the fall. My residency was projected to start July first. I ...
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  • This Is Not A Diet Book - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on May 26, 2011 from Estelle Goldstein
    WARNING: Don’t spend hundreds of dollars on diet or exercise programs that seem to work for everybody but you until you read this important information I have to tell you. I Lost Over Half My Body Mass WITHOUT Diet, Exercise, Drugs Or Surgery And I Am Going To Tell You How! By Estelle Toby ...
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  • Mental Health In Women - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Nov 22, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    Maybe if it’s “all in your head,” it’s in your brain chemistry We women have spent so long and worked so hard for equality in rights, in education, and at work, that it may actually be hard to talk about how we are different. The World Health Organization has been working on this, and ...
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  • Death By Tattoo - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Sep 19, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    Can you die from a tattoo? You betcha. I never looked very closely at the literature since getting tattoos on your body is against Jewish law. I remember from Jewish Religious school when I was quite young, having it reamed into y poor little noggin along with a bunch of other stuff, that ...
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  • More Fake Diet Methods On The Market - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Aug 10, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    I thought that everyone knew by now that if something is a supplement that is supposed to help you lose weight by gulping down a pill, it is going to turn out to be a lie. One of the first things they teach you in debating is that your weakest argument is an appeal to authority. Everyone who ...
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  • The Speech That Made An Unwilling Addict Go To Rehab - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Oct 24, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    I found myself facing a person who had lost themselves in drug abuse. Not so unusual — when dealing with public health clinics. The prognosis is usually poor. An addict won’t cooperate with treatment unless forced by the courts in most cases. Here is what I said to one mental health ...
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  • Bureaucracy, What It Is and Why I hate It - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Dec 05, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    “Bureaucracy” is a word that comes from the French, which I suppose means that moi has a greater understanding of it than most folks who have never lived in France. Literally, “bureau” means “desk.” So “bureaucracy” is “rule by desk” in the same way that “democracy” is supposed to be “rule by ...
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  • Babies Born Addicted - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Aug 29, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    I have had a lot of trouble with the idea of criminalization of drug addiction for a very long time. I am only one of a lot of folks who say “addiction is a real disease.” People feel every bit as sick as people with other diseases, sometimes more. The patients are certainly able to die ...
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  • Alarmism vs. Real Worries About Beer - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Aug 29, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    I am not a particular fan of beer. My family certainly did not have it in the house. (Control freak that I am, I even had trouble with Passover wine. I never — and I mean never — managed to imagine how anybody made it through the allegedly requisite four glasses.) I really don’t ...
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  • Psychiatrists Don’t Just Talk About Sex - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Oct 24, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    I think this was said to me for the first, last, and only time at the first, last and only mixer for singles I went to in Wichita, Kansas. I don’t remember the man’s name or face, but I do remember how he responded to my answer to his inquiry about what I did for a living. “Psychiatrist? ...
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  • A Tough Pill To Swallow - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Jun 27, 2008 from Estelle Goldstein
    Every once in a while I run into someone who has trouble swallowing pills. Sometimes people “bite the bullet” and gulp the pills down with a struggle, just because they are anxious to get rid of whatever ails them. However, it doesn’t have to be a struggle. There are a few ...
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  • Why I Have Not and Will Not Take Tamiflu - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Aug 23, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    This story does not start with “I was minding my own business, surfing the internet.” I was seeing a deeply suffering patient with terminal cancer and I was sneezing. I have a bunch of seasonal allergies and I treat them naturally with Quercetin and related compounds, a bioflavonoid, ...
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  • Bureaucracy, What It Is And Why I hate It - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Nov 22, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    “Bureaucracy” is a word that comes from the French, which I suppose means that moi has a greater understanding of it than most folks who have never lived in France. Literally, “bureau” means “desk.” So “bureaucracy” is “rule by desk” in the same way that “democracy” is supposed to be “rule by ...
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  • Newsletter - by Estelle Toby Goldstein,MD
    Submitted on Jun 28, 2011 from Estelle Goldstein
    Welcome! This is the discussion area for and the archive of my newsletter The Renegade Doctor. I started publishing a newsletter in March of 2011 and distribute it exclusively to my opt-in email list each week. Not only will subscribers get to read content that isn’t available in my ...
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  • Pets Are Okay, But I Love Humans - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Aug 29, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    Animal mummies from ancient Egypt are featured on banners flying from poles here in middle-to-upper class southern California and I realized something significant but not earth-shaking. I didn’t care. I was fascinated with Egyptology back in the 4th grade when I built a model pyramid out ...
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  • Cynicism and Alzheimer’s - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Jul 31, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    Most of the time I see a single piece of research related to psychiatry reported by multiple news services, I figure the institution that produced it has a prizewinning public relations person. I figure it is popular for some kind of unspoken agenda. Maybe it is consistent with some level of ...
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  • The Drug That Doesn't Help But Is Still Available - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Jan 16, 2012 from Estelle Goldstein
    I was 15, there were not enough science courses at my prep school, and I was doing some kind of intensive science work at the "cancer research institute" of a nearby college -- in Boston there are many. In this special "science training program," I was the youngest on the list to be a ...
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  • Families Often Indicate Psychiatric Problems - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Oct 24, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    The person who walks into a psychiatrist’s office looking for help is not necessarily the patient. Often, they are simply the family of the patient. Sometimes, they themselves have something – possibly a disorder, but maybe just an emotional or attitude problem — that would seem somehow ...
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  • Internet Pornography IS Addiction - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Oct 03, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    I have seen them. Men, who sit in my office and tell me they are addicts to internet pornography. They describe symptoms that have long been regarded as markers of addiction. Dependence — They start feeling poorly, maybe even depressed, if they don’t get their regular quota of ...
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  • Assaults On Psychiatrists - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Jun 20, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    I remember a supervisor from the past whom I never thought had the right personality to be a psychiatrist. I mean, he was a little angry and domineering for my taste. But heck — I gave him a “bye” since he worked in a prison context. I was never attacked by a prison patient through my ...
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  • Dangers of Energy Drinks - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Jul 31, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    People are not wired the same. Individual differences are the spice of life and medicine. I love people, their verbal discourses, because they are so delightfully individual. To me, the biggest problem with medicine is something I actually never heard anybody else discuss. I call it ...
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  • Topic: Xyrem and Doctors - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Dec 14, 2012 from Estelle Goldstein
    I’ve got to admit, I must have already been living in the world of alternative medicine by the time the FDA approved Xyrem. As far as I can figure, it’s exactly the same as the street drug GHB. Us pharmacology types call this gamma hydroxybutyric acid. In a stable salt form that people can ...
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  • Want To Waste Time? Argue Science VS Religion - by Estelle Toby Goldstein
    Submitted on Jun 15, 2012 from Estelle Goldstein
    I have no use for “science vs. religion” debates. They are artificially created to get people angry at each other, when there is absolutely no reason. Whatever divine entity you believe in — whatever “universal intelligence” — is not a stupid being. Any Deity would simply reveal to people ...
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  • Adjusting to Medical Illness - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Nov 08, 2012 from Estelle Goldstein
    The psychological ability to adjust to chronic medical illness is an area where there has been very little study. Lately, I find myself working mostly with this population of people. I’m noticing that some adjust very well and some do it very poorly. It depends on a lot of factors. The ...
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  • Men Aren’t What They Used To Be - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Mar 08, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    Men. They really are different. They are psycho-socially different; this has provided for generations of standup comedy material about their inability to ask for directions when they are driving and lost, as well as their inability to move toward a restroom in groups. They got issues. I ...
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  • Anti-Obesity Discrimination and Obesity Treatment - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Aug 16, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    I am an expert on this — Anti-overweight discrimination. First, from my practice. I remember a woman in her forties I saw in Oklahoma for a routine antidepressant renewal who told me that she had a cardiac condition and had been to her primary physician (this is back in the prehistoric days ...
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  • Hills and Mountains - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Oct 10, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    I was in the 9th grade at 13 when I was looking at the ceremony for my Bas Mitzvah, literally “Daughter of the Covenant,” when I would chant the portion of scriptural commentary to the five books of Moses consistent with my birthday, and speak all the Rabbi would let me, and collect some ...
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  • Your Family Really Can Kill You - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Nov 07, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    Only 16% of all murder victims are members of the defendant’s family? That’s according to the PDF file that pops open (or opens in your browser) when you click this link – and you must have the free Adobe Acrobat reader to see it. (Fortunately, it is included with most computers ...
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  • Your life, Your Work – What’s The Difference? - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Oct 10, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    I love being a ”shrink-lady.” (okay, a “psychiatrist.”) I did not pick it out of a hat. I tried a couple of other medical specialties. The “doctor” part — well, there was never any doubt about that part, really. I mean the idea of taking care of other folks came into my head pretty early ...
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  • Men Aren’t What They Used To Be - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Mar 08, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    Men. They really are different. They are psycho-socially different; this has provided for generations of standup comedy material about their inability to ask for directions when they are driving and lost, as well as their inability to move toward a restroom in groups. They got issues. I ...
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  • Why Would a Forensic Scientist Run Amok? - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Jan 04, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    Like most folks who have not only hung around in academics but venerated scholarship, I am a little circumspect about applied scientists. I wonder if they do not get bored, repeating the same procedures. I will admit the closest I have gotten to forensic science is television shows about crime ...
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  • Memory Problems Can Be Prevented And Treated - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Estelle Goldstein
    I don’t care if Dylan Thomas was drinking himself to death while that was being written. It is a sentiment close to my heart, and undoubtedly the stanza of poetry I quote most often. Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rage at close of day Rage, rage against the ...
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  • Internet Pornography IS Addiction - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Oct 24, 2014 from Estelle Goldstein
    I have seen them. Men, who sit in my office and tell me they are addicts to internet pornography. They describe symptoms that have long been regarded as markers of addiction. Dependence — They start feeling poorly, maybe even depressed, if they don’t get their regular quota of ...
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  • Gender Bias in University Admissions - by Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD
    Submitted on Jul 27, 2013 from Estelle Goldstein
    Wait a sec … there are more women applying to college than men, and more women in college than men, so we have to attract more men and women have tougher admissions standards, and nobody seems very worried about this? I think sometimes anonymity is a damned good idea, especially when you are ...
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