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- Act Like Wonder Woman And Become Wonder Woman - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinFor 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” ...
Views: 2655(1 vote) - The Man Who Was Born With His Feet On Backwards - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinYou 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 ...
Views: 2524 - Take Care Of Yourself So You Can Take Care Of Others - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2008 from Estelle GoldsteinGreetings 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 ...
Views: 2181 - Emotional Freedom Technique Sjogren's Syndrome Success - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2008 from Estelle GoldsteinMr. 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 ...
Views: 2088 - Cefaly, the Anti-Migraine Device - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinThis 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 ...
Views: 2086 - This Is Not A Diet Book - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Estelle GoldsteinWARNING: 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 ...
Views: 1901(1 vote) - Penn State Child Abuse: The Coverup Is Worse Than The Crime - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2011 from Estelle GoldsteinSo 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 ...
Views: 1624(1 vote) - MEMORY TESTS - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinThe 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). ...
Views: 1610(1 vote) - Being A Quitter Isn't Always Bad -- With Cults - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1585 - Cefaly, the Anti-Migraine Device - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinThis 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 ...
Views: 1564 - Teens and Inhalant Addiction and — K2 Spice? - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinThe 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 ...
Views: 1498 - Cialis, OTC, and Men - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1454 - What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Sinus Headaches - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1449 - Penn State Sports Scandal Destroys Lives - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2011 from Estelle GoldsteinA 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 ...
Views: 1435(2 votes) - I Lost Over Half My Body Mass WITHOUT Diet, Exercise, Drugs Or Surgery And I Am Going To Tell You How! - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1408(1 vote) - A Tough Pill To Swallow - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2008 from Estelle GoldsteinEvery 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 ...
Views: 1364 - A Lesson In Dealing With Anti-Social Personalities - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2009 from Estelle GoldsteinHe 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 ...
Views: 1355(1 vote) - This Is Not A Diet Book - by Submitted on May 26, 2011 from Estelle GoldsteinWARNING: 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 ...
Views: 1287 - Freedom And Mental Health - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinFreedom 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 ...
Views: 1262 - More Fake Diet Methods On The Market - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1223 - Death By Tattoo - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinCan 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 ...
Views: 1201 - Mental Health In Women - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinMaybe 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 ...
Views: 1193 - Bureaucracy, What It Is and Why I hate It - by 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 ...
Views: 1140(1 vote) - Psychiatrists Don’t Just Talk About Sex - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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? ...
Views: 1130(1 vote) - Topic: Xyrem and Doctors - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinI’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 ...
Views: 1129 - The Speech That Made An Unwilling Addict Go To Rehab - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1124 - Babies Born Addicted - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1116 - Newsletter - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2011 from Estelle GoldsteinWelcome! 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 ...
Views: 1115 - Memory Problems Can Be Prevented And Treated - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1106 - The Drug That Doesn't Help But Is Still Available - by Submitted on Jan 16, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1106(2 votes) - Adjusting to Medical Illness - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinThe 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 ...
Views: 1104(2 votes) - Why I Have Not and Will Not Take Tamiflu - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinThis 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, ...
Views: 1102 - Alarmism vs. Real Worries About Beer - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1099 - Pets Are Okay, But I Love Humans - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinAnimal 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 ...
Views: 1098 - Bureaucracy, What It Is And Why I hate It - by 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 ...
Views: 1092 - Assaults On Psychiatrists - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1075 - Want To Waste Time? Argue Science VS Religion - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1067 - Cynicism and Alzheimer’s - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinMost 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 ...
Views: 1064 - Families Often Indicate Psychiatric Problems - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinThe 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 ...
Views: 1064 - Internet Pornography IS Addiction - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 1061 - Why Would a Forensic Scientist Run Amok? - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinLike 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 ...
Views: 1056(1 vote) - They’re Ba-a-a-a-ck!!! Zombie Diet Drugs!!! - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinTo paraphrase some recent political campaigns, the FDA was against Qnexa before they were for it. I’ve written about this diet drug compound before – HERE And HERE. Last time I wrote about this “drug,” I thought it was down for the count. Aauugghh!!!! Like a scene from “Night Of The ...
Views: 1030 - Let Me Tell You ‘Bout The Bees (Maybe The Birds Later) - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinWhen I first saw in a headline somewhere that the earth’s population of honeybees was diminishing, I actually thought it might be a good thing. Less bee stings. I cannot count the number of patients I have seen (particularly males young enough to harbor delusions of their own ...
Views: 1018(1 vote) - No More Cognitive Loss for Age - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2012 from Estelle GoldsteinDo Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, that old Dylan Thomas poem, is a favorite of many mature adults, including me. Do not go gentle into that good night Rage, Rage against the dying of the light Let’s face it — none of us is getting any younger. And as we age, we’ve got to ...
Views: 984 - Dangers of Energy Drinks - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinPeople 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 ...
Views: 979 - Meet Dr. Receptacle - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI first learned that I was a “receptacle personality” in Baltimore, Maryland. I was serving our fine country in the US Army Medical Corps as psychiatrist to the 82nd Airborne Division in Ft. Bragg. NC There was some sort of a training group there that all of the other active duty ...
Views: 977 - Anti-Obesity Discrimination and Obesity Treatment - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 971 - Your life, Your Work – What’s The Difference? - by Submitted on Oct 10, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinI 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 ...
Views: 964 - Men Aren’t What They Used To Be - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2013 from Estelle GoldsteinMen. 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 ...
Views: 953 - Your Family Really Can Kill You - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2014 from Estelle GoldsteinOnly 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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