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Comment on David Bransford MD Blog “Loss of Mind” by David Bransford

David Bransford — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:52:11 +0000

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/help-for-the-heart-comes-with-a-price-for-the-brain/?src=me&ref=health
Shortly after Lipitor lost patent rights in USA, studies showing memory loss and diabetes began to appear such as the one above in the NYT. This appears to be true of all the statins for cholesterol reduction.

Comment on An Important Post as to Why I Need to Keep my Practice Going! by Altostrata

Altostrata — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:51:46 +0000

Dr. Bransford, the world desperately needs caring psychiatrists with consciences who will minimize medications. Please know you are valued by patients everywhere.

Comment on David Bransford MD Psychiatry Update as of 2-25-2012 by Sarah Baker

Sarah Baker — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:10:06 +0000

Enjoy your passion for the work! It is clear you are interested in changing the paradigm when it come to working with adolescents. We need to think with our heads and our hearts….Thanks for your thoughts and challenges.

Comment on David Bransford MD More on Psychiatry Updates by Paul Handover

Paul Handover — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:16:45 +0000

Loved the link that the ‘system’ arranged between our two Blogs. Will have a thorough read through soon. P.

Comment on DavidBransfordMD The Selling of Psychiatry by Dedi

Dedi — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:27:07 +0000

Thanks for the utpdae on these teen female sailors. Teens are notorious rish-takers. In this world made ever safer by inventions, conventions, awareness and laws, informed adventure and calculated risk are more important than ever to the soul of the individual. I would rather my teenaged granddaughter attempt to sail around the world alone than engage in other irresponsible risky behaviors, like drinking, drugs, reckless driving, premature sex.

Comment on DavidBransfordMD The Selling of Psychiatry by drbransfordmd

drbransfordmd — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:27:04 +0000

Far too true ! My older brother John is a professor at U Wash Seattle and spends so much of his time across the Pacific in Singapore, China, Thailand, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bransford Seems to love his consulting over there
with many motivated students. dlb

Comment on DavidBransfordMD The Selling of Psychiatry by drbransfordmd

drbransfordmd — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:19:08 +0000

Your Feedback so greatly appreciated & makes so much sense. Thank you !

Comment on DavidBransfordMD The Selling of Psychiatry by Noel Petit

Noel Petit — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:52:30 +0000

Oh and as for the sell of Psychiatry — the bean counters have taken over. If you can put it on a spreadsheet, it must have meaning. We are putting education on a spreadsheet now and if a department doesn’t make money, it will be eased out. Once we are all middle managers (ie, Business Majors), there will be nothing left to manage. We had a student come back after graduate school (Yale) and she was the only American in the Mathematics graduate school!!!!. All the rest are Chinese. I tell my students, don’t worry about studying, there are 10 Chinese who will take your place!

Comment on DavidBransfordMD The Selling of Psychiatry by Noel Petit

Noel Petit — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:45:27 +0000

The cruise vessels are way “over teched” and no doubt the bridge warnings went off all over the place that they were off course. As for their procedures, I don’t know what propulsion they had left but grounding the vessel close to shore is the safest thing to do. It was interesting that Fox News asked this question “what if this accident happened in the middle of the ocean? ” Duh! there are very few rocks in the middle of an ocean that is 2.5 miles deep. I think they will find that once the ship was aground and listing there was little they could do and in the dark I suspect that the Captain couldn’t get back on the ship. In fact, the best course of action for all of the people would have been to stay with the grounded ship and wait until daylight for rescue. So what if the wall is now the floor and vice versa. As we teach in canoeing merit badge “stay with the boat”. The dramatics of the Titanic are so vivid that folks think you will get sucked under by a sinking ship (urban legend). Plus the Titanic was in cold north Atlantic waters and survival in that water was only a few minutes anyway. The water temp there is 40 F. The water in the Med is 70 F and you can survive hours there.

I guess cruise ships will take their lifeboat drills very seriously from now on. Plus an interesting feature of this accident was that 1/2 of the lifeboats were useless once the ship list was too great. If you don’t evacuate the ship immediately, it is almost impossible to do once it is listing. The ship should have called an emergency immediately and gotten folks to their lifeboat stations. (Oh and it would be nice if the crew really knew how to use the lifeboats. I guess they will take that seriously now.)

Next lifeboat you see, look at the instructions and see if you can follow them. I noticed a ferry on a recent trip that had all sorts of complex graphics but they were too cluttered to tell what to do.

Grab a life jacket and jump in. The Med ain’t that cold.

Comment on DavidBransfordMD – Christmas Eve 2011 – a time to reflect! by drbransfordmd

drbransfordmd — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:53:28 +0000

Kris & Alix made a fun Christmas Eve home video – posted now on YouTube
Kris with guitar and Alix with the cat (8-)