Memoir: Never saw it coming

What Guidelines? Never Saw Them!

Richard Hockey Because of the nature of the analysis used in this study [1], no conclusion is possible. There are plenty of examples in the literature demonstrating the “ecological fallacy”. Studies such as this have very little utility other than to generate hypotheses. I tend to think that this association is a marker for greater recognition and treatment for depression. However, it’s a brave...

The most memorable patient I never saw.

Soon after midnight, after a busy day on the inpatient psych unit, I slipped into a deep sleep. Then the phone rang in the residents’ on-call room. “Dr. Lazarus?” the voice on the other end inquired. “Yes,” I replied, half asleep. “This is Dr. Hendricks (not her real name) in the ER. Are you the on-call psych resident tonight?” “I am,” I answered drowsily. Every physician knows that nightly awa...

“it never rains it pours!”

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“It never rains it pours!”

The most effective therapy for end stage liver disease is transplantation. Immunosuppression and surgical techniques have improved the long term survival of patients following liver transplantation; this had led to an increase in demand for organs (1). The liver has remarkable regenerative properties and because of this it is possible to transplant part of a liver into an individual. This can b...

I went; I saw: I was never the same!