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The Survival Pledge 2, Part 3: Conversion ≠ Coexistence

(The Survival Pledge is an eight-point plan to refocus each of us on taking responsibility for our own thoughts and behaviors in ways...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Aug 13, 202111 min read

The Survival Pledge 2, Part 2: Meaning and Values

(The Survival Pledge is an eight-point plan to refocus each of us on taking responsibility for our own thoughts and behaviors in ways...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Jul 30, 20216 min read

The Survival Pledge 2, Part 1: The Evolution of Meaning

(The Survival Pledge is an eight-point plan to refocus each of us on taking responsibility for our own thoughts and behaviors in ways...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Jul 18, 20217 min read

The Survival Pledge 1: Acceptance of Mortality

The Survival Pledge is an eight-point plan to refocus each of us on taking responsibility for our own thoughts and behaviors in ways that...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Jun 17, 20216 min read

The Survival Pledge: Peace Through Responsibility

George C. Marshall, of the Marshall Plan, once observed, “If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

May 26, 20212 min read

Dys"Like": Problematic Social Media Use

Many people spend much of their lives developing and maintaining healthy interpersonal boundaries. In the age of social media, however,...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Apr 6, 20214 min read

Shoulders of Giants: Rules of Evidence

In this series we have reviewed some (mostly) famous examples of research in medical science that illustrate paths to future success:...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Mar 23, 20213 min read

Shoulders of Giants: Can Seeing Be Believed?

We have been exploring the important differences between retrospective and prospective studies, clarifying that the latter offer the...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Mar 10, 20213 min read

Shoulders of Giants: Design/Element

It is apocryphal that the psychiatric uses of lithium were discovered due to high levels of the element in the drinking water of cities...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Jan 19, 20214 min read

Shoulders of Giants: Looking Forward or Backward?

It seems hardly arguable that one of the greatest public health triumphs of the twentieth century was the linkage of cigarette smoking...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Jan 1, 20214 min read

Shoulders of Giants: Standing Up to the Crowd

“If you want something done right, do it yourself.”[1] Most current research is published with multiple authors, a mean of 11-18 in three...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Dec 20, 20203 min read

Shoulders of Giants: Theoretical Biology

Question: How many experiments did James Watson and Francis Crick perform to determine the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Dec 13, 20203 min read

Shoulders of Giants: Lessons from Great Research

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Isaac Newton, 1675 Modern society owes much to the Enlightenment...

H. Paul Putman III, MD

Dec 13, 20201 min read