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H. Paul Putman III, MD

Jun 8, 20234 min read

Violence and the Mentally Ill: Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental Illness

Are people with mental illnesses more violent than those without them? Many state legislatures have recently acted on the idea that they...

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H. Paul Putman III, MD

Mar 17, 20236 min read

Generic Medications - How Effective? Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental Illness

This new series will discuss some public ideas about mental health and mental illness that may not be firmly grounded in fact or...

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H. Paul Putman III, MD

Dec 5, 20226 min read

Character Sketches: Values, Utopia, and a Man Undeterred

We have been discussing in this series the link between values and self-esteem: how defining the former can inform conscious choices...

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H. Paul Putman III, MD

Apr 6, 20214 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,...

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H. Paul Putman III, MD

Mar 23, 20213 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:...

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H. Paul Putman III, MD

Mar 10, 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...

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H. Paul Putman III, MD

Jan 19, 20214 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...

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H. Paul Putman III, MD

Jan 1, 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...

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H. Paul Putman III, MD

Dec 20, 20203 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...

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H. Paul Putman III, MD

Dec 13, 20201 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...

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