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Split Personality: Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental Illness
In this series we have been reviewing commonly held ideas about mental illness and mental health that, outside of psychiatry, are often...
H. Paul Putman III, MD
Sep 22, 20235 min read
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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...
H. Paul Putman III, MD
Mar 17, 20236 min read
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The Survival Pledge: Creating a Web of Peace and Freedom
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” —Lyndon B. Johnson[1] This post bookends our discussion...
H. Paul Putman III, MD
Jan 21, 20223 min read
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The Survival Pledge 8: Mastering the Art of Not Knowing
(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
Jan 7, 20225 min read
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The Survival Pledge 7: Faith, Hope and Charity
(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
Nov 19, 20214 min read
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The Survival Pledge 6: "Rights" and Wrongs
(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
Oct 22, 20217 min read
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The Survival Pledge 5: Mea Culpa
(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
Oct 8, 20217 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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