Mental Subtraction

In Frank Capra’s 1946 film, It’s a Wonderful Life, an angel named Clarence appears to George Bailey, who is about to jump off a bridge

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Last Time for Everything

As I write this, I just returned from my daughter Courtney’s graduation, as she earned her doctorate degree in physical therapy from the University of

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Your Family’s Story

Howard Gardner, professor of education and psychology at Harvard University, writes many books on leadership and creativity. One book, Leading Minds, demonstrates how a leader

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Seeing What Isn’t There

Last November we lost Aaron T. Beck, a psychiatrist who was a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is

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Information on the Internet

I imagine that when patients enter a physician’s office and makes demands for specific medications after being influenced by an advertisement is perpetually frustrating for

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Making Laws and Sausages

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), a conservative German statesman once famously said, “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.”

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