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My husband and I talk about this all the time, how some politicians think global warming (or the new PC term, climate change) is false. I know it may be hard to believe when it snows three times in April (and only once in all of January, February and March) but March was the 2nd or 3rd warmest ever and last year was the warmest ever, beating out 2014 by a hair.  2016 looks to end up even warmer. And if we keep going, Manhattan will be under several hundred feet of water in the next century.  But there's no such thing as climate change. Anyway, a new study has found that the threat of climate change has been found to be a key psychological and emotional stressor. According to newswise.com, consequences can range from minimal stress and distress to clinical disorders, such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and suicidal thoughts.  Messages from the media, as well as public communication about climate change, can affect perceptions of physical and s...

I found this pretty amazing.  There's a poet lurking in almost every physician. According to newswise.com,  future physician Paul Rocco Allegra had this to say after encountering death in the anatomy lab, where he and his classmates dissected cadavers. Metal gurney against preserved flesh, maybe this isn’t the first time we’ve met … And this,  in imagining fleeting moments when, in life, the person whose corpse lies before him, might have crossed paths with him.  I hesitate to look at your face, because maybe, just maybe, you’ve looked at mine. The Web site quotes  Allegra, who says, “You see painted fingernails, or freckles or hair,” haunting signs that this preserved mass of organic material was once a person – a human being like him. “You need to stop and reflect and analyze, and poetry does that.” Writes another student,  My pronunciations are shameful. Erythematous. Blah. My cheeks burn. Will patients call me doctor if ...