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Mayo Sojourn: All in the Waiting
I had a strange experience, on my second day of tests at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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The Oath of Mediocrates
I thought this could be a group project. The Hippocratic Oath and Oath of Maimonides are both used at the conclusion of medical training. This is my…
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Paradigm shifts and 3D tic-tac-toe: thinking about time in psychotherapy
In Madeleine Thien’s philosophical, millennia-spanning novel, “The Book of Records,” the stories of Hannah Arendt, Baruch Spinoza and the Chinese poet…
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Life Lessons from the Wind River Mountains
At the age of 19, in 1985, I flew into Landers, Wyoming, for a month-long wilderness course in the Wind River Mountains.
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Written on her soul: Jouissance and the inheritance of daughters
This post is dedicated to my mother, Ida May Mahler, may her name be a blessing. And to Dr. Nancy Chodorow, with gratitude.
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Great Medscape article on language in chronic illness
Please scroll down within the paper to the table of "Never Words"- things doctors should not say to patients, and alternatives.
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I am "WOMI," Hear Me Roar!
A doctor's disenfranchisement, as a patient with complex medical illness.
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Susan T. Mahler, MD
I am a writer and psychiatrist in private practice in the Berkshires, MA. I am interested in shame, the medical humanities, and literature.

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