Tag Archives: Philadelphia
Advocacy vs. Apathy
Posted on September 23, 2014 by Admin This post was authored by Mark Victor, MD, FACC, CEO of Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia, as delivered during ACC’s 2014 Legislative Conference. Over my 33 year career I have witnessed an unimaginable change in the practice of medicine. The certainty of where and how we practiced, relationships with […]
Retreat Not Defeat: Self-Stigma and Mental Health
I have been stable for the past four years, but now my bipolar disorder has resurfaced. It could have been triggered by stress, meds or the weather change — or equal parts of all of these things — but the reality is that I’m unwell. Saturday highlighted this, as I was in a full hypomanic […]
SHOULD ALL PSYCHIATRISTS CARRY GUNS?
Posted on July 26, 2014by artsmuklermd “Yo Dumplin. I’m home,” I called, swaggering into our ranch house. I swaggered because my sidearm, a Colt 45, weighed heavy on my right hip and made me walk funny. “My hero,” Dumplin said, smiling, and dressed in a black bustier and long white skirt. “100,000 followers tweeted that […]










