Adam Blatner
Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner
An Ethical Will (Part 1)
I brought up the idea of the ethical will with my son and we were wondering together what kind of words, what heritage, did we wish to impart to his kids, my grandkids, others. (Whoa! as of today, over 100,000 hits!) The ethical will is an old Jewish tradition in which we write a letter […]
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On Hypocrisy and Duplicity
I was reading a humor book in which one of the themes is the two-column list of what “he said” and what he really thought but would not say—or how that phrase might be covering a more mundane or less favorable reality. There are other lists of she said and what she meant; or what […]
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Psychological Literacy: Further Comments
In the June 7, 2010 issue of the New Yorker on page 21 there is an article about whether college is really cost-effective. My attention was caught by the statement that skills appropriate to the workplace include the ability to “resolve conflict and negotiate,” “cooperate with others,” and “listen actively.” What strikes me here is […]
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Cartoons from Medical School (Fourth Year)
These are cartoons drawn during classes and included in our yearbook for the class of 1963 at the University of California Medical Center. Rotations in various specialties—Ob-Gyn; ENT; Internal Medicine (Joking with Dr. John Carbone), wrote letters to the referring docs, etc. (click to enlarge) See: 1st year in medical school For 2nd year For […]
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Cartoons from Medical School (Third Year)
These are cartoons drawn during classes and included in our yearbook for the class of 1963 at the University of California Medical Center. In the third year, we learned surgical techniques in dog surgery, worked doing “scut work” for the interns at San Francicsco General Hospital, rotated in Pediatrics, at some clinics. (click to enlarge) […]
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Cartoons from Medical School (Second Year)
(Click to enlarge) See: 1st year in medical school For 3rd Year For 4th year.
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Cartoons from Medical School (First Year)
When I went to med school at the University of California at San Francisco (class for 1963) — they have a big ol’ medical center there up on Parnassus Heights just southeast of Golden Gate Park—I would sometimes cartoon during lectures. Sort of multi-tasking. These came to be included in a yearbook we did for […]
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Scriptology Notes (about Alphabets and Writing Systems)
Also: see Bibliography on Scriptology Aspects of Scriptology The History of Writing in General: The history and rich cultural lore of specific writing systems and languages Contemporary political influences in changing writing systems Ancient Writing: Decipherment, Archaeology The Evolution of Specific Developments in Writing: Numbers, Punctuation, Standardized Forms, Direction of writing., Calligraphy, Typography Writing Materials: […]
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Epistemology and Depth Psychology
Epistemology is that branch of philosophy that inquires into the problem of how we know what we know. Can some of what we think we know be illusions or errors? How could that be? Can Truth be known? Reality? The first point here is that most people seem to buy into the idea that truth […]
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Re-Doing Your Philosophy of Life
Everyone generates a meaning system. Most often it is an unconscious set of assumptions that help you make sense out of things. Alfred Adler (a physician who was an earlier associate of Freud but then dropped away because of his own independent ideas) observed that children around the age of five begin to have provisional […]
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