Tag: Jonathan Lewis
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Jeremiah Kenoyer’s cancer cure
Jonathan D. Lewis The remedies prescribed in the past by many of the learned (and even some unlearned) members of the medical profession were neither evidence-based nor presumably effective (unless the patients got better anyway!). Here are some samples derived from the therapeutic armamentarium of Dr. Jeremiah Kenoyer: Dr. Jerimiah [sic] Kenoyer’s cancer cure Spanish…
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A short story
Jonathan LewisChicago, Illinois, United States “Doctor, it’s good to see you again, but as I have told you many times, it is always good to see you because I feel better the moment I walk into your office. You have helped me in so many ways, but now I have something new to tell you.…
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If Cleopatra were alive today, she would be diagnosed as a borderline personality
Jonathan LewisChicago, Illinois, United States For anyone with the temerity to write about Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf has this amusing warning: “Shakespeare is flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him…one may hazard one’s conjectures privately, make one’s notes in the margin; but, knowing that someone has said it before, or said it better,…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and mental illness in Tender is the Night
Jessica FrostBirmingham, United Kingdom In the 1930’s classic Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Nicole Diver as “a schizoid – a permanent eccentric.”1 However, whether the diagnosis is clinically accurate is a question that arises as the novel explores issues of mental illness and the doctor-patient relationship. The evolution of psychiatry and the…