Farewell, Sad Clown

Robin Williams’ gift to the public was being the world’s wittiest improvisational comic and a heartfelt actor.  He could ad-lib jokes in a spontaneous stream that kept us in stitches and in awe, and move us emotionally with gentle humor on screen. He had been reported to have bipolar disorder.  He had referred to his own inner demons, depression and drug abuse. His struggles and death are illuminating in several ways. Bipolar disorder is characterized by spontaneous, major mood shifts from to...
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Docs, Glocks and Patients

By Robert B. Young, MD A three judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on July 25 that the Florida state law popularly called “Docs vs. Glocks” is indeed constitutional…read more at the Herald-Tribune’s blog, The Gun Writer…
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When a Psychiatrist Shoots to Kill

When a Psychiatrist Shoots to Kill A doctor defended himself and others from a violent patient, but he had to break a no-gun policy to do so. By Robert B. Young ‘More might have died if doctor had not shot gunman” — so read the headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer on July 27. On the previous Thursday, a patient, Richard Plotts, entered the office of his psychiatrist, Lee Silverman, M.D., with his caseworker, Theresa Hunt. Plotts then became very upset and killed Hunt with two shots to her ...
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