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Originally written by Dr. Schubiner on January 1, 2014 Deborah Amos, a reporter for National Public Radio, gave a talk recently about her work in the Middle East. She was discussing the tense and contentious negotiations between the United States and Iraq regarding Iraq’s nuclear...

Originally written by Dr. Schubiner on November 28, 2012 The scandal of cortisone injection material tainted with fungi has created a large burden of illness and death among a small proportion of individuals who received epidural injections for back pain. Calls for better regulation and...

Originally written by Dr. Schubiner on June 1, 2012 The history of medicine consists of two major themes: development of new techniques to study the body and attempts to understand why illness occurs. Often these two themes lead to a synergism that creates a great advance, such as the...

Originally written by Dr. Schubiner on February 7, 2012 The story from upstate New York doesn’t want to go away. There have been at least three national TV spots in the last few weeks about the 12 high school students who have developed tics. Neurologists consider tics and Tourette’s syndrome...

Originally posted by Dr. Schubiner on March 21, 2011 This blog was written by a friend and writer, Jared Egol. He writes eloquently about the patient’s history as “story” and the concept of “narrative medicine,” i.e. seeing the patient’s story as critical to healing. When the person with...

Originally written by Dr. Schubiner on March 7, 2011 If you've seen the Black Swan, you will probably recognize many aspects of Mind Body Syndrome in the protagonist, Nina. She lived in a world where she denied herself pleasure because she had placed too many demands upon herself and her body...

The King’s Speech as Mind Body Syndrome: Finding your voice and reclaiming your life Originally written by Dr. Schubiner on February 20, 2011 If you’ve seen the movie, The King’s Speech, you will immediately recognize that the king suffered from a form of Mind Body Syndrome. He had a very...

Written by Dr. Schubiner on November 26, 2009 One of the great books of the twentieth century is Victor Frankel’s, Man’s Search for Meaning. In the book, he describes the need we have to understand why things happen. When someone gets sick, one of the first questions asked is, “Why did this...