Dictators have a need to be respected, to be loved, to be adored. The great difficulty most of these dictators encounter however has been that many people do not like them, do not support them and disagree with what they want to do and what they represent. So, what is a dictator to [...]
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Various studies have examined the subject of drug abuse among physicians and have shown that, in general, the rate of illicit drug use is less among doctors than the general public. The rate of abuse of prescription drugs however is considerably greater for physicians, up to five times higher than in the general [...]
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Hippocrates of Cos (460 BC – c370 BC) was a physician of ancient Greece and is considered the father of western medicine. The ‘oath’ attributed to him was first written in Ionic Greek and elaborates on the duties and responsibilities of doctors both to the practice of medicine as well as to patients. One of the [...]
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Anybody who writes (or anybody who delves into the creative arts) realizes how satisfying, frustrating and how addictive the process of putting pen to paper (or today, fingers to keyboard) can be. Perhaps, it is because of this ‘yearning to write’ that, there is such a long history of substance abuse among writers. [...]
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’Madness without delirium‘, ‘moral insanity‘ – these are just two of the terms that had been used until the late 1800s to describe the personality without a conscience, the personality with a lack of social responsiveness. The term ‘psychopath‘ was first coined by a German clinician and since then has been used as [...]
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