Psychiatric Times April 2005
Vol. XXII
Issue 4

Within recent medical times psychologic investigations have reawakened interest in the psychological settings in which illness develops. Reports in the literature have singled out loss as a precipitating factor in a variety of disorders ... including ulcerative colitis.

--Arthur H. Schmale Jr., M.D.

It was a time when men wore fedoras

banded on the crown, each band with a feather

tucked into a bow, and inside,

sweat bands carved from calf skins