Ill-Informed, Uplifted, and Unaware: A Psychiatrist Lives With a Condition Under His Purview

Abstract

As part of a series of autobiographical case reports about physicians reporting on their own medical afflictions, a psychiatrist reflects on his lifelong experience with an illness under his discipline's purview.

Pneumatic Retinopexy: Confronting Ocular Disease With Visual Art

“…Were they sent from a source of inspiration or of stress? From the beginning, he had been open about his mental health, both past and present [ 3 , 4 ]. Our formal check-ins via Zoom (San Jose, CA) somewhat quieted my concerns and led me to the conclusions that (1) he was an extremely productive person, supposedly on prolonged bed rest for a detached retina, and (2) art was as much escape as solace for both of us.…”