{ articles: { 309 : { title : "Refusal of Medical Treatment in Patients Who Attempted Suicide", category : "medicine", permlink : "https://erraticwisdom.com/2017/07/04/refusal-of-medical-treatment-in-patients-who-attempted-suicide", excerpt : "Case Summary 1,2,3 Kerrie Wooltorton was a 26-year-old woman with a history of mental illness and prior suicide attempts with anti-freeze ingestion who presented to the emergency department of a..." }, 308 : { title : "The Ethics of Practicing Procedures on the Nearly Dead", category : "medicine", permlink : "https://erraticwisdom.com/2015/10/31/the-ethics-of-practicing-procedures-on-the-nearly-dead", excerpt : "The report from the field was not promising by any stretch, extensive trauma, and perhaps most importantly unknown “downtime” (referencing the period where the patient received no basic care like..." }, 307 : { title : "The Ethics of Teaching Hospitals", category : "ethics", permlink : "https://erraticwisdom.com/2013/10/02/the-ethics-of-teaching-hospitals", excerpt : "I can’t imagine what the patient was thinking. Seeing my trembling hands approaching the lacerations on his face with a sharp needle. I tried to reassure him that I knew what I was doing, but the..." }, 303 : { title : "Conscious Conversation: Behavioral Science", category : "conversation", permlink : "https://erraticwisdom.com/2013/09/03/conscious-conversation-behavior-science", excerpt : "Dr. Eran Zaidel is a professor of Behavioral Neuroscience and faculty member at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA. His work focuses on hemispheric specialization and interhemispheric interaction..." }, 305 : { title : "Progress Report", category : "social", permlink : "https://erraticwisdom.com/2012/07/15/progress-report", excerpt : "Two years down, I’m still going. The next two years are my clinical rotations, the actual hands-on training. It’s a scary prospect, responsibilities and such; but it’s equally exciting, after..." }, 304 : { title : "Why Medical School Should Be Free", category : "social", permlink : "https://erraticwisdom.com/2012/07/02/why-medical-school-should-be-free", excerpt : "There’s a lot of really great doctors out there, but unfortunately, there’s also some bad ones. That’s a problem we don’t need to have, and I think it’s caused by some problems with the..." }, 302 : { title : "The Cerebellum: a model for learning in the brain", category : "Consciousness", permlink : "https://erraticwisdom.com/2011/11/24/the-cerebellum-a-model-for-learning-in-the-brain", excerpt : "I know, it’s been a while. Busy is no excuse though, as it is becoming clear that writing for erraticwisdom was an important part of exercising certain parts of my brain that I have neglected..." }, 300 : { title : "Conscious Conversation: Philosophy", category : "conversation", permlink : "https://erraticwisdom.com/2010/10/08/conscious-conversation-philosophy", excerpt : "Daniel Black, author of Erectlocution, was kind enough to chat with me one day and we had a great discussion – have a listen." } } }