By John M Oldham MD Recently, a feature appeared in The New York Times entitled “The Friendship Advice Experts Swear By” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/well/friendship-make-keep-friends.html). In spite of the corny title, author/journalist Catherine Pearson provides some useful tips called “friendship boosters” to help us strengthen our friendship bonds. Such advice is welcome, since we are challenged by the […]
By John M Oldham MD In a series of earlier blogs (November, 2024 and August, 2025), a link is provided to brief videos I was invited to record for a medical education series hosted by Vumedi.com. Recently, I was asked to provide a new one, which has just been posted, entitled “Personality Disorders Update.” This […]
By John M Oldham MD Many years ago, I made a rule for myself: Never send an angry email until the next day! Whatever the situation (setting the record straight, rebuttal or rejoinder to an unfair criticism, confronting an employee about inappropriate behavior, etc.), just write the email and save it as a draft. Then […]
By John M Oldham MD As Halloween approaches, the networks roll out the horror movies, the scarier the better. Some of us love this scary season and revel in the spooks and goblins. But make-believe witches on broomsticks are one thing; what about blood-drenched monster movies or zombies or the walking dead? There are plenty […]
By John M Oldham MD Not long ago, an interesting piece appeared in the New York Times entitled “What Does It Take to Get Men to See a Doctor?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/magazine/mens-health-doctor-masculinity.html?searchResultPosition=2). The author, Helen Ouyang MD, reports that in the US, men are more likely to die at younger ages than females. And that men die […]
by John M Oldham MD In a previous blog entitled “Trust and treatment of borderline personality disorder” (December, 2021), I provided a link to an article on the same topic in Clinical Psychiatry News, in which several colleagues and I were interviewed about treatment strategies for patients with BPD. I was recently contacted by Vumedi, […]
By John M Oldham MD A psychologist at the University of Toronto, Paul Bloom PhD, wrote an interesting article in a recent issue of The New Yorker entitled “Losing Loneliness” (Bloom, Paul, The New Yorker, July 21, 2025, pp53-57). He refers to a common perception that we are in a “loneliness epidemic,” and that loneliness […]
