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  Robert Charles Powell, MD, PhD

Sustained curiosity

The online journal of Robert Charles Powell, MD, PhD

“Time after time I have pondered apparent minutiae that turned out to be very important.”
 
“My entire research career –
in history – in medicine – in religion –
in the history of “religion and medicine” –
has grown out of sustained curiosity
about unusual little details.”
 
Dr. Powell, a clinical psychiatrist and medical historian
who hangs around with clinical pastoral chaplains,
always starts off his research with
a nagging question that begs for an answer.
 
“Why do songs by ‘Queen” end up being played at funerals more than the songs by other ‘rock bands’?”
 
“Why do clusters of military folks coming back from the war-zone tend to have clusters of odd lab results?”
 
“Why did those interested in ‘the after-life’ have more kinship with Freud than did academic psychologists?”
 
“Why does a certain “old” and “cheap” medicine now have so much new and expensive research behind it?”
 
“Why do some folks have an almost total inability to explain how they know what emotion they are feeling?
 
“Why did the definite “founder” of “the American psychosomatic movement” have a theology degree?”
 
​“Why do certain “drug addicts” – apparently quite intelligently – choose “this” street drug and not “that” one?
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17 July 2014
Fantastic!
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QUEEN + Adam Lambert at Madison Square Garden

1/17/2019

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"Don't Stop Me Now!"  Training is everything! Brian May has been a rocker for over 50 years! He seemed a bit winded on the opening song, but, then, WOW! On "Stone Cold Crazy!" -- one of Queen's fastest songs -- he got his second wind and kept it! Amazing performance!
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