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Somewhat related: http://www.rosenfels.org/Feynman http://www.rosenfels.org/Feynman After the war, Feynman got a "D" from an army psychological evaluation beca
by sampo 2y ago
Somewhat related: http://www.rosenfels.org/Feynman http://www.rosenfels.org/Feynman
After the war, Feynman got a "D" from an army psychological evaluation because he, among other things, told the psychiatrist that he occasionally talks to his late wife.
"Thinks people talk about him. Thinks people stare at him. Auditory hypnogogic hallucinations. Talks to self. Talks to deceased wife."
- romwell 2y agoWell, people sure do talk about him, he was on point there. That's what we're doing now! And why wouldn't he talk to himself? Clearly it would be a conversation with a much more interesting person than most people around him (and yes, I'm aware he worked on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger investigation).
- _yb2s 2y agoIt’s incredible that they are so out of touch they see healthy introspection, and love as mental illness. This reminds me of when I had an actual bacterial infection, couldn’t get my Dr to prescribe antibiotics for it, so I got some on my own and they worked. When I pulled my medical records I saw in my chart something like “inappropriate off label use of prescription medications.”
- redblacktree 2y agoHow did you pull your medical records?
- _yb2s 2y agoI believe it's a legal right to request them. I sent them an official form requesting them, and they sent them to me, as I wanted to transfer my old records to a new doctor. These were old style records, nowadays most of that stuff will be automatically on some type of web portal.
- f1refly 2y agoI think you can just ask your doctor for them? Why would someone deny you your own medical records?
- redblacktree 2y agoI wasn't thinking that it would be denied. My curiosity was more with respect to how easy or difficult it is to request them.
- therobots927 2y agoHow did you acquire the antibiotics?
- _yb2s 2y agoIn this case I already had them- I had previously pulled a muscle that was causing a lot of pain, and a doctor inappropriately prescribed me a course of antibiotics for a physical injury that couldn't possibly be an infection, so I never took them. It really grates me that numerous times I've been inappropriately prescribed antibiotics- but the one time I had a dangerous and debilitating bacterial infection I was unable to obtain them. However many human safe antibiotics are legal to buy for animal use, and many countries sell oral antibiotics for human use over the counter without a prescription. Please- if anyone is reading this, don't use antibiotics inappropriately. Ideally work with a doctor,but if not make sure you actually need them, and you take a full course in the proper dose to avoid creating dangerous resistant strains.
- therobots927 2y agoYeah I don’t want to use them inappropriately. That being said I’ve gotten strep recently a couple times, and both times I wished I just had a few to start taking if the symptoms came on at night or over a weekend. That being said last time I had a sore throat it turned out to be Covid, and I was convinced I had strep again. So if I had my own antibiotics it’s possible I would’ve taken them inappropriately.
- protastus 2y agoI see two sides to this story. By his own account, Feynman thought the psychiatrist was a bullshitter (I can see his point), turned the interview around, trolled him and presented a clearly adversarial attitude.