Bruce Dow, M.D.

This website and blog were created three years ago, in 2012, to promote a book manuscript that I was trying to get published as a book.  The idea was to attract people via social media (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin,YouTube) who could serve…

In a recent New York Times editorial, David Brooks writes about agency, and how the great British writer, George Eliot (1818-1880) acquired it as she matured in her life.  Her novel, Middlemarch, is recognized as one of the finest in the…

PTSD has been called a disorder of sleep, which it certainly seems to be, disrupting both sleep onset and sleep maintenance.  A recently published flow diagram for PTSD treatment indicates trazodone (for inducing sleep) and prazosin (for…