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Rebuff My Attempt to Help

Brian Tiburzi

Post-Polio Health, Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 2010. Dr. Rhoda Olkin is a Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, as well as Executive Director of the Institute on Disability and Health Psychology. She is a polio survivor and single mother of two grown children. Dr. Stephanie T. Machell is a psychologist in …

Worried about Father (and Mother)

Brian Tiburzi

Post-Polio Health, Volume 27, Number 1, Winter 2011. Dr. Rhoda Olkin is a Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, as well as Executive Director of the Institute on Disability and Health Psychology. She is a polio survivor and single mother of two grown children. Dr. Stephanie T. Machell is a psychologist in …

My Physician Retired

Brian Tiburzi

Post-Polio Health, Volume 27, Number 2, Spring 2011 Ask Dr. Maynard Frederick M. Maynard, MD Question: My physician retired, and my new primary care doctor is “reevaluating” everything. I am nervous because he is questioning my medications, and I am not sure he understands my history. Can you help me understand his approach and offer assuring advice as he and I get …

Lonely, but Dating?

Brian Tiburzi

Post-Polio Health, Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 2012. Dr. Rhoda Olkin is a Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, as well as Executive Director of the Institute on Disability and Health Psychology. She is a polio survivor and single mother of two grown children. QUESTION: I am 66 and widowed for five …