{"id":123382,"date":"2024-01-13T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T21:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123382"},"modified":"2024-01-13T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T21:23:24","slug":"doctor-curmudgeon-ouch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123382","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae Ouch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123382\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=123382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/download-12-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/download-12-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/download-12.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Lewis Carroll has said in his narrative poem, The Walrus and the Carpenter:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time has come,&#8221; the Walrus said, &#8220;To talk of many things:<\/p>\n<p>Of shoes\u2014and ships\u2014and sealing-wax\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Of cabbages\u2014and kings\u2014<\/p>\n<p>And why the sea is boiling hot\u2014<\/p>\n<p>And whether pigs have wings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And indeed the time has come for me to speak about an ear. I am confident that Mr. Carroll would approve my talking of the ear of Post-Impressionist artist, Vincent Van Gogh.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ear episode happened on the night of December 23, 1888. Just a few nights before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Van Gogh was living in the south of France, in Arles. He had invited his friend and fellow artist, Paul Gaugin to spend time at his home.<\/p>\n<p>Their relationship was collegial but also frequently argumentative.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of December 23, one of their quarrels reached a boiling point. Van Gogh was known to have mental problems, including bouts of depression. Suffering with delusions he often had psychotic episodes and was a heavy drinker.<\/p>\n<p>There is a great deal of controversy over what actually happened that night. Was his whole ear severed or merely the lobe clipped off? Did he slice his own ear? Or was there foul play? Did Gaugin take a sword to his friend\u2019s ear?<\/p>\n<p>The official thought from the website vincentvangogh.org commented that \u201cGaugin stormed out of the house\u201d after a fierce quarrel that night.<\/p>\n<p>The website continues with the narrative, \u201cIn a fit of madness, Van Gogh grabbed a straight razor and followed, intending his friend harm, but returned home instead. There he used the weapon on himself, slicing off one ear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was an Irish art historian, Bernadette Murphy whose research led to the answer. She was interviewed by Virgie Hoban for the Berkeley Library at the University of California. Murphy found that indeed, the whole ear was chopped off. Her book, Van Gogh\u2019s Ear, describes her research and conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy was allowed to go through the personal items of Irving Stone, Van Gogh\u2019s biographer who wrote Lust for Life.<\/p>\n<p>And she hit pay dirt! She found records from the doctor, Felix Rey, who treated Van Gogh after the incident. And there it was: a drawing depicting an incision around the base of the severed ear.<\/p>\n<p>After the self-mutilation, Vincent Van Gogh went to a psychiatric hospital.<\/p>\n<p>But where did the ear go?<\/p>\n<p>Murphy\u2019s research found that a cleaner who worked at a caf\u00e9 that was frequently visited by Van Gogh was the lucky (or unlucky) recipient of the ear.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy learned that the girl also worked as a maid at a brothel. A local newspaper report stated that Van Gogh gave the young woman the bloody ear outside of the brothel and then she simply fainted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis girl, she didn\u2019t seek him out,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cShe was traumatized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But all I can say is: OUCH!<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Curmudgeon suggests &#8220;Bitter Medicine\u201d, Dr. Eugene Eisman&#8217;s story of his experiences&#8211;from the humorous to the intense&#8212;as a young army doctor serving in the Vietnam War.<br \/>\nBitter Medicine by Eugene H. Eisman, M.D. &#8211;on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitter-Medicine-Doctors-Year-Vietnam\/dp\/0615874347\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae is Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D., a physician-satirist. This column originally appeared on SERMO, the leading global social network for doctors.<br \/>\nSERMO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sermo.com\">www.sermo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist As Lewis Carroll has said in his narrative poem, The Walrus and the Carpenter: &#8220;The time has come,&#8221; the Walrus said, &#8220;To talk of many things: Of shoes\u2014and ships\u2014and sealing-wax\u2014 Of cabbages\u2014and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26055],"class_list":["post-123382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-doctor-curmudgeon-ouch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123382"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}