There will be a book signing at Millwood Hospital at Cooper and I-30 in Arlington on March 21 at 10:30 AM. Susan Mary Malone and I will be discussing our new book, What’s Wrong With My Family? And How To Have Your Best Life Anyway, and have a time for questions and answers and personal...

The recent election of the Pope has brought the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal back into popular attention. As more victims come forward, the extent of this cover up can be better appreciated. Pedophilia is common across religions and cultures, but why is it so prominent in churches, the one place assumed to be safe?...

What’s Wrong With My Family? And How To Have Your Best Life Anyway, is now available in print and all e-book formats. Both can be purchased on Amazon. This is the second book I’ve written with my sister, Susan Mary Malone, and describes how a family should work, as well as how they, inevitably, go...

I recently spoke with a distressed woman in her 50’s who said her mother had died and her sister refused to speak to her dad. This had been going on over two years. Her sister felt slighted at the funeral and refused to speak to the father, now 76, with extreme distress to him and...

Interact and ask questions of Dr. Malone by clicking the Facebook icon on the upper right of this page. This will link you to his Facebook fan page, where he will be happy to take comments and answer questions. Click “Books” to link to the sites to purchase books, including What’s Wrong With My Family?...

So, Manti Te’o, Notre Dames starting linebacker, loses his girlfriend to cancer the same day his grandparent dies, but stoically plays on in a very public, heartwarming drama. Te’o’s Heisman stock  soars as he is seen as a role model for young people in the mold of Roger Staubach, the antithesis to today’s self serving...

As the horror of the Sandy Hook massacre begins to fade, the country and politicians are debating what they feel are the “real” issues behind this tragedy. Lip services has been giving to the lack of mental health funding and weak commitment laws, and all the energy is going into the old fight between liberals...

Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic are using fMRI studies of bipolar and normal subjects to locate the parts of the brain effected by these illnesses. Scans reveal a disorder of connectivity between the Amydala and the anterior cingulate cortex, which is normalized by the use of a mood stabilizer (lithium). The fMRI scans can tract...

A new study has confirmed the rate of eating disorders and obesity among doctors to be 15%, which is at least three times the rate in the general population. How can this be? We physicians put ourselves out as the experts on health and often have poor self care. Medical training and practice are extremely...