A simple tip for peace of mind … for the modern patient
Preamble
A patient who had a PCI some time back , asked me in one of his recent visit.
Doctor what is microvascular endothelial dysfunction and erosison ? Am I at risk of developing it ?
What am I supposed to answer ? Yes, I some how managed .” Don’t worry , it is a complex biological phenomenon. you need not go deeper into that. Take medicines regularly” He wasn’t happy with my answer is a different story.
A simple tip for peace of mind … for the modern patient
If the current generations of patients , equipped with hyper-knowledge engines, insist to understand 100% about the...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - August 20, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: patient education ai in medicine faith trust in doctors patient behaviour patient empowerment technology in mediine Source Type: blogs
THCB 20th Birthday Classic: McKinsey wants to inspire lots of change; caveat emptor
by MATTHEW HOLT
So to celebrate 20 years, we’ll be publishing a few classics for the next week or so. This is one of my faves from the early days of THCB, back in 2006. It’s interesting to compare it with Jeff Goldsmith’s NEW piece from yesterday on vertical integration because at the time a pair of Harvard professors, Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg were telling hospitals to change their operations in a way that seemed to me were going to destroy their business–cut down to one or two service lines they were best at and stop with the rest. McKinsey picked up on this and I went to town on wh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care Elizabeth Teisberg Hospitals Matthew Holt Mckinsey Michael Porter Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 14th 2023
This study demonstrates just how vital the thymus is to maintaining adult health."
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Does Amyloid-β Aggregation Cause Broad Disruption of Proteostasis?
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/08/does-amyloid-%ce%b2-aggregation-cause-broad-disruption-of-proteostasis/
Researchers here speculate on the ability of insoluble amyloid-β aggregates to be broadly disruptive of the solubility of many other proteins, and thus disruptive to cell and tissue function. Is this important in aging? The evidence here shows the existence of the mechanism in a lower species, but that doesn't ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How Cuff Size Impacts Blood Pressure Measurement Accuracy – The Study
Conclusion
The journey through the nuances of blood pressure measurements unveils a pivotal lesson: individuality matters. The convenience of a one-size-fits-all approach, while appealing, may not stand up to the rigorous demands of health accuracy.
Each person’s uniqueness, from their arm size to their health conditions, necessitates a tailored approach, especially when it comes to something as vital as blood pressure readings.
Yet, the responsibility doesn’t just lie with the medical professionals. As readers, as individuals, there’s a clarion call for proactivity. Being informed, asking quest...
Source: The EMT Spot - August 10, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Globalization and occupation therapy - a continued musing.
I have been talking about the implications of globalization on the occupational therapy profession for quite some time - it started off withblog posts here and then apresentation at OT24VX in 2015. Then I gave the topic a whole chapter inmy theory textbook in 2019. Then there were more blog postshereandhere.In sum, I am uncertain if occupational therapy is a unitary global profession, although I now add this caveat:at least as understood in the publications of academics. I add this caveat now because I am uncertain if the things that people in academia write about truly reflects actual practice in oth...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - August 10, 2023 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: blogs
In the Long Run, Even Baseline Humans Will Live for a Very, Very Long Time
It is at present somewhat out of style to point out that, yes, obviously, it will be possible in the future to ensure that humans live for a very, very long time. That will be true for even baseline humans lacking all of the various genetic modifications one might propose a future scientific community to be capable of, modifications to introduce the numerous distinct forms of resilience to the mechanisms of mammalian aging exhibited by naked mole-rats, whales, elephants, bats and so forth. Control over aging is a subset of control over molecules and their positions. To be as reductionist as possible, degenerative aging is ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 9, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
I Think This Would Be A Good Time To Rethink The Place And Role Of The AIDH.
The
departure a week or so ago of the previous substantive CEO of the AIDH (Dr
Louise Schaper) has provided an opportunity to some fundamentals of the Aust.
Institute Of Digital Health (AIDH) to be re-examined and questioned.
Among these
are:
Is change
needed to the structures and functions of the AIDH?
Should the
Academic functions and the Conference Organising functions be separated?
Does (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
NeuroFlow Acquires Parent Company of BHL and BHL Touch to Expand and Support the Delivery of Integrated Behavioral Health Throughout the VA and Other Healthcare Partners
The Virginia-Based Technology Firm, Capital Solution Design, Owner of Behavioral Health Lab (BHL) and BHL Touch, Works with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs among other Leading Healthcare Organizations to Improve Access to Behavioral Healthcare
NeuroFlow, the leading provider of behavioral health technology infrastructure, today announced that it has acquired Capital Solution Design (CSD), the parent company of Behavioral Health Lab (BHL) and BHL Touch, a leading provider of measurement-based care solutions for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other healthcare organizations. The acquisition makes CS...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Behavioral Health Lab BHL BHL Touch Capital Solution Design Cerner Chris Molaro CSD Dr. Dave Oslin Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A John Boles Kent Reynolds MIRECC NeuroFlow U.S. Departm Source Type: blogs
Still Here: My Experience with Repeating a Year of Medical School
On a hot and humid July afternoon, the white coat ceremony for the class of 2025 at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine was in full swing. Not even the threat of a giant thunderstorm, which happens often during the summer in Miami, could dampen the excitement of 150 aspiring physicians and their families. I walked onstage, slipped on brand-new white coat, and accepted the coveted “medical student” title I had spent years working for. I thought about why I was embarking on this journey: my family of Vietnam War refugees, my brother who has autism, and my father who suddenly passed a...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 1, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Laura Siegel Tags: 1st Year Med Student Motivation Resilience Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 31st 2023
In conclusion, an SBP level below 130 mmHg was found to be associated with longevity among older women. The longer SBP was controlled at a level between 110 and 130 mmHg, the higher the survival probability to age 90. Preventing age-related rises in SBP and increasing the time with controlled BP levels constitute important measures for achieving longevity.
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Source: Fight Aging! - July 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Call for Submissions for Round 3 of the Impetus Grants, $10M for Aging Research Proposals
The Impetus Grants project has for the past few years aimed to make rapid, low-overhead philanthropic grants to researchers in order to accelerate aging research. While choosing to funding specific proposals, the organizers appear to keep the bigger picture in mind. One might not agree with their chosen directions, but they do try to support work that would otherwise not be supported. The recent call for submissions for the August 2023 $10 million round of grants starts out on a contrarian note, in search of projects that can stress test existing directions and theories in the field, and ends with a thought on accelerating...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 28, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
The Repair Biotechnologies View of Cholesterol Pathology at the 2023 Foresight Longevity Workshop
I attended the Foresight Institute's 2023 Longevity Frontiers Workshop earlier in the year. This event series provides a chance to make connections with some of the longevity industry figures and academic researchers in the field of aging that are associated with the Bay Area venture and futurist communities. The format this year was rapid-fire seven minute presentations and longer discussions; the presentations are shared online. I presented an informal, abbreviated version of the Repair Biotechnologies viewpoint on the role of cholesterol in aging and disease, trying to cover at least the important points in the time all...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 27, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
Closing the Gap: Why Healthcare Needs More Gender Diversity in Leadership
The following is a guest article by Dr. Erica Barnell, MD, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at Geneoscopy
Women comprise 70% of the healthcare workforce and 59% of medical, biomedical, and health sciences graduates, yet are the minority at leadership levels — holding only 25% of senior executive roles. As a result, the lack of women in significant decision-making positions is evident.
According to U.S. Census estimates, no single ethnic or racial group will represent a majority of the U.S. population by 2055. The potential for more positive patient care experiences, greater innovation, and improved organizatio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Dr. Erica Barnell Dr. Erica Barnell MD PhD Gender Bias Gender Diversity in Healthcare Leadership Geneoscopy Women in Healthcare Women in Leadership Women in STEM Women's H Source Type: blogs
Outpatient Vascular Care: Good, bad or ugly?
BY ANISH KOKA
Filling in the holes of recent stories in the New York Times, and Propublica on the outpatient care of patients with peripheral arterial disease
Most have gotten used to egregiously bad coverage of current events that fills the pages of today’s New York Times, but even by their now very low standards a recent telling of a story about peripheral artery disease was very bad.
The scintillating allegation by Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff is that “medical device makers are bankrolling doctors to perform artery clearing procedures that can lead to amputations...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka Medical Devices Outpatient vascular care Source Type: blogs
Thinking on Your Feet Well: Building Adaptive Expertise in Learners Using Simulation
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Sam Clarke, MD, MAS, and Jon Ilgen, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss the importance of teaching adaptive expertise to prepare learners for the types of complex cases they will encounter in clinical practice. This conversation also covers what adaptive expertise is, how simulation can be used to foster this skill in learners, and the complementary relationship between performance-oriented cases and adaptive cases in health professions education.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available.
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 24, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast adaptive expertise medical education medical students residents simulation Source Type: blogs
