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As we take this blog's energy to a new project, build with us...It's time. It's time to take the energy from this blog, which has served as the intial experimental space and the foundation for a larger project, to a bigger space. The same notorious team who put this blog together (Andru Ziwasimon and myself) and an amazing team of others (including my brother Nalin) have created the first (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - July 20, 2007 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Anjali Taneja Source Type: blogs
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Support the Bhopalis right to live.6 strong Bhopalis are on a hunger strike right now, demanding action on 6 important areas (health care, economic rehabilitation, cleanup of toxic wastes are 3 of them) that have been neglected by Union Carbide and Dow for the last 22 years since the deadly disaster in Bhopal in 1984. Today, the world community is rallying behind the courageous community in (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - March 14, 2007 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Anjali Taneja Source Type: blogs
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There's always the option of self-diagnosing...From yesterday's Dilbert (click on the cartoon for an enlarged, easier-to-read view):more Dilbert cartoons here. (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - February 19, 2007 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Anjali Taneja Source Type: blogs
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"Medicine is a noble profession. You render it shameful."...or "the tale of an unlucky appendix, at the hands of the daughters of charity, in the city of angels."Robert IssaiPresident and CEODaughters of Charity Health System26000 Altamont Rd.Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-4317 Dear Mr. Issai: I recently suffered from appendicitis, and was admitted to the emergency room at Saint Vincent Medical (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - February 15, 2007 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Anjali Taneja Source Type: blogs
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An unfinished poem... I don't know if I will ever finish it, so here it is. Not sure if it works or flows.SriOn AIDS in Tanzania Something as simple as a pill in the palm of her hand This Tanzanian woman Sings as she breast feeds They say it was the rain But it was always my tears and sweat Which brought up the maize They said the railroads Will bring a new day But it was (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - February 10, 2007 Category: Family Physicians Authors: srijeeva Source Type: blogs
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We did it! Our clinic has a new home.I've been silent the past two months. Activity at the clinic has boomed and during the month of December we began moving the clinic to our new building. I probably put in 16 hour days for the past month working with 30-40 other volunteers doing tiling, bamboo flooring, wall painting, moving massively heavy x-ray machines and hydraulic exam tables, and setting (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - January 4, 2007 Category: Family Physicians Authors: andru Source Type: blogs
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Goin' to Tanzania, Kenya feel me now?January will be a good month. Partly because it's a new year and everyone likes to be optimistic about a new year. But in addition, I'll be visiting a continent I've never before stepped foot on, and that's damn exciting. I'm heading to Tanzania and Kenya (for a whole month) in just a few days!Even better, i'm heading there with 10 friends -- all resident (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - December 26, 2006 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Anjali Taneja Source Type: blogs
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Did you put something in your ear?Yesterday I worked a long 12 hour shift (yes, there are short 12 hour shifts and long 12 hour shifts) in the pediatrics emergency room at a county hospital as part of my pediatrics experience during my family medicine residency training. I didn't end up leaving the hospital until a while after my shift ended because I wanted to tie up loose ends and make sure (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - December 16, 2006 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Anjali Taneja Source Type: blogs
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Why do we clamp or cut the cord at birth?If you are a medical student, resident, doctor or L and D nurse, have you ever wondered why we are so quick to cut the cord? Is there evidence or proof or a serious reason or any thinking at all behind this nationwide medical tradition?I was told during medical school that we cut the cord to prevent the baby from getting too much blood and being iron (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - November 26, 2006 Category: Family Physicians Authors: andru Source Type: blogs
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Topahkal Clinic growing and movingNovember 2006We are approaching the beginning of our third year of business as a fair priced, hassle-free, primary care clinic offering holistic same-day medical services to low-income people in New Mexico. Our patients have come from as far away as Juarez, Mexico and Denver, Colorado, people referred to us by family or friends. We are seeing 20-25 patients (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - November 23, 2006 Category: Family Physicians Authors: andru Source Type: blogs
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Shock and Awe: thoughts on the UCLA taser incidentMy friend Vivek is a law student at UCLA and writes at a wonderful blog called Your Good Name. He participated in a protest organized by UCLA students, on the issue of a Persian-American student who was tasered (stunned by a stun gun with 50,000 volts) several times by community police in the university library. And he had this to say about the (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - November 20, 2006 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Anjali Taneja Source Type: blogs
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Angels and ChildrenHanging from the light in my exam room is a "flying angel" made of wood. Most people don't look up much, and if adults have noticed it, they haven't said anything. It's there as a message to spiritual and religious people to let them know they and their beliefs are welcome in the clinic, that we honor angels and mystery, of all kinds.Twice now children have noticed the angel (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - November 5, 2006 Category: Family Physicians Authors: andru Source Type: blogs
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Family Practice Office UPDATE - Successes and MovingOur little boutique medicine clinic for poor people has taken a few interesting and big growth steps over the past few months. I'm personally shocked and pleased that things are working out so well. I almost feel like we are defying gravity, breaking some physical laws of the universe but as I watch the patient volume grow by word of mouth, (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - November 3, 2006 Category: Family Physicians Authors: andru Source Type: blogs
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Geek and non-Geek activists throw down together!I wish I had known about the Web of Change conference earlier — I’d be there in a second. I’m not a techy much myself (although in my circle of like-minded doctor folk, I come off as one, because I know what a “blog” is, but more so because I’m psychotically fascinated by how the internet and the "web 2.0" can help facilitate community building and (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - October 12, 2006 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Anjali Taneja Source Type: blogs
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the "Green-House" of Healthcare:For the past 7 years i've wanted to build a greenhouse on the south side of my house. it would reduce my $400-500 monthly winter heating bill, as well as add some beauty and capacity for winter veggies. three years ago i drew up some plans and got started and three years later i'm almost done with the foundation and frame... i call it turtle construction, slow (Source: to the teeth)
Source: to the teeth - September 11, 2006 Category: Family Physicians Authors: andru Source Type: blogs
