Confessions of a disruptive physician
At the lowest depths of burnout, I was a “disruptive physician.” I got away with a lot. I frequently lashed out in anger with inappropriate comments to nurses and staff. I yelled at my husband and my kids. I was in full “victim” mode and I let everyone know it. As an OB/GYN, I was
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Confessions of a disruptive physician originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 5, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Beverly Joyce, MD Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Famous Connections – a new parlour game
I’m sure someone will tell me this has been done, but having come up with a silly meme idea on Twitter, I was thinking of a game that’s a hybrid between Six Degrees of Separation and Mornington Crescent.
Title: Famous Connections
Objective: To be the last player holding all the chips
Players: Four or more
Materials: Ten chips per player, a designated referee, a timer
Setup: Each player starts with ten chips. All players contribute one chip to the kitty
Gameplay: The player deemed oldest/youngest/tallest/shortest begins the game. The starting player states a famous name from any field, real or fictional. The n...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 5, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Education Fiction Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: A public health lesson
Psalm 90 is attributed to Moses. At least David might have existed, although he certainly did not write the psalms attributed to him. Moses is an entirely fictitious character. We know for a fact that the Egyptian captivity and the exodus never happened. But I ' ll give the writer this much credit -- the human lifespan of 70 years was probably pretty accurate at the time, in the sense that it was about the longest people could hope to live. You may recall that in Genesis 6:3 God says the human lifespan will be 120 years, and that many of the characters in Genesis lived for hundreds of years. However, life expectancy -...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 3, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Breaking News: Judy Faulkner from Epic Sneezed
We just got a special report coming out of Verona, WI that Judy Faulkner sneezed. Our source which wanted to remain confidential for fear of retribution said that they were walking down the hall of Emerald City office and as they passed a conference room, they heard someone sneeze. Once they heard the startling noise, they looked up and saw Judy Faulkner with her hand to her mouth.
Those at Epic said that Judy’s sneeze was spreading like wildfire on the internal Epic Teams channel. Employees weren’t sure what the sneeze meant and they were trying to help each other process such a reaction from the visiona...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company April Fool's Day Fun Friday Personal Musings Source Type: blogs
Interview with Stefany Shaheen: Revolutionizing diabetes care through cell therapies
I had the extraordinary opportunity to chat with Stefany Shaheen, the Chief Strategy Officer of Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) and BioFab USA, about the transformative potential of cell therapies for individuals living with diabetes. Stefany shared her remarkable journey, insights on cell therapies’ current status, approval challenges, and how the diabetes community can contribute to advancing research in this field.
A few months before this discussion with Stefany, I had the opportunity to hear Dean Kamen speak at the recent ...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - April 1, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Sadly, no
Psalm 89 is quite lengthy so it will be our only text for the day. I ' m afraid I can ' t do anything special for Easter because we haven ' t gotten to the messianic prophecies yet. It isn ' t clear when Psalm 89 was written, but Ethan the Ezrahite was an associate of King Solomon, mentioned in Kings 4:31. One problem is that the (probably fictional) reign of Solomon as described in Kings does not include any of the hard times evoked here. It was a time of prosperity, military strength, and conquest. It could refer to the invasion by Pharaoh Shisak during the reign of Rehoboam, after the civil war that saw the northern kin...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 31, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Investigating the Primary Cilium: Q & A With Xuecai Ge
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Xuecai Ge.
The brain is a large and complex organ, but some very small structures guide its development. Xuecai Ge, Ph.D., an associate professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Merced (UC Merced), has devoted her career to understanding one of these structures called the primary cilium. In an interview, Dr. Ge shared how her childhood experience inspired her to study science and what makes the primary cilium fascinating.
Q: How did you first become interested in science?
A: When I was a little kid, my mom was a primary care doctor, and I saw her treat patients...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 27, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Cellular Processes Profiles Source Type: blogs
This Week ’ s Health IT Jobs
As most of you know, we’ve had a healthcare IT job board called Healthcare IT Central for a long time. In fact, it was integral to the growth of Healthcare IT Today. While we happily helped many health IT professionals find jobs and healthcare organizations fill their health IT positions, our focus has definitely moved from growing the job board to the content, podcasts, and videos we have been doing on Healthcare IT Today. With that change of focus, I’m sad to say that shortly we’ll be shutting down the Healthcare IT Central job board.
As part of that change, we still want to share health IT jobs w...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Career and Jobs EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Cerner Jobs Epic Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Careers Healthcare IT Jobs Meditech Jobs Source Type: blogs
Important Normal Values for ECG
Transcript of the video: Normal values for ECG will depend on the age, body size, gender, as well as the population being assessed. So there is a wide variation. Still, in a normal adult population, some normal values are useful, while assessing an ECG.
These are the normal waves which you expect on the ECG and normal heart rate in an adult is 60 to 100 per minute. P wave, the atrial activation, PR segment, QRS complex – ventricular activation, ST segment, and T wave, ventricular repolarization. Atrial repolarization wave is usually not seen in a standard surface ECG. It will somewhere in the ST segment (error: PR se...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 25, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
4 Ways Parents Can Boost Children ’ s IQ
The right methods can help boost children's IQ. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Child Psychology Intelligence Source Type: blogs
Medicine as a public good
Medicine is unlike most other goods and services in the extent to which it has important positive externalities – that is, benefits for people outside of the transaction, who are not the providers or consumers. (Of course it has negative externalities as well, including carbon emissions and notably, a huge quantity of plastic waste.) A straightforward positive externality is infectious disease control. Prev enting or curing infectious diseases prevents them from being transmitted to others. This is an immense benefit to society that goes far beyond the direct value to people who are vaccinated or treated.Another positive...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 25, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Pediatric Exercise Testing
Discussion on pediatric exercise testing.
Pediatric exercise testing may be used for evaluation of various disorders of cardiac rhythm rather than for inducible ischemia as in adults.
In a child with suspected sinus node dysfunction, chronotropic incompetence from sinus node dysfunction can be assessed by exercise testing.
Evaluation of escape rates and ventricular ectopy with exercise in complete heart block is an important aspect in the evaluation of congenital complete heart block.
ECG showing congenital complete heart block with ventricular rate of 47/min and atrial rate of 63/min.
In stage I of Bruce protocol, the atr...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 25, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
From fear of loneliness to embracing solitude
Young children have different hobbies and preferences while playing in every part of the world. Some things are universal, but many are influenced by the culture of that specific area or the living conditions of that family. In the subcontinent, young girls are very fond of playing with dolls. Most of the time, these dolls
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From fear of loneliness to embracing solitude originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 25, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dr. Damane Zehra Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
When a Wrong Creates a Life: Tort Responses to Children Born From Institutional Sexual Violence
Karen Tani (University of Pennsylvania), When a Wrong Creates a Life: Tort Responses to Children Born From Institutional Sexual Violence, 73 DePaul L. Rev. (2024): Today, the paradigm case of “wrongful life” involves a claim on behalf of a child—typically,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 25, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Why People Who Are Bullied Develop Relationship Problems (M)
How bullying in adolescence plants seeds of suspicion that lead to mental health struggles later in life. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Child Psychology Relationships subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
