America ’s nurses have PTSD: Will anyone listen to them?
My first clinical rotation as a nursing student was on the same floor where my mother died of cancer. And my very first patient was a young Hispanic man with four children. I was asked to tell him that he had pancreatic cancer and very little time left. I was 21 years old and the
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America’s nurses have PTSD: Will anyone listen to them? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 9, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tara Rynders, RN Tags: Conditions Nursing Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
A surgeon said no: the catalyst for my evolution
“When are you expecting?” Eighteen months after my third child was born, I was tired of hearing this question. In addition to the embarrassment I felt, I became increasingly worried that something was wrong with me as my body stubbornly held its postpartum shape. Within a year of delivering each of my first two children,
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A surgeon said no: the catalyst for my evolution originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 9, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mercy Hylton, MD Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
Physician work-life balance: How boundaries protect you and your patients
“Shideh joon, can you talk to this woman? We met her at a party, and her kid is sick.” This request from my father exemplifies the blurred lines between personal and professional life many physicians experience. He had met a mother at a party whose child, after being diagnosed with a virus and prescribed rest
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Physician work-life balance: How boundaries protect you and your patients originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 8, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Shideh Shafie, MD Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Wearable Health Tracker Landscape: 18 Devices On 18 Body Parts
Over the last decade, Dr Meskó, The Medical Futurist has had his hands on more than 150 digital health devices, turning his (and our) life into a real-world tech lab. Yet, for all that testing, the wearable universe keeps expanding beyond our reach. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the field throws a curveball, like earrings that measure your body temperature, introducing us to entirely new categories and possibilities. It’s clear that the innovation train in wearable tech hasn’t slowed down; if anything, it’s picking up speed.
Our latest infographic dives into this fast-changing world, m...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF wearables health sensors health trackers Source Type: blogs
Young man with Gunshot wound to right chest with hemorrhagic shock, but bullet path not near heart
A young man presented with a gunshot wound to the right chest, with hemo-pneumothorax and hemorrhagic shock.He got a chest tube and intubation and massive transfusion and stabilized.CT of chest showed the bullet path through his right lung but nowhere near his heart.But he did get an EKG:What is this? There were times when it would be usurped by sinus tachycardia, then return to this rhythm.There is a wide complex. It is irregular. It is not fast (cannot be VT). There is no atrial activity to suggest atrial fibrillation. There are whatcould be interpreted as delta wavesif, and only if, th...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 7, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Young man with Gunshot wound to right chest with hemorrhagic shock, but bullet path not near heart. A case of irregular accelerated idioventricular rhythm (AIVR)
A young man presented with a gunshot wound to the right chest, with hemo-pneumothorax and hemorrhagic shock.He got a chest tube and intubation and massive transfusion and stabilized.CT of chest showed the bullet path through his right lung but nowhere near his heart.But he did get an EKG:What is this? There were times when it would be usurped by sinus tachycardia, then return to this rhythm.There is a wide complex. It is irregular. It is not fast (cannot be VT). There is no atrial activity to suggest atrial fibrillation. There are whatcould be interpreted as delta wavesif, and only if, th...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 7, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Blackbird Health Raises $17 Million Series A to Expand Access to Integrated, Technology-Backed Youth Mental Health Model
Blackbird Health Leverages a Neuroscience-Driven, “Understanding-First” Care Model to Take the Trial and Error out of Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young-Adult Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment
Blackbird Health, a neuroscience-led and technology-backed youth mental health provider, announced today it raised $17 million in series A funding. The round was led by Define Ventures and also included participation from Frist Cressey Ventures and GreyMatter. Blackbird has raised nearly $23 million to date.
Blackbird Health is a mental health company for kids and young adults struggling with social, emotional, devel...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 4, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amy Edgar Blackbird Health Chirag Shah Define Ventures Dr. Matt Keener Frist Cressey Ventures GreyMatter Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Tom Peterson Source Type: blogs
poem
Passive VoiceLimbs were amputated An artery spurtedAnd had to be ligatedWounds were stapledSkin had been scorchedScreams were heard Children were orphanedInfants experienced starvationBuildings became rubbleThose living received a deathExplosions occurredExplosions occurredSoon the screamingWas no longer heard No one was leftTo speak for the silenceThat remained3/4/24 (Source: Buckeye Surgeon)
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - March 4, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 3, 2024 – 75% of healthcare leaders expect widespread implementation of AI in 3 years, 78% of orgs lack knowledge on how to train employees to use AI, plus 18 more stories
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
Studies
Roughly 75% of healthcare leaders expect widespread implementation of AI within three years, according to a BRG survey. Additionally, 60% believe current AI regulations provide adequate safety measures.
While healthcare...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Amazon Web Services AnalyticsIQ Belong.life Berkeley Research Group Brand Engagement Network care.ai CharmHealth CHIME Deloitte Center for Health Solutions eClinicalWorks FHIR GE Healthcare Greenway Health hc1 Ins Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The dark book
As I explained last time, the Book of Psalms is a compilation and Psalm 72 is evidently the conclusion of one of the component books. The next ten are attributed to Asaph, who was one of king David ' s chief musicians, but that doesn ' t really make sense because they seem to refer to a time when the kingdom was in dire straits, quite unlike the triumphalist tone of the depiction of David ' s reign. Psalm 73, which is used in both Jewish and Christian liturgy and has been set to music, asserts continued faith even while the wicked prosper. The psalm predicts the downfall of the wicked, although as we know that doesn ' t ne...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 3, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Are AI Clinical Protocols A Dobb-ist Trojan Horse?
By MIKE MAGEE
For most loyalist Americans at the turn of the 19th century, Justice John Marshall Harlan’s decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). was a “slam dunk.” In it, he elected to force a reluctant Methodist minister in Massachusetts to undergo Smallpox vaccination during a regional epidemic or pay a fine.
Justice Harlan wrote at the time: “Real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”
What could ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion AI Dobbs Forced Sterilization Mike Magee racial bias SCOTUS Vaccination Source Type: blogs
How a simple chore transformed my perspective on medicine
My son was born in a small community hospital with breathing and heart issues requiring transfer to a children’s hospital several hundred miles away. I arrived at the children’s hospital, worried, exhausted, and overwhelmed many hours after he did. Everything had happened so quickly my head was spinning. After I checked on my son, I
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How a simple chore transformed my perspective on medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Christine Marie Deeths, MD Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Discover the physician who made a village his family
I finished my residency training on June 30th, 2000, in a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program at Ohio State University and Columbus Children’s Hospital (before it was renamed Nationwide Children’s Hospital). One month later, I was slated to begin my first “adult” job as I joined a private family medicine practice in Southern
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Discover the physician who made a village his family originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 28, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Zoran Naumovski, MD Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Amie Fornah Sankoh Achieves a Scientific Dream
Credit: LinkedIn.
“I wanted to give up so many times. Although I tried to remain positive, I never thought I’d be able to finish my Ph.D. But I made it, and I’m extremely proud of myself,” says Amie Fornah Sankoh, Ph.D., a research scientist with Dow Chemical Company who received NIGMS support as a graduate student.
Human and Plant Communication
Dr. Sankoh has loved science and mathematics since she was just a child growing up in Sierra Leone. When she was 3 years old, Dr. Sankoh became deaf from a childhood disease. Math, unlike other subjects, is very visual, which played a part in her interest in it. “...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 28, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Profiles Training Source Type: blogs
The Childhood Sign That Your Adult Relationships Will Last (M)
The one thing that predicts satisfying romantic relationships. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 27, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Child Psychology Relationships subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
