When it comes to health care, I finally understand how beautiful banality can be
She was absolutely perfect. She had ten perfect fingers and ten perfect toes. Her eyes were wide and curious and drew you in fondly. She was absolutely perfect everywhere — everywhere except for her nose and mouth. She was born in 1959 with a unilateral complete cheiloschisis and palatoschisis, more commonly known as a cleft lip and palate. Where her perfect, beautiful nose should have been was an empty, gaping hole. As she matured and developed, she endured multiple surgeries nearly every year for the first thirty-two years of her life. She endured years of name-calling and self-deprecating thoughts. As a ch...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 17, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sarah Mongiello Bernstein Tags: Education Medical school Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Vaccine-Injured Child Stolen by the State and Her Caring Mother Accused of Child Abuse
Conclusion
For many years, I have been writing about such cases. There are now a growing number of parents who have been falsely accused of harming their vaccine-damaged children. Sadly, this case is yet another example.
Loving, caring parents are having their children taken away from them because the majority of health care professionals and social workers are burying their heads in the sand and choosing to ignore the fact that no vaccine or medication is one hundred percent safe. All vaccines have the potential to cause adverse reactions.
When you have such groups as the AAPS stating, “And yet, children under the age o...
Source: vactruth.com - November 22, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Child Protective Services (CPS) Hepatitis B vaccine Kathryn Hughes medical kidnapping Michael Belkin seizure Source Type: blogs
Love and Homeopathics: Mental Health, Community Care, and the Political Imagination
Section: Articles Dissociation: Trapped in Your BodyImagine you are standing with your head poking out of a little tent, alone in an enormous open clearing, in the middle of a raging hurricane. There’s almost no space to hear yourself think over the wind. At the edge of the clearing, far away, the wind knocks down trees and power lines. The storm is so vast and loud you can’t hear your own voice over the pummeling noise, because the wind whips the words out of your mouth before you utter them.Someone you care about is standing outside the storm, and they are so far away they are hard to make out. You can barely se...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - April 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Nadia Germane Source Type: blogs
Just received
Cleft lip and palate: diagnosis and management. /Samuel Berkowitz (ed). 3rd ed, Berlin: Springer, 2013. Cleft Lip and Palate: Diagnosis and Management is an unparalleled review of treatment concepts in all areas of cleft involvement presented by an international team of experienced clinicians. A unique feature of the book is that it largely consists of longitudinal facial and palatal growth studies of dental casts, photographs, panorexes, and cephalographs from birth to adolescence. What's In your mouth? What's In your child's mouth? /Douglas A. Terry. Chicago: Quintessence, 2013. Health care providers have a responsibi...
Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - March 14, 2014 Category: Dentists Tags: New books Source Type: blogs
There They Go Again, Again... - Johnson and Johnson Loses Two Civil Cases, Makes $2.5 Billion Settlement Based on Claims it Withheld Safety Data on its Products
There has been some talk by US government officials that any day now they will actually get tough on corporate executives whose organizations are involved in multiply unethical actions (perhaps using the legally valid, but massively neglected responsible corporate officer doctrine, look here). However, the march of legal settlements by such corporations continue without any hints of negative consequences for the people who might have actually been involved in unethical activity. So, we note another week, another multi-billion dollar settlement and another loss of a civil lawsuit by huge drug, device and biotech...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: deception DePuy hip prostheses Janssen Johnson and Johnson legal settlements medical devices suppression of medical research Synthes Topamax Source Type: blogs
New! 15 Oral Health E-books through Springer
New on the the Bibby Website, find fifteen additional oral health books under “Electronic Books”, included in University of Rochester Libraries’ e-book collection. Biomechanics in Dentistry: Evaluation of Different Surgical Approaches to Treat Atrophic Maxilla Patients Cleft Lip & Palate Diagnosis & Management Dental Biotribology Dental Ceramics Dental Pathology Dental Pulp Stem Cells Evidence-Based Forensic […] (Source: Bibby Library News and Tips)
Source: Bibby Library News and Tips - October 31, 2013 Category: Dentists Authors: Bonnie Archer Tags: Oral Health Source Type: blogs
Core textbooks - new editions just received
Handbook of pediatric dentistry / Angus C. Cameron, Richard P. Widmer(ed). 4th ed, Edinburgh; New York: Mosby Elsevier, 2013.
Suitable for students and practitioners alike, the Handbook of Paediatric Dentistry is a concise, practical and highly illustrated guide to the day-to-day management of child dental patients. The new edition has an improved layout with completely new colour illustrations, an expanded section on sedation, includes details from the most recent international guidelines, and has major revisions of chapters on behaviour management, restorative dentistry, management of cleft lip and palate and radiogra...
Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - October 11, 2013 Category: Dentists Tags: New books Source Type: blogs
Where are The Blakelys?
I can't believe I haven't updated this blog since June! Such a slacking blogger! The Blakelys are still doing well, thank the good Lord! We have been very prosperous in our garden this summer and canned many-a-vegetable! I have pickles, tomatoes, soup starters, pears, spaghetti sauces, and so much more just packing my storage room shelves for this Fall and Winter.
Since I have taken on a second job, I basically work full-time hours just at a more random schedule so that I remain home with my family as much as possible...makes for one tired mom, but aren't we all? Gage is doing well (as far as I know) over at the hi...
Source: Cochlear Kids - September 23, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Val Source Type: blogs
For Providers, Revenue Assurance through the ICD-10 Transition is Key
The following is a guest blog post by Vik Anantha, Vice President – Financial Management Solutions, Edifecs, Inc.
We all know ICD-10 is a complex and costly initiative. One of the promises of ICD-10 is the potential for enhanced granularity, laterality and overall reporting accuracy. This is particularly important to providers because health plans use the ICD code set to determine reimbursements based on the medical condition of the patient and procedure(s) used for treatment.
With promise comes risk. ICD-10 not only exponentially increases the number of diagnostic and procedure codes, it changes the structure of the co...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 16, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare HealthCare IT ICD-10 CDI Clinical Documentation Improvement Edifecs Healthcare CFO ICD-10 Mandate ICD-9 Vik Anantha Source Type: blogs
Surgery for the future - enhancing function !
Typically surgery , has always been about correcting anatomical problems. If you broke a bone , the doctor joined it for you; if you had a tumour, he cut it out; and if you had an abscess , he drained it. In the future , surgery will become much more exciting , because rather than focus on fixing problems, clever surgeons and biomedical scientists will create procedures which will enhance function in normal people.Thus, for example , functional neurosurgery will allow normal people to improve their memory while phonic surgery on the vocal cords will allow people who have a good voice to make it even better because of surgi...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - June 13, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: surgeons future of surgery Source Type: blogs
