Most of what you learned in medical school is wrong. And that ’s OK.
“90 percent of what you will learn over the next four years will be wrong in a couple of decades from now.” Speaking to a lecture hall of 120 first-year medical students, our professor’s prophecy seemed to fall on deaf ears. Looking around, I saw no concerned students, no diminishment of our collective enthusiasm. For […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/joshua-y-yang" rel="tag" > Joshua Y. Yang, MEng < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Medical school Neurology Source Type: blogs
Bad viruses travel fast: Measles vaccine important for travelers
(This post has been updated with relevant recent information.)
The United States was declared free from ongoing measles transmission in 2000. But we may be at risk for joining the UK Greece, Albania, and the Czech Republic, four countries recently stripped of measles elimination status by the World Health Organization. Since the beginning of 2019, more than 1,234 measles cases have been reported in 31 states, with active outbreaks in upstate New York and El Paso, Texas. New York has just declared the end of its yearlong outbreak, which required a massive public health response to control. Minnesota had a major measles outb...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Health Infectious diseases Prevention Travel health Source Type: blogs
Bad viruses travel fast: Measles vaccine important for travelers
The United States was declared free from ongoing measles transmission in 2000. But we may be at risk for joining the U.K, Greece, Albania, and the Czech Republic, four countries recently stripped of measles elimination status by the World Health Organization. Since the beginning of 2019, more than 1,234 measles cases have been reported in 31 states, with active outbreaks in upstate New York and El Paso, Texas. New York has just declared the end of its yearlong outbreak, which required a massive public health response to control. Minnesota had a major measles outbreak in 2017. In 2015, 125 cases of measles occurred in Cali...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Health Infectious diseases Prevention Travel health Source Type: blogs
FDA Approves Cochlear Implants for Single-Sided Deafness, Asymmetric Hearing Loss
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved MED-EL USA’s cochlear implant system for single-sided deafness and asymmetric hearing loss. This is the first time cochlear implants have been green-lighted for these indications in the United States.
MED-EL Cochlear Implant Systems, including SYNCHRONY and the recently FDA-approved SYNCHRONY 2, are now approved for people 5 years and older with single-sided deafness who have profound sensorineural hearing loss in one ear and normal hearing or mild sensorineural hearing loss in the other ear. They’re also approved for people 5 years and older with asymmetric h...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 23, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jillian Kornak Tags: Audiology News Slider Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss hearing loss treatment Source Type: blogs
First Cochlear Implants FDA Approved for Single-Sided Deafness Asymmetric Hearing Loss
MED-EL USA just announced that its SYNCHRONY and SYNCHRONY 2 cochlear implants received the first FDA approval for people with single-sided deafness (SSD) and those with asymmetric hearing loss (AHL). No other cochlear implants currently have such an indication, so this latest news is a big deal for millions of people suffering from SSD and AHL.
Some data from the study that led to the approval, according to MED-EL:
The approval was based on clinical data from a study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with 40 participants ages 18 and older to evaluate speech perception in quiet and noise, sound ...
Source: Medgadget - July 23, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: ENT Source Type: blogs
How VRI (Video Remote Interpretation) Is Improving Healthcare Quality in Acute Care Organizations
The following is a guest blog post by David Fetterolf, President of Stratus Video. The need for language services in healthcare is widespread. Each day, providers are encountering a larger number of patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). Both the frequency and number of languages requested have increased significantly in recent years. The Agency for […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 8, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Affordable Care Act David Fetterolf Deaf Patients LEP Limited English Proficiency Stratus Video Video Remote Interpretation Source Type: blogs
‘Toy Story 4’ Features a Child With a Cochlear Implant
Pixar’s “Toy Story 4,” which debuted in theaters worldwide June 20, introduces a new character—a child with a green cochlear implant (CI).
Two aspects of this child are notable: He is part of a mainstream classroom and is smiling. Inclusivity and happiness are often missing in media portrayals of people with hearing loss, and this positive portrayal has sparked a hubbub of celebration online from audiologists, parents, and people in the deaf and hard of hearing community alike:
Belinda Barnet, mother of a 6-year-old CI user, shares her daughter’s reaction to seeing a child with a CI on the big screen:
Jay Ruderm...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 3, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Regina Escano Zappi Tags: Audiology News Slider Uncategorized Advocacy Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Source Type: blogs
Stratus Video and InDemand Interpreting Merge to Improve Language Access and Health Equity
Integration of Two Leading Healthcare Technology Enabled Interpretation Companies Improves Language Access and Health Equity Stratus Video, one of the nation’s leading language service providers, announced today their merger with InDemand Interpreting. The merger will enable the combined business to further its commitment to improving health equity for Limited English Proficient, Deaf, and Hard of […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 11, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT David Fetterolf InDemand Interpreting Kinderhook Mary Kate Salley Stratus Video video remote interpreting VRI Source Type: blogs
I see you –– but don’t ask me how I’m doing
On the worst day of my life, I noticed how many times an hour Americans ask some version of “how’s it going?” without actually wanting to know the answer. It happens when we pass each other in the halls at work, at the park, in line at Starbucks. We ask when making small talk before getting down to business.
It even happens when we are waiting for the test results that reveal we have cancer.
How’s it going?
On January 19, 2018, I parried that question five or six times before one of my best friends at the office asked it. It felt like I would be lying to not answer.
“This week, man—”
But I had to stop. How do...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Adam P. Stern, MD Tags: Cancer Health Mental Health Relationships Source Type: blogs
Meet Debara Tucci, Incoming Director of NIDCD
The recently appointed director of NIDCD brings an extensive research background in hearing loss, ear disease, and cochlear implantation—and an enthusiasm for addressing barriers to hearing health care.
Interview by Jillian Kornak
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently named Debara L. Tucci the next director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), replacing acting director Judith Cooper. Tucci will leave her position as professor of surgery in the Division of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, where she has served on the...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jillian Kornak Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Aging and Hearing Loss audiologist hearing health care public health Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Does Sleeping Alleviate Mental Illness Symptoms?
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Source: World of Psychology - May 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Depression Schizophrenia Sleep Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Strange Interlude
There ' s plenty of competition for weirdest passage in the Bible, but we may have the winner here. Exodus 4 is plenty weird overall, but it contains an interpolation which is weird, bizarre, and very very strange. The chapter is also very problematic theologically, but I think most interpreters pretty much ignore the problems. I won ' t. Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘TheLord did not appear to you ’?”2 Then theLord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”“A staff,” he replied.3 TheLord said, “Throw it on the ground.”Moses threw it on the ground...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 5, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Does ’ 13 Reasons Why ’ Increase Suicide Rates?
Conflicting research released last month gave us a very unclear answer about whether simply watching or being exposed to a television show about teen suicide — Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why (13RW) — results in an increase in actual teen suicide in real life.
One study found a correlation (not a causal relationship) between the two, while another study found declines in suicidal thoughts and self-harm behaviors.
So what’s the real story?
13 Reasons Why is a Netflix television series that explores the first-hand account of a fictional teenage girl’s life and eventual suicide. The second season delve...
Source: World of Psychology - May 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Children and Teens General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Students Suicide 13 Reasons Why 13rw suicidal Source Type: blogs
SLP Writes Award-Winning Horror Film Featuring Lead Character With Hearing Loss
Before becoming a speech-language pathologist, I attempted to be a full-time screenwriter. (Hey, I’m from Los Angeles, it’s a birthright). After some early success, near misses, and heartbreak, I decided to find a more stable career—and a source of income—I felt equally passionate about. I discovered speech-language pathology and the rest is history.
I’ve worked as an SLP for the Los Angeles Unified School District for 10 years, and love my job. However, the writing bug still gnawed at me. By day, I’m a mild-mannered SLP, and by night, I feed my coffee habit and my literary dreams.
My work with children with sp...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Eric Bram Tags: Audiology Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology American Sign Language hearing loss Source Type: blogs
Looking Your Best for Depression
If You’re Depressed, Why Bother Getting Up& Ready for the Day?I was recently asked if I had a blog post about why I cared so much about my dress, hair, and appearance despite my depression. What drives me to bother cleaning up when laying in bed while reading news in my PJs is easier to do? Why bother shaving? Why bother showering? Why bother getting up at all?I couldn’t find a specific blog where I addressed this issue, but the pat answer is that my vanity is a super power. Vanity overpowers the darkest, deepest depressions to make sure at least my hair is presentable. Doesn’t that sound superficial?...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - April 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Family Goodreads Suicide Source Type: blogs
