JellyBean 033 with Anne Creaton
Bula!
So Anne Creaton is knee deep in Fiji.
Knee deep in another culture.
Knee deep in Government Bureaucracy.
Knee deep in the most beautiful water in the world.
What a woman!
I worked with Anne a few years ago when she helped start up the Ambulance embedded aeromedical service called Adult Retrieval Victoria in Melbourne.
That wasn’t hard enough for her. So she headed off to Fiji to try to bring some of what she had learned to the Pacific.
Now I don’t know what you know about Fiji. It is an incredibly interesting place with an incredibly interesting mix of people.I know that I don’t know enough about the history of...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 14, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Anne Creaton Fiji Source Type: blogs
Ear, Nose & Throat Team Returns from Medical Mission after Cyclone Winston Rocks Fiji
A 12-person team of nurses, surgeons, residents and anesthesiologists from the University of Maryland Medical Center have returned from their medical mission in Fiji. Team members performed 15 surgeries and saw 150 patients before Tropical Cyclone Winston rocked the islands. Watch the video above to hear about the mission from the team themselves.
To donate & learn more about the team, click here.
Previous coverage: ENT Surgical Team Annual Volunteer Trip
(Source: Life in a Medical Center)
Source: Life in a Medical Center - February 26, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Community Outreach Employees & Staff Nurses Uncategorized ear medical mission nose and throats Source Type: blogs
ENT Surgical Team Annual Volunteer Trip
Annual Volunteer Trip Takes UM Surgical Team to Fiji to Treat Patients with Head and Neck Conditions
Update (2/21/16): This past weekend, Fiji was devastated by Cyclone Winston. All 12 members of the UM surgical team are OK and awaiting the international flight home.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Fiji as they struggle to rebuild, and we pray for the families who lost loved ones and whose homes were destroyed.
We are exceptionally proud of the courage and dedication of our mission team. They saw over 100 patients over the course of their stay and completed a large number of surgeries. The actions of t...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - January 12, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Doctors surgery ENT Fiji Jeffrey Wolf medical mission Natuvu Creek Rodney Taylor Vanua Levu Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
“The South Pacific island nation of #Kiribati could be...
"The South Pacific island nation of #Kiribati could be submerged by rising oceans in just a few decades. In a speech today during the Paris #climatetalks, President Antoe Tong of Kiribati thanked Fiji for offering to take in the people of his country, which is home to just over 100,000. @kadirvanlohuizen photographed Kiribati for @nytimes in 2012. As the climate talks continue, follow @nytimes updates and photos by visiting the link in our profile. #COP21" By nytimes on Instagram. Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - November 30, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
What’s the deal with dilo oil?
Michelle asks (via Facebook)…I saw your recent Facebook post about a product containing “dilo oil” and loved your comment about it being a typo for something more…salacious (LMFAO BTW). But now I’m seriously curious. What is dilo oil and is it good for skin?
The Beauty Brains respond:
That’s what we get for letting Sarah Bellum manage our social media – somehow she manages to make EVERYTHING sound dirty! Actually, Dilo oil is quite innocent.
The dirt on Dilo oil
Dilo oil (aka Pinnay oil, Tamanu oil and calophyllum inophyllum) comes the sacred Dilo tree (also known as the “Tree of a...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - July 24, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Claims Natural Source Type: blogs
Dobbs Roundup Week of 16/6/2014 – 20/6/2014)
Dear Dobber,
Hope you’ve had a great week but not lost too much sleep watching the World Cup matches (fans check out this thread). Here’s an update for the weekend to tell you of what’s fresh in Dobbs.
Feel free to click on the links if anything interests you.
Picks of the week from the Forums
MOH to restructure Medical Certificate System
MOH plans to put in place a system to tackle fake MCs and medical absenteeism. Will it work?
Prophylactic corticosteroids – any guidelines
@mrnginbox had a question about prophylactic steroids for contrast MRI scans. Dobber radiologists answer.
Dad puts sons through med sch...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - June 21, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Dobbs forum Source Type: blogs
Angiostrongyliasis and Travel
The following chronology of travel-associated angiostrongyliasis is abstracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series [1]
Four cases of angiostrongyliasis has been reported in Victoria, Australia as of 1999 – including three (one fatal) imported from Fiji.
1982 (publication year) – An outbreak (16 cases) was reported among Korean fisherman in American Samoa – traced to ingestion of giant African snails (Achatina fulica).
1984 (publication year) – Three cases of angiostrongyliasis acquired in Western Samoa were treated at a hospital in New Zealand.
1988 – A French travele...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 12, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Angiostrongylus Travel Source Type: blogs
GETUP! #FOAMTox across the globe
This week, I sat down with Dr Anselm Wong, who amongst many other roles (ED Consultant, Tox Tweeter @AnselmWong1 and Toxicology Fellow at Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria) is the Project Director for GETUP: Global Educational Toxicology Uniting Project.
GETUP is a new initiative, supported by the American College of Medical Toxicology that seeks to connect countries with established clinical toxicology services and countries without clinical toxicologists around the globe. GETUP uses videoconferencing via Google hangouts to connect registered sites on a monthly basis. Presently, sites have registered across the globe i...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 21, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Joe Rotella Tags: Education Featured Toxicology #FOAMtox GETUP Source Type: blogs
Travel Globally And Get Distinctive Gown Styles With Myntra And Yatra Coupons
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Source: Carin' For Karen - December 21, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: JustinaXiong Tags: Life in general Source Type: blogs
4 Ways Your Darkest Moment Can Positively Change Your Life
I will never forget the moment that I woke up in a hospital bed the morning after I tried to take my own life. At the age of 26 years old my marriage had ended and along with it the non profit organization that I had worked so passionately for was pulled from under me. I didn't want to live.
After a seven year relationship my wife had walked out of the door never to return and as I sat in our apartment surrounded by everything we had built together the future looked dark and overwhelming and was certainly not one that I wanted to walk into. I turned to google and keyed in “most painless and quickest way to kill myself...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mark bowness Tags: confidence depression happiness self improvement darkest moment mental health pickthebrain suicide Source Type: blogs
Comparing children's sharing tendencies across diverse human societies
Up until about the age of seven, children across the world show similar levels of sharing behaviour as revealed by their choices in a simple economic game. The finding comes courtesy of Bailey House and his colleagues who tested 326 children aged three to fourteen from six different cultural groups: urban Americans from Los Angeles; horticultural Shuar from Ecuador; horticultural and marine foraging Fijians from Yasawa Island; hunter-gathering Akas from the Central African Republic; pastoral, horticultural Himbas from Namibia; and hunter-gatherer Martus from Australia.
In one game, the children had to choose whether ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
Field hockey fiji give a presentation shoes or boots on the way to raiwaqa ball guitarists group
Because the midsole of the shoe is firm, the shoe will support you through weightlifting activities like squats and lunges. It should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. LIVESTRONG is a registered trademark of the LIVESTRONG Foundation. Again, I think that there’s a market for ethically made goods, [...] (Source: Carin' For Karen)
Source: Carin' For Karen - August 8, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: pletchersgh Tags: Life in general Source Type: blogs
If you're not drinking your Fiji Water through a Fiji Straw, you ain't....
(Source: bookofjoe)
Source: bookofjoe - February 18, 2013 Category: Anesthetists Authors: bookofjoe Source Type: blogs
