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InfestedBackyard lined with dying trees, The lifeblood sucked out, devouredBy the bronze birch borer disease.The leaves don ’t comeAnymore and the shade they castIs no longer the deep blue cooling canopy;Stick-like slashes of blackHatchings across the grass.The storms come, strong windsSnap the distressed branches.I am left to fetch fallen Fragments, pieces, alone, the next day.Piles and piles of rotted brokennessStacked to dry out in future suns;Kindling for an indeterminate blaze.Now is the time to thicken your bark,Reinforce the shields that have thinned.You can ’t afford to look away or yield;Even the sma...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - April 10, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
How Self-Development Protects You
We often think of self-development as a pursuit that builds positive capabilities such as courage, ambition, or a success mindset. And of course it can generate many positive results if we truly invest in it, such as loving relationships, a meaningful and lucrative career, and a rewarding lifestyle.
But we can easily overlook just how beautifully self-development protects us from major problems in life, including serious but common problems that drag many people down for years, if not decades.
Preventing Self-Destruction
I originally got into self-development as a path away from self-destructive behavior when I wa...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Top Ten Ways I've Survived Social Distancing
Sequestered away and worried about COVID–19? It ’s good to take this crisis seriously, but social distancing doesn’t have to be as dire as people online make it seem. Here are the top ten ways I’ve kept my attitude upbeat while isolated from others.As I’ve written before, I’ve been sick and social distancing since September 2019. I have asthmatic bronchitis, rhinitis, and chronic respiratory inflammation. Consequently, my body has been so busy struggling to breathe, it hasn’t had much oomph left to fight off every cold& virus in Utah. At first, I just thought I was getting a lot of colds f...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - March 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Family Goodreads Journaling Source Type: blogs
Top Ten Ways I've Survived Social Distancing
Sequestered away and worried about COVID–19? It ’s good to take this crisis seriously, but social distancing doesn’t have to be as dire as people online make it seem. Here are the top ten ways I’ve kept my attitude upbeat while isolated from others.As I’ve written before, I’ve been sick and social distancing since September 2019. I have asthmatic bronchitis, rhinitis, and chronic respiratory inflammation. Consequently, my body has been so busy struggling to breathe, it hasn’t had much oomph left to fight off every cold& virus in Utah. At first, I just thought I was getting a lot of colds f...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - March 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Family Goodreads Journaling Source Type: blogs
How Digital Health Technology Can Help Manage The Coronavirus Outbreak
“Chinese health authorities say an outbreak of a pneumonia-like illness has sickened 305 people and killed five”… No, this is not an excerpt from a recent news report about the Wuhan virus, but it is actually one from a CNN piece from 2003 when the SARS outbreak was raging. There are many similarities between the current outbreak to the SARS one from its geolocation to its spread to the viruses themselves.
However, much has changed within the 17 year gap between those two pandemics. For one, technology in the healthcare sector has known an exponential boom. New technologies that were nonexistent or...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 28, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Medicine digital health digital technology epidemics global health coronavirus Source Type: blogs
Creating a More Action-Oriented Character
Do you ever feel that your character is too hesitant and self-censoring? Maybe you get an idea to take action or to share something, and then another voice pops in your head and talks you out of it.
Perhaps you straddle the fence for a while, pondering whether it’s wiser to take action or hold back, and much of the time you hold back. Perhaps you start to take action and then undo or delete what you’ve done because of that voice chiming with objections like these:
I don’t really need to share this.This isn’t important.Someone might not like what I have to say.What if I’m wrong?What if th...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Emotions Lifestyle Productivity Values action character sculpting Source Type: blogs
Statement to the Randolph County (NC) Commissioners Regarding a Taxpayer " Bail-Out " of Randolph Hospital
You get tired of playing the game - or banging your head against stone walls. For weeks, I have been resolved to appear at tonight ' sPublic Hearing at the old Asheboro Courthouse - in which Randolph County Commissioners will take up the matter of going into massive debt (by applying for a loan from the state) to keep Randolph Health from closing its doors in late January or February.But I cannot . . . and will not even try to . . . cram 22 years into 3 minutes. I can actually make the statement in 8 or 9 minutes, but not 3. The hospital has pontificated from its various soapboxes and manipulated the...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - November 21, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Clutter vs. Hoarding- What ’ s the Difference?
We all have a friend or family member who just can’t seem to get out from under their accumulation of stuff. Their garage, guest bedroom and basement are packed, and you can’t see the top of the kitchen table. But when does “cluttered” become “hoarded?” We have all seen the sensationalized TV depictions of filthy homes that need to be condemned. But is that what hoarding really looks like? And why can’t those folks just throw it all out?
Today’s guest explains myths surrounding hoarding, treatment strategies and why we all might be at risk.
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Source: World of Psychology - October 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Brain and Behavior Disorders General Interview LifeHelper Mental Health and Wellness Podcast Psychiatry Psychology The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Figure-of-Eight Sutures for Bleeding Varicose Veins
The figure-of-eight suture is a fascinating technique, often used in unique cases. The stitch is extremely secure and easy to place. It can be used to save time during long, complicated repairs and to create additional strength in high-tension areas. The figure-of-eight stitch can be modified to bring skin edges together or close off small bleeding arteries, varicose veins, or even bleeding hemorrhoids. Multiple figure-of-eight sutures can be used in a row.The idea is to use a single suture to surround a small area of tissue in a box shape to close a laceration or put pressure on a small site. Figure-of-eight sutures ca...
Source: The Procedural Pause - October 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Emotional Brain-Training: What We Need When Stress Levels Get Too High
What can you do for yourself when you are feeling stressed? Often, the habits of a healthy lifestyle are also good for keeping stress at bay. They include exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, and eating in healthy ways.
Sometimes, though, the usual ways of coping with stress are just not effective. They are especially likely to be inadequate when we are experiencing more than ordinarily levels of stress, sadness, or grief. What can we do then?
Associate Professor Laurel Mellin of the University of California, San Francisco, addressed that question in the wake of the shootings at El Paso and Dayton that left so m...
Source: World of Psychology - September 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bella DePaulo, Ph.D. Tags: General Stress Violence and Aggression Brain Training Emotional Intelligence mass shooting stress reduction Source Type: blogs
On Targeting the Price of Gold
Thanks to President ’s Trump’s picks for prospective Fed Board nominees, the subject of gold price targeting (or a gold “price rule”) is getting attention once again.The idea, which got a lot of attention back in the 1980s,after Arthur Laffer and other supply-siders, includingAlan Reynolds, first began promoting it, is that the Fed could mimic a gold standard, keeping inflation in check and otherwise making the dollar “sound,” by employing open-market operations to stabilize the price of gold. The topic has come up again because three of Trump’s prospective nominees have at one time or another suggested tha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 29, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
What Happens To Your Medical Data After You Die?
How familiar are you with your digital health data footprint? Do you even know what kind of health data is generated about you and where it is stored? And what happens with this ever-growing pile of information after you die? Who owns this data and who can get access to it? Why could this even be interesting and for whom? We have dived into the mainly overlooked area of posthumous medical data and almost got lost. Here are our findings but just a heads up: it’s messy and complicated.
Little digital breadcrumbs everywhere
Just as Hansel and Gretel dropped little breadcrumbs
along the path in the forest to be able to...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 27, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine Security & Privacy data data privacy data security EHR electronic electronic health records electronic medical records EMR health data Healthcare medical data technology Source Type: blogs
The fourth trimester: What you should know
We hear a lot about the three trimesters of pregnancy. But many women (and even some medical professionals) know little about a newly described and critical time period in women’s lives that desperately needs our attention: the fourth trimester.
As a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist, I know that the medical care of women before, during, and immediately after pregnancy has long focused on the goal of achieving a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. But too often, the fourth trimester — that time between birth and 12 weeks postpartum — is swept aside.
For example, we encourage all women to start taking prenatal vi...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ilona T. Goldfarb, MD, MPH Tags: Parenting Pregnancy Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Is it SAFE to be grain-free?
Listen to critics of the Wheat Belly lifestyle and you’d think that, by banishing all things wheat and grains from your life, you will be excommunicated from your church, tossed out of your club, ostracized by friends and family, and suffer dire health consequences like heart disease and colon cancer. After all, they say that you are eliminating an entire food group and will be crippled by lack of fiber and nutrients. Worse, our focus on increasing our intake of fats and oils will get you a heart attack, three stents, or bypass surgery and you’ll be obliged to take Lipitor and Repatha for a lifetime.
First of a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 25, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle grain-free Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Artificial Intelligence In Mental Health Care
Could the advancement of machine and deep learning algorithms be harnessed meaningfully in the area of mental health? Could depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or any other mental disorder be quantified so that technology could somehow add positively to their diagnostics or treatment? We tried to explore the uses of artificial intelligence in mental health care, and stumbled upon smart algorithms that support clinicians with early detection and diagnostics of mental health issues, with the flagging of suicide risks, and other ones that help patients manage their condition through counselling and constantly being t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Rozina Bura Tags: Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence bipolar disorder chatbots future of psychiatry mental disorder mental health mental health disorders mental health issues moodkit pacifica schizophrenia suicide thriveport woebot Source Type: blogs
