What it ’s like to follow a first-year physician in Mexico
It’s 8:45 p.m. in rural Chiapas, Mexico. A cool blanket wraps around the previously warm day in the small farming town of Honduras. With a syringe of medicine in his front pocket pasante, Dr. Ivan Martinez does a steady jog up a steep hill to see about a patient’s chronic pain.
Nestled in the Sierra Madre Mountains, there are few flat places. At the door, he’s immediately and warmly greeted by multiple family members. They are each eager to provide Dr. Martinez with a different perspective on the patient’s illness while he does an extensive physical exam. Twenty minutes later a decision is made, and the medicine...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 21, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/edward-briercheck" rel="tag" > Edward Briercheck, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Cardiology Emergency Medicine Primary Care Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Peer Review Week 2017: Transparency in Review, and other innovations
At Springer Nature every week is Peer Review Week.
Each week our dedicated in-house editorial staff spend thousands of hours co-ordinating the process of peer review, to ensure and improve the quality of the scientific literature we publish and in doing so, advance discovery. We support our Editors in Chief, Editorial Board Members, Section Editors, peer reviewers and authors by providing guidance and systems to enable them to improve manuscripts. Furthermore, we’re trialing innovative new practices through small-scale pilots, while also exploring grander ideas such as the potential role of Artificial Intelligence.
But a...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 14, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Steven Inchcoombe Tags: Open Access Publishing Uncategorized open peer review peer review week Source Type: blogs
Peer Review Week 2017: Transparency in Review, and other innovations
Each week our dedicated in-house editorial staff spend thousands of hours co-ordinating the process of peer review, to ensure and improve the quality of the scientific literature we publish and in doing so, advance discovery. We support our Editors in Chief, Editorial Board Members, Section Editors, peer reviewers and authors by providing guidance and systems to enable them to improve manuscripts. Furthermore, we’re trialing innovative new practices through small-scale pilots, while also exploring grander ideas such as the potential role of Artificial Intelligence.
But as it’s so integral to what we do and the service ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 14, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Steven Inchcoombe Tags: Open Access Publishing Uncategorized open peer review peer review week Source Type: blogs
Anti-Paper Prophet: Comments on The Curse of Cash
ConclusionRogoff raises many other interesting issues in his response, and trying to cover them all would make this article much too lengthy. His arguments are generally sophisticated and sometimes challenging, even when I disagree with him or believe he hasn’t adequately addressed my concerns. Our most fundamental difference remains our analysis of the State. Rogoff unreflectively adopts what Harold Demsetz characte rizes as the“nirvana” approach to public policy. This makes him far more optimistic than is justified about the overall benevolence and competence of governments, particularly in developed countries. H...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 15, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Source Type: blogs
A medical student is diagnosed with cancer. Here is his story.
I began medical school, like many of my peers, with some experience working with patients. I worked as a volunteer EMT with Cornell University EMS for four years during my undergraduate years; shadowed a cardiologist and an anesthesiologist through Cornell’s Urban Summer program at NYP Hospital–Cornell and worked with patients during Global Medical Brigade trips to rural Honduras. All of this sparked my interest in medicine, but to claim I had any real understanding of a patient’s existential journey through serious disease would be an overstatement.
That changed abruptly at the start of my first year at Albert Einst...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 2, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ari-bernstein" rel="tag" > Ari Bernstein < /a > Tags: Conditions Cancer Medical school Source Type: blogs
What this physician learned from a medical mission
In August of 1991, I became a family practitioner in the United States Air Force and was sent to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. During my time there, I was asked to go on a medical mission. This experience struck me with the missionary bug to provide my talents and to care for others in another country. With medications that were near expiration date in USAF stock and due to the U.S. departure from the Philippines following the eruptive destruction of Mount Pinatubo at Clark AFB, we went out to a local barangay, village, and cared for the ill. It was an uplifting compassionate experience that started decades of t...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 10, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/dirck-a-curry" rel="tag" > Dirck A. Curry, DO < /a > Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
5 Pieces of Advice to My Quarter-Century Self
Turning 25-years old can be a difficult time in a young person’s life. After graduating high school and possibly now college, they find themselves in their first career job, trying to meet new people for friendships and love, and for the first time in their life they might be solely responsible for their bills and finances.
After having school be the end goal for so many years, it’s weird to go to the same job day in and day out without a final destination in mind. Friendships and communities aren’t as easy to come by as they were in the dorms or classrooms. And finally being out in the “real world” isn’t as gr...
Source: World of Psychology - February 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kurt Smith, Psy.D., LMFT, LPCC, AFC Tags: Aging Children and Teens College Inspiration & Hope LifeHelper Money and Financial Motivation and Inspiration Personal Psychology Relationships Self-Help College Graduation first job First Love Young Adulthood youth Source Type: blogs
Three Trends to Put Trump ’s Anti-Immigration Executive Orders in Context
President Donald Trump has issued two executive orders on immigration so far —both of them undermine immigrants’ ability to live and work peacefully in the United States. The first focuses on the border crisis, mandating the construction of a virtually pointless border wall and cracking down on asylum seekers, and the second ramps up enforcement against immigrants residing illegally inside the United States. Here are three trends that put these orders in context.1. The administration will target asylum seekers during the largest U.S. asylum crisis in decades. More people came to the border last year to claim asylum th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
It's a Mistake to End Cuban Asylum Rules
President Obama is abandoning America ’s five decade-old policy on asylum seekers that guarantees Cubans asylum in the United States. The change comes at a time whenmore Cubans will have arrived at U.S. borders than at any time since 1980, and it is a major win forthe Cuban regime and opponents of immigration, both of which oppose Cuban immigration to the United States. But the sudden reversal is bad policy that will harm efforts to secure the border and aid the regime most hostile to human rights in the Western Hemisphere.In 1966, Congress passed theCuban Adjustment Act (CAA), which grants lawful permanent residency t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 12, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
DACA Definitely Did Not Cause the Child Migrant Crisis
Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham have introduced a bill to extend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which since 2012 has provided work permits and lawful presence to 800,000 young immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children. One difficulty for the bill is that the GOP House passed a bill to end DACA in 2014, arguing that DACA caused a surge of young children to come to the border starting in 2012 and reaching its peak in 2014.At the time, my colleague Alex Nowrasteh published an article arguing against this thesis. First, he noted that DACA specifically prohibited recent ar...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Hypocrisy on Election Interference
In his press conference last month, President Barack Obama sternlyvoiced concern about “potential foreign influence in our election process.”The goal may be a valid one, but it cloaks hypocrisy of staggering proportions. The United States has been assiduously intervening in foreign elections for decades —perhaps even for centuries.The central issue in the 2016 election was with some hacked emails, published by Wikileaks, indicating that some top members of the Democratic National Committee were rooting for Hillary Clinton to win their party ’s nomination for president. This seems to have been the extent of the “i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 4, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
Legal Migration Can Control the Border
I recently wrote a piece about the increase inguest workers and the remarkably consistent level of entries, legal and illegal, of workers and new lawful permanent residents. The main choice the U.S. government faces is whether the migrants who come here are legal or unlawful. Excluded from my previous blog wereJ-1 visas for researchers, au pairs, and the like. About a third of unauthorized immigrants worked in service jobs in 2012, as well as 28 percent of foreign-born residents who are not naturalized, compared to just 16.7 percent of natives. Au pairs and child care are an important component of these economic secto...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 19, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
A physician volunteers in Honduras. Here ’s what she learned.
I quickly finished my day’s work in the resident’s clinic (documentations, relaying results) and raced home to hurriedly double check the list of things that I would need for my week long medical mission in Roatán, Honduras.
The air was frigid, and my pace matched the wind. In the 2-hour car ride to the airport, my mind was alive and restless; making mental note after mental note about our endeavor but most of all there was an excitement that reverberated with expectations and imaginations of practicing a novel form of medicine, and of course, bettering lives. Ever since medical school, there is a sense of altruism th...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/apoorva-jayarangaiah" rel="tag" > Apoorva Jayarangaiah, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
The Choice: Legal Immigrants or Illegal Immigrants
People react to public policies by changing their behavior. Foreigners committed to immigrating to the United States are confronted with two options – they can come legally or they can come illegally. When visas are legally available, cheap, and plentiful they choose to come legally. When visas are difficult to get, expensive, and few in number then many immigrants decide to come illegally.* Employers face a similar dilemma when choosing to hire workers.The inflow of illegal immigrants has slowed dramatically in recent years. The poor American economy, economic growth south of the border, Mexican demographics,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 4, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
No Mr. President, Mexico Is Not "Absorbing a Great Number of Refugees"
On Tuesday, President Obama delivered ashort address to the Leaders Summit on Refugees at the United Nations. He went out of his way to praise the Mexican government by stating:“Mexico … is absorbing a great number of refugees from Central America.” In reality, the Mexican government has donevery little to absorb refugees. From 2013 to 2015, Mexico only recognized 720 refugees from Honduras, 721 from El Salvador, and 62 from Guatemala. During the time period, Mexico granted asylum to 129 Hondurans, 82 Salvadorans, and 17 Guatemalans. That’s a total of 1,731 refugees and asylum seekers from those countrie...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 22, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
