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When Someone Tells You You ’ re Not Good Enough
Have you been rejected, told you don’t have what it takes? You’re probably doing something right. Pretty much every famous person you can name risked rejection to get where they are, and got plenty of it. Any time you’re doing something different, some people just aren’t going to like it. Among writers, it’s common to wear rejection letters as badges of honor. Being told you don’t have what it takes can be a good motivator to prove the critics wrong. Kurt Vonnegut, author of the bestselling Slaughterhouse-Five, held onto his rejection letters for years. They’re now on display in a ...
Source: World of Psychology - October 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Neil Petersen Tags: Inspiration & Hope Self-Esteem Self-Help Success & Achievement Video Daniel Tomasulo Failure Marie Hartwell-Walker Motivation Rejection Resilience Source Type: blogs

Mental Illness Awareness Week is October 2-8, 2016
Though mental illness has a long-standing history in the annals of human nature, it was only in the 1980 ’s when groups like the National Alliance on Mental Illness, The American Psychological Association and TheAmerican Psychiatric Association were able to convince state and federal governments to publicly address the needs of those with mental illness. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan, along with the Congress passed Joint Resolution 322, designating the week of October 7, 1984 as Mental Illness Awareness Week. Luckily, this awareness campaign has continued on for decades bot...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - October 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: awareness days diagnostics mental health screenings treatment Source Type: blogs

Novo's Ills Are Indicative of Something Other Than A Free Market for Insulin
As I ' ve already addressed, a few weeks ago (see my post athttp://blog.sstrumello.com/2016/08/the-business-of-diabetes-cvs-caremarks_5.html for more), Novo Nordisk ' s CEO Lars Rebien Sorensen rather unceremoniously announced he was retiring early (see http://fortune.com/2016/09/01/novo-nordisk-ceo-retire-insulin/ for more) which was kind of an acknowledgement that the era of easy price increases for its products in the U.S. is over. Already, CVS Caremark and United Health announced that they are dropping Sanofi ' s Lantus in favor of biosimilar versions from Lilly/Boehringer or Merck/Samsung, and there ' s...
Source: Scott's Web Log - September 30, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2016 Biosimilar generic insulin Novo Nordis PBM prices Source Type: blogs

“ I know my pain doesn ’ t mean I ’ m damaging myself – but I still have pain ”
In the excitement of helping people understand more about pain neuroscience, which I truly do support, I think it’s useful to reflect a little on the history of this approach, and how it can influence the experience people have of their pain. If we go right back to the origins of pain self management, in the groovy 1960’s and 1970’s – the first truly significant work in chronic pain self management came from Wilbert Fordyce (Fordyce, Fowler & Delateur, 1968). Bill Fordyce was a clinical psychologist working in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Washington, Seat...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - September 25, 2016 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Education/CME Pain conditions Science in practice acceptance biopsychosocial healthcare pain management Research Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs

Being Called ‘ Mr. Sensitive ’ Is Actually a Compliment
“You are too sensitive,” your father bellows. “Quit taking things personally,” a supervisor mutters. “When are you going to toughen up?” a coach asks. As a sensitive soul, the admonishments sting. You feel misunderstood. Family members chastise you as emotionally needy. Work colleagues disparage you as weak. In school, bullies ridicule you as soft. They are wrong. We live in world where bombast trumps self-reflection. Look at Donald Trump blustering his way to the Republican nomination. Look at an autocratic corporate executive thundering about soaring profit margins. Life is a full contact sport — o...
Source: World of Psychology - September 22, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Loeb Tags: Bullying Happiness Industrial and Workplace Inspiration & Hope Personal Psychology anxiety chronic shame Confidence Criticism Emotional Depth Empathetic Empathy Highly Sensitive Person insensitive Integrity Self Awareness Source Type: blogs

This is Easter in the House of God
She squeezes her eyes tightly shut and holds her breath. Her head is bald. Her belly round and taut. Her daughter stands over her, clasping both hands in hers, her own eyes tightly shut, softly singing a song of hope and redemption. Her husband sits quietly, barely present, in the far corner of the room. She tenses when I slide the needle into her skin, gasps at the sting of the anesthetic. She moans when the needle reaches her cancer-thick peritoneum. When the needle burrows through, she cries out. Her daughter’s voice catches, but the song goes on. She is dying. Slowly dying. The cancer is relentless. There is no r...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sarah-rogers" rel="tag" > Sarah Rogers, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital Source Type: blogs

Mockingbird #1: Medical Annotations
I hope everyone has been reading Mockingbird, which recently finished its first storyline. It’s a fun comic featuring an enjoyable character, good writing, and great art. Since much of the first story takes place in a SHIELD medical clinic — and since Bobbi keeps reminding us she has a doctorate in biology — I thought the series was ripe for some elucidating medical annotations. Since I don’t want this post to drag on forever, I’m going to break the storyline down into three separate posts. This first one will just deal with the first issue. Mockingbird #1 Chelsea Cain, writer Kate Niemczyk, a...
Source: Polite Dissent - September 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs

Your EpiPen is too expensive. These are your 4 options.
EpiPens have gotten crazy expensive, yes: $600 for a two-pack. Here are some alternatives that might help you save a few bucks. 1. Wait a few weeks, and see what Mylan does. Mylan, the company that makes the “EpiPen” brand of epinephrine auto-injector, has been under a lot of pressure lately to back off their unseemly price gouging. They’ve introduced a savings card that claims to lower your out-of-pocket expense to no more than $300 dollars, and say they’ve expanded eligibility for their patient assistance program for their less-wealthy-yet-still-allergic patients. Recently, they announced a new generic version o...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 5, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/roy-benaroch" rel="tag" > Roy Benaroch, MD < /a > Tags: Meds Primary care Source Type: blogs

My Katie Campbell Story
We look down at the iPhone directing us from the Maryland home of Katie “Crush” Campbell and her husband to our writing getaway in West Virginia and the battery is almost dead and it isn’t charging even though the charge plug is snug inside and the plug’s indicator light is bright blue. “This always happens,” Crush says in the way I imagine a monk says anyth ing.“Do you know how to get to the cabin?” I say.“Not exactly.”Crush stops the navigation to save her phone ’s battery for when we get closer and possibly really need it. Thankfully between us we have three phones. I look at my two smartphones. On...
Source: cancerslayerblog - August 23, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: a day in my life life lessons Source Type: blogs

The Connoisseur of Pain - The New York Times
Within minutes of our first meeting, and more or less in response to my saying good morning, Justin Schmidt began lamenting our culture ' s lack of insect-based rites of passage. He told me about the Sater é-Mawé people in northwestern Brazil, who hold a ceremony in which young men slip their hands into large mitts filled with bullet ants, whose stings are so agonizing they can cause temporary paralysis; when initiates pass the test, they ' re one step closer to becoming full members of society. Schmidt believes we could learn something from this. By trade, he is an entomologist, an expert on the Hymenoptera o...
Source: Psychology of Pain - August 20, 2016 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs

Modern Slavery, More Important than Who Built the White House
When Michelle Obama delivered her address at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia, she created a stir when she cried out that America ’s story was “the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a ho use that was built by slaves.”That last line, “…I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves,” was the focus of much attention, with some conservative c...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 11, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs

Classic Chords #12 – Message in a Bottle
The Police were a post-punk, new wave band, but the power pop trio all had jazz backgrounds. It’s not surprise then, that they used motifs from that world in their pop songs. ‘Message in a Bottle’ from the band’s second album, 1979’s Regatta de Blanc, could have just been a standard pop tune if it had followed a relatively conventional four-chord progression C#-minor, A-major, B-major, F#minor and then breaking out into an A-D-E. However, the Sumner/Summers/Copeland combination opted to add the minor-9th note of the scales and arpeggiate the progression across a driving three-note guit...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - June 19, 2016 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Classic Chords Andy Summers guitar pop rock Songs The Police Source Type: blogs

Suicide Watch: Can You Walk Away from Cyberbullying?
The other day a young girl from Florida named Tovonna committed suicide after friends posted nude photos & video of her onto Snapchat—a popular mobile app for sharing media with friends. According to reports, her mother didn’t understand what Tovonna was upset about. It’s possible she was hysterical and not clear, because it turns out she had been filmed while showering. Three hours after talking to her mother, she shot herself with her mother’s pistol. Tovonna’s death has been overshadowed this weekend by the horrific gay bar mass-shooting in Orlando, but while some people might want to focu...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - June 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Suicide Source Type: blogs

What Does It Mean to Ask Donald Trump to Change His Tone?
As Republicans fall in line behind Donald Trump, despite their misgivings, many of them are urging him to “change his tone” as he moves toward the general election. But is a change in tone sufficient or even honest? Last Thursday, announcing his endorsement, Speaker Paul Ryan said, “It is my hope the campaign improves its tone as we go forward and it’s all a campaign we can be proud of.” Former Republican nominee Bob Dole says, “I can already see sort of a shift with Trump. He needs to start talking (like) he is about to be president.” Asked about Trump’s repeated comments that offend Hispanic voters, Sena...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 7, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs