A letter to medical interns, in the midst of a pandemic
In residency programs across the country, there is ongoing disappointment and a profound sense of disruption. Match Day was canceled for soon-to-be interns. Medical school and residency graduations will be strange. Finding a place to live and moving in a time of quarantine will be difficult. The only thing certain about the transition to or […]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 - April 7, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sumner-abraham" rel="tag" > Sumner Abraham, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
ASHA Voices: How COVID-19 is Changing Our Work Lives
In this episode, we talk with audiologists and SLPs throughout the country about the pandemic’s immediate and drastic effects on their work. From the Seattle area to New York City, they are facing significant challenges, but they are also rising to those challenges.
Read the transcript for this episode.
Featuring voices of professionals in schools, private practice, academia, and health care, this episode delivers snapshots of what members are experiencing in various workplace settings, including skilled nursing facilities.
Before I can clock in, we have to go and take our temperature and record that. And then, i...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 26, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Podcast Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology audiologist Augmentative Alternative Communication communication sciences and disorders COVID-19 hearing loss Social Medi Source Type: blogs
Technology Makes Social Distancing Easier
Chelsea FollettNot long ago, many people decried screen time as an epidemic. But now that humanity finds itself in the midst of an actual disease pandemic, screens are proving to be a boon to the species. Progress in digital technology has perhaps never been more evident than in this moment of widespread social distancing measures.Without today ’s technology, “social distancing” would have meant isolation. From work, education and errands to leisure activities and socializing, technology is making “social distancing” possible with minimal sacrifice compared to what previous generations would have had to endu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 26, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chelsea Follett Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Pandemic Puts Rural and Tribal Communities at Great Risk
Connie Chan
Brooke Warren
Phuoc Le
By PHUOC LE MD, CONNIE CHAN and BROOKE WARREN
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, we have been changing our daily lives to protect the highest-risk populations: older adults and people with chronic medical conditions. We are asked to follow sensible guidelines like social distancing and thorough hand-washing. Although one may have a gut-reaction to put their own safety at the forefront during these times of crisis, it is essential that we are taking the necessary steps to protect populations with additional vulne...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy AIAN Brooke Warren Connie Chan native american Phuoc Le public health Source Type: blogs
It ’s time to stop treating suffering like a necessary rite of passage
Once, when I was a senior resident covering a busy trauma service at a county hospital, I was on call for nine days in a row while my co-chief had an uncovered vacation. It was July, and we were all— interns, junior residents, and me— new and uncertain in our roles. I left […]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 - March 13, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/laura-mazer" rel="tag" > Laura Mazer, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
Top 3 Myths About Digital Identity in Healthcare
By GUS MALEZIS
Healthcare is in the midst
of a digital transformation, creating information security, compliance, and
workflow challenges. The engagement of
an increasingly decentralized workforce along with anytime anyplace healthcare
and the proliferation of cloud-based applications, databases, and mobile
devices have now (or soon will have) eroded the once well-defined network
perimeter.
The healthcare industry remains one of the
most highly targeted for cyber-attacks – a recent report from Beazley Breach
Insights showed that, 41 percent of all breaches in
2018 occurred in the healthcare sector. This
means...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Data Health Tech Health Technology digital identity Gus Malezis Imprivata information security Source Type: blogs
40 years of ward attending
January 1, 1980 I walked onto the 7th floor of the old North Hospital at the Medical College of Virginia to make rounds as the attending physician. I had spent much time there as an intern and resident, but now I had a new role.
As I reflect on 40 years and probably between 12 and 15 years of total time making rounds, I first feel fortunate that I quickly discovered that my vocation was also my avocation. Now while I have retired from administrative responsibilities, I still devote 3.5 months each year to rounding with students, interns and residents. And each rotation still brings out the same excitement of going to t...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - January 2, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
A System that Fails Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers
Connie Chan
Brooke Warren
Phuoc Le
By PHUOC LE, MD, CONNIE CHAN, and BROOKE WARREN
I recently took care of Rosaria[1], a cheerful 60-year-old woman who came in for chronic joint pain. She grew up in rural Mexico, but came to the US thirty years ago to work in the strawberry fields of California. After examining her, I recommended a few blood tests and x-rays as next steps. “Lo siento pero no voy a tener seguro hasta el primavera — Sorry but I won’t have insurance again until the Spring.” Rosaria, who is a seasonal farmworker, told me she only gets access to health care during the strawberry season....
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Arc Health Brooke Warren Connie Chan migrant and seasonal agricultural workers Phuoc Le public health SDoH Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
Causes of Wealth Inequality
Chris EdwardsElizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to blast wealth inequality. But the twin leftists seem oblivious that wealth inequality may reflect starkly differing causes, as I discuss in anew Fox Business op-ed.The Warren-Sanders broad-brush denunciations are useless as a guide to policy because high wealth inequality may reflect either the growth benefits of capitalism or the negative effects of cronyism and crowding out.Capitalism here meanseconomic freedom, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Cronyism means corruption and narrow benefits to particular groups. Crowding out means the displacement of private sav...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Interns: You ’re not alone, until you are
During intern orientation a few months ago, they promised we would never be alone in the hospital. And they were right. Until they weren ’t. It’s hard to see colors in the dark — that’s why he looks blue. That’s strange; it almost seems like his chest is not moving. I must be overreacting. Everything is […]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 - October 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ashira-klein" rel="tag" > Ashira Klein, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Are duty hour restrictions are preparing trainees for the real-world medicine?
Duty hours have been the focus of a lot of research recently. If you are just joining this discussion, the iCOMPARE trial randomized 63 internal medicine residency programs to either flexible (interns could work more than 16 hours) or standard (interns had to work within the 16-hour limit) work hours. The results so far have […]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 - October 7, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/cassandra-fritz" rel="tag" > Cassandra Fritz, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Is The Nurse's Glass Half Full?
It ' s no secret that there ' s a multitude of unhappy nurses out there in the world. From mandatory overtime to unhealthy nurse-patient ratios, I admit there are very valid reasons for this seeming epidemic of discontent. So, is the nursing glass half-full or half-empty? I guess it depends on who you ' re drinking with (and perhaps what you ' re drinking). Photo by Jana Sabeth on UnsplashReasons To Be Cheerful---Or NotThis blog post isn ' t really about the aforementioned multitude of reasons that explain nurses ' rampant unhappiness. A new study mentioned recently on Twitter states that a full one-thi...
Source: Digital Doorway - September 22, 2019 Category: Nursing Tags: nurse nurse identity nurses nursing nursing careers nursing identity Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 23rd 2019
Discussion of Developmental Effects on Aging
Microtubule Function and Longevity in Nematodes
Quantifying the Correlation Between Poverty and Faster Pace of Aging
Matthew O'Connor Presenting on Underdog Pharmaceuticals at Undoing Aging 2019
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/09/matthew-oconnor-presenting-on-underdog-pharmaceuticals-at-undoing-aging-2019/
Here Matthew O'Connor of the SENS Research Foundation talks about the research that led to founding of Underdog Pharmaceuticals, a biotech startup incubated by the foundation to commercialize a means of targeting 7-ketocholesterol in atheroscle...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 22, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: Working With Schizophrenia
Everyone complains about work. Having to go to work every day, working too much, not getting paid enough- working can be challenging for so many reasons. Today’s episode focuses on working while having schizophrenia.
Host Rachel Star Withers, a diagnosed schizophrenic, and co-host Gabe Howard share antidotes from their own work lives and speak with fellow schizophrenic Michelle Hammer. Michelle, an award-winning graphic designer and entrepreneur, discusses her struggles working full time and transitioning to working for herself. Cheryl Wallace the Vice President of Programs at Rose Hill Center, a psychiatric treatm...
Source: World of Psychology - September 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Inside Schizophrenia Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Employment life with schizophrenia Living With Schizophrenia mental illness at work Psychology working working and schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
Matthew O'Connor Presenting on Underdog Pharmaceuticals at Undoing Aging 2019
Here Matthew O'Connor of the SENS Research Foundation talks about the research that led to founding of Underdog Pharmaceuticals, a biotech startup incubated by the foundation to commercialize a means of targeting 7-ketocholesterol in atherosclerosis and other conditions. Oxidized cholesterols, and largely 7-ketocholesterol, are the primary cause of dysfunction in the macrophage cells normally responsible for preventing the build up of fatty plaques in blood vessel walls. That dysfunction is the cause of atherosclerosis, and the fact that the presence of oxidized cholesterols increases with age is one of the reasons why ath...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 16, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
