First trauma in the ER
I spent the summer between the first and second years of medical school in the emergency department at Cincinnati’s major trauma hospital. More specifically, I spent summer nights there, studying the effects of interpersonal violence. Cincinnati is both a friendly city and a violent city. People say “Hello” when you pass in a corridor. At first, coming from Boston, this mid-West style of friendliness took me aback. At the same time, the Brady Campaign gives Ohio and Kentucky (which is just across the river from Cincinnati) a D and an F for gun laws. Both ranked into negative numbers on a scale of 1 to 100. Guns are c...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/heather-finlay-morreale" rel="tag" > Heather Finlay-Morreale, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
Let's Face It: US Policy in the Middle East Has Failed
The ongoing controversy surrounding the murder of a dissident Saudi journalist and Saudi Arabia ’s brutal bombing campaign of a largely defenseless neighboring Yemen, which has come with an enormous human toll, have elicited increased scrutiny over the U.S.-Saudi alliance. The White House remains supportive of Riyadh, both diplomatically and with continued military aid. Republicans have offe red mildly critical words for the Saudi regime, while an increasing number of Democrats arecalling for a fundamental reassessment of the U.S.-Saudi relationship.Such a reassessment is long overdue. Washington ’s partnership with Ri...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 19, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
I can't believe I'm about to do this . . .
That islink to National Review.Mohammed bin Salman has gone too far, evidently, because he murdered one person. It ' s perfectly okay, however, that the Saudis have been indiscriminately bombing Yemen, killing children and adult nocombatants by the thousands, since 2015. Oh yeah, using weapons the U.S. sold them. The Saudi naval blockade of the country has left 70% of the population -- 20 million people -- short of food, water and medical care.Lloyd Russell-Moyle has more to say about this in The Guardian.Now it seems likely that if George W. Bush had ordered the murder of a critic in a U.S. consulate somewhere he ' d be i...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 17, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
ISIS's New Plans to Get Rich and Wreak Havoc
Although the Islamic State has lost nearly 98 percent of the territory it once controlled, it is ripe for a comeback in Sunni-majority areas of Iraq and Syria. The group has proven that it is capable of making money even without controlling large population centers. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - October 10, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Colin P. Clarke Source Type: blogs
Trump Has Cut Christian Refugees 64%, Muslim Refugees 93%
In a campaign address, Donald Trumptold his supporters that “if you are Syrian and you’re Christian, it’s almost impossible to come into the United States… it’s all going to change.” After his inauguration, he reiterated the promise. “They’re chopping off the heads of everyone, but more so, the Christians,” hetold CBN News. “I thought it was very, very unfair, so we’re going to help them.”But he hasn ’t. Refugee resettlement has changed, but not for the better. While his administrationhas reduced Muslim refugee arrivals 93 percent compared to the final months of the Obama administration, it has st...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 3, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
“ WAR ’ S NEW WOUNDS. A shock wave of brain injuries ”
That was the headline in a Washington Post article written by Ronald Glasser, published on Sunday, April 8, 2007. It reported a rather astounding statistic that applies to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars: About 30% of soldiers in those conflicts have been directly exposed to IED or other powerful explosions. That exposure has resulted in diffuse physical trauma to their brains.
To paraphrase Mr. Glasser, detonation of any powerful explosive generates a blast wave of high pressure that spreads out at about twice the speed of sound away from the explosion, and travels with great force over hundreds of yards. The in...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - October 1, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Merzenich Tags: Aging and the Brain Brain Fitness Brain Trauma, Injury Cognitive impairments Source Type: blogs
The Rocky Road from the Military to the VA
While serving in the military, few think about what comes next. What happens if you are injured and the physical, mental, emotional damage does not go away? Who is tasked to make you “whole” again through health care and compensation? It is a process with which most civilians, and many service members and their families have little familiarity. It is cumbersome, and starts when the individual is still in the service, with a transition program and virtually no follow up by the military.
For the last twenty years, the Department of Labor (DOL) Veterans Employment and Training Services (VETS) has provided grants to the Na...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Government ’s Poor Defense of Counting Derivatives against Immigration Quotas
ConclusionIn summation, the government provides no theory at all of how the plain language of the statute requires counting. Its indirect textual evidence falls flat and even contradicts its claims, and it repeatedly misstates the legislative history. The government concludes by fearmongering about how much legal immigration would increase if it were forced to implement the statute Congress actually passed. But legal immigration isn ’t scary, and even it were, it is even scarier to allow the government the power to amend the laws without Congress. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 27, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Preparing for Peace? Or Just More War?
In yesterday ’sWashington Post,George Will makes a familiar argument: “if you want peace, prepare for war.”Drawing mostly on key episodes from the late Cold War period, Will suggests that Ronald Reagan ’s military buildup was instrumental to bringing down the Soviet Union. He places particular emphasis, with an assist fromJohn Lehman, on the importance of a massive naval buildup in the 1980s.As it happens, I served in the Navy during this period. Lehman was the Secretary of the Navy when I was an NROTC midshipman at George Washington University. I witnessed what such a force could do when it was called upon to figh...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 13, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
It's already happening
The Guardian environmental reporter Damian Carrington interviews Michael Mann, and some of his colleagues. Maybe you heard about theunprecedented heat wave in Japan, and if you caught the Open Championship on TV last weekendyou know about the European drought and heat wave that ' s threatening crops across the continent, andcaused wildfires from Greece to the arctic. And there ' s a lot more, including a particularly bad fire seasonin the U.S. Oh, this is fun: the weather forecast for Basra, Iraq.I would say that qualifies as uninhabitable.The Mueller witch hunt has already caught a lot of witches -- 5 guilty pleas and the...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 27, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
7 Ways Smartphone Tools Can Target Memory
Just 13 years ago, research touted the effectiveness of using a pager to reduce memory issues in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). We’ve come a long way since pagers. Today, smartphones and tablets serve as powerful memory tools when treating people with TBI. Technology in your pocket means you can use programs for strategies and exercises anytime and anywhere. I find using some of these tools in sessions valuable for many of my clients working on cognitive rehabilitation.
Here are my seven favorite tech tools to assist with memory goals:
Reminders – Help clients remember to remember.
Most smartphones and tab...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 18, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Emily Dubas Tags: Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Cognitive Rehabilitation Traumatic Brain Injury Source Type: blogs
Arms Sales: Pouring Gas on the Fires of Conflict
Do arms sales cause war? Or do wars cause arms sales? Critics of arms salesoften argue that selling weapons abroad fuels conflict. And indeed, one can point to one or more sides using American weapons in many recent conflicts including Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Skeptics argue,on the other hand, that weapons don ’t start the fire and that conflicts would arise whether or arms exporters like the United States sell weapons abroad.The debate has important implications for foreign policy. If selling or transferring weapons abroad makes conflict more likely, or intensifies conflicts already in process, then the United States sho...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 2, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall Source Type: blogs
Clashing Generations
I ’ve written before about the worrisome gap between the American people and foreign policy elites (see e.g.here andhere). Whereas most Americans believe that the U.S. military exists chiefly to defend the United States andits economic and security interests, the intelligentsia is committed to a broader set of objectives, including defending the security of others, shaping the international system, and advancing the cause of democracy and human rights. These slightly differing impulses often worked hand in hand. A large and active U.S. military that was focused mostly on U.S. security and prosperity typically helped othe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 28, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
Time for Diplomacy, Not War, in Yemen
On Wednesday June 13 the Saudi-led military coalitionlaunched an assault to seize Hodeidah, the site of Yemen ’s main port. The port, currently held by Houthi fighters, is the primary channel through which humanitarian aid reaches millions of at-risk Yemenis, who have suffered from four long years of civil war.The war has already taken a huge toll on Yemen. If the vital humanitarian aid delivered through Hodeidah is disrupted by a coalition assault, many more civilians could die.The coalition had sought direct military assistance from the United States, which has provided weapons, intelligence, and logistical support thr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall Source Type: blogs
Dr. Ronny Jackson: A victim of political accusations, or physician burnout?
It is no secret that President Trump’s former nominee to run the Veterans Administration, Navy Rear Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, has withdrawn his nomination amidst allegations related to his behavior: that he drank on the job, was a bully in the office and improperly gave out prescription medication. He has vehemently denied the allegations and characterized them as false and fabricated.
Dr. Jackson is an Iraq War veteran who President Trump has called an “American hero.” The rear admiral has previously also served presidents Obama and George W. Bush as White House physician. By many accounts, he has done so with ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 21, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/shawn-c-jones" rel="tag" > Shawn C. Jones, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
