Raj of the NHS – How doctors from India and Pakistan saved the NHS
By ROHIN FRANCIS
India and Pakistan celebrate 71 years of Independence today. The British National Health Service owes them a debt of gratitude.
Great Britain’s national dish is famously chicken curry, but South Asia’s impact on this sceptred isle extends far beyond food. It is a testament to how ingrained into the British psyche the stereotypical Indian doctor has become that in 2005 a poll of Brits found the doctor they’d most like to consult is a 30-something South Asian female. In 2010 the BBC even ran a popular TV series simply entitled ‘The Indian Doctor’ following a story played out across the UK in the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: NHS Source Type: blogs
Family therapy via medical missionary work
The initial doubts first surfaced mid-way through our flight bound for Montego Bay, Jamaica. In fact, we were not entirely sure that this trip was such a good idea after all. Our eldest son, 13 and in eighth grade, was already complaining about how much school he was missing and how much homework he had been assigned. Our daughter, a sixth-grader prone to procrastination, had her nose buried deep within a book. Ordinarily, this is not a bad thing. But when language arts and social studies assignments were beckoning, reading a stock, contrived, YA book for pleasure was not exactly what I hoped she would be doing. The first-...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 22, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/belen-gallarza-wilson" rel="tag" > Belen Gallarza-Wilson, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 241
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 241.
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Question 1
Which family shares 4 Nobel prizes? A Nobel prize between wife and husband, followed by a second prize for the wife and a later prize to their daughter.
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 14, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five battle of troy burkholderia mallei cannabis cirrhosis CPR greek soldiers irene joliot-curie kiss of life marie curie moroccan fishermen nobel prize peter safar pierre curie pseudomonas mallei Rene Laenne Source Type: blogs
When Dotty Went to Heaven She Had Learned Her Final Life Lesson
Dotty was always convinced she could take "care" of herself, and then something changed.Dotty, 95 years oldDorothy Olive DeMarco was born on June 29, 1916. She went to Heaven on May 25, 2012.10 Things a Person Living with Dementia Would Tell You If They CouldBy Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomSubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:I was convinced for thirty years thatDotty would live to be more than one hundred years old. I did waver on this a bit when Alzheimer's disease came into our lives.In 2004,I started to believe that Dotty would go to Heaven when she learned the most important lesson of her life - how to...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - May 28, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's Alzheimer's family alzheimer's story Alzheimers Dementia care of dementia patients dorothy demarco dotty help alzheimer's help with dementia care Source Type: blogs
I ’m retiring my first stethoscope
I retired my first stethoscope today. I bought my Littmann Cardiology III during my first term of medical school in 1999. It came with a penlight, otoscope, ophthalmoscope, manual blood pressure cuff, tuning forks and reflex hammer, all contained within a traditional black leather physician’s bag with my initials in gold. Receiving your medical student diagnostic kit is one of the rites of passage for all of us who enter this profession.
I still own all of these items. Most are in that same black leather bag on a shelf in my office. But it was my stethoscope that I have used most often since then, well, until today.
That...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/matthew-bowdish" rel="tag" > Matthew Bowdish, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Allergies & Immunology Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Profiles of Every Terrorism Vetting Failure in the Last 30 Years
In my newpolicy analysis released today, I identify 65 vetting failures where the visa vetting system allowed a foreign-born person to enter the United States as an adult or older teenager when they had already radicalized —80 percent occurred before 9/11. Just 13 vetting failures have occurred since 9/11, and only one—the last one (Tashfeen Malik)—resulted in any deaths in the United States. That’s one vetting failure for every 29 million visa or status approvals, and one deadly failure for every 379 million visa or status approvals from 2002 to 2016.As I note, 9/11 is reasonable point of analysis because after th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Why Racism Is The Antithesis Of Self Development
I spent a day or so in the ER this past weekend.
The details aren’t important other than to say chest pain and shortness of breath don’t necessarily mean you are about to become an ex-Life Coach and shuffle off this mortal coil.
During the time I spent there I probably came into direct contact with about 50 members of staff.
That’s a lot in such a short period of time until you realize I had 3 lots of blood taken, 2 chest x-rays, 2 nuclear medicine scans, a stress test and 2 CT scans over about a 24-hour period.
I don’t like watching TV lying in bed and my phone service was intermittent at best so between the batt...
Source: A Daring Adventure - August 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
10 Years!
April 3, 2017Current Mood: ReminiscentWell, March 8th marked my 10 year Cancerversary and I wanted to blog about it but wasn ’t sure how I wanted to tackle it or how I wanted to share…I could take the approach, how did Cancer change me? Or what have I accomplished since my D-Day? I guess I ’m doing a little of both in this blog.Sure it ’s been 10 years since I heard those life changing words, “You’ve got cancer”, but I live with reminders every day. Yes, every day I have to take a shower and see my scars and look at what the cancer took from me. Yes, putting lotion on my body has gotten easier over the y...
Source: Sharing My Cancer Crapness - April 3, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 167
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 167
Question 1
What is Asturian leprosy?
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Pellagra or vitamin B3 (niacin) deficiency as a result of a corn based diet (Noted in the Asturias community in Spain).
In 1915, back when such practices were legal and under the Surgeon General’s sanction in the USA, Dr. Goldberger offered ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 24, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five acromegaly Andre the giant as you wish Asturian leprosy bicyclists vulva brown sequard Jake leg OPIDN organophosphate induced delayed neuropathy Pellagra placebo vitamin B3 Source Type: blogs
The Golden Essay: How Olympic Moments Can Be Associated with Essay Writing
You're reading The Golden Essay: How Olympic Moments Can Be Associated with Essay Writing, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Rio’s hype is all over the place (and the Internet). From Michael Phelps’ death stare that launched a thousand memes to Usain Bolt’s smiling shot, the 2016 Olympics never runs out of animation, excitement, and surprises. Nevertheless, every Olympics past lived up to its promise of showcasing the best athletes displaying exceptional athleticism in the global stage.
Meanwhile, the...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: WadeLang71 Tags: Community Posts how to be a better writer motivation olympics inspiration pickthebrain self improvement success writing skills Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs ’ August Issue: Disparities, Hospital Financing, And More
The August issue of Health Affairs, a variety issue, includes a collection of articles that show the extent of health disparities in the United States and describe approaches designed to address them. There are also articles covering hospital financing, Medicare, and other topics.
Documenting active life expectancy disparities: black and white differences remain
Research previously published, in Health Affairs and elsewhere, has described racial differences in life expectancies. However, very few studies have focused on long-term trends in active life expectancy by race.
Vicki Freedman of the University of Michigan and Br...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 8, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucy Larner Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Disparities Health Affairs journal Medicare Advantage Source Type: blogs
It doesn't take a genius . . .
. . . to figure out that < a href= " http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/us/politics/donald-trump-white-identity.html?_r=0 " > the entire basis of the Republican presidential candidates appeal is < /a > racism. Kevin Drum gives us < a href= " http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/trumps-racist-appeal-becomes-more-explicit-every-day " > a more opionated discussion of this obvious fact < /a > . < br / > < br / > As a friend just ranted at me, however, the corporate media for the most part (Confessore piece above obviously excepted) and even, it seems, many Democratic politicians have at best tip-toed around this. Hilla...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 14, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
It doesn't take a genius . . .
. . . to figure out that the entire basis of the Republican presidential candidates appeal is racism. Kevin Drum gives us a more opionated discussion of this obvious fact.As a friend just ranted at me, however, the corporate media for the most part (Confessore piece above obviously excepted) and even, it seems, many Democratic politicians have at best tip-toed around this. Hillary Clinton obviously doesn't have nice things to say about him, but just calling him a con artist and a fraud is not mentioning the elephant in the room.For the teevee news, of course, the candidate is good for ratings and that's all they care about...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 14, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
“You could call @eckholm an unlikely bird-watcher. “I...
"You could call @eckholm an unlikely bird-watcher. "I haven't caught anyone snickering to my face, but my new hobby must seem improbable to my family, friends and colleagues," writes the the @nytimes national legal correspondent. "I'm a confirmed urbanite, and known as rather restless and impatient." But @eckholm started #birdwatching in what he calls "a very New York way," and he has kept at it. The reporter (and amateur bird photographer) searches for subjects in the Ramble or the North Woods of @centralparknyc, where he photographed this Cedar waxwing. "Comparable sights await in @prospect_park, in the Jamaica Bay Wildl...
Source: Kidney Notes - April 14, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
