The Curse of Delusional Parasitosis
Delusional parasitosis is a rare condition, but it is more common where methamphetamine and cocaine abuse is high. It is a fascinating condition to witness; patients are convinced that their skin is infested with foreign organisms or materials despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.This condition is known by numerous names—Ekbom syndrome, delusory parasitosis, psychogenic parasitosis, delusional parasitosis, delusional ectoparasitosis, formication, chronic tactile hallucinosis, dermatophobia, parasitophobia, and cocaine bugs—but delusional parasitosis and more recently delusional infestation are considere...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - September 29, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
‘The Empathy Exams,’ by Leslie Jamison - NYTimes.com
Regarding the pain of others requires more than just a pair of eyes. It necessitates an act of the imagination: a willingness to think or feel oneself into the interior of another's experience, to cross between what Susan Sontag once designated as the kingdoms of the sick and of the well. This kind of empathetic border crossing can be both difficult and dangerous, the sort of journey of which one might say: "I get across quickly because I'm headed in the right direction, by which I mean the wrong direction. I'm going where no one wants to stay."This statement, actually describing a trip i...
Source: Psychology of Pain - May 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Interesting Things in MeSH 2014
This one is for the medlibs and me, some interesting changes in MeSH for 2014:
The concept (and term for) TEN has been absorbed into Stevens-Johnson Syndrome – makes some sense given the “spectrum of disease” aspect.
Drug Toxicity has been replaced by Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions, which is much more tedious to type from memory.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome has been replaced by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
Arachnidism has been changed to the much easier to remember Spider Bites. Tick Bites is new, too.
Hearing Impaired Persons has been changed to the more person-first Persons with Heari...
Source: Women's Health News - September 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rachel Tags: Uncategorized language medical librarians MeSH Source Type: blogs
Interesting Things in MeSH 2014
This one is for the medlibs and me, some interesting changes in MeSH for 2014:
The concept (and term for) TEN has been absorbed into Stevens-Johnson Syndrome – makes some sense given the “spectrum of disease” aspect.
Drug Toxicity has been replaced by Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions, which is much more tedious to type from memory.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome has been replaced by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
Arachnidism has been changed to the much easier to remember Spider Bites. Tick Bites is new, too.
Hearing Impaired Persons has been changed to the more person-first Persons with Heari...
Source: Women's Health News - September 22, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Uncategorized language medical librarians MeSH Source Type: blogs
There'll always be a Texas: nurses prosecuted for reporting improper behavior by a physician
It's certainly possible that nurses might report a doctor to bosses or regulators just to be spiteful. But the system has to make reporting easy, and safe, to make sure that quality issues don't get missed. That's what makes it such a travesty tocriminally prosecute nurses for reporting concerns about a doctor's conduct. It would be a travesty even if the nurses' concerns ultimately weren't legitimate. But it's especially egregious when what's being reported is, in fact, bad behavior--stuff like emailing patients to promote his own herbal supplements that he was selling on the side.New York Times covers the case.Texas Nurs...
Source: hemodynamics - February 8, 2010 Category: American Health Tags: doctors healthcare justice nurses quality social power Source Type: blogs
There'll always be a Texas: nurses prosecuted for reporting improper behavior by a physician
It ' s certainly possible that nurses might report a doctor to bosses or regulators just to be spiteful. But the system has to make reporting easy, and safe, to make sure that quality issues don ' t get missed. That ' s what makes it such a travesty tocriminally prosecute nurses for reporting concerns about a doctor ' s conduct. It would be a travesty even if the nurses ' concerns ultimately weren ' t legitimate. But it ' s especially egregious when what ' s being reported is, in fact, bad behavior--stuff like emailing patients to promote his own herbal supplements that he was selling on the side.New York Times covers the ...
Source: hemodynamics - February 8, 2010 Category: American Health Tags: doctors healthcare justice nurses quality social power Source Type: blogs
