Physician speakers are ready to highlight your conference: Spring 2018 update
It’s been a great start for my new speakers bureau, Physician Speaking by KevinMD. We are a group of practicing physicians who can tell a story, command the stage, and inspire your audience.
This Spring 2018, we’re highlighting the following events:
University of Maryland Community Medical Group, keynote
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, keynote
Becker’s Hospital Review Health IT + Clinical Leadership 2018, presentation and panel discussion
Association of Staff Physician Recruiters Annual Conference, keynote
Pri-Med Southwest 2018, keynote
Event planners!
We are booking events for this Summer and Fall...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 22, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/admin" rel="tag" > Admin < /a > Tags: Potpourri Pain Management Palliative Care Practice Management Primary Care Source Type: blogs
After Right to Try Fails, Here ’s How We Can Actually Bring Potentially Life-Saving Drugs to Patients in Need
By MCFADYEN, MOCH & CAPLAN
Last week, House Representatives failed to pass “Right to Try” (RTT) legislation, a bill that purported to help terminally ill patients access experimental medications. Opponents of this legislation, including these authors, have long argued that RTT does nothing to bring potentially life-saving medications to patients who are in dire need and, potentially, puts desperate individuals at risk. With the bill’s failure, Republican leaders should rewrite the draft legislation in a collaborative fashion, taking input from the FDA, the biopharmaceutical industry, patients, patient advocates, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Right to Try Source Type: blogs
Introducing Physician Speaking by KevinMD: a boutique speakers bureau
I’m so excited to introduce my new boutique speakers bureau: Physician Speaking by KevinMD.
I will match your event with select physician speakers who I have personally coached or handpicked. These physicians are not only amazing speakers, but are also practicing physicians who have experience in sharing their story at acclaimed venues like the Toastmasters International World Championships of Public Speaking and the TEDx stage.
I understand that planning a conference is stressful, with lots of moving parts. As an experienced keynote speaker for conferences both large and small, I aim to make your job easier by ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 3, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/admin" rel="tag" > Admin < /a > Tags: Potpourri Source Type: blogs
New Study Gives Insight in Patient Complexity Across the Radiology Field
Out of all the specialties, radiologists see the country ’s most “clinically complex” patients says astudy recently published inAcademic Radiology. A group of researchers led by Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, MD, MPA, associate professor of radiology and director of health policy at New York University Langone Health, evaluated Medicare patient data from 31,175 radiologists across the U.S to “identify radiologist characteristics associated with higher patient complexity.” The researchers found that interventional radiology ranked fourth out of 54 specialties on the Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) risk score. Nuclea...
Source: radRounds - March 2, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
3D-printed Microfluidic Device for Point-of-Care Single-Cell Analysis
Researchers at the New York Genome Center and New York University have developed a portable low-cost analysis device that can perform single-cell RNA sequencing. The researchers hope that the device will enable genetic sequencing at the bed-side to help identify cell types that can be targeted using specific drugs, and the device also has potential for basic research applications.
Single-cell sequencing holds enormous promise in helping researchers to understand disease and identify new and optimal treatments. However, at present, the technique typically requires expensive equipment that can be difficult to use. To address...
Source: Medgadget - February 27, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Source Type: blogs
Good and Cheap cookbook
Leanne Brown wrote the New York Times bestselling cookbook for people who are on SNAP/Food Stamp benefits or for anyone on a tight budget. The project started off as her master’s thesis at New York University and a Kickstarter campaign allowed for an initial printing for those without computer access. Thousands of copies have been given away either free or at a greatly reduced cost to those who otherwise would not have access to it.
Good and Cheap allows those on a tight budget to eat healthy and tasty dishes such as:
Peanut Butter and Jelly Granola Bars
Peach Coffee Cake
Spicy Broiled Tilapia with Lime
It also include...
Source: BHIC - February 13, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Carolyn Martin Tags: Low Income Websites Source Type: blogs
Questioning the Link Between Sports-Related Concussions and CTE
This article is submitted on behalf of 26 brain injury experts in neurosurgery, neuropsychology, neurology, neuropathology and public policy at 23 universities and hospitals in the United States and Canada.
The additional signatories are:
Lili-Naz Hazrati, associate professor of neuropathology at the University of Toronto; clinician-scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
John Leddy, professor of clinical orthopaedics and rehabilitation sciences at the SUNY Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Barry Willer, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the SUNY Buffalo Jacobs School of Me...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Boston University CTE football Sports-Related Concussions Source Type: blogs
Depressed by the News? Here Are 7 Strategies for Self-Care
First the good news about all the bad news you might be reading and seeing these days: Bad news cannot cause depression. Depression is a complex biological illness, and in my professional practice as a psychiatrist, I have seen nothing to suggest that depression rates are rising in a response to the barrage of negative stories we’re hearing and seeing in the media these days. And none of the copious research on depression has concluded that it can be caused by exposure to negative media.
The roots of depression go deeper than environmental factors. After all, some people can suffer trauma and go on to live a normal life...
Source: World of Psychology - February 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gennady Musher MD, PhD Tags: Anxiety and Panic Depression Minding the Media Motivation and Inspiration Personal Psychology Psychotherapy Self-Help Stress Technology Treatment Coping Mechanism Coping Skills mass shooting Politics Relaxation Self Care Source Type: blogs
It's Time to Put the Farm Bill Out to Pasture
Some Americans may be surprised to learn that agriculture in their country is in large part based on a five-year plan. Most commonly referred to as the farm bill, it is up for renewal this year and —just like in years past—is likely to produce a legislative morass in which the primary beneficiaries are lobbyists and the business interests they serve. The following excerpt from arecent article inThe New Yorker helps to illustrate the madness:When milk prices bottomed out in the summer of 2016, Robin and David Fitch didn ’t know how they could continue. Their four-hundred-and-seventy-acre dairy farm, in West Winfield, ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 1, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
A New Non-Partisan Panel to Monitor the President ’ s Medical Record
By ART CAPLAN & JONATHAN MORENO
The White House has announced that President Trump has scheduled an annual physical exam for Jan. 12. The President will go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., the largest military hospital in the nation. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Dr. Ronny Jackson, a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who has served as physician to the President since 2013, “will give a readout of the exam after it’s completed.”
Some may have greeted this announcement with relief. Finally, concerns about the President’s slurred speech, overall mental health...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A New Non-Partisan Panel to Monitor the President ’ s Health
By ART CAPLAN & JONATHAN MORENO
The White House has announced that President Trump has scheduled an annual physical exam for Jan. 12. The President will go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., the largest military hospital in the nation. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Dr. Ronny Jackson, a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who has served as physician to the President since 2013, “will give a readout of the exam after it’s completed.”
Some may have greeted this announcement with relief. Finally, concerns about the President’s slurred speech, overall mental health...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Coping with Failure and Rejection When You ’ re a Perfectionist
Any creative person knows that pursuing meaningful work also means climbing aboard an emotional rollercoaster. One moment, you’re on top of the world, stepping out onto a stage, or hitting “publish” on a post. Then a disappointing email or a critical comment about your work sends you plunging into despair.
As a perfectionist with an honor-student complex trying to navigate the real world, I know these feelings very well. Those of us who pride ourselves on being goal-oriented can get so emotionally wrapped up in success that the results of our efforts start to dictate our happiness. We begin to over-identify with achi...
Source: World of Psychology - November 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melody Wilding, LMSW Tags: Creativity General Habits Happiness Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Professional Self-Help Stress Success & Achievement anxiety Failure Perfectionism Perfectionist Personal Growth Rejection Resilience Source Type: blogs
AI Has a Firm Grip on Radiology, But (Hopefully) Patients Will Prefer Human Doctors Over Robots
Artificial intelligence occupies powerful space in the medical industry. Today, many clinics and hospitals have tablets in place of receptionists, deep learning models are alreadydiagnosing TB, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are usingalgorithms to detect breast cancer before a breast imager can. These advancements accelerate image interpretation, and in a lot of ways, make a radiologist or technologist’s job easier; however, is technology poised to obliterate the radiologist’s role altogether? According to the financial management firmCornerstone Capital Group, out of the 16 million retail worke...
Source: radRounds - November 23, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Men and women interpret the sexual intent behind dating behaviours very differently
Men tend to overestimate the sexual intent behind women’s behaviours on a date
By Alex Fradera
Imagine you’re out one evening with someone you met recently – you take your date’s hand in yours, or compliment your date’s appearance, or you kiss him or her passionately. For each behaviour, how likely is it that you wanted to have sex with that person for the first time? Researchers have put this question to heterosexual women, then they’ve asked men how they would interpret a woman’s intentions if she had behaved in these ways. The contrast in their answers is striking: men judge woman’s sexual intent as...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 15, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Dating Gender Sex Source Type: blogs
Top Resources for Educators on Learning and the Brain
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In my previous post 10 Brain Training Tips To Teach and Learn I promised to share some of the resources–books, conferences, and websites– that inform my understanding of teaching, learning and the brain. Here’s an updated list:
BOOKS
There are many books about the brain. For educators, the best of these are books that demystify the language of neuroscience while providing information applicable to the teaching and learning process.
Among the more prolific or well-known authors of this type include Jeb Schenck, Robert Sylwester, Barbara Givens, Robert Marzano, Marilee Sprenger, and Eric Jensen.
I have found...
Source: SharpBrains - November 9, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Laurie Bartels Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Books brain educators exercise movement Nutrition resources sleep Source Type: blogs
