I am a Pediatrician. I Treated the Columbine Kids. I Have Not Spoken Out Before.
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
A National School Walkout Day is planned for March 14, 2018 at 10 a.m. and will last 17 minutes in honor of the 17 students and staff members killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine’s Day. The heart of the nation has seemed to shift overnight regarding the debate on guns, but this change has been almost two decades in the making. United and Delta Airlines pulled their support for the NRA, Dicks’ Sporting Goods will not sell assault-style weapons, and Walmart plans to raise the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21 years old.
I am a pediatrician. I treated the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How to Tell When Technology Makes Anxiety Worse
These are the signs to look for.
Anxiety (and its big brother, fear) is always about something that hasn’t happened yet. Even when the worst does happen, anxiety goes away. It’s not the loss of a limb that is frightening; it’s the anticipation of losing a limb that makes you afraid.
Stop Anxiety from Sucking the Life Out of You
When we perceive a real danger or find ourselves facing something unknown, anxiety is one of the best tools in our self-preservation box. It sharpens our senses and washes our cells with cortisol and adrenaline, which increase energy and strength in the moment. It prepares us to fight or to r...
Source: World of Psychology - March 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Anxiety and Panic Disorders Publishers Technology YourTango Fear Source Type: blogs
Study conducted during war finds one symptom that is especially indicative of PTSD vulnerability
By Emma Young
After a traumatic event, some people develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – generally within about a month – while others don’t. Identifying those most at risk could allow for targeted interventions, aimed at stopping the disorder developing. So how do you spot these people?
One way of exploring this question involves viewing PTSD as a dynamic process in which symptoms interact over time to cause the disorder, and some symptoms likely play a bigger causal role than others. So if you can identify the most problematic symptoms, and the people displaying them, at an early stage, then you can w...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs
5 Anxiety Warning Signs You Might Not Notice
Anxiety does its job by getting your attention. But what if you’re not noticing it?
Signs of anxiety can be obvious, and not so obvious.
Anxiety can ‘yell’ at you, flash you into panic, and fuel that familiar pit in your stomach that tells you something’s wrong. Most of us know and understand this kind of acute anxiety. But this isn’t the only kind of anxiety and certainly isn’t the only kind of anxiety that’s useful.
Some signs of anxiety are more like a quiet whisper that nags you, drags you down, and frankly irritates you. This is your discomfort is doing its job: to get your attention and prompt you t...
Source: World of Psychology - February 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Anxiety and Panic Disorders Publishers YourTango signs of anxiety Worry Source Type: blogs
Fitbit Bands Collect Data Describing Six Billion Nights of Sleep
We are entering a new era when billions of data points relating to health are being collected via health wearables such asFitbit bands. A recent article revealed some fascinating information about the sleep patterns of many people in the U.S. (see:What Fitbit's 6 billion nights of sleep data reveals about us). Below is an excerpt from the article. It's chock full of interesting data including graphs so read the whole thing if you are interested.Most of Fitibit ’s bands...have built-in heart-rate monitors, which produce much more accurate sleep-measurement results than earlier bands. These bands track your s...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 3, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Healthcare Insurance Medical Consumerism Public Health Source Type: blogs
To Err is Homicide in Britain – the case of Dr. Hadiza Bawa-Garba
By, SAURABH JHA
The good that doctors do is oft interred by a single error. The case of Dr. Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a trainee pediatrician in the NHS, convicted for homicide for the death of a child from sepsis, and hounded by the General Medical Council, is every junior doctor’s primal fear.
An atypical Friday
Though far from usual, Friday February 18th, 2011 was not a typically unusual day in a British hospital. Dr. Bawa-Garba had just returned from a thirteen-month maternity break. She was the on-call pediatric registrar – the second in command for the care of sick children at Leicester Royal Infirmary. As a “r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Patients Physicians The Business of Health Care Source Type: blogs
The Caregiver
There was once a woman who lived in a castle. She had everything she wanted, everything she needed — the finest food, plentiful drink, bountiful silks, warm woolens, the softest leather shoes. Her castle had tall windows cut into pink rock, and they lined the strong walls, curving around the towers and drawing in sunlight from every angle. The woman was known far and wide for her learnedness, her ability to understand even the most difficult of problems, and to solve them for the people of the land in a gentle manner that made them feel both cared for and empowered at the same time. She was beloved by all.
The woman ...
Source: Susan's Blog - January 25, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Not just bad health IT, but SPECTACULARLY bad health IT
I define bad healthcare IT as:... IT that is ill-suited to purpose, hard to use, unreliable, loses data or provides incorrect data, is difficult and/or prohibitively expensive to customize to the needs of different medical specialists and subspecialists, causes cognitive overload, slows rather than facilitates users, lacks appropriate alerts, creates the need for hypervigilance (i.e., towards avoiding IT-related mishaps) that increases stress, is lacking in security, lacks evidentiary soundness, compromises patient privacy or otherwise demonstrates suboptimal design and/or implementation. (http://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/ssi...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 20, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: bad health IT healthcare IT amateur KevinMD Niran S. Al-Agba Source Type: blogs
Surgeon suicide-homicide: What happened to Dr. Chris Dawson?
Sometimes there are no words. Not even a eulogy.
Then one courageous family writes this obituary. (This obituary was written by Rachel Dawson, his wife, with the blessing of his parents.) In it, they share how their son lost his battle with severe depression. How he adored his children. How he sacrificed fun, free time, and relaxation to receive his medical degree. How he took on the challenge of surgical residency. How he was so very damaged by his untreated anxiety, long work hours, and intense stress. How he attempted to self-medicate his hurt. How despite being an intelligent surgeon and a loving father, he did the un...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 2, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/pamela-wible" rel="tag" > Pamela Wible, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Sci-Fi Contest 2017: Meet The Winning Stories
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment you have all been waiting for – the day that the winners of the Medgadget Medical Sci-Fi Competition are announced and their fantastic stories are published!
First, we would like to thank Eko Devices, the wonderful sponsors of our contest, that make the coolest and most advanced digital stethoscopes out there.The winner of our contest will receive an Eko CORE stethoscope that is both acoustic and electronic, has all the features of both, can amplify sound, record audio waveforms, and connect to your phone. Thank you, Eko!
Since we announced our Medical Sci-Fi Writing Contest i...
Source: Medgadget - December 15, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Take it from this physician: Beware the dangers of benzodiazepines
It’s 3 a.m., and I wake with a jolt. My heart is pounding out of my chest. I stumble out of bed to take a beta blocker hoping it’s enough to quiet my heart so I can doze off again. I sleep fitfully the next three hours, experiencing weird dreams and terrifying nightmares.
At 6 a.m., I take my Valium. Nauseated, I lie in bed for 30 minutes, so I keep down my pill. I must get my six-year-old daughter ready for school. Between my confusion and the stress of all the little steps it takes to get out the door in the morning, I am brought to tears. These simple tasks were no big deal before my illness. I left my job as a card...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 6, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/christy-huff" rel="tag" > Christy Huff, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Two Views are Better than One
A middle-aged man was found on the highway. A concerned passerby called 911, and then EMS made him a patient of mine. Approaching the stretcher, the aroma of alcohol permeated the air. Such is my life as an inner-city nocturnist.This patient was a little different, though. He said he had been short of breath before passing out. Peeking out from the bottom of the sheet was an ankle boot. The patient provided little assistance with his history. His exam was otherwise completely normal.Just that week at the mortality and morbidity conference, a case bearing similarities struck terror in our hearts. A middle-aged man with a le...
Source: Lions and Tigers and Bears - November 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Forever Damaged From An Untested 8-in-1 Vaccine, Help Needed As Jodie ’s Legal Battle Continues
Conclusion
We don’t know how many other children were given this experimental vaccine, but Jodie Marchant is the only one known to have survived this and her family is the only family in the world to hold the records proving this vaccine corruption has gone on.
In recent times, due to immense pressure regarding informed consent not being provided often enough to parents by doctors, the Supreme Court Montgomery ruling was passed.
This ruling will help change the way doctors provide informed consent and should help families receive compensation for their child’s vaccine injury. This ruling might also help the Marchants w...
Source: vactruth.com - October 28, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Case Reports on Vaccine Injury Human Top Stories truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
Philando Castile, Charleena Lyles, and PTSD: The consequences of fatal police encounters
Fatal police encounters can engender PTSD in non-white communities and forever impact interactions with police. In the last few years, we have witnessed in horror the erosion of trust between public servants charged to protect the community and the non-white communities they serve. The killing of Philando Castile and Charleena Lyles compounded the horror, as their violent deaths were witnessed...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 1, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/marshall%e2%80%8b-%e2%80%8bfleurant-and-elizabeth%e2%80%8b-%e2%80%8bparris" rel="tag" > Marshall Fleurant, MD, MPH and Elizabeth Parris, MS < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
