The toughest task in emergency medicine
I’m a physician, a husband and dad, a guy who tries to live by the golden rule. But sometimes I’m an escort into sadness and despair, plunging families into the darkest emotional depths with the news I must give.
One particular case from years prior stands out. Mary (whose name and identifying details have been altered) would have been starting college in a few weeks. Instead, the car in which she was a passenger collided with a truck. My emergency department team couldn’t resuscitate her. Right after we called the time of death, a nurse gasped. With a shaking hand, she pointed to Mary’s cell, which we had removed...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 15, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jay-baruch" rel="tag" > Jay Baruch, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Cardiology Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Top 5 Tips to Make Negativity Work in Your Favor with “Negativity Wisdom”
You're reading Top 5 Tips to Make Negativity Work in Your Favor with “Negativity Wisdom”, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
I am happy to be called a negative person. It took me years to realize that you don’t need to be made of positivity rainbows in order to be happy and I now proudly own my negativity.
We have been conditioned to believe that negativity is the enemy of all that’s good in the world and that we should endeavor to remove all negativity in our lives or replace it with positivity. If ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Diana Willmon Tags: communication confidence happiness relationships self improvement best self improvement blog how to be happy negativity negativity wisdom pickthebrain positivity self improvement tips success Source Type: blogs
" The Nurse's Story " by Carol Gino
Please enjoy this republication of a previously published review ofThe Nurse ' s Story by my beloved colleague,Carol Gino. InThe Nurse ’s Story, the protagonist receives telephone calls at home from some patients to whom she has given her personal telephone number, a regrettable choice that I also occasionally made in those early years. Blurred boundaries can lead to blurred feelings and confusion between one ’s professional and personal lives, and Gino very deftly illustrates Teri’s ongoing struggles with her boundaries as she navigates a particularly challenging professional and personal journey.In 1982, Carol...
Source: Digital Doorway - August 28, 2017 Category: Nursing Tags: book reviews books burnout burnout prevention burnout recovery healthcare nurse nurses nursing nursing books nursing care nursing identity nursing roles Source Type: blogs
Vietnam, Afghanistan and U.S. Decisionmaking
In 1979, Leslie Gelb and Richard Betts released a book on U.S. involvement in Vietnam, entitled “The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked. ” Unlike most previous treatments of the conflict, Gelb and Betts didn’t argue that the U.S. failure in Vietnam was the result of a poor foreign policymaking process. Nor did they argue that policymakers had been misinformed or misled about the conflict. They didn’t even argue that policymaker s were under any illusions about how unlikely success in Vietnam was.Instead, Gelb and Betts argued that – while the war in Vietnam itself was an abject failure for American foreign polic...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 23, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
A Dozen Times Trump Equated his Travel Ban with a Muslim Ban
Last week, the Trump administrationfiled its merits brief in the Supreme Court case over his executive order suspending all travel and immigration from six African and Middle Eastern countries. On Twitter, President Trump has been insistent that the executive order is a “travelban, ” not some “politically correct term.” The statement shows that, while he is often difficult to understand, the president is actually very interested in how he brands his proposal. This fact matters because the constitutional case against the ban depends, in part, on Trump’s statements about it—specifically, the fact that he has re...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 14, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Beyond the Health Costs of Bullying
Early in my career, I was a School Psychologist. My role at the time involved helping children with special needs by figuring out how they learned best and coaching teachers and parents to do likewise.
In all those years, I never received a referral for bullying behavior or victimization. In recent years, as bullying has reached headlines, as a health policy analyst, I’ve noted the health-related consequences: physical complaints, depression, insomnia, nightmares and even, suicide.
Recently, I saw reports of other costs I want to share. Data from California showed that among 7th, 9th and 11th graders, 10.4% of kids misse...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Use These 3 Mantras to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
This article courtesy of Tiny Buddha. (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - July 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Mindfulness Publishers Self-Esteem Self-Help Tiny Buddha Criticism Mantras self-comparison Will Aylward Source Type: blogs
Vaccine Ingredients: America ’s Dirty Little Secret
Conclusion
The increase in childhood illness must have a cause or trigger. There must be common factors when half of America’s children are chronically ill. Could vaccine ingredients be the causal factor of the increase in childhood illnesses? This question remains unanswered by the CDC.
As stated above, many CDC employees have a vested financial interest in continuing to sell and market vaccines. As childhood illnesses continue to increase, logic and reason must be applied to the debate and we must identify common factors. What do American children have in common? The large majority receive vaccines per the CDC schedule...
Source: vactruth.com - June 25, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Sarah Carrasco Tags: Logical Sarah Carrasco Top Stories Polysorbate 80 truth about vaccines vaccine ingredients Source Type: blogs
National Right to Life Tackles End of Life Medicine
Several sessions at next week's National Right to Life Conference address end-of-life medicine, including the general session: How to Prevent an Assisted Suicide Roe v. Wade.
Assisted Suicide Battles Rage in Nearly Every State: Is Your State Next?Mary Hahn Beerworth, Scott FischbachThe threat of doctor-prescribed suicide is advancing in the states. Moreover, the next Supreme Court nomination could lead to legalization of euthanasia nationwide. Assisting suicide is now legal in California, Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and, via the courts in Montana. With battles raging in statesacross the country, the ongoing batt...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 22, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
The Reality of Preschool Anxiety Disorders
Most people think that younger children can’t have anxiety. They think that because children do not have much of a life experience, what do they have to be anxious about? The truth is very different. Almost 20% of pre-schoolers (aged 3 to 4) have an anxiety condition. Anxiety can be linked with depression and problems with behavior and sleeping. Due to this, it is important to treat the condition as early as possible. A study published in the ‘Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology’ explores diagnosis of anxiety in pre-schoolers using structured interviews. This included both the pre-schooler...
Source: World of Psychology - June 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Andrés Fonseca Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Sleep Students Success & Achievement Anxious Thoughts Childhood Anxiety Coping Skills preschool school pressure Source Type: blogs
A call to action to raise respectful children
To my fellow physicians: I apologize for asking you to do one more job. But I must. It is for the sake of humanity. We are already overburdened with the administrative nightmare that hospitals and insurance companies heap upon us. The struggle to find pride and purpose in our daily life has become a full-time job. We have become oppressed by our increasing allegiance to the demands of administrators as opposed to the demand for excellence required by our patients.
However, as cliché as it sounds, I do believe the children are our future. They are going to be running the world when we are frail and elderly. As a mother, ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 31, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/deborah-m-burton" rel="tag" > Deborah M. Burton, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
‘ My Daughter Won ’t Eat! ’ 3 Tips if Your Teen Struggles with Disordered Eating
So, its dinner time and you’ve been logging away hours at the stove preparing what you thought was your daughter’s favorite meal; mashed potatoes, steak, and green beans. She has always loved this meal. Ever since she was very young, her favorite food has been mashed potatoes. But this night is different, just like most of the nights the past 2 months. Sally, 13 years old, wont eat. You pray and hope each night will be better. Just maybe, she will have a few more bites than the night before. Sally sits down to eat and oh, no. She isn’t eating, again. She slowly moves her green beans around on the plate, pretends to t...
Source: World of Psychology - May 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marianne Riley, MA, NCC, LGPC Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Children and Teens Eating Disorders Health-related Parenting Self-Esteem Adolescence Body Image Disordered Eating Nutrition Self Care self-worth Source Type: blogs
Stop Letting Fear Be Your Ultimate Enabler
Today, being blind does not scare me. It hasn’t scared me for more than a decade. I must remind myself that this aspect of my existence, which is like any other as far as I am concerned, stands out for others like a baby on a battlefield—and is terrifying to them. I have to remind myself that years ago I, too, was terrified.
Of course I can remember the fear. But I remember it the same way you might remember cowering in your bed at night as a child, frightened of the monster under your bed. You now understand there never was a monster, that your fear was irrational, self-imposed, the product of your imagination. You ca...
Source: World of Psychology - May 6, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Inspiration & Hope Personal Publishers Self-Help Spirituality & Health afraid anxiety Awfulizing Catastrophizing Challenges Control Denial Destiny Doom Emotions Empowerment Enabler excuses Fear happy Imagination I Source Type: blogs
Jimmy Kimmel Left Out Some Important Stuff About Obamacare
By BRIAN JOONDEPH, MD
Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, in a recent opening monologue, spoke tearfully of his newborn son Billy, born with a serious congenital heart defect. Heart defects in newborns, while uncommon, occur in 1 in 100 births. The more serious ones, meaning those needing surgery in the first year, represent about a quarter of all congenital heart defects.
Jimmy’s son fell into the latter category, with Tetralogy of Fallot, bad plumbing in the heart, causing oxygen-poor blood to circulate out into the body without picking up a fresh supply of oxygen from the lungs. Hence the newborn baby turning...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized AHCA Jimmy Kimmel Obamacare Tetralogy of Fallot Source Type: blogs
Can we turn the crisis of dementia care into something good?
One of the last crises we may face in our lives is caring for a loved one who has been diagnosed with dementia.Winston Churchill famously said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”These words ring especially truewhen we are older and can look back on our lives and see the patterns ofjoy and tragedy, celebration and crisis that make up the warp and woof of a long life.12 Ways to Control Caregiver Stress and SadnessBy Tom and Karen Brennerhttp://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/One of the last crises we may face in our lives is caring for a loved one who has been diagnosed with dementia. But how can we call thissitua...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 24, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's awareness care of dementia patients caregiver dementia care elderly dementia care health help alzheimer's help with dementia care memory care facility nursing home Source Type: blogs
