An emergency physician frozen by fear, and what she learned from it
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 19, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sandra-scott-simons" rel="tag" > Sandra Scott Simons, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Source Type: blogs
#PutUnitedOutOfBusiness
United Airlines just crossed a line. Please read thisarticle from USA Today, and watch the disturbing video clips:LOUISVILLE — A video posted on Facebook late Sunday evening shows a passenger on a United Airlines flight being forcibly removed from the plane before takeoff at O’Hare International Airport.The video, posted by Audra D. Bridges at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, is taken from an aisle seat on a commercial airplane that appears to be preparing to take flight. The 31-second clip shows three men wearing radio equipment and security jackets speaking with a man seated on the plane. After a few seconds, one of the men grabs t...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - April 10, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Marijuana, Sleep, and Dreams
The indica vs. sativa debate, continued. [First published July 13, 2015.]Anyone who has smoked marijuana more than a couple of times knows that cannabis can alter how you sleep. The effect of cannabis on sleep is even part of the never-ending debate over Cannabis indica vs. Cannabis sativa, the two major species of the marijuana plant. Indica smokers typically report a marijuana high that is body-intensive and often soporific, sometimes leading to the condition aptly known as “couch lock.” Whereas sativa smokers, according to marijuana lore, experience a more cerebral, energetic “head high,” with fewer somatic...
Source: Addiction Inbox - April 10, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
Our responsibility to refugee children
I am a pediatric resident working, like many residents, in a clinic that sees many of the most vulnerable children in our area. We see many refugees and immigrants coming through our clinic, including many from the countries named in President Trump’s immigration ban.
These refugee children often suffer from afflictions we rarely see amongst our usual patient population: severe vitamin and nutritional deficiencies, intestinal parasites, malaria. They are often thin and short from spending their formative years without sufficient nourishment, their blood full of lead from old pipes or pottery. They have nightmares like so...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 9, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lacey-castellano" rel="tag" > Lacey Castellano, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
5 Ways to Free Yourself From Dark and Obsessive Thoughts
Stuck thoughts. Painful ruminations. Unrelenting obsessions. They are the curse of depression — among the most excruciating symptoms, in my opinion. “When a child gets lost, he may feel sheer terror,” explains Byron Katie in her bestseller Loving What Is. “It can be just as frightening when you’re lost inside the mind’s chaos.”
I can usually gauge the severity of my depression based on the intensity and frequency of my stuck thoughts. Sometimes they can outright debilitate me. One seemingly benign thought — often a rumination about a decision I have made in the past, a regret of one form or another...
Source: World of Psychology - March 15, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Bipolar Depression Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Depressive Episode Emotional Support grief Psychology Rumination Sadness Suicide Source Type: blogs
Your First Colonoscopy! What to Expect
Whee! Time for a Tube Up Your Tuchus!image:wikimedia commonsBy Crabby McSlackerSo, some perspective here: for people with serious illnesses who've been through hardcore, painful, debilitating, invasive medical procedures? A colonoscopy is probably child's play. (Although let's be clear, that's just an expression. If your child actually plays this way? We need to talk).But for most people, there's at least a little trepidation. And for many, if statistics are to be believed, that fear is significant enough to skip the procedure entirely! Well sure, it could save your life and all, but really? Do you have to?There are actual...
Source: Cranky Fitness - March 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Misconceptions in Raj Chetty ’s “Fading American Dream”
Raj Chetty, the head of Stanford ’s “Equality of Opportunity” project, recently released a paper called“The Fading American Dream” co-authored with another economist, a sociologist, and three grad students. It claims that “rates of absolute mobility have fallen from approximately 90% for children born in 1940 to 50% for children born in the 1980s.” [Though the study ends with 2014, when most of those “born in the 1980s” were not yet 30.]The title alone was sure to attract media excitement, particularly because the new study thanksNew York Times columnist David Leonhardt “for posing the question that led...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
The medical student ’s ultimate challenge: Children
During the first year of medical school, one of the most nerve-wracking, but exciting, experiences was learning how to interview and examine patients. At that time, we mostly worked with “standardized patients” — people who are trained specifically to play the role of a scripted medical case. Although working with them seemed incredibly challenging at the time, the rules of engagement were in fact very favorable to us. Asking a question would generally bring an appropriate answer, and when it came to the examination, the “patients” would readily follow instructions.
Back then, the nightmare scenario for my f...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 2, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/nathaniel-fleming" rel="tag" > Nathaniel Fleming < /a > Tags: Education Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
What We Can Learn From The Sweden Incident
I was half paying attention when Donald Trump when speaking on terrorism in Melbourne, Florida, mentioned the Sweden Incident.
Sweden and terrorism didn’t quite go together in my mind.
I wound the DVR back thinking I must have misheard.
Maybe he referring to the Scandinavian country as being a great example of superb public health care, state benefits and flat packed furniture.
But no, I hadn’t misheard.
The Sweden Incident
When talking about terrorism Trump was urging his supporters to, ‘look what is happening last night in Sweden. Sweden of all places’.
And just in case you think I don’t know my past from m...
Source: A Daring Adventure - February 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Controversial Life Coaching sweden incident Source Type: blogs
What We Can Learn From The Sweden Incident
I was half paying attention when Donald Trump when speaking on terrorism in Melbourne, Florida, mentioned the Sweden Incident.
Sweden and terrorism didn’t quite go together in my mind.
I wound the DVR back thinking I must have misheard.
Maybe he was referring to the Scandinavian country as being a great example of superb public health care, state benefits and flat packed furniture.
But no, I hadn’t misheard.
The Sweden Incident
When talking about terrorism Trump was urging his supporters to, ‘look what is happening last night in Sweden. Sweden of all places’.
And just in case you think I don’t know my past fr...
Source: A Daring Adventure - February 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Controversial Life Coaching sweden incident Source Type: blogs
Family visits: No one ever regrets coming too soon
Startled out of sleep, I reflexively reach for my beeping pager. For a split second, I lie poised between wakefulness and terror in the pitch-dark resident call room, not sure where I am or what happened. I resolve to sleep with the lights on from now on.
I dial the call-back number.
“Pod A,” a caffeinated voice chirps. It’s Candice, one of the nurses.
“Hi. Amy here, returning a page,” I murmur.
“Oh hi, Dr. Cowan,” she says. “I just wanted to let you know that the family is all here. They’re ready for the meeting.” Her voice is sweet. At sixty-three, Candice is st...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 9, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/amy-cowan" rel="tag" > Amy Cowan, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital Hospitalist Source Type: blogs
Democrats Should Be Heartened by Betsy DeVos
Unless something unexpected happens, tomorrow the United States Senate will vote on Betsy DeVos to be the next U.S. Secretary of Education. And if you are a Democrat sweating through nightmares over what a Trump administration will do to education, you should be pretty comfy with what DeVos has said she ’d like to see happen under her watch. As she stated repeatedly in herconfirmation hearing, she would not use federal power —and certainly not secretarial power—to impose anything, including school choice, on unwilling states and districts.But isn ’t the vote expected to be as close as last night’s Super Bowl at t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 6, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
Science as tranquilizer and trailblazer
Most scientists are truth junkies. Imagine our despair at climate skepticism or at the replacement of renowned physicists as US Secretaries of Energy by someone who has called for elimination of that agency. Consider our despondency at learning that the Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year is “post-truth”, which implies that objective facts are less important than personal belief or political agenda. The Brexit referendum and US presidential election popularized the word post-truth. These electoral events have left scientists demoralized because their currency – the truth – is being devalued. But it ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - January 30, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Marlene Belfort Tags: Uncategorized Mobile DNA Post-truth Source Type: blogs
Overdose on news? These 6 tips will help.
The drama in Syria captivates much of the world. We sit and watch horrified as innocent civilians and children suffer. The pictures coming out of the devastated city are truly heart-wrenching and the fabric that nightmares are created out of. As if to add to that unbelievable suffering, a bomb exploded in a Coptic church in Cairo, Egypt targeting women and children. Their only crime was going to attend the morning liturgy in church. In Germany, another bomb blast detonated in a Christmas village killing shoppers. Around the world, atrocities cry out, and the earth calls out for justice. Many of us watch in shock, plunging ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 18, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/linda-girgis" rel="tag" > Linda Girgis, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Mainstream media Source Type: blogs
