Mary's little lamb
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Source: Life is like a sandwich...enjoy the big bites. - February 27, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
A brief list of fibromylagia symptoms
[Note I did not write this list. It was on Facebook shared by Creaky Joints. But I find it to be very true.]I have highlighted the ones that I experience regularly. So if you ever wonder how my day is going, just think about this list. PAIN- in the muscle: often described as aching, burning, throbbing, gnawing, shooting, tingling. Almost always exacerbated by exercise and may or may not be present at rest. Can be migratory and differing from day to day.FATIGUE- From feeling tired to exhausted and requiring rest periods during the day.SLEEP DISTURBANCE- not being able to fall asleep and or able to stay asleep. Unrefreshing ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 26, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: being a patient coping fibromyalgia Source Type: blogs
How to prevent embryo mixups in IVF
The biggest fear that IVF patients have is that the lab may mix up their embryos with some other patient's. If the embryos get mixed up , then their embryos may go to someone else ; and they will receive someone else’s. This is a valid concern, and embryo mixups have been well documented, even in the best of IVF labs. This is an IVF clinic’s major nightmare as well, and because they are aware of this possibility, good clinics develop lots of safety checks , safeguards and processes , to prevent this from happening.Since every patient’s embryos look like every other patient’s embryos , it’s very...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - February 21, 2014 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Jumper on the ledge
I can’t believe I just taxied right off the f.ing runway. One moment I’m headed for the terminal, the next moment we’re off in the grass, my landing gear is mired in the mud, and the plane is stuck fast. I shake my head. How did that happen? Did I pass out? Get distracted? Did the steering fail? F.! I advance the twin throttles. Both radial engines spool up with a throaty roar, the airframe vibrates, but we do not move. I throttle back before I shake the silver beauty to pieces. Then I advance just the left throttle. The left engine snarls to life, the plane shakes and groans, but again we do not move. I yank the thr...
Source: LifeAfterDx--The Guardian Chronicles - February 10, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Wil Source Type: blogs
Hospital Horrors
The bullet hit me just below my rib cage, punching out a huge section of my liver and collapsing my right lung. Waves of pain rippled round my chest like a stone thrown in a still pond or echoes reverberating off sandstone cliffs.I gasped for breath but could find none. I tried to scream but had no voice.I rolled onto my back, clutching the entry wound with both hands, felt the wet, blood-soaked T-shirt beneath my fingers, sodden and cold.Wait… A bizarre fact flickered across my consciousness. The temperature of the human body is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. The blood spilling from my torn abdomen should be warm—not cold.I...
Source: LifeAfterDx--The Guardian Chronicles - February 1, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Wil Source Type: blogs
Why you should ignore altmetrics and other bibliometric nightmares
Conclusions about bibliometrics
Bibliometricians spend much time correlating one surrogate outcome with another, from which they learn little. What they don’t do is take the time to examine individual papers. Doing that makes it obvious that most metrics, and especially altmetrics, are indeed an ill-conceived and meretricious idea. Universities should know better than to subscribe to them.
Although altmetrics may be the silliest bibliometric idea yet, much this criticism applies equally to all such metrics. Even the most plausible metric, counting citations, is easily shown to be nonsense b...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 16, 2014 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia altmetrics bibliometrics open access peer review Public relations publishing acupuncture badscience bibliobollocks publication regulation Source Type: blogs
Why you should ignore altmetrics and other bibliometric nightmares
Conclusions about bibliometrics
Bibliometricians spend much time correlating one surrogate outcome with another, from which they learn little. What they don’t do is take the time to examine individual papers. Doing that makes it obvious that most metrics, and especially altmetrics, are indeed an ill-conceived and meretricious idea. Universities should know better than to subscribe to them.
Although altmetrics may be the silliest bibliometric idea yet, much this criticism applies equally to all such metrics. Even the most plausible metric, counting citations, is easily shown to be nonsense b...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 16, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia altmetrics bibliometrics open access peer review Public relations publishing acupuncture badscience bibliobollocks publication regulation Source Type: blogs
2014 Promises to be worse than 2013
Sorry, but bad news just keeps coming. Was rushed to the hospital again, spinal degeneration has gotten a lot worse and doctors say just live with it, plus now developing hip and knee problems, legs randomly go out from under me and it feels like I was tased in the hips. We're in the middle of a 2.5 day blizzard as I type. Unfortunately I cannot shovel which is obvious. Unless I can find someone to dig my car out of the driveway it will be there until Spring. Also ever since I was a kid I have had a horrid dread of approaching snowstorms. I think it has to be in part due to I have never had any friends or family, the feeli...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - January 2, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
Treating the nightmares associated with PTSD
A standard part of any psychiatric evaluation involves inquiring about a patient’s sleep. Hidden in the answers that follow the basic question of, “How are you sleeping?” are the clues that are needed to diagnose what is ailing the patient seeking help from me.
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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 - December 29, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
A huge list for Santa
I've been fairly ill, mostly GI tract and spinal issues, so being in a lot of pain 24x7, I have little to say. For those of us who celebrate the traditional Christ-mas holiday, maybe you and yours have a safe, sane and joyful Christmas and hopefully a healthy adn prosperous New Year, for everyone else, do whatever it is you do this time of year; shop til you drop, get drunk, etc....just don't go ragging on Christians who wish to remember the birth if our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Anyway I have been killing time watching a lot of videos online, listening to long lost music and indulging in non zionist controlled news. Wa...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - December 21, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
When Waking Up Becomes the Nightmare: Hypnopompic Hallucinatory Pain
In conclusion, to our knowledge this is the first report of a NREM parasomnia associated with painful paroxysms, for which we postulate the following underlying pathophysiological mechanism: an internal or external stimulus triggers arousal, facilitating the activation of innate motor pattern generators in the brainstem and activating somatosensory cortical areas to produce hypnopompic hallucinatory pain.So instead of the more typical visual hallucinations, the patient experiences pain hallucinations that originate.... where?? It seems to me that the sleep EEG could be analyzed more thoroughly, beyond merely ruling out sei...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
3 Spiritual Tips for Staying Sane Through the Holidays
As the holiday season winds up for its last big week before Christmas, here are a few spiritual tips to help you remember what the season’s all about. This is part one of a two-part article.
1. The reason for the season.
I don’t care what religious denomination you call your own. The holidays are always about giving and giving back, which — if you really think about it — is the cornerstone of every thriving belief system.
For me, giving has a very specific look. It starts with hour after hour spent poring over the gift lists my wife and I have compiled, followed by standing in line after line at toy...
Source: World of Psychology - December 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Howard C. Samuels, PsyD Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Disorders General Holiday Coping Motivation and Inspiration Recovery Self-Help Spirituality Substance Abuse Breast Christmas Forgiveness Gift Gratitude John F Kennedy Mastectomy Santa Claus Source Type: blogs
4 Things to Avoid for a Good Night’s Sleep
Good sleep can mean the difference between crazy and sane the next day… Between crying between meetings at work or lashing out at your husband over laundry and a semi-functional person who can fake it enough to keep her marriage and her job intact.
It’s one of the members of my holy trinity of good mental health (along with a good diet and regular exercise).
Over the ages, sleep and depression have proved to have a dysfunctional, angry relationship.
Depression undoubtedly causes sleep difficulties, whether that means low-grade insomnia (typical with severe forms of clinical depression and episodic depression) or...
Source: World of Psychology - December 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Habits Self-Help Sleep Circadian Rhythm Clinical Depression Insomnia Sleep Disorder Trouble Sleeping Source Type: blogs
Thanksgiving link leftovers
Again nothing but links to some of the places I browsed since thanksgiving, a little of this and a little of that, none of it politikally korrect. I have been watching a lot of videos about vacuum tube audio equipment. It's interesting, there is a cult of "gastrophiles", and I have to agree with them vinyl played on good quality vacuum tube audio equipment does have a more natural pleasant sound. Many many moons ago I used to design and build tube amplifiers just for the fun of it, twas a simpler, more civil time where the worst thing that could happen was the Russians might nuke us in our sleep. Now the corporate chicken...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - December 8, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
Christmas Magic Is Returning Through Mom’s Spirit
The idea of even opening the too numerous to count boxes of Mom’s hand crafted ornaments and stockings had me in tears.By Elaine C. Pereira +Alzheimer's Reading RoomMy mom was an amazing woman. I was incredibly fortunate to be her daughter, a fact I clearly did not appreciate during my feisty teenage period. But except for a few ugly years of my mouthy disrespect when she couldn’t do anything right, Mom and I were best friends! Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail: My mother was truly one of a kind: a petite, poised, beautiful lady with a hint of rebel spirit thrown in. In the shadows of World War II...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 30, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
