The LITFL Review 148
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chuck of FOAM.
Welcome to the 148th edition, brought to you by:
Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM Lyceum, iTeachEM)
Brent Thoma [BT] (BoringEM and Academic Life in EM)
Chris Connolly [CC]
Chris Nickson [CN] ( iTeachEM, RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC)
Joe-Anthony Rotella [JAR]
Kane Guthrie [KG]
Mat Goebel [MG]
Segun Olusany...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 12, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
Randolph Hospital Is The Biggest " Non-Profit " In Randolph County, North Carolina . . . And The Courier Tribune Must Protect It . . . At All Costs (Subtitled: What Does A Million Healthcare Dollars Buy In Asheboro?)
I ' ve not blogged regularly since early 2013 - having moved my online activities over to Facebook . . . and, until fairly recently, curbed the time I spent there. & nbsp;I have enjoyed the time away from blogging, and have only put something up when the stars aligned and begged for commentary. < br / > < br / > < strike > Over the next week or so, I ' m going to put up at least three posts < /strike > *. . . all inspired by what passes for newspaper " coverage " of local healthcare these days. < br / > < br / > (* < i > I never got around to it.) < /i > < br / > < br / > < b > It ' s only gotten worse since I began blogg...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - July 20, 2014 Category: American Health Tags: 501 (c)(3) Asheboro Bob Morrison Chip Womick Cone Hospital Courier Tribune IRS National Health Service Corps NHSC Non-profit Pediatrics Randolph Hospital Randolph Medical Associates Steve Eblin Source Type: blogs
Randolph Hospital Is The Biggest "Non-Profit" In Randolph County, North Carolina . . . And The Courier Tribune Must Protect It . . . At All Costs (Subtitled: What Does A Million Healthcare Dollars Buy In Asheboro?)
I've not blogged regularly since early 2013 - having moved my online activities over to Facebook . . . and, until fairly recently, curbed the time I spent there. I have enjoyed the time away from blogging, and have only put something up when the stars aligned and begged for commentary.Over the next week or so, I'm going to put up at least three posts . . . all inspired by what passes for newspaper "coverage" of local healthcare these days. It's only gotten worse since I began blogging in 2005. The world prefers "sound bites" (except when legislators are writing healthcare "reform" - then it's a 2000 page pile-o...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - July 20, 2014 Category: Pediatricians Tags: 501 (c)(3) Asheboro Bob Morrison Chip Womick Cone Hospital Courier Tribune IRS National Health Service Corps NHSC Non-profit Pediatrics Randolph Hospital Randolph Medical Associates Steve Eblin Source Type: blogs
Scientology Tropes Enter Mainstream Neuroscience?
via @mallelisAt the literary/pop culture/feminist/humor blog known as The Toast, the hilarious Mallory Ortberg has skewered those ubiquitous ads from brain training behemoth Lumosity.The Five Stages Of LumosityStage I – Initiation. . .Friend, are you troubled by persistent waking blackouts? Do you tremble and shudder and flicker out of consciousness when asked to recall basic facts about your acquaintances? Does your right eye fill with blood whenever you have to try to remember your PIN? Let Lumosity patch over those mysterious missing blank spots in your sick and addled mind. “Lumosity: Improving your brain through t...
Source: The Neurocritic - July 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Eye-Opening Medical Missions in India and China
By Zubair Chao, MD
I had an opportunity to visit India as part of George Washington University’s International Emergency Medicine & Global Public Health Fellowship Program in April 2013. I gave lectures on endocrinology and HEENT as teaching faculty. I had already planned to go to China with my residency program and ultrasound fellowship directors, Drs. Cook and Hunt, respectively, and it was an easy decision for me to combine the trips for a firsthand view of emergency medical services in the world’s two most populated countries.
Emergency medicine is new in India, and it is not widely accepted as a reco...
Source: Going Global - March 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Eye-Opening Medical Missions in India and China
By Zubair Chao, MD
I had an opportunity to visit India as part of George Washington University’s International Emergency Medicine & Global Public Health Fellowship Program in April 2013. I gave lectures on endocrinology and HEENT as teaching faculty. I had already planned to go to China with my residency program and ultrasound fellowship directors, Drs. Cook and Hunt, respectively, and it was an easy decision for me to combine the trips for a firsthand view of emergency medical services in the world’s two most populated countries.
Emergency medicine is new in India, and it is not widely accepted as a recogniz...
Source: Going Global - March 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Can Any Good Come From Depression?
Focusing on the negative elements of depression is easy. They include inertia, feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness and despair; the fun being sucked out of life. And worse, when it just feels too painful to go on living.
Often — and understandably, especially in our darkest moments — depression in whatever form feels like something from which we can’t learn anything or harness the experience of for the benefit of ourselves or others.
We may become depressed because we are depressed and the world and our prospects seem bleak from where we see things. That thought process and perspective alone doesn’t he...
Source: World of Psychology - December 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Graeme Cowan Tags: Depression Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Psychology Bipolar Disorder Dysthymia Graeme Cowan Greg Montgomery Jennifer Hentz Moyer Major Depressive Disorder postpartum psychosis Schizophren Source Type: blogs
The This Week in Mentalists 2013 Awards – The Winners
It gives me great pleasure to announce the This Week in Mentalists Awards 2013, recognising the best in mental health blogging (and for the first time this year, vlogging). You can view the results for 2012 here.
2013 was a year in which the weekly This Week in Mentalists blogging roundups stopped running. I don’t think this is because people aren’t writing blogs anymore – far from it; in fact there’s more and more. I think it’s more due to changes in the way blogs are used. Whereas before they acted as self-contained online communities, they’re now more part of a multi-platform social m...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - December 21, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Zarathustra Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. TWIM awards Source Type: blogs
Celebrity Tips For Beating Depression
When we suffer from depression, including bipolar disorder and postpartum depression, we may feel responsible for the depressive feelings. Like somehow it’s our fault.
We may also feel alone in battling the illness and lack support or inspiration from others.
Sometimes this may cause us to give up hope and feel like there’s no end to how low we’re feeling; after all, if there’s nothing we can do and nobody we can turn to for help, there’s no point in trying to get better.
Celebrities Can’t Get Depressed, Can They?
After all, only ordinary people like you can suffer from depression. High-flying celebrit...
Source: World of Psychology - December 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Graeme Cowan Tags: Bipolar Books Depression Disorders General Industrial and Workplace Psychology Substance Abuse Treatment Alastair Campbell Bipolar Disorder Celebrities celebrity depression Cliff Richey Clinical Depression Depressed postpar Source Type: blogs
3 Reasons Why Not All Mental Health Professionals are Created Equal
The biggest regret of those who have lived through a depressive or bipolar disorder episode is that they didn’t obtain a rigorous diagnosis and treatment plan early enough.
Lora Inman is one such person, interviewed in my book Back From The Brink. A long-time depression sufferer and passionate mental health advocate, she went for decades without a proper diagnosis or treatment, which prolonged her suffering and made postpartum depression even harder to manage.
Lora’s story perfectly illustrates three very good reasons why you need a trusted mental health professional.
Not all doctors are well-versed in mental health ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Graeme Cowan Tags: Antidepressant Bipolar Depression Disorders General Medications Motivation and Inspiration Psychiatry Psychology Psychotherapy Treatment Bipolar Disorder Clinical Psychology General Practitioners getting help Graeme Cowan M Source Type: blogs
This Week in Mentalists – Final Edition
This Week in Mentalists is a series that’s been going for several years now, hosted on various blogs. It’s now time for it to come to an end. As I described a few days ago, this is for a few reasons. The round-ups have been declining in popularity for a while now. The various changes of websites probably didn’t help, and it’s something that accelerated when Pandora had to depart from being co-editor due to an unexpected pregnancy. Ultimately though, the main reason is that the way people talk to each other on social media has evolved.
Previously the main focus of conversation was on blogs. People st...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - November 10, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Zarathustra Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Postnatal Depression Test Pro medical app, review of a postpartum depression screening medical app
The Postnatal Depression Test Pro app provides an electronic version of the EDPS for perinatal care providers and their patients. (Source: The Palmdoc Chronicles)
Source: The Palmdoc Chronicles - October 31, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Kelli Barbour MD Tags: App Review App Type Clinical Reference depression app depression screening medical app EDPS EDPS app Family Practice iphone medical apps medical apps for doctors Medical Calculators Medical Specialty Medical/PDA Nurse (RN, LPN, P Source Type: blogs
Is It The ‘Baby Blues’ or Something More?
A friend texted me the other morning that a woman she went to high school with was suffering from postpartum depression and hanged herself. The baby was five weeks old.
Extremely upsetting. Tragic. Untimely.
Before I was a parent, I absorbed these stories from a social work perspective. Not enough resources, support groups, coping mechanisms.
Now, as a new mom, there is a part of me that understands the pain, the confusion, the insane hormones.
For most women, pregnancy is a joyful time. Strangers are nicer, food is plentiful and you spend your spare time picking out furniture and baby clothes. For the few days after yo...
Source: World of Psychology - October 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jill Ceder, MSW, JD Tags: Depression Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Psychology Women's Issues anxiety Bipolar Disorder Brooklyn Childbirth executive grief Katherine Stone Mother New Mom Obstetrics OCD Postpartum postpar Source Type: blogs
An Amazing Experience in Nepal
By Heather Brown, MD
I had an amazing opportunity to spend a month working in the ED at Scheer Memorial Hospital in Banepa, Nepal, during my second year of residency. Scheer is a missionary hospital 30 kilometers outside Kathmandu with a six-bed emergency room open 24 hours a day. The ED was staffed with a mix of seasoned western physicians and young Nepali house staff who were mostly recent medical school graduates. There were plenty of chances to make a serious impact, and I was ready to do just that!
Arriving in Nepal
I’ve been passionate about international medicine since I was in college, and I couldn’t...
Source: Going Global - September 12, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
An Amazing Experience in Nepal
By Heather Brown, MD
I had an amazing opportunity to spend a month working in the ED at Scheer Memorial Hospital in Banepa, Nepal, during my second year of residency. Scheer is a missionary hospital 30 kilometers outside Kathmandu with a six-bed emergency room open 24 hours a day. The ED was staffed with a mix of seasoned western physicians and young Nepali house staff who were mostly recent medical school graduates. There were plenty of chances to make a serious impact, and I was ready to do just that!
Arriving in Nepal
I’ve been passionate about international medicine since I was in college, and I cou...
Source: Going Global - September 12, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
