10 Things Med Students Shouldn ’t Do
This is my first year of being a senior resident and it is only January; and yet I have seen all these things happen.
Sadly, this has all led me to the grim realization of why I got such good evals as a medical student: it wasn’t because I was some sort of social genius. (And yes, I really thought I might have been a social genius.) No, it was because I did not do the following things, ALL OF WHICH I HAVE SEEN WITH MY OWN EYES.
Seriously, if you don’t do these things, don’t worry. You will be fine. Your residents will love you.
Do not claim to be late to rounds because you had a “Cat medical eme...
Source: Action Potential - January 26, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Action Potential Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
10 Things Med Students Shouldn ’ t Do
This is my first year of being a senior resident and it is only January; and yet I have seen all these things happen.
Sadly, this has all led me to the grim realization of why I got such good evals as a medical student: it wasn’t because I was some sort of social genius. (And yes, I really thought I might have been a social genius.) No, it was because I did not do the following things, ALL OF WHICH I HAVE SEEN WITH MY OWN EYES.
Seriously, if you don’t do these things, don’t worry. You will be fine. Your residents will love you.
Do not claim to be late to rounds because you had a “Cat medical eme...
Source: Action Potential - January 26, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Action Potential Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A history of SSRIs
This is a re-post from something I wrote in March 2007 – on reflection, perhaps it should be more accurately entitled A History of SSRIs and the Damage they do to Patients.
I think there may well be a lot of discussion in the coming months about Seroxat dependency and the terrible withdrawal symptoms that many people have to endure as they try to stop taking Seroxat and so I think that the download – A History of SSRIs is more relevant today than ever.
Looking at my original post, I was remiss as I didn’t credit the author of the download – so belated apologies to Prof David Healy (I th...
Source: seroxat secrets... - October 2, 2015 Category: Addiction Authors: admin Tags: Big Pharma Depression Drug Marketing Glaxo Paxil Seroxat Source Type: blogs
Type 1 Diabetes Autoimmunity Makes News
Back in 2012, Novo Nordisk made headlines (whether deservedly or not) for establishing a Seattle research center (see the press release at http://prn.to/1OAukdP for more detail) to focus on autoimmunity that is the core reason type 1 diabetes occurs. Truth be told, there were never more than twenty researchers at this facility, although the company did manage to sign such prominent type 1 diabetes immunologists as Matthias von Herrath whose primary work actually takes place in San Diego at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI), a non-profit research institute founded in 1988 that focuses on the u...
Source: Scott's Web Log - March 26, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Tags: AstraZeneca Autoimmunity Douglas Melton Novo Nordisk Source Type: blogs
Does Insurance Cover Botox Injections for Migraine Headaches?
Unfortunately no insurance company covers Botox therapy for generic headaches. Many will cover Botox for chronic migraines, which have been unresponsive to standard preventative therapies. In 2011, the FDA approved Botox for treating chronic migraines which have been unresponsive to an adequate trial of preventative medications. Preventative medications do not include the use of any narcotic pain killers. Insurance companies have made it difficult for patients to obtain Botox payment authorization, by putting in place numerous qualification barriers – if they cover Botox at all.
Insurance companies do require e...
Source: Sarasota Neurology - March 3, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Dan Kassicieh, D.O. Tags: Migraines / Headache Boto for headaches Botox covered by insurance botox for headaches Botox Headaches Insurance Source Type: blogs
Painkillers? Prozac? Brazilian Blowout? Hotline Counsels Pregnant Women On Risks
By Carey Goldberg
Reprinted from Common Health
Joy Shapiro of Framingham, Mass., was the sort of hyper-cautious expectant mother who doesn’t just cut out alcohol and caffeine. She worried about the ingredients in everything she consumed or put on her body, from fitness drinks to sunscreen.
But thanks to a referral from her obstetrician, she had a secret weapon against her anxiety: Patricia Cole, the program coordinator for MotherToBaby Massachusetts — also known as the Pregnancy Exposure Infoline — whom she “bombarded” with queries.
“At one point, I emailed her like 20 ingredients that were in ...
Source: Cord Blood News - March 2, 2015 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: babies blood disorder brain development Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy affordable cord blood banking bone marrow breast feeding cerebral palsy cord blood banking cost comparison cord blood banking information cord Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 42-year-old man with severe burning and stabbing pain
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 42-year-old man is evaluated for a 6-day history of severe burning and stabbing pain in both feet that is worse in the toes. The pain is more severe at night, is aggravated when the bed sheets touch his skin, and is partially relieved when he walks or massages his feet. The patient has an 8-year history of poorly controlled type 1 diabetes mellitus and a 2-year history of hypertension. He was hospitalized briefly 2 weeks ago for treatment of pneumonia and diabetic ketoacidosis. His fasting blood glucose levels...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 25, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: mksap Tags: Conditions Diabetes Endocrinology Neurology Source Type: blogs
How to Lower Your Risk for Breast Cancer
“TREE OF HOPE” Breast Cancer Survivor Tree
I found out I had breast cancer on June 11th 2014. I had a double mastectomy on July 3rd 2014. I am 4 months out from surgery and I am feeling great. However, as you might imagine, it was no walk in the park. Lots of emotional upheaval. Lots of physical difficulty. But with great support from friends, family and good health care workers I’m doing very well.
Over the last 4 months I have spent most of my free time learning about cancer and in particular breast cancer, what causes it and what cures it. Before my diagnosis, it never crossed my mind that I would get b...
Source: Life Learning Today - October 14, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Healthy Living breast cancer lower breast caner risk prevent breast cancer prevent breast cancer naturally Source Type: blogs
Life Enhancement Pills: Did you take yours today?
<p><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Who decides when a problem is worthy of clinical attention? Symptoms may prompt individuals to seek medical attention, but part of this recent review of the Prozac revolution (</span><a style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/selling-prozac-as-the-life-enhancing-cure-for-mental-woes.html?action=click&contentCollection=Health&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Blogs">selling-prozac-as-the-life-enhancing-cure-for-mental-woes</a>...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 2, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hayley Dittus-Doria Tags: Health Care Pharmaceuticals quality of life syndicated Source Type: blogs
Can Meditation Help You Become Wolverine?
When I started meditating 7 years or so ago I was reluctant to tell anybody about my guilty little secret, including my family.
After all, meditation was weird because how on earth could just sitting quietly achieve anything other than giving you a sore arse and maybe piles?
Only strange people meditated.
People who wore sandals a lot, stroked whales, raved over recipes using tofu and burned a lot of incense and other assorted legal and not-quite-so-legal herbs.
Normal people didn’t meditate.
I mean, why on earth would they? Where was the payoff?
Then the research started to trickle in.
At first it seemed like once i...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - August 27, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
The Role Of Black Box Warnings In Safe Prescribing Practices
TweetNote: In addition to Lara Maggs, Aaron Kesselheim also coauthored this post.
In the Health Affairs article, “Era of Faster Drug Approval Has Also Seen Increased Black-Box Warnings and Market Withdrawals,” published in the August issue, Cassie Frank and coauthors compare the number of approved prescription drugs that received black-box warnings or were withdrawn from the market for safety-related reasons prior to the 1992 Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) with black-box warnings and safety-related withdrawals in the post-PDUFA era.
PDUFA for the first time authorized FDA to collect user fees from brand-name...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 20, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Lara Maggs and Aaron Kesselheim Tags: All Categories Bioethics Patient Safety Pharma Policy Public Health Source Type: blogs
Ailments are big business
Back when Prozac (fluoxetine) and Zoloft (sertraline) were new, I remember the mental acrobatics doctors made to justify giving these drugs to anxious patients. The drugs were approved for treating depression, but we knew they often seemed to help anxiety. The reason, we were told, was that some anxious patients were actually depressed, deep down, and we had just failed to recognize their depression.
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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 - July 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: A Country Doctor, MD Tags: Meds Primary care Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
How Telehealth May Be Promoting Fraud and Abuse
By TOM LIU I recently called my primary care physician (PCP) for the first time in years to get my immunization records, and encountered a strange message saying he was not currently seeing patients. My mom had apparently encountered the same message weeks ago. “Maybe he retired,” she suggested. I did a quick google search […] (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: THCB NABP PCP Prozac Telehealth Xanax Source Type: blogs
Is it Ok to Shrink your Sister in an Emergency?
I'd like to bend your ear with a hypothetical situation and see what you think. This one is for the docs, and I'm going to start and end it with a simple question: is it okay to prescribe for a family member? Is it okay to prescribe a psychotropic medication for oneself or a family member? Before you jump on me, let me tell you that to the best that I am aware, docs have always written prescriptions for themselves and for their family members. An antibiotic, an allergy medication, I think this has been par for the course for straightforward things. When I was an intern, one of the nurses ...
Source: Shrink Rap - June 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
