The Doctor and the Rabbi: A Healing Conversation About End-of-Life Care
by Rev. Rosemary Lloyd“It routinely makes me hurt inside when patients and family are admitted to an ICU, as most have rarely if ever considered what care they truly want, or not. It is heart breaking to try and help them assimilate it all, and all too frequently decisions are left for families, with left over feelings that may linger for years.”This is what Dr. Jeff Dichter, an ICU Medical Director wrote gratefully to Rabbi Esther Adler of Mount Zion Temple in Saint Paul, Minnesota afterher sermon on Yom Kippur, a major holy day in the Jewish calendar.“As health care professionals,” he continued, “we sometimes w...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 12, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: chaplain lloyd spiritual spirituality spirituality/religion Source Type: blogs
Building Faith in the Power of The Conversation
by Rev. Rosemary LloydWhen the senior minister of Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, Rev. Dr. Nancy Taylor, began her sermon one Sunday morning she raised a lot of eyebrows.“Mary,” she began, “you are going to die.” She started pointing out people in the church and telling them that they are going to die. Young and old, men and women, she called out congregants by name and reminded them that death is not a dirty secret; it’s a fact of life. Her sermon continu ed, weaving in humor to diffuse the tension and ultimately generating chuckles and nods of understanding from the crowd.“These days, people often ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - October 26, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: chaplain communication community conversation project lloyd spirituality spirituality/religion Source Type: blogs
Is Charlotte Tilbury Multi-Miracle cream really miraculous? Episode 149
Is Charlotte Tilbury Multi-miracle cream really worth it?
Jo asks…I love Charlotte Tilbury’s Multi-Miracle Glow product but I’m afraid I spent too much and I worry that it really provides any benefits. Can you tell me if it has any special properties and if not is there a more budget conscious version?
Thanks for the question, Jo. It sounds like you’re really torn about using this product so let’s see if we can help.
First of all, don’t be confused if you decide to look for this product because in addition to Mult-miracle glow she also sells a “Magic Cream.” Apparently Charlotte went to the “Harry Po...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
The Straight Scoop on Grains
Dr. Greene’s take on healthy whole grains…
What popular kids’ food starts to turn to sugar in their mouth and becomes 100% glucose by the time it’s absorbed?
You guessed it, processed white flour.
But here’s the surprising kicker, it’s the number-one most popular food for most kids:
White bread for sandwiches
Hamburger buns
Pasta
Pizza crust
Cookies
Cakes
They all add up to a very unhealthy diet.
What’s a parent to do? In this week’s video I outline how you can get a quick handle on which healthy whole grains are good (even great) and which ones need to go.
For many...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - June 23, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Eating & Nutrition Healthy Family Eating Source Type: blogs
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter, A Must Read for all Women (and Men)
Kate Clifford Larson’s masterful examination of the nearly-forgotten story of Rosemary Kennedy – sister of a President and two other famous brothers, but confined to the shadows for decades after a lobotomy – drew me in on multiple levels. As a health professional, as a woman, as an activist – and as the niece of another soul lost to that misguided and devastating medical procedure of the early 20th century.
Even with his vast financial resources, and his political and personal connections, Joseph Kennedy, Sr., perhaps saw no other way to deal with his mentally troubled daughter. Maybe, amid the shame and blame...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Legalizing Medical Marijuana
TUESDAYS WITH ROSEMARY AND MYRAVirtually everyone is familiar with Mitch Albom’s book, Tuesdays With Morrie. Myra Christopher (Foley Chair at the Center and former Center CEO) and Rosemary Flanigan (Retired Center Program Staff) have decided to regularly contribute to the Center for Practical Bioethics’ blog and call it “Tuesdays with Rosemary and Myra” (even though it won’t necessarily be published on a Tuesday). Read more about Rosemary and Myra at the bottom of this post. Note: Today, Myra and Rosemary are discussing an article about the legalization of marijuana that appeared in...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 2, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care syndicated Tuesdays with Rosemary & Myra Source Type: blogs
The Sale of Fetal Tissue
TUESDAYS WITH ROSEMARY AND MYRAVirtually everyone is familiar with Mitch Albom’s book, Tuesdays With Morrie. Myra Christopher (Foley Chair at the Center and former Center CEO) and Rosemary Flanigan (Retired Center Program Staff) have decided to regularly contribute to the Center for Practical Bioethics’ blog and call it “Tuesdays with Rosemary and Myra” (even though it won’t necessarily be published on a Tuesday). Read more about Rosemary and Myra at the bottom of this post. The Sale of Fetal Tissue M: Rosemary, you know all the hub-bub about the video of the executive from Planned Paren...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 26, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care syndicated Tuesdays with Rosemary & Myra Source Type: blogs
Tuesdays With Rosemary and Myra
Virtually everyone is familiar with Mitch Albom’s book, Tuesdays With Morrie. Myra Christopher and Rosemary Flanigan have decided to regularly contribute to the Center for Practical Bioethics’ blog and call it “Tuesdays with Rosemary and Myra” (even though it won’t necessarily be published on a Tuesday). The words will come from Myra’s pen (actually her computer), but the writing will happen together.Why We Are BloggingFor several years before her retirement, Rosemary facilitated an online discussion group, primarily for ethics committee members, which had a faithful following. We hope s...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 3, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
The Ethics of Resuscitation
A Brief History and Center for Practical Bioethics’ Efforts to Improve CPR OutcomesPromise and ProblemsCardio-pulmonary resuscitation has offered food-for-thought for philosophers and bioethicists from its beginning, and the Center for Practical Bioethics has a long history of grappling with this subject.In 1966, the National Academy of Sciences reported that closed chest cardio-massage and CPR should be ordinary treatments for hospitalized patients. Before that, CPR was a “hit-and-miss” proposition. Through the 1970s and 80s, the use of CPR became more prominent in hospitals, and CPR expanded to include ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 16, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
FDA Combination Product Classification Again Struck Down By D.C. Court
Whether the FDA considers a product to be a “medical device” as opposed to a “drug” has very important implications. Manufacturers of devices face less burdensome regulation and far cheaper application fees. A long-litigated case, Prevor v. FDA (Prevor II), highlights the gravity of FDA’s decision with regards to combination products. After five years in court, Prevor and the FDA continue to dispute whether Prevor’s Diphoterine Skin Wash (DSW) should be regulated as a medical device—Prevor’s preference—or a drug. Most recently, FDA argued that DSW meets the drug definition because chemical action "meaning...
Source: Policy and Medicine - December 9, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Be careful what you believe about ingredient lists
Design A Thought says…While I am a lover of these “chem free” products I love them because (I must stress some of them! you have to carefully look at the ingredients list!) they are using the ingredients grown from our good earth not cheaply mass produced in a lab so some company can reep the profits. I found that through some careful research, many of my products contained harmful chemicals which could be substituted with a natural one. But there goes profit, the cheaper the product the more of us hard up people with loads of bills are going to buy them. Not all of us have the knowledge to know what goes into our ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - November 20, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Natural Source Type: blogs
Appetizers for Summer Book Club
As much as I love book club, I love hosting it even more. Because hosting means I get to leave work early and do my favorite thing in the whole world – spend the late afternoon in my kitchen. I’m rarely at home at that time of day, when something wonderful happens to the light in our apartment as the sun begins to peek out from behind the tall apartment towers just south of us, and pours into my kitchen. Add in NPR or a good book on tape and I’m in heaven.
The evening promised good weather, so we planned to meet on the roof. I took my cue for the menu from the book we were discussing – “...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - September 3, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Appetizers Appetizer recipes Book Club Food Ideas Book Club Menu Fig & Blue Cheese Savories Olive all'Ascolana Recipes for book club Source Type: blogs
Factoring in human factors
This article in Crain's Detroit Business (originally from Modern Healthcare) notes:Recent studies have found that rapid implementation of new medical technology — electronic health records, patient monitoring devices, surgical robots and other tools — can lead to adverse patient events when it is not thoughtfully integrated into workflow. The right processes require understanding the devices and the users. Testing in controlled environments often does not adequately consider the “human factor,” or how people interact with technology in high-pressure, real-life situations.From 2011 to 2013, human-factor issue...
Source: Running a hospital - August 29, 2014 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Move Along, No Health Care Corruption to See Here
Health care corruption, remains a largely taboo topic, especially when it occurs in developed countries like the US. Searching PubMed or major medical and health care journals at best will reveal a few articles on health care corruption, nearly all about corruption somewhere else than the authors' countries, usually in someplace much poorer. While the media may publish stories about issues related to health care corruption, they are almost never so labelled.Yet Transparency International's report on global health care corruption suggested it occurs in all countries. A recent TI survey showed that 43% of U...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 21, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: bribery Cancer Research and Prevention Institute complementary/ alternative medicine health care corruption Source Type: blogs
Africa’s Best No Lye Relaxer – Look at the label
Africa’s Best Dual Conditioning No-Lye Relaxer System is a top seller on Amazon.com. Is its “No Lye” claim truthful? Let’s look at the label to find out.
I worked with the chemist who developed Motions and other world class relaxers. If you want to support the Beauty Brains please use our link below to shop for No-lye Relaxer or ANY product that you want from Amazon. Perry & I really appreciate your support!
Is Africa’s Best Relaxer really no lye?
Lye, in case you didn’t know, is another name for sodium hydroxide which is the most effective ingredient used in modern relaxers. Unfort...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 2, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Claims Source Type: blogs
