Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 243
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 243
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Question 1
[real case] – A 12 year old boy is brought in by his mother with concerns about fatigue, increasing shortness of breath on exertion, easily bruising, swollen gums and ?...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mark Corden Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Chang Bunker Darier sign Elizabeth Blackwell Eng Bunker leonardo da vinci macrocytosis Neymar Of the heart scurvy Siamese twins vitamin C Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Entrepreneurs Reveals Their Success Stories
You're reading Top 10 Entrepreneurs Reveals Their Success Stories, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Life gives chances to those who look for them. People say that success happens suddenly, to some extent that is a truth, success is a matter of moments, but to achieve those moments people with courage and valor strive day and night without giving value to themselves. They give importance to their time and utilize it in altering their condition from nothing to someone who matters. Their stories are motivating...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Chris Albert Tags: featured motivation success Entrepreneurs life simon sinek success stories Source Type: blogs
Wellness and Patient Centered Care – Fun Friday
It’s time for the weekend, so let’s get your weekend started off right with some healthcare humor. This first cartoon explains a lot about our healthcare problems today. Although, in 2018 the device is even smaller.
Evolution … pic.twitter.com/Mw70IuNA2QPic RT: Mindfulness Wellness @HealingMB#cartoon #cartoons #television#health #wellbeing #healthcare #healthiswealth#life #lifestyle #LifeStyleAudit #healthyeating#obesity #selfcare #evolution
— support NHSCIC Scot (@supportNHSCIC) June 15, 2018
This one is sad and funny. It definitely illustrates how many times we have to work on our definitions o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 23, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: EMR Source Type: blogs
Barbara Bush: The First Lady of palliative care
The “Great Man Theory” of history was popularized by the Scottish author Thomas Carlyle in the mid-19th century. In his 1840 “Lectures on Heroes,” he famously wrote: “The history of the world is the biography of great men.” Carlyle claimed that history was made by “great men” possessing personal courage, vision, charisma and political or military genius. Our more egalitarian age has favored mass movements, social forces and “great ideas” as the shapers of history.
However, the Great Man Theory of history was proven true recently by a Great Woman.
Palliative care, although excruciatingly important to med...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michael-a-salvatore" rel="tag" > Michael A. Salvatore, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Progress Across the Pond
By TIM WILLIAMS & DAVID INTROCASO
This past October CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the agency’s “Meaningful Measures” initiative.[1] Ms. Verma launched the initiative because, she admitted, the agency’s current quality measurement programming, widely criticized for years by MedPAC and others, ran the risk of outweighing the benefits. Under “Meaningful Measures,” CMS will, Ms. Verma stated, put “patients first” by aligning a smaller number of outcome-based quality measures meaningful to patients across Medicare’s programs. Since “the primary focus of a patient visit,” Ms. Verma...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Newcastle Waxwing – Bombycilla garrulus
The Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) a crested and plump, winter visitors from Scandinavia, smaller than a Starling, with a distinctive yellow tip to the tail and red sealing wax colouration to the ends of its wing tips, hence the name. They will leave colder climes and head south when food is in short supply. It seems that they most commonly end up being spotted in flocks in supermarket carparks that happen to be lined with berry-bearing trees. In 2017, I heard and then saw a flock of 20 or so at the Cambridge Science Park near the Guided Busway but was too slow to get a photo.
Winter 2017-2018, I’ve kept track of sig...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 16, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Waxwing in Newcastle – Bombycilla garrulus
The Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) a crested and plump, winter visitors from Scandinavia, smaller than a Starling, with a distinctive yellow tip to the tail and red sealing wax colouration to the ends of its wing tips, hence the name. They will leave colder climes and head south when food is in short supply. It seems that they most commonly end up being spotted in flocks in supermarket carparks that happen to be lined with berry-bearing trees. In 2017, I heard and then saw a flock of 20 or so at the Cambridge Science Park near the Guided Busway but was too slow to get a photo.
Winter 2017-2018, I’ve kept track of sig...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 16, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Waxwing – Bombycilla garrulus
The Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) a crested and plump, winter visitors from Scandinavia, smaller than a Starling, with a distinctive yellow tip to the tail and red sealing wax colouration to the ends of its wing tips, hence the name. They will leave colder climes and head south when food is in short supply. It seems that they most commonly end up being spotted in flocks in supermarket carparks that happen to be lined with berry-bearing trees. In 2017, I heard and then saw a flock of 20 or so at the Cambridge Science Park near the Guided Busway but was too slow to get a photo.
Winter 2017-2018, I’ve kept track of sig...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 16, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
The World's First Central Bank Electronic Money Has Come – And Gone: Ecuador, 2014-2018
In 2014 the government of Ecuador, under then-President Rafael Correa, announced with great fanfare that the Ecuadorian Central Bank (BCE) would soon begin issuing an electronic money (dinero electr ónico, or DE). Users would keep account balances on the central bank’s own balance sheet and transfer them using a mobile phone app. Enabling legislation was passed in September, qualified users could open accounts beginning in December, and the accounts became spendable in February 2015. Aheadline on CNBC ’s website declared: “Ecuador becomes the first country to roll out its own digital cash.”The subsequent fate of t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 2, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 232
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 232.
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Question 1:
This week’s tropical case was on cholera. John Snow, the godfather of epidemiological medicine, showed that the pump on Broad Street in London was responsible for an outbr...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 29, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Bellevue Stratford Hotel black fever Broad Street cholera Dum-Dum fever Dumdum Henry Whitehead john snow Joseph McDade Kala-azar Killer fever Legionnaries disease Leishmania donovani leishmania infantum Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Q-and-A with Scottish MP Carol Monaghan
By David Tuller, DrPH On February 20th, Carol Monaghan, a member of Parliament from the Scottish National Party, led an extraordinary debate in the House of Commons about the ethical and methodological failings of the PACE trial. The debate included discussion of the debilitating nature of the illness, the conflicts of interests of the PACE […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 28, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Founding Fathers Favored a Liberal Immigration System
Alex Nowrasteh had an excellent post yesterday on how the western tradition on immigration and naturalization formed the basis of the Founders’ views on those subjects and resulted in the most liberal policies in the world at the time. The debates at the Constitutional Convention highlight his point, showing just how liberal the Fo unders had become on immigration and naturalization.At one point,Gouverneur Morrisoffered an amendment that would require 14 years of citizenship, rather than four, before a person could serve as a senator, “urging the danger of admitting strangers into our public Councils.” Charles Pin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 27, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
What cancer and teatime taught me about burnout
Chipper in his bow tie, our senior physician approached balancing a tray of milky black tea in his hands. He passed each of us a steaming mug. The scones followed, warm and crumbly, slathered with golden butter and glistening raspberry jam.
We sank into the tweed couches of the hospital lounge eager for a pause. Morning rounds had been a whirlwind of chest pain, strokes, intractable headaches, alcohol withdrawal and diabetes. We had two dozen less acute patients still to see, but first, a break.
Our minds welcomed the distraction. Our tense brows relaxed, shoulders softened, feet relented. We shared jokes and weekend plans...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 15, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/julia-michie-bruckner" rel="tag" > Julia Michie Bruckner, MD, MPH < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
The Right Place for Medicine is Distant from Both the Failures of Regulatory Excess and the Failures of Snake Oil
It is possible to think that (a) FDA regulators are not all that interested in much other than protecting their own positions, and their actions impose a terrible cost on health and longevity by suppressing progress in medicine, (b) that some degree of reviews and trials and data and proof are a great idea, necessary to the development of new therapies, and can be handled in a distributed way in a free market, and (c) people who run so far from the FDA that they drop the reviews and trials and data and proof, replacing them with marketing and wishful thinking, are not doing anyone any favors.
This collection of sens...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 14, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
AI Is Close to Giving Us the Ultimate Early Diagnostic Test For Breast Cancer
By HUGH HARVEY, MD
1986 was a great year. In the heyday of the worst-dressed decade in history, the Russians launched the Mir Space Station, Pixar was founded, Microsoft went public, the first 3D printer was sold, and Matt Groening created The Simpsons. Meanwhile, two equally important but entirely different scientific leaps occurred in completely separate academic fields on opposite sides of the planet. Now, thirty two years later, the birth of deep learning and the first implementation of breast screening are finally converging to create what could be the ultimate early diagnostic test for the most common cancer in wom...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
