It Is Time That Meta / Facebook Was Banned In Australia As A Result Of This Behaviour!
This appeared last week: Facebook caught ‘extorting’ Aussie government to soften laws Paul Smith and John Davidson May 6, 2022 – 11.21am Facebook deliberately caused chaos for essential services in Australia - including fire services during bushfire season and suicide hotlines during the pandemic - to strong-arm the Morrison governme nt into coming to a favourable deal over the media bargaining code, a US whistleblower has revealed. A report in the Wall Street Journal overnight features internal Facebook documents showing how a ban of thousands of non-news Australian Facebook pages in February 2021 was deliberate eve...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Mental illness and suicide: a physician ’s story [PODCAST]
“Sufferers of mental illness often believe that others feel they have control of their symptoms, only having to decide to not be, for example, depressed. While they themselves suffer the symptoms of mental illness, they often have the feeling that they should be able to control them. Depending upon their experience, the observer of theRead more …Mental illness and suicide: a physician’s story [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 3, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Why can ’t we say the word, “suicide?”
Iconic singer Naomi Judd died at age 76, one day before she was to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her daughters, Wynonna and Ashley Judd, shared a statement confirming her death: “Today [April 30, 2022] we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness.” An exact causeRead more …Why can’t we say the word,“suicide?” originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 3, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/arthur-lazarus" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Want to stem frontline worker burnout and walkout? Here are 3 ways.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Lorna Breen, MD, a New York City emergency room doctor, committed suicide following weeks of incredible stress she endured at work. Nearly two years later, the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act was signed into federal law, providing federal grants to support programs and training on reducing healthRead more …Want to stem frontline worker burnout and walkout? Here are 3 ways. originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/eve-poczatek" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Eve Poczatek, MBA < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Physician Liability for Suicide after Negligent Tapering of Opioids
Mark A. Rothstein (University of Louisville), Julia Irzyk (Independent), Physician Liability for Suicide after Negligent Tapering of Opioids, J. Law, Med& Ethics (2022): To dissipate the opioid crisis physicians have been urged not to prescribe opioids for new patients... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 20, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
New legislation addresses health care professionals ’ mental health needs
The U.S. government took an important step forward to help address the high incidence of health care professionals’ burnout, depression, and suicides. On March 18, 2022, President Biden signed the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act into law. The law outlines several requirements for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). KeyRead more …New legislation addresses health care professionals’ mental health needs originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/anthony-avellino" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Anthony Avellino, MD, MBA < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Self-Injury Awareness
What do these high profile individuals have in common? Singer, Fiona Apple; Comedian, Russell Brand; Actress, Drew Barrymore; Actor, Johnny Depp; Actor, Colin Farrell; Actress, Megan Fox; Actress, Angelina Jolie; Singer, Demi Lovato and Princess Diana....Before finding emotional health, they struggled with self-injury.Self-Injury is a deliberate, non-suicidal behavior that inflicts physical harm on one ' s body to relieve emotional distress. Self-injury has a paradoxical effect in that the pain self-inflicted actually sets off an endorphin rush, relieving the self-harmer from deep distress. It ' s...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: non-suicidal self-injury Source Type: blogs
Don't call the police
We ' ve seen far too many stories of people calling 911 because a family member or neighbor is having a behavioral health crisis -- a psychotic break, a meth overdose, suicidal -- and the police show up and shoot and kill the person. They ' re allowed to do that, they feel endangered don ' t you know. Denver has a program calledSupport Team Assisted Response, which instead of armed police dispatches EMTs and behavioral health clinicians to these situations.STAR has responded to 2,294 calls for service that would have otherwise been dispatched to policeSTAR hasnever called for police back up due to a safety...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 7, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
988 and 911: Justice System Involvement in Mental Health Crises
BY BEN WHEATLEY
A woman was walking in the crosswalk of a busy intersection as the rain started to come down. She looked cold, but more than that, she looked off. She had no shoes on her feet and her countenance was in disarray. It seemed to me that she was in the midst of a mental health crisis.
The woman approached where I was standing and I suggested that she go into the Starbucks on the corner to look for her shoes. At least in there, it would be warm. She didn’t go inside, but instead went to the entrance and sat down on the ground.
Someone must have called 911 because a policeman and an ambulance with ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy 911 Ben Wheatley Mental Health Mental Health Crises Source Type: blogs
Stop telling physicians to be more resilient
I’ve come across several articles recently highlighting the Dr. Lorna Breen Healthcare Provider Protection Act. The primary stated intent of this is“to improve mental health among health care workers. It is named in honor of an emergency physician who died by suicide during the height of the COVID pandemic. Although my very first thoughtRead more …Stop telling physicians to be more resilient originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 3, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/lauren-roth-md" rel="tag" > Lauren Roth, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based cognitive & mental healthcare: Time for quality and accountability
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring timely brain & mental health news, two excellent new books and a few fun brain teasers.
#1. From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based mental healthcare: Time to focus on quality and accountability
“The real challenge is not finding a therapist, it’s finding a therapist who knows how to provide the treatments that work. In the early 2000s, Myrna Weissman was trying to understand why so few therapists use scientifically based treatments. She found that over 60 percent of professional schools of psychology and master’s level social work prog...
Source: SharpBrains - March 31, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Technology & Innovation adhd ADHD-symptoms alvaro-fernandez behavioral health screening Brain Teasers BrainHealth Cajal cognitive-abilities DARPA Source Type: blogs
From Organ Designers To Telesurgery VR Planners: Healthcare Jobs in 2040
In this study, the researchers employed the VR prototype for surgical planning using a standard VR setup in two real cases of patients with liver tumours who were scheduled for surgery at a University Hospital for Visceral Surgery. Surgeons used the VR prototype before the surgery to plan the procedure in addition to their regular planning process. They used semi-structured interviews before and after the surgery to explore the benefits and pitfalls of VR surgical planning.
Within 20-30 years, AR/VR operation planners will help surgeons in the preparation for very complex surgical interventions. While the medical pr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 31, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast E-Patients Future of Medicine Medical Education Science Fiction digital health healthcare jobs future jobs Source Type: blogs
Mental health issues and the African American community
Death is a topic that most people try to avoid. Death by suicide is also something that that remains rarely discussed. This is probably because suicide is scary, particularly if we have thoughts of being the loved one left behind. People considering suicide don’t take the time to let people know that they are consideringRead more …Mental health issues and the African American community originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 30, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/lashawnda-thornton" rel="tag" > Lashawnda Thornton, MSW < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
The key to loving our lives and our careers starts with us
An excerpt from Boundaries For Women Physicians: Love Your Life And Career In Medicine. When I openly share my experiences with friends and colleagues, I am amazed by how many other women physicians tell me they have had similar ones. They admit to feeling so low that suicide or self-harm seems the only way out.Read more …The key to loving our lives and our careers starts with us originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 29, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/tammie-chang-md" rel="tag" > Tammie Chang, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
The Personality Trait That Decreases Suicide Risk
It is also a generally protective factor against health problems. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Intelligence Source Type: blogs
