Heartwarming stories of cancer patients teaching us about life and the human spirit
I felt uneasy starting my oncology and leukemia rotations. These patients were so sick, and many of them had incurable cancer, often just weeks or days away from death. I wondered how I could help them, what we could do if we couldn’t treat their cancer. I’m grateful that these patients taught me not just
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Heartwarming stories of cancer patients teaching us about life and the human spirit originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Johnathan Yao, MD, MPH Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Health Equity In The AI And Digital Health Era: Promise or Peril?
This report estimated that poor health reduces global GDP by 15% each year.
On the flip side, equalizing healthcare access and quality has healthful effects on the economy at large. Digital technology could narrow the health equity gap by simplifying complex medical processes and removing travel barriers to healthcare access.
Figures indicate that underrepresented and/or disadvantaged (poor, rural, minority, women, LGBTQ, etc) groups have significantly less access to all the cutting-edge solutions digital health offers. Thus the gap is not only not closing, but it’s rather further widening right now.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - May 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones digital health literacy health equity digital health equity AI Source Type: blogs
The Myth of Stage 1 Pressure Injuries
The current body of knowledge surrounding pressure injuries is replete with myths that have been accepted as fact. A myth is defined as a popular belief, sometimes imaginary, that has no basis in reality but serves to perpetuate an opinion or world view. Stage 1 pressure injuries are one of the common myths ingrained into our wound care lexicon. According to NPIAP criteria, Stage 1 manifests no impairment of skin integrity, with vague and nonspecific criteria that renders its inclusion in the staging system unwarranted and misleading.
The designation of “Stage 1 Pressure Injury” should be eliminated from the st...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - May 28, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care Pressure Injuries & Wound Care bedsore bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer Healthcare Quality Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD pressure sore pressure sores pressure ulce Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: Challenger School
Colleen HroncichThe late Barbara Baker left behind quite a legacy. She was a first grade teacher in 1960 when she realized her incoming students were unprepared because her school district had dropped phonics. Despite being pregnant with her fifth child, Barbara quit teaching and started her own preschool in 1963. “I figured that if they learned phonic s in preschool, no one could take that away from them,” shesaid.That modest beginning —half of the students in the first class were family and friends—ultimately launchedChallenger School. Jeff Davis, whose own children attended Challenger, now serves as marketing...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Feeling guilty now, for a past professional crime !
Having retired, find little more time in browsing the academic images lying idle in old computers.It is intresting, still a tiring job to pick any useful learning stuff, from heaps of data hiding in different hard drives.
This set of ECGs I could retrive from the year 2011, A 31-year-old male presented to our CCU at 4.50 PM.
The treatment was Initiated in 10 minutes and completed in an hour, (Those days cath lab wasn’t functioning 24/7, more importantly, there was no external interference with our professional decision-making process)
The ECG was repeated at 7.15 PM
I think this case is much rele...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - May 26, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
20-something with huge verapamil overdose and cardiogenic shock
A 20-something presented after a huge verapamil overdose in cardiogenic shock. He had been seen at an outside institution and been given 6 g calcium gluconate, KCl, and a norepinephrine drip.The initial K was 3.0 mEq/L and ionized calcium was 5.5 mg/dL (sorry, Europeans, for the weird units)Here was the initial ED ECG:There is a junctional rhythm with retrograde P-waves (see the dip in the T-wave in lead II across the bottom; you can follow that up to all the other leads and see the retrograde P wave). There is also Left Bundle Branch Block (LBBB). There is huge proportionally excessively discord...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - May 26, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
The Oft Forgotten Benefits of Multi-Cloud in Healthcare
I remember the days when cloud was almost a dirty word in healthcare. Most healthcare CIOs probably saw the writing on the wall that cloud was the future, but there was a lot of fear going to the cloud. Now every healthcare organization is not just in the cloud but is multi-cloud. What’s interesting about healthcare’s move to the cloud is that we often forget the benefits of multi-cloud when it comes to things like patient outcomes and clinician experience.
This was the topic of discussion at the HIMSS 2023 annual conference in the session titled “CXO Spotlight: Improve Patient Outcomes and Clinicia...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Bill Wilson Clinician Experiences COVID-19 Geoffrey Brown Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Multi-Cloud Healthcare Scene Featured H Source Type: blogs
Our Teaching Persona in Anatomy & Physiology Class | TAPP 137
In Episode 137, host Kevin Patton explores the significance ofplayfulness, transparency, andauthenticity in theteaching persona. Drawing from personal experiences training animals, Kevin explains howplay is integral to learning, highlighting the importance of incorporating asense of fun andembracing failures in the classroom. He also emphasizes the value of transparency bysharing our own mistakes and weaknesses, asserting thatbeing open about flaws fosters authenticity andbuilds trust with students. By acknowledging vulnerabilities and demonstrating a genuine willingness to learn, educators can create asupportive and engag...
Source: The A and P Professor - May 23, 2023 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Final week to nominate teachers for the $1M Global Teacher Prize 2023
Dear friends,
We hope you are doing well.
There is now less than one week to go until applications and nominations close for the Global Teacher Prize, and we wanted to ask you to help us spread the word. The Global Teacher Prize serves to underline the importance of educators and the fact that, throughout the world, their efforts deserve to be recognised and celebrated. It seeks to acknowledge the impact of the very best teachers – not only on their students but on the communities around them.
Teachers applying for the Global Teacher Prize will be assessed on teaching practices, how they innovate to address local challen...
Source: SharpBrains - May 22, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Varkey Foundation Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning Global Teacher Prize teachers Varkey Foundation Source Type: blogs
Laser-Based Breath Analysis Detects COVID-19 Infection
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a laser-based breathalyzer technology that can detect molecules in breath samples that indicate the presence of specific diseases, such as COVID-19. The device is called a frequency comb breathalyzer, and using it involves pumping a breath sample into the device where lasers irradiate it at many different frequencies, and mirrors bounce the light around to ensure that the sample is thoroughly investigated. Based on how the molecules in the sample absorb the light, a machine learning algorithm an...
Source: Medgadget - May 22, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Public Health CUBoulder NIST Source Type: blogs
New! Awesome! Better! (Learning a new approach)
With all the attention being given to cognitive functional therapy (and deservedly so, IMHO) it’s tempting to leap aboard the modality train and go take a course, isn’t it?
Although I’ve picked on CFT today, it could just as easily have been any of the New! Awesome! Better! therapies that hit the clinical headlines on a frequent basis. The temptation to go “Look! Shiny!” and learn about the latest thing isn’t confined to teenagers following some social media trend. Yup, even sober-sides nearly 60-year-olds like me still want to go on learning, getting better at what I do, keeping up w...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 21, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Clinical reasoning Education/CME Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice biopsychosocial healthcare Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Why is being a patient a difficult pill to swallow?
While being treated for an aggressive hematologic cancer, the former head of a department of medicine at a large teaching hospital told me he wished he could hang a sign on his headboard, reading P-I-P: Previously-Important-Person. Despite extraordinary achievements, skills, credentials, and status, being a patient made him feel like an amalgam of parts; limbs,
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Why is being a patient a difficult pill to swallow? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 20, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Harvey Max Chochinov, MD, PhD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
The Theory and Practice of Rhetoric: An Interview
Erec SmithInan interview for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), I discuss the theory and practice of rhetoric. Although I am a professor of rhetoric by trade, many consider my participation in the current “culture war” as my primary motivation. This interview shows that my involvement in promoting viewpoint diversity and my embrace of rhetoric is symbiotic in nature.This 12 ‐minute video can be broken down into five segments.The Definition of Rhetoric. Rhetoric, according to Aristotle, is “the ability, in any given cast, to discern the available means of persuasion.” This definition implie...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 18, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Erec Smith Source Type: blogs
45 yo with jaw pain radiating to left shoulder for 6 hours
This case was provided by Steven Souchtchenko, a recent graduate of our Hennepin Healthcare EM/IM residency (i.e., a former trainee of mine).CaseA 45 yo man with no previous cardiac history presented to an ED not associated with a cath lab. He complained of jaw pain radiating to left shoulder for 6 hours. He stated he had had a brief similar episode the evening prior.Here is his ED ECG.What do you think?When this was shown to me I immediately said " Proximal LAD OMI " . Then I ran it through theQueen of Hearts AI app and she said " OMI with high confidence " .I showed it to Pendell, who said: " Clear...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - May 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
The Disease Killing Healthcare and Causing Physician Burnout
BY SCOTT MACDIARMID
We have a healthcare crisis . . . and the crisis is now. Costs are soaring out of control, threatening the financial health of individuals and our nation. Quality of care is deteriorating, in spite of “world class care” signs seemingly on every corner. And physicians are checking out and burning out. I believe it’s one of the greatest societal issues of our day.
So, you may be wondering: How in the heck did we get ourselves into such a mess? In the greatest country in the world who spends the most on healthcare and is regularly bragging on how great it is, what happened?
Experts and pun...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Burnout Healthcare system Scott MacDiarmid Source Type: blogs
