Should Pathologists and Radiologists Become One Speciality?
A new study has found a growing connection between pathology and radiology. According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Scripps Research Institute, the two specialties should be combined into one role called the “information specialist.” Not only would this individual interpret diagnostic images, but they would oversee artificial intelligence disease-screening technology.Since the dawning of the specialty, radiologists have come to rely on computers to make accurate assessments. The study authors hypothesize that since interpreting these images is a form of pattern recognition, we should use auto...
Source: radRounds - October 26, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
ACOs: An Act of Faith, Theory, Hope, or Evidence? What Do the Data Say?
By ROSS KOPPEL and STEVE SOUMERAI
The recent Health Affairs Blog piece by Chernew and Barbey (October 17, 2017) provides a helpful theoretical summary of the various ways ACOs might achieve savings—even if modest or still latent. But their analysis of the empirical literature, including the CMS innovations, gives us little confidence that even these small savings are real or will emerge. It is astonishing there is little or no critique of ACO studies’ limitations that generally bias the findings toward the apparent (but miniscule) savings.
Two Critical Methodological Flaws:
ACOs generally volunteer to participate base...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Free Live Webinar: Healing from an Unloving Mother
As central as the mother-child relationship is to psychological health, that of the mother and her daughter has its own specificity. Daughters whose emotional needs weren’t met in childhood or who were actively disparaged, ignored, controlled, or scapegoated emerge into adulthood with specific deficits. They may not even know the degree to which they’ve been wounded by their mothers’ treatment until they begin to flounder in life, embark on a series of failed relationships, find it hard to stay balanced and focused, or engage in self-destructive behaviors.
As counterintuitive as it sounds, many daughters don’t eve...
Source: World of Psychology - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: General Narcissism Personality Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Trauma Webinar Child Abuse Child Neglect Childhood Trauma self-worth Unloving mothers Source Type: blogs
Let's Talk About Jails and Mental Health
Really, this is a post for ClinkShrink, but she's been busy with other things. Do you miss her? Let me invite you to listen to Clink's interview on Tier Talk/Corrections One, where she was interviewed aboutAre Prisons Turning Into Mental Health Hospitals? Yesterday, I heard Dominic Sisti talk at Sheppard Pratt Hospital about mental health and incarceration: Dr. Sisti is the director of the Scattergood program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care at the University of Pennsylvania, where I was an undergraduate just a few (hmmm) years ago. I tweeted the lecture, as best as I could, along with phot...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Let's Talk About Jails and Mental Health
Really, this is a post for ClinkShrink, but she ' s been busy with other things. Do you miss her? Let me invite you to listen to Clink ' s interview on Tier Talk/Corrections One, where she was interviewed aboutAre Prisons Turning Into Mental Health Hospitals? Yesterday, I heard Dominic Sisti talk at Sheppard Pratt Hospital about mental health and incarceration: Dr. Sisti is the director of the Scattergood program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care at the University of Pennsylvania, where I was an undergraduate just a few (hmmm) years ago. I tweeted the lecture, as best as I could, along with ...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Unknown Source Type: blogs
Why All Radiologists Need to Take Art Classes
A sharp eye is a crucial skill for physicians. That ’s why researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have partnered with the Philadelphia Museum of Art to evaluate howart observation classes impact a physician’s skill sets. Previous studies have shown that observing art can improve medical students ’ recognition and descriptive skills. " The skills I learned studying fine arts in college are invaluable to me now as a physician. I saw the impact art education had on my approach to medicine, and I wanted to recreate that experience for o...
Source: radRounds - October 6, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Lessons From Massachusetts ’ Failed Healthcare Cost Experiment
By SOUMERAI, KOPPELL & BOLOTNIKOVA
Massachusetts passed a massive medical cost control bill in 2012, a “Hail Mary” effort to make health-care more affordable in the nation’s most expensive medical market. The problems of the Massachusetts’ law offer invaluable lessons for the nation’s health-care struggles.
Driven in part by a Boston Globe investigation that exposed the likely collusion of the Partners Healthcare hospital system (including several Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals) with Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the largest healthcare insurer in the state, the law marked the biggest health reform since...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized cost containment Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Partners Romneycare Source Type: blogs
TWiV 460: Penn, a great sandbox for science
Vincent travels to the University of Pennsylvania and speaks with virologists Gary Cohen, Scott Hensley, Carolina Lopez, and Susan Weiss about their careers and their research.
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Source: virology blog - September 24, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology coronavirus defective interfering particles DI particles herpes simple virus influenza virus innate immunity University of Pennsylvania viral viruses Source Type: blogs
Optimal Performance In College: The New Tools
While the excitement of returning to (or beginning) college can hold the promise of many transformational and wonderful opportunities — it can also be a time filled with new stressors. Recent studies show that increased academic demands, changes in sleep and eating patterns, reduced family contact, and financial concerns can challenge even the most capable students. In fact, nearly 80 percent of students in college report having daily stress, and about 25 percent have said this has had an impact on academic performance. Daily stressors can increase depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns that can hold l...
Source: World of Psychology - September 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel Tomasulo, Ph.D. Tags: ADHD and ADD Anxiety and Panic Books Children and Teens College Depression General Memory and Perception Proof Positive Research Stress Student Therapist Students Success & Achievement Academic Achievement Adolescence Atten Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: September 16, 2017
Hoping each of you is having the most amazing weekend — or, at least have plans for one!
I also hope you enjoy these mental health stories for this week. From news about NASA bringing six people out of an eight-month isolation (what?!) to finding out which personality traits you share with the world’s richest people, how could you not?
NASA Space Psychology Subjects Ending 8 Months of Isolation: On Sunday, six NASA research participants will re-enter civilization after spending eight months isolated on a large plain below the summit of the world’s largest active volcano in Hawaii — an area chosen f...
Source: World of Psychology - September 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Anxiety and Panic Celebrities Children and Teens Depression Disorders Happiness Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Personality Psychology Around the Net Research Treatment Women's Issues Annie McKee birth contr Source Type: blogs
Let ’s dial down the hype about grit – new paper finds no association with creative achievement
Duckworth’s book is a best-seller
By Alex Fradera
In 2007, the University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth authored a paper on a trait she called “grit” which went on to arrest the attention of anyone interested in the secrets of success. TED talks and a 2016 book followed, wherein Duckworth explained how a combination of passion for a topic, and perseverance in the face of difficulties – the two facets of grit – were the recipe for achievement, a claim borne out by studies within schools and across the lifespan.
In recent years, however, researchers have become more critical of the scope and re...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 15, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Creativity Source Type: blogs
Let ’s not be petty about affirmative action in medical school
Just a year after the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to race-conscious admissions in Fisher v. University of Texas, this issue is being pushed back to the front of the room by none other than the Trump administration’s Justice Department hauling out hoary tropes about “reverse discrimination.” They are preparing cases against Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, charging to the rescue of the multitudes of innocent middle-class whites and Asians who have been wounded by the shame of having to attend their second or third-choice university.
“It’s not fair!” they cry.
And the Supreme Court answers: This...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/thalia-k-robakis" rel="tag" > Thalia K. Robakis, MD, PhD < /a > Tags: Education Medical school Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
How Should Patients Get Their Image Test Results?
Receiving image test results is generally a nerve-wracking experience for patients. According to a newarticle published in theJournal of the American College of Radiology online, there are two contrasting schools of thought on how those results should be delivered. Andrea Borondy Kitts, MPH, MS, a patient advocate and researcher at Lahey Hospital in Connecticut, believes that patients should have the right to choose if they first want to review test results with a physician or go over them before the appointment in order to prepare questions. Andre Konski, MBA, MD, professor of clinical radiation oncology at the Universit...
Source: radRounds - September 9, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
