When Deciding How To Improve Our Personalities, Moral Character Is Not A Priority
By Emily Reynolds
No matter how high your self-confidence, it’s likely that you have certain traits you’d change given the opportunity: maybe you’d turn down your anxiety, feel more outgoing in company, or be a bit less lazy. One 2016 study found that 78% of people wanted to better embody at least one of the Big Five personality traits (extraversion, emotional stability, conscientiousness, agreeableness, or openness to experience), so the desire to change who you are is not uncommon.
But are we so keen to change how moral we are? That is, how concerned are we really about being a good or bad person? A new study publ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Morality Personality Social The self Source Type: blogs
This treatment could save your life – COVID-19 and Convalescent Plasma Therapy
Ajay Kohli
Vinay Kohli
Chitra Chhabra Kohli
By CHITRA CHHABRA KOHLI MD, AJAY KOHLI MD, and VINAY KOHLI MD, MBA
With a doubling time of cases estimated between 3 days within the U.S. and about 6 days globally (at the time of this writing) COVID-19 is demonstrating its terrifying virulence as it spreads across the world.
What’s perhaps equally terrifying, if not more, is the absence of a known cure or treatment plan for COVID-19. While there has been a lot of attention focused on Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin, there has been debate on the scientific validity of these treatment options, either as thera...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Patients Physicians Ajay Kohli Azithromycin convalescent plasma therapy coronavirus COVID-19 treatment hydroxychloroquine Pandemic Vinay Kohli Source Type: blogs
Is Tomosynthesis Better than Mammography at Detecting Breast Cancer?
New research shows digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) to be a more effective breast cancer diagnosis tool than digital mammography (DM), according to a study recently published inRadiology. DBT is a relatively new screening practice and was only approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2017. It uses an x-ray tube that glides in an arc-shape and uses low levels of radiation to image the breast from various angles. Up until now, research only showed us how effective the screening is in the first round of testing before detection rates are expected to escalate. Those early studies showed that DBT had higher detection ...
Source: radRounds - March 21, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
We ’re All in This Together: Facing the Coronavirus Crisis
I am writing this article from bed, listening to the sweet sounds of Sleepy Hollow on University of Pennsylvania station, WXPN, which includes easing into the day music that is a regular part of my Saturday morning. I plan to remain at home, not interacting physically with other human beings, but certainly available via phone or cyberspace. Thankfully, I am showing no symptoms of COVID-19, but I am monitoring closely, since I was in the hospital three times in the past month for cardiac and kidney stone related issues which puts me in a high-risk group, along with being part of the over-60 crowd.
Except for going to work ...
Source: World of Psychology - March 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Health-related Personal anxiety community coronavirus social distancing Source Type: blogs
Ignoring Social Security Paints False Wealth Inequality Picture
Ryan BourneMyrecent paper with Chris Edwards concluded that studies estimating wealth inequality without accounting for Social Security would both exaggerate the level of inequality and overestimate its increases since the 1980s.We realized that increasing amounts of wealth for the bottom 90 percent had become tied up in Social Security claims over the past three decades. Anda host of evidence suggests that redistributive programs, such as Social Security, actively crowd out private saving among those on modest incomes.By reducing the incentive and ability for lower paid workers to save (not least because of payroll t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 4, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Here ’s How We Did It: Eliminating Barriers of Early Medical Education Scholarship
Although a randomized, controlled education study may be the ultimate goal in medical education research, a new attending physician may not possess the confidence, experience, or skills to do so in year one. In our Academic Medicine Last Page “Hit the Ground Running: Engaging Early-Career Medical Educators in Scholarly Activity,” we encourage our physician colleagues to broaden the scope of what counts as medical education scholarly work by presenting four tips for learning the landscape, four types of presentation-based work, and four types of publication-based work in order of complexity. To supplement this guide, he...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 18, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective faculty development medical education scholarship mentorship scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
January is Financial Wellness Month: Here Are 3 Tips To Start The Year Off Financially Strong
You're reading January is Financial Wellness Month: Here Are 3 Tips To Start The Year Off Financially Strong, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
2020 is not only
the start of a new year—it also marks a new decade full of opportunities for
growth, improvement and forward momentum. One specific area in which many
people could stand to improve is financial management. January is Financial
Wellness Month, making it an ideal time to work toward this goal.
Almost 60% of
Americans consider debt to be a major ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured money and finance productivity tips self education self-improvement success Uncategorized financial wellness savings self improvement Source Type: blogs
Top Artificial Intelligence Companies in Healthcare to Keep an Eye On
The field of medical AI is buzzing. More and more companies set the purpose to disrupt healthcare with the help of artificial intelligence. Given how fast these companies come and go, it can prove to be hard to stay up-to-date with the most promising ones. Here, I collected the biggest names currently on the market ranging from start-ups to tech giants to keep an eye on in the future.
To further help you keep up with what A.I. brings to medicine, The Medical Futurist team made an easy-to-digest e-book about just that. I highly encourage you to read it and would love to hear about your thoughts!
Artificial Intelligence has ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Design AI digital health genetics Innovation Personalized medicine pharma GC1 big data drug development healthcare companies medical imaging Source Type: blogs
What Should Academics Know About Lobbying Law?
Academics sometimes get a bad rap for being stuck in their ivory towers. But many academics realize that their expertise can be useful to policymakers and aim to make it widely available through a variety of avenues. We write op-eds, publish in policy-oriented journals, send letters to elected officials, write amicus briefs, submit comments on proposed regulations, serve on advisory committees, and offer testimony. At the current political moment, these types of public engagement and advocacy activities are particularly salient for academics doing work relevant to health and science policy, topics at the top of the nationa...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 14, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective academic advocacy faculty health policy law lobbying Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Do Suicide Questionnaires Save Lives?
Should we be talking so plainly about suicidal ideation? What are the benefits of assessing our thought patterns over a period of time? Join us as we discuss the Columbia-Suicide Severity Scale screening tool. We tackle this sensitive topic after Jackie was surprised by a suicide assessment at a physician’s office. Rare trigger warning this week for a tough subject, as we explore talking openly about suicidal ideation.
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About The Not Crazy Podcast Hosts
Gabe Howard is an award-winning writer and speaker who lives with bipolar disorder. He is the author of the popula...
Source: World of Psychology - December 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: Bipolar Death & Dying Depression Grief and Loss Happiness Not Crazy Podcast Suicide Source Type: blogs
Thinking About Past Generations Could Help Us Tackle Climate Change
By Emily Reynolds
Rhetoric around climate change often calls on us to think of future generations: if we don’t suffer the effects, then our children and our children’s children will. For some, this sense of obligation could be motivating. But for others, the distant time frame may be a barrier to truly grappling with the issue.
Now, a new study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests one method to get people thinking about their duty to future generations is to think about the past.
In their new paper, Hanne Watkins from the University of Massachusetts and Geoffrey Goodwin from the University of Pennsy...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Decision making environmental Time Source Type: blogs
“ Chasing My Cure ” : A Book Review
By CHADI NABHAN, MD, MBA, FACP
Have you
thought about your own mortality?
Who hasn’t,
given the frequency of seeing death and grief depicted in the media or through
real life encounters with friends, relatives, neighbors, or patients? These
incidents trigger uncomfortable and sometimes uneasy thoughts of how we might
personally deal with potential illness and disease. The same thoughts are soon
displaced by the busyness of living.
Despite
dealing with the death of his mother from a brain tumor, we learn David
Fajgenbaum was healthy, living life to its fullest, and a future doctor in the
making. He may hav...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Book Review Chadi Nabhan Chasing My Cure Chasing My Cure book review David Fajgenbaum Mortality Outspoken Oncology Source Type: blogs
Immigrants Don ’t Litter More than Native-Born Americans: Evidence from American Cities
Alex Nowrasteh andAndrew C. ForresterThere are very few new arguments in the immigration debate. For generations, people have batted around similar versions of thesame argument in favor or against different immigration policies such as how immigrants affect wages, voting, crime, and terrorism. There are other fringe arguments that crop up now and again, but we don’t usually address them because they are so rarely argued. However, the frequency of a formerly-fringe argument against immigration is rising: immigrants should be banned or their numbers significantly reduced because they litter a lot.At the recent National C...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh, Andrew C. Forrester Source Type: blogs
#Shemergency Reflections: An Inside Look at an Innovative Professional Development Group to Promote the Recruitment and Retention of Female Residents
Conclusion
R.G.
and E.T.: We are proud to be a part of the #Shemergency movement and hope it
continues to grow in the future. We are both looking forward to future events,
including an upcoming simulation session focusing on code leadership skills.
By: Rachel Gartland, MD, and Erica Tabakin, MD
Further Reading
Khatri UG, Love J,
Zeidan A, Hsu CH, Mills AM. #Shemergency: Use of a professional development
group to promote female resident recruitment and retention [published online
ahead of print August 27, 2019.] Acad Med. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002969 (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 10, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective gender inequities professional development women in medicine Source Type: blogs
December 5 –6th in Dublin: 2nd European Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Symposium
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Just a heads-up about a great event later this week in Dublin, Ireland, for those working on virtual and augmented reality and healthcare innovation.
When: Thu Dec 5, 2019 8:00 am — Fri Dec 6, 2019 5:00 pm.
Where: Davenport Hotel
Featured sessions include:
Day 1 – Thursday, December 5th, 2019
9:00am‑9:30am
Introductions, Welcome and Setting The Stage
Robert Fine, Executive Director, International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association (IVRHA)
9:30am-10:30am
Keynote Presentation: Virtual Reality and Healthcare: The Past, The Present and The Future
Dr. Walter Greenleaf, B...
Source: SharpBrains - December 3, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Technology augmented reality Dublin healthcare healthcare innovation virtual-reality Source Type: blogs
