Clinical Observations: Combat and Its Ensuing Trauma
In conclusion, I am deeply moved by your experiences, and don’t feel completely worthy to speak about your experiences. To you who are Marines, in the AF we called you “Gyrenes”. We are not worthy to unfasten your combat boots, and I readily admit that I served in the “cub scouts” of the armed forces as one ex-armine observed when visiting The Wall!
This guest article originally appeared on the award-winning health and science blog and brain-themed community, BrainBlogger: Musings of a Combat Professor, Former AF Medic, and Retired Psychologist. (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - February 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Brain Blogger Disorders Military Personal PTSD Publishers Trauma Aggression combat killing Veterans violence war Source Type: blogs
Book Review:'Eye Corps: Coming of Age at the DMZ '
In reviewing Jack Walker ' s book about his coming of age in Vietnam, Dan Grunfeld says the story is “ powerful, thoughtful and engaging. ... The hard and expensive lessons of Walker ' s youth led to a big-hearted life, full of wisdom and generosity that touched so many. ” (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 5, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Dan Grunfeld Source Type: blogs
Matthew Holt ’ s EOY 2017 letter (charities/issues/gossip)
Right at the end of every year I write a letter summarizing my issues and charities. And as I own the joint here, I post it on THCB! Please take a look–Matthew Holt
Well 2017 has been quite a year, and last year 2016 I failed to get my end-of-year letter out at all. This I would like to think was due to extreme business but it probably came down to me being totally lazy. On the other hand like many of you I may have just been depressed about the election–2016 was summed up by our cat vomiting on our bed at 11.55 on New Years Eve.
Having said that even though most of you will never comment on this letter and I ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Matthew Holt Charity Patient Activism Source Type: blogs
The Malady of Excessive Interventionism
There is a lot that ’s wrong with U.S. foreign policy right now, but a broader look at U.S. grand strategy in the post-Cold War era reveals just how broken things have been across administrations of both parties.The post-Cold War era has seen a continuation of along global trendtoward greater peace and stability,lower rates of conflict, and zero great power wars. More peace anddiminishing threats have merely enhanced theremarkable security already enjoyed by the United States thanks to its geographic isolation, weak neighbors, unparalleled economic and military power, and its nuclear deterrent.But America doesn ’t act ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 5, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 215
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 215.
Question 1
Sir Robert Jones from last week’s FFFF came from a strong line of ‘bone setters’, who was his uncle and what device did Jones promote that his uncle invented in World War one to reduce mortality in wounded soldiers?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 24, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Congenital central Hypoventilation syndrome Femur fracture Hugh Owen Thomas John Stapp Jones melioidosis murphy's law Nightcliff Gardner's disease Ondine Ondine's curse Religio Medici Thomas Browne Thomas sp Source Type: blogs
U.S. Striking Just the Right Balance with Vietnam in South China Sea
The Trump administration has seized upon positive momentum from the Obama administration to elevate U.S.-Vietnam defense cooperation to new heights. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Financial And Political News Relevant To E-Health And The Health Sector In General.
November 16, 2017 Edition.-----Trump has wandered off to Asia and has visited China and Japan for significant stays. In China the new Chinese Emperor has wowed him and in Japan the Americans have sold a lot of missiles etc. to protect Japan against North Korea. Also big news it the fact we are now starting to see genuine electoral push-back on Trump policies will some actual election wins from election day a week or so ago. A hopeful sign?Both Brexit and Catalonia are still festering along with no resolution to either! May ’s hold on power is looking ever more tenuous by the day!-----Big Mal went off to Vietnam and...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 16, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Trump's Unfair Deals?A Free-Trade Parable
As Dan noted, President Trump has been in Asia, making a state visit to China and then meeting with foreign leaders at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Vietnam. As part of the trip, and perhaps in an effort to recapture his populist mojo amidst cratering job approval numbers back home, he has remounted one of his favorite hobby horses: decrying “unfair trade deals” that he says put America at a disadvantage with its trading partners.The president does make oblique references to barriers that other countries place on American products entering their markets. But his comments suggest his biggest concern i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 12, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Firey Source Type: blogs
TPP Withdrawal Likely to Haunt Trump's Asia Trip
President Trump ’s arrival in Japan on November 5th will mark the start of a nine-day visit to Asia where trade and other economic issues, along with security concerns regarding North Korea, stand to figure prominently. Those hoping for the unveiling of any new bold trade initiatives, however, will almost surely find themselves disappointed. More probable is that the trip will serve as a bitter reminder of Trump’s ill-advised move only days after taking office to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a decision whose reverberations are likely to be felt during many of his stops. The followin g is a closer...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 3, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
The smallest human acts can have a lifetime of impact
My dad died on May 11, 2003. It was Mother’s Day. I was 18 years old. Those are the easy facts. The more difficult ones are those detailing the events that led to his death. My dad was so many things — a brilliant geologist, a loving father, an inventor, a pilot, and a Vietnam veteran — to name a few. He survived three tours on the front lines in Vietnam, but he didn’t come out unscathed. He was a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder and, subsequently, progressive alcoholism. Despite numerous attempts by my family to help him, and treatment in every form imaginable, we watched a truly amazing person become...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 27, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/karmen-wielunski" rel="tag" > Karmen Wielunski, DO < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs
How One French Director Brought the Vietnam War Home for Americans
In 1967, the first major documentary about the Vietnam war appeared as a CBS News Special Report featuring a film by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer. It introduced key features of the war told through the filming of an American platoon, and provided texture and background so a viewer could gain a sense of what was happening there. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - October 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: James T. Quinlivan Source Type: blogs
Travel Ban Is Based on Executive Whim, Not Objective Criteria
ConclusionFor countries on the list, and for any country wishing to remain off the list, it is vitally important that they understand which factors led to their inclusion or exclusion. If the United States is acting in good faith —seeking to change behavior as opposed to looking for an excuse to ban people—its criteria should be clearly explained and understood. The Iran nuclear deal, for example, hasvery precise requirements for Iran to avoid sanctions, down to the exact percentage of purity for its enriched uranium. This is very far from the case here.No consistent combination of factors or mitigating factors trigger...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Kneel
While watching my son at a weekend hockey game last weekend I overheard a conversation an older, wealthy-appearing woman was having with her companion. I pretended to be reading (I ’m the bad dad who only watches the game when his own son is out on a shift) while she orated (in a faux, poorly executed, Mid Atlantic English nasal accent) a story she had heard from “down in Texas” about how arighteous high school coach had kicked two players off his team who had the gall and traitorous audacity to kneel during the pre-game rendering of the national anthem. “Whaaaaaat are they eeeeeven protesting?” th...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - October 8, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Caution Warranted As VA Incorporates ICER Value Assessments Into Formulary Management Process
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pharmacy Benefits Management Services and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) recently announced a collaboration in which the VA will use the ICER’s drug assessments as part of its formulary development and price negotiations. This type of relationship might be normal outside of the United States (for example, in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia), where input from governmental health technology assessment organizations is used in determining health care coverage decisions. However, in the United States—with our multipayer health care system coverin...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Robert Dubois Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Insurance and Coverage Payment Policy Population Health Department of Veterans Affairs drug pricing Institute for Clinical and Economic Review pharmaceuticals quality of care Veterans' He Source Type: blogs
