MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'begin'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:17 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4536455&cid=t_159684_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fslipping-away%2F Image via WikipediaI begin slipping when I begin to dislike the company and conversation of the Recovery Program.–AnonymousThere is a reason why a lamb gets separated from a flock.The flock will be eating on a particular pasture and a lamb will take a fancy to graze just off to the edge of the field. So the lamb takes a little nibble of this grass. Then he moves just ever so slightly further from the edge and takes another little nibble, then just a bit further and another nibble.Each little nibble of grass takes the lamb further and further from the flock. After awhile, having eaten enough grass, the lamb pokes his head up and notices that the flock has left him. B-A-A-A-A-A! The lamb wails.How could his flock have left him?I will begin slipping to relapse when I stop paying attenti... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4536455 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:40:00 +0100 4536455 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3248614&cid=t_159684_117_f&fid=38158&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Famacupuncturehttp%3A%2F%2Famericanacupuncture.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fsex-talks-should-begin-by-age-12.html CONCLUSION OF STUDY Early sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent persuades a significant proportion to delay sexual activity.  This may be another way to help prevent teen pregnancies.This can protect many of them against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. The theory-based abstinence only curriculum is as effective as a combined course and more effective than the safer sex only curriculum now used in delaying sexual activity.Two thirds of the students in this study, delayed sex for at least two years after the program was initiated as opposed to those without a program or who were instructed only in safe sex.FEDERAL  FUNDING ELIMINATEDRecently the White House eliminated all federal financing for abstinence only progr... Dr. Needles Medical Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3248614 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:12:00 +0100 3248614 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2786301&cid=t_159684_180_f&fid=38604&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fmakeitgreat%2F%7E3%2FtjDVRKIaMTg%2F One of the chapters of my book 10 Ways to Make It Great is “begin with the end in mind” where I discuss thinking about your last days on earth, and where I encourage folks in my speaking engagements to write their eulogy. I don’t get very descriptive about how, so when I got this article to share with you, I thought it would be be helpful in thinking about this. How to Write a Eulogy Guest article by Roberta Temes Ph.D., Author of Solace: Finding Your Way Through Grief and Learning to Live Again Are you preparing a eulogy? Here’s some help: It is an honor to commemorate the life of a person who has recently died. The eulogy serves many purposes for those in the audience: It fulfills the human need for ceremony to mark an occasion; the death should not go unrecognized. It co... Phil Gerbyshak blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2786301 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:31:00 +0100 2786301 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1074938&cid=t_159684_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F12%2F06%2Fhelping-someone-with-a-mental-health-concern%2F You see a friend or family member in pain. You reach out. You want to help them, but you don’t know what to do. Maybe they’re grappling with depression, or maybe it’s ADHD or anxiety, or something you don’t really understand like bipolar disorder. Whatever the case, you want to be a good person and help. You just don’t know where to begin. Here’s a few ideas on how you can help your friend or family member with their mental health concern. Continue reading: Helping Someone with a Mental Health Concern (Source: World of Psychology) World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1074938 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:51:17 +0100 1074938 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609105&cid=t_159684_46_f&fid=38794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FJamesM%2F2007%2F07%2Funblind%2F this morning i was packing, preparing to leave amsterdam. i laid my things on the floor of my friend’s apartment and went through them, one by one. i wanted to rid myself of as many as i could. i am not sure if it is part of a larger lesson one learns while moving through an unfamiliar world, but each time i travel like this, or work like this, i do the same thing. i picked my way through, binning many. torn, frayed jeans, worn thin by a scrubbing stone. the sheaf of papers necessary for traveling in sudan. a broken skipping rope. i came to a black plastic bag and could not remember what it held. i opened it and pulled out two sandals. once black, they were now red with dust. they seemed from another time, ancient, an anachronism. i put them back in the bag then repacked them. i talk... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609105 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:00:00 +0100 2609105 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609106&cid=t_159684_46_f&fid=38794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FJamesM%2F2007%2F07%2Fcorner%2F so. it was like Maurizio said. the sights, the noises, the days that surrounded me so completely, they collapse. they collapse, but they don’t disappear. it is as if you have shut off an old tv and all the images and sounds are compressed into that one bright point in the middle of the screen. incandescent, it just lasts and lasts. abyei is still real. i am positive. i know that right now, as i type this, the people who remain are working their way through familiar struggles i have left behind, that the call to prayer will happen soon, that someone just looked at the thermometer and is scanning the sky hopefully for clouds. it has collapsed into a tiny white dot, but it is still too bright to forget. time is different here. hours are eaten up by little tiny minutes, almost instantly.... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609106 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100 2609106 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609107&cid=t_159684_46_f&fid=38794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FJamesM%2F2007%2F07%2Fsoon-suddenly%2F I am sitting in Khartoum’s airport. For the moment, everything is life size. The crying kid next to me, the men walking to the airport mosque with prayer mats, the man smoking under the no smoking sign. Soon, the hatch on the KLM flight will close, the announcements will begin overhead, and the telescope will start to swivel. By the time I arrive to Europe, it will have turned completely and everything in Sudan will seem miniature, far away. I tried to have a simple conversation with the driver on the ride here, but I couldn’t manage. Every thought was short circuited before it verbalized, my neurons a crossed jumble of sparking wires. It was then I realized that my brain had already left, maybe even the day before. Right now it is floating in an ice cream pail on some customs ... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609107 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100 2609107 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609108&cid=t_159684_46_f&fid=38794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FJamesM%2F2007%2F07%2Fabyei-falls-away%2F this is how i spent my last day in abyei.  from my tukul, to the hospital to say goodbye to some of the people i have worked with and to play with some of the patients i have grown fond of, then rush through the market for the last time, rush to throw my things in the back of the landcruiser, then rush to the airstrip, the plane comes, and abyei falls away.  music by gui boratto. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609108 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:01:53 +0100 2609108 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609109&cid=t_159684_46_f&fid=38794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FJamesM%2F2007%2F07%2Feverything%2F it has been difficult for me to write lately. partly because days need space for words to creep in. partly that, but partly because across the street, a music store has opened. perhaps “music store” makes it sound a bit grand. it is a tin shack with half a dozen tapes and one gigantic speaker. at 8 am, their generator starts up and, seconds later, booming congolese tunes strain the speakers. i just sat down, enjoying some quiet for the first time this evening, hoping that a spare, bare wire may have dropped into a puddle and stunned the owner (temporarily). alas. i have been intending for a few weeks to write a smart ass post about how avant garde the minimal techno scene is here, how it was so minimal and meandering that you couldn’t even find the beat. found it. i&#8217... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609109 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100 2609109 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609110&cid=t_159684_46_f&fid=38794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FJamesM%2F2007%2F07%2Finterspace%2F three days. friday the 13th. that is when i fly. i will overnight in a small southern town, rumbek, and continue to khartoum on saturday. in sh’allah. as i write this, one of our staff, scheduled to fly today, has been standing by the cracked air strip for several hours, scanning the sky. no plane so far. three days. were these the ones i have been waiting for all this time? they seem ordinary, the same as before. hot dry days end with hot sweat sleeps, abyei limping towards its future. three days and i will leave this place behind. i have been told that once you step off the gangplank in geneva, this world collapses, ceases to exist, becomes unreal, inaccessible. the rupture is complete. for now, it is all right here, available to me as soon as i walk out my tukul door and crack my head... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609110 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:29:48 +0100 2609110 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609111&cid=t_159684_46_f&fid=38794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FJamesM%2F2007%2F07%2Ffuture-proof%2F the best way to get a hedgehog out of your room is to poke him with something blunt, like a shoe or a book. then, when he curls into a ball, you just roll him gently from behind your trunk and out the door. if you try to chase him out, it quickly becomes a game of corner-to-corner, one that he can play much better than you. one week. likely less by the time you get this. i can’t understand it. it seems not real. i am not sure if i have stopped looking for the end because i have fallen into step with the day to day cadence of this place, or because it is right in front of me. all i have for signposts are the disbelieving faces of those who have left before me as they throw their pack into the back of the landcruiser. noone believes it until they are on the way. perhaps part of the rea... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609111 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:15:00 +0100 2609111 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609112&cid=t_159684_46_f&fid=38794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FJamesM%2F2007%2F07%2Fspace%2F a fever is the most comfortable thing in the world to slip into. it is like someone has covered you all over with fine, warm gauze. you are never so content to lie motionless, thoughtless, needless. you don’t want water, food, or comfort. you sweat through jagged half dreams cutting violently from one to the other and no cares penetrate your hot cocoon. there are exceptions. one of them is when you sleep near a handset that crackles alive after midnight with “compound one for hospital.” you are already half awake, but you don’t move. perhaps the sleeping half is having a half-dream. the call comes again, and shortly after it, a guard raps on your door. “ok… ok…” you say, and toss the wet sheet aside, fumble beside the dark bed for the radio. ... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609112 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:05:00 +0100 2609112 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609113&cid=t_159684_46_f&fid=38794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FJamesM%2F2007%2F07%2Fgood-news%2F a friend of mine once told me of an idea for a newspaper that carried only good news instead of advertising avarice and fomenting fear. headlines like: MAN OPENS ICE CREAM STORE or THE TEN MOST PEACEFUL PLACES ON EARTH franck, our logistician, just stuck his head into my tukul and said, “the car just returned from the transfer… they picked up that woman, the one you sent down last week for surgery. she is fine. so is her baby. they drove her to her home. just thought you would want to know.” good news. even in a day where it seems far away, it can happen. just like that. the patient we transferred down today, the other player in the patient shuffle, was a 3 year old boy who was bitten by a snake. his family waited for weeks before bringing him to hospital, and when they d... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609113 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:00:00 +0100 2609113 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609114&cid=t_159684_46_f&fid=38794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FJamesM%2F2007%2F07%2Fphotos-again%2F abyei bus. abyei’s most famous bull. measles in gole, nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd. where diarrhea comes from. yes, you. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609114 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:49:00 +0100 2609114