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 'calling'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:04:26 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4775396&cid=t_160681_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fjudging-illness-severity-and-the-financial-implications-of-dialing-911%2F2011.05.01 Nora misjudged the height of the stair outside the restaurant, stepped down too hard, jammed her knee and tore her meniscus.  Not that we knew this at the time.  All we knew then was that she was howling from the pain. There we were on a dark, empty, wet street in lower Manhattan, not a cab in sight, with a wailing, immobile woman.  What to do?  Call 911? Find a cab to take her home and contact her primary care doctor for advice?  Take her home, put ice on her knee, feed her Advil and call her doctor in the morning? Sometimes it is clear that the only response to a health crisis is to call 911 and head for the emergency department (ED).  But in this case – and in so many others we encounter with our kids, our parents, our co-workers and on the street – the course of action is les... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4775396 Sun, 01 May 2011 16:00:04 +0100 4775396 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4642595&cid=t_160681_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fverification-the-new-scam-in-town%2F2011.03.27 There’s a new scam in town. Company calls over and over again (claiming to be the phone company, actually) just wanting to “verify your address”. Over and over again they get told we aren’t interested, leave us alone, don’t call. Finally, my solitary staffer gets sick of fending them off and goes through their voice activated “address verification”, during which a mechanical voice asks questions, followed by a command to “Say Yes or No, then press the pound key.” So she goes through the innocuous questions, including her full name, the office address and phone number, plus several iterations of saying “Yes or No, then press pound.” The calls stop; everyone is happy. Until I get the phone bill six weeks later. Lo and behold, there is an extra $49.99 charge (plus tax) f... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4642595 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:00:37 +0100 4642595 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4190445&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fmissing-sissy.html She was one of the neediest patients I ever took care of. Being trapped in her isolation room in the hospital for 12 hours at a time was a very good preview of motherhood, actually. Putting someone else before my own needs...real professional needs at that time - I needed to chart, to give her meds, to check her heart function. She didn't want her meds, and didn't care about her heart function. She just wanted to sing the songs from Annie and squeeze my hand while I rocked her, endlessly, for 12 hours at a time. "The sun'll come out tomorrow...bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there'll be sun..."She had hypoplastic left heart and tetralogy of Fallot, two heart defects so severe that the only thing that gave her hope was a heart transplant. She got one at age 2. But her mom wasn't very ... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4190445 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:21:00 +0100 4190445 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4164672&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Finstant-bedroom-make-over.html This is the only spot in my house that always stays clean. Two chairs. Sentinels amongst the piles, silently proclaiming that there is something sacred in this home. And that it's not any surface or spot or place or thing.It's people.The view from the chairs is pretty depressing. Every morning (well, almost every morning) since a fateful day in January, my husband and I have sat in these chairs to read our devotions together. We read the Word, we share the Word, and we pray. And are largely able to ignore the mess that we see from our two chairs.Why is it, that two chairs buried in laundry and unpacked suitcases can be such a magical haven? Why is the view from there somehow less depressing than the view elsewhere in our house? Is there some potion in the aged sometimes yellow-sometimes gr... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4164672 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:45:00 +0100 4164672 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4163031&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fconversation-in-morning.html I have a 4 year old who drinks a bottle at bedtime and naptime.Sometimes I want to scream when I wash them.Because I am afraid that she will never grow up.I have a 5 year old and a 7 year old who haven't learned to make their beds.Without prompting.And I am afraid they are going to turn out just like me.Take therefore no thought for the morrow:for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the trouble thereof.(Matthew 6:34)I will still be with you when Amy is 30.Whether or not she is still using a bottle to keep from seizing.You know it's not your responsibility to keep her safe, right?And you know I like you just the way you are?That your daughter's failures when they're 30 will just bring them to me?The diaper pail stands cracked open. Th... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4163031 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:58:00 +0100 4163031 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4159436&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fburied-appliance-speaks.html I crack you open like a ripe melonand the paintings strip off your facelike dead leaves rustling down, down to the floorLost in the colora boy from somewhere East of heremother with the risqué hairshe smileshe opensthey all remindthe verses like bannersare there if you care to find themin the harried momentswhen voices rise sharpsometimes banners cover the ever-ready sinof mid-day tonguesand the last year's daughterglowersa harbinger above another bannera landmark reminder of praiseprayerdreams are buried on your once-white skinlike a wrinkled old woman's collecting dirt in the roadmap of life's wastein the curled paper dripping from the waves of clutterstands a round Queen GenevieveQueen Mama"proud" purveyor of your contents"overseer" of this messAh.I envision the crown on headmy ha... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4159436 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:37:00 +0100 4159436 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4159438&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Famy-joins-teletubbies-mayo-epilepsy.html If you are new here, you may not have heard about my daughter Amelia, who survived a life-threatening brain infection at age 3. After her infection, she suffered a second assault on her tiny body...an auto-immune reaction to the infection stripped her brain of it's protective fatty myelin coating that insulates all the nerves. After completely losing the ability to walk or sit unassisted, feed herself, swallow and chew, and suffering severe speech, hearing, and vision losses, she made a dramatic recovery that can only be credited to God (with help from a hefty dose of steroids for 6 months straight). To read more about Amelia's original illness, click the tab at the top of the page above my blog name.Amelia was hospitalized today to investigate her one remaining issue: a severe seizure dis... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4159438 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:30:00 +0100 4159438 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4155362&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fwhat-leaks-through.html There they are - all over every window under 5 feet high. The handprints older moms tell me to cherish because they will soon be gone.Problem is, I had difficulty finding even one handprint to photograph. Because the kids love to leave other marks on my windows, too: they write their names with their spit, they slide their hands up and down, leaving tracks and letters and smears instead of cute little fingerprints.Some days it feels like the sun can barely shine through these track-marked window panes. I'm lucky to wash these windows once a year, the vinegar pungent, sharp, clean, billowing up from my bucket of hot water as I scrub with blue rags, discards from the hospital's surgical ward.  These days, I use them to scrub windows instead of wounds.And one ran and filled a sponge full... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4155362 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:16:00 +0100 4155362 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4152170&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Ftheyre-just-bunnies-harmless-right.html I have a husband with allergies. When we were first married, dusting was high on my priority list. I invested in all kinds of microfiber tools to trap dust so it never even swirled into the shaft of sunlight that filled the living room. After our first baby was born, we both became somewhat addicted to the "show ready" state our house was in when we put it on the then-red-hot housing market so we could move to the country. We swore [read: I swore and thought I heard my husband's voice in unison with mine] never again to live in a messy house. No matter what.And this picture was taken a mere 6 years later. These dust bunnies are the view underneath my bed. Almost always.This is the foot of my husband's side of the bed. I took this photo at 2 p.m. (I'm trying to be honest here. *deep breath!... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4152170 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:29:00 +0100 4152170 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4152171&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fat-first-glance-it-looks-like-poo.html I'm cleaning and thinking. I know what you're thinking: Her? Cleaning? Although the appearance of my house belies it, it is a little known fact that I do, indeed, clean at least a little bit every - single - day.The dust bunnies mock me from under the beds.The piles of dirt grit disappointment under my heels (and when I say piles, I mean piles: I measured one pile yesterday just to see if I was exaggerating in my own head. It was 1 1/2 cups of sand. From the front room and front door rugs alone. Is it possible to exaggerate 1 1/2 cups of sand??).The never-ending succession of toys that litter my living room and dining room scream frustration.The dining room table that cannot be seen shouts condemnation while we eat at the island yet another evening.In every one of the daily visual reminder... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4152171 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:47:00 +0100 4152171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4152172&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fin-which-aaron-texts-and-i-have.html ...having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. (II Timothy 3:5-7)Do you ever have the sense that you have just witnessed worlds colliding in such an explosive manner that, had you been living in a sci-fi film instead of reality, there would have been some giant sucking noise as one world was pulled into a black hole of unknown dimensions?  I could almost hear the giant swirling-the-drain sound effect when I received a text message from my husband. Who was in a deer stand dressed in blaze orange as he typed it. And the text was about Scripture. Three very ... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4152172 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:24:00 +0100 4152172 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4098359&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F10%2Finsider-for-day.html It can wear on your soul, walking as an alien and a stranger (I Peter 2:11). We're told time and again by our God who speaks through Scripture, "do not be confused, unsettled, or conformed because of this" (I Peter 4:12; I John 3:13; Romans 12:2). Yet we still are drawn to these holes of cognitive and spiritual sinking sand...is there something wrong with me? Am I on the wrong track, since I seem to be alone on this path?  Did I really understand God's call, or am I just being stubborn (or weak, or foolish, or misguided)?As lonely as it is to be a stay-at-home mom, and lonelier still to be battling cancer and raising a child with special needs, the loneliest outpost of my life is my choice to blog about the experience.  You keep walking up the staircase of the unexpected - each s... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4098359 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:16:00 +0100 4098359 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3983531&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F09%2Ftasting-water-of-affliction.html The clouds chase each other across the cadet blue of the afternoon sky, and kids bend to pick up rocks and toss them back into Superior's frigid waves.I hold Amy's hand as she tries, unsteadily, to place a rock on the tower her siblings are building.I set her down and she sits stiffly between her two little guardians, the older sisters who flank her always and tenderly watch out for the myriad dangers and hurts that linger in the wings of every ordinary day.Her kalamata olive eyes dance tawny in the gold of the afternoon sun.  I am thinking of orphans, and sick babies in hospitals...all the mission fields abandoned for the one of hearth and home.  She teaches me, in new ways daily, whatever I do for this little one, I do for Christ. (Matthew 25:40) There is no abandoning of missi... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3983531 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:02:00 +0100 3983531 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3895822&cid=t_160681_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fdr-michael-kahn-writes-editorial-physicians-worsen-care-labels%2F New York Times columnist Dr. Michael W. Kahn has an editorial out today where he discusses the regretable back room practice of patient name-calling and labelling that physicians use to describe their patients. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3895822 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:56:58 +0100 3895822 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3740570&cid=t_160681_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Ffriday-photo-throwback-the-first-cell-phone%2F We consider anything that happened in Back to the Future Part II and is happening now a total technological success. For example, video calling is definitely up there, because the new iPhone offers video phone. And to think that we might not even have cell phones if Martin Cooper didn’t dream of a portable telephone way back in 1973. Watch Cooper below, demonstrating a cellular phone call in New York City. photo via CNN via CNN Post from: BlissTree Friday Photo Throwback: The First Cell Phone (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3740570 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:55:29 +0100 3740570 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625468&cid=t_160681_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fer-congestion-new-program-may-reduce-hospital-wait-times%2F photo: Thinkstock Waiting in the ER is the worst. Whether you’ve sprained an ankle or just feel under the weather and don’t have insurance, if you’re a low-priority case, you could wait all day (or night). So Louisville Metro Emergency Medical Services has launched a program aimed at eliminating unnecessarily long waits in its ER waiting room. When patients call 911, the dispatcher directs the lowest-risk cases to a nurse. The nurse evaluates the person’s symptoms and determines if they need a trip to the ER, or a different course of treatment. The goal of the program is to reduce costs and provide better patient care. While we’re all for initiatives to reduce wait times in ERs, we can’t help but wonder what would happen if someone doesn’t adequate... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625468 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:27:10 +0100 3625468 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3603838&cid=t_160681_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fscrap-plan.html Four o'clock in the afternoon often comes around, and I look at my to-do list for the day and realize I have yet to earn the privilege of crossing something off. Before cancer, before Amelia's encephalitis even, I hurriedly got to work - shooing the kids up to watch a cartoon or outside to fend for themselves for an hour so I could attend to the housework, schoolwork, or ministry that had been neglected all day.And then my whole life turned upside down. In those long hours spent apart from family each time I have a treatment or scan, in the timeless solitude of the hospital room tending Amelia and longing for home, a new reality emerged. I never once regretted the undone chores on my to-do list. But I did regret all the small lost opportunities to nurture, build relationship, simply be wit... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3603838 Tue, 25 May 2010 21:51:00 +0100 3603838 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3581581&cid=t_160681_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fdiy-wildlife-pest-control-does-killing-squirrels-count%2F A few weeks ago, I tried to rescue a squirrel. He was trembling, prostrate, sick, and unable to crawl to a handful of carefully placed Diamond premium shelled walnuts. Poor guy. After I called the Humane Society, a specialist armed with gloves and a crate arrived within 30 minutes. Thirty minutes! I only hope 911 works as expeditiously. Soon my squirrel was whisked off to Second Chances, a nearby animal rehab center. Since nothing happens in the wilds of suburbia – and I’m always interested in painting myself in a positive light – I shared my Dr. Doolittle delusions of grandeur far and wide. One neighbor’s suspicious response: “Well, I hope that doesn’t have anything to do with us,” she said, going on to explain how her husband had laid out some poison for the critters ne... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3581581 Wed, 19 May 2010 16:10:18 +0100 3581581 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2734108&cid=t_160681_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2Fr71KUAUrI5k%2F We’ve all heard the stories about people who dial 911 for things like not getting the right meal at a drive thru restaurant, or being angry at someone in line at the store, or simply because they are lonely. They make for funny news headlines, but these types of events are costing the taxpayers money. As the battle for healthcare rages on, this issue has been brought to the forefront. While we often hear about the most outrageous calls to 911, the reality is that many of them are often just people upset with the medical system and looking for information. If they don’t get a response from their doctor, they dial 911. One source says half of the 911 calls in a specific “county are not really emergencies.” Calls can cost up to $500. If it turns out to be a non-emerge... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2734108 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:14:38 +0100 2734108 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2660978&cid=t_160681_180_f&fid=38613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevepavlina.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F08%2Fhow-to-network-with-busy-people-part-4%2F This is a continuation of the “How to Network With Busy People” series. The first post in the series can be found here. Continuing on with our tips… Avoid cold-calling. Avoid cold-calling if possible. Busy people get cold calls (and a lot more cold emails) every day. This is yet another pattern that gets filtered. Cold calling is essentially the same thing as spam. As with spam, cold-calling will sometimes result in a hit. But it requires that you pester and annoy a lot of other people for each hit you generate. It’s a very low-class form of networking and very inefficient. When I refer to cold-calling, I’m talking about blasting the same message to large numbers of people in an untargeted or semi-targeted fashion. I’m not talking about sending a very targeted email to a specif... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2660978 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:15:00 +0100 2660978 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469477&cid=t_160681_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Ftop-ten-reasons-not-to-call-911%2F You have to check out this fascinating, funny, and downright bizarre list that Time has put together of Top Ten Non-Emergency 911 Calls. Here’s a sampling… A police officer who steals marijuana and gives himself a drug-induced fit of panic  His conversation with the dispatcher: “I think we’re dying. We made brownies, and I think we’re dead. Time is going by really really really really slowly.”  They survived and the  police officer was lucky not to have to do time. An Ohio man called 911 in May 2009 after his live-in adult son refused to clean his messy bedroom. An Oregon man called 911 because a  box of orange juice had been omitted from his younger brother’s order at a McDonald’s drive-thru. And that’s just the start of a list of... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469477 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:17:32 +0100 2469477 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2222646&cid=t_160681_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fna-na-na-na-na.html Get the code:-Cut and pastefrom this littleboxy thing below At bedtime my children exchange squawlks from their different rooms. My daughter prances back into their room dressed from head to foot in blue, for no apparent reason. Her youngest brother ignores everything as he reads his Garfield comic books, as the other two set to.“Why you are blue now?”“No reason. Night shortie.”“Why you are call me shortie?”“Coz you’re short, shorter than me.”“Oright, night tallie.”“Thanks.”“You like tallie?”“Sure. You’re gonna have to try a lot harder in the insult department shortie.”“Oright. Night bluey.”“Thanks.”“You like bluey?”“Sure. Why wouldn’t I?’“Oright then. Night butt head!”He, who has not been listening, erupts from his bed, casts Garfi... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2222646 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:59:00 +0100 2222646 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1975120&cid=t_160681_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D5330 Edwin Leap reminds doctors why they took up medicine. A good read. And a reminder that we care for all, yes even those patients or relatives we’d love to “Fed-Ex to China” The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish. Sir William Osler a Dear doctors, we need you! (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources) Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1975120 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1975120 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1472423&cid=t_160681_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fstatin-police.html What is the evidence?You are just finishing lunch when the phone rings. “Hello, may I speak to Mr (pause, a rustle of paper) Jones?”“Speaking”“Hello, Mr Jones, may I take a minute of your time to discuss health issues?”“What are you selling?”“I am not selling anything, Mr Jones. Mr Jones we just happen to be in your area, and we notice that you are now 48 years old, Mr Jones, and that your father died aged 69 of a heart attack.”“How do you know this?”“Have you considered, Mr Jones, that if you were to take just one tablet a day of ‘Plugastatin’ you, Mr Jones, could reduce your risk of heart disease?”“I don’t want to buy anything. I am going to hang up now”.“But Mr Jones, your last blood pressure reading was 148/88 and you were 10 lbs above your ideal... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1472423 Wed, 28 May 2008 08:18:00 +0100 1472423 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1192918&cid=t_160681_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F226790569%2Fcalling_writers_together.html You could help the age of conversation to become even bigger and better! How so?Drew McLellan's calling all authors – to write a chapter that will help exceed last year’s Age of Conversation!Drew and Gavin Heaton are positioned at the helm, to create a bigger and better book. Along with these fine leaders, I'm looking forward to the wisdom compiled by many diverse bloggers out there. Gavin's laid out  a "Carnival of Content" and you  can Read about Age of Conversation's creation for the details.If you’re interested in joining the team of writers e-mail Drew at his site and simply say you're in. Expect more details in a week or so --You’ll also find many terrific writers there … like Dr. Robyn McMaster … who&rsquo... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1192918 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:07:57 +0100 1192918 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1090434&cid=t_160681_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F12%2F12%2Fis-early-onset-bipolar-disorder-simply-normal-childhood%2F When researchers start referring to their own work in the field as a “bible” when it comes to the topic of their research, it makes you wonder if they’re perhaps drinking too much of their Kool-Aid. After all, researchers are supposed to be objective scientists, not simply advocates for their own beliefs and personalities as “leaders” in a field. So it was refreshing to see psychologist John Rosemond call out Dr. Dimitri Papolos and his wife Janice for becoming the leaders of their own little belief system where children who exhibit everyday, normal childhood behaviors should be labeled as “early onset bipolar disorder,” a non-existent diagnosis that the Papoloses are trying to push as a legitimate concern. Dr. Rosemond hits a homerun with this s... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1090434 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:39:21 +0100 1090434