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 'cho'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625500&cid=t_113568_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fprimary-care-doctors-and-the-medicare-boycott%2F2010.06.02 I saw this interesting article linked to from a blog about angry doctors dropping out of Medicare in Texas. As one who shares the universal annoyance at congress’ failure to fix the SGR for more than 30 days at a time, I was kind of cheered by this. That’s what it will take to get the system fixed – a grassroots, full-scale rejection of the system! Good for them. And the opening lines of the article were encouraging: Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable. An “alarming” rate. Wow. Cool. So how many is that, anyway? More than 300 doctors have dropped the program in the last two years, including 50 in the first three months of... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625500 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:00:00 +0100 3625500 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3569900&cid=t_113568_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F05%2F17%2Fgrateful-and-depressed-you-can-be-both%2F In his book “What Happy People Know,” Dan Baker argues that you can’t be in a state of appreciation and fear, or anxiety, at the same time. “During active appreciation,” Baker writes, “the threatening messages from your amygdala [fear center of the brain] and the anxious instincts of your brainstem are cut off, suddenly and surely, from access to your brain’s neocortex, where they can fester, replicate themselves, and turn your stream of thoughts into a cold river of dread. It is a fact of neurology that the brain cannot be in a state of appreciation and a state of fear at the same time. The two states may alternate, but are mutually exclusive.” Other studies have also highlighted how gratitude can buffer you from the blues, promote optimism,... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3569900 Mon, 17 May 2010 10:05:47 +0100 3569900 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2511368&cid=t_113568_113_f&fid=38494&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcuretogether.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F06%2F17%2Fwayne-cho-depressionanxiety-hero%2F This is an amazing story. A man who suffered from anxiety for many years has run across the entire country of Canada. His name is Wayne Cho. His mission is to raise awareness for anxiety and depression, and eliminate the stigma around these illnesses. His message is one of inspiration and hope. Here’s what he wrote to his Facebook followers after the successful completion of his run last week: Dear all, I have completed the run across Canada to raise awareness of anxiety and depression on June 11, 2009 and I would like to thank you for your support. Once we have taken the first step, the next step becomes easier. Keep making small steps and we will reach the world! I cannot change the world as I am just one man. But with you, we can! Love led me to this journey. Love gave me strengt... The Collective Well blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2511368 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:37:06 +0100 2511368 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441696&cid=t_113568_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F05%2F24%2Fsaving-lives-one-page-at-a-time%2F At the International Conference on the Use of the Internet in Mental Health in Montreal earlier this month, I discussed how far we’ve come in 15 years of mental health online. But for all my discussion about social networking websites like PatientsLikeMe.com and Twitter, one of the slides sticks with me. It’s the slide on “Suicide… Read this first,” a single, static webpage that’s been online since 1995 and written by Martha Ainsworth. Its purpose is singular yet deceptively simple — help people understand their thoughts and feelings about wanting to commit suicide, and hope they take enough away from it to make the choice to live another day. It has been read by nearly 8 million people during that time. Yes, that’s right — 8 million pe... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441696 Sun, 24 May 2009 11:09:00 +0100 2441696 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4060711&cid=t_113568_109_f&fid=34859&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.davemsw.com%2Farchives%2F2008%2F07%2Fwhat_can_we_learn_from_the_knoxvilles_church_shoot.php Knoxville Police Chief sheds a little more light on the motivation of Adkisson's murderous tirade. He blamed liberals from keeping him from a job. CBS News "He felt he was being kept out of the loop because of his age and because he was not liberal."" It seems unlikely that this belief has any basis in rationality. The thought would probably qualify as a paranoid delusion. I have found it quite common for themes of religion and sex in delusional thinking. I suspect because both of these topics inspire considerable passion in most people. A person prone to paranoia, down on his luck, will look for someone to blame around him, a victimizer who has it out to get him. Adkisson demonstrated the essence of paranoid projection. He was the one with aggressive intent towards liberals and gays. ... Ψ Dare To Dream... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4060711 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:20:26 +0100 4060711 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1362399&cid=t_113568_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F09%2Fvirginia-passes-mental-health-bill-pharma-wins-big%2F Two separate, unrelated updates I just wanted to bring to your attention… Today Virginia signed a package of bills into law, after spending a year’s worth of work in trying to revamp and reform their mental health system (the one that some suggest is partially responsible for Seung Hui Cho’s VA Tech rampage last year). The 26 bills (26? You’ve got to love government!) will allow the state to spend a paltry $42 million to hire more social workers and therapists. We hope that’s enough to bring Virginians’ mental health system up to the same community mental health standards that most other states already enjoy. We applaud Virginia’s legislators and governor for passing this ground-breaking legislation. It is definitely a move in the right direction ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1362399 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:48:33 +0100 1362399 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1097214&cid=t_113568_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F12%2F15%2Fvirginia-to-bolster-mental-health-funding-after-cho%2F After watching Seung Hui Cho, a man with a supposed history of psychiatric problems, kill 32 people at Virginia Tech earlier this year, the governor of Virginia decided to start helping to fix his state’s terrible mental health system. Gov. Tmothy M. Kaine proposed spending $42 million for mental health over the next 2 years, to hire more counselors, more psychiatrists, and also to lower the threshold needed to legally commit someone for mental health treatment. Kaine’s proposal would change that standard to a “substantial likelihood that in the near future” a mentally ill person will cause “serious physical harm to himself or another person.” But some mental health advocates were skeptical of the proposed change. “They’re going down thi... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097214 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:20:09 +0100 1097214 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4060746&cid=t_113568_109_f&fid=34859&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.davemsw.com%2Farchives%2F2007%2F09%2Fwhen_mass_tragedy_struck_mh_responders_were_ready.php There is some good news from the Virginia Tech tragedy. The community of mental health providers pieced together a model crisis response program of trained volunteers to support, identify and refer to professional help people suffering from the trauma. Psychiatric News "To provide her local community with support after the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, a mental health professional calls on a cadre of trained volunteers to address the mental health needs of those affected. Community Disaster Response Coalition President Dorinda Miller, Ph.D., disseminates information about disaster mental health services offered by her organization at a fair in Blacksburg, Va. When the first shots rang out on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg on April 16, one phone call to the New River ... Ψ Dare To Dream... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4060746 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:37:19 +0100 4060746 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=843786&cid=t_113568_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F152559968%2F 20-year-old John Yasment was suspended for one semester from Adirondack Community College back in April for repeatedly typing the words “must die” on a college computer and then printing out five pages with those words on them. The September 4th Post-Star (NY) notes that the discovery of those five pages occurred on April 18th, two days after the shootings at Virginia Tech. Yasment was also charged with second-degree aggravated harassment, a misdemeanor, but these charges were dropped. His lawyer, Richard Moran, notes that Yasment is a part-time student in the college accessibility program for those with disabilities (Yasment has Asperger’s Syndrome). The Post-Star provides further details of what happened. Yasment types his feelings as a means of therapy to deal with fru... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=843786 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:39:32 +0100 843786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=838066&cid=t_113568_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F09%2F03%2Fis-somebody-planning-to-reverse-diabetes-with-candy%2F This study was funded by confectionary giant Mars, Inc. In case Mars doesn't ring a bell - maybe some of their products might: Snicksers, 3 Musketeers, Milky Way, and M & M's to name a few. With the results of this research, and the deep pockets behind it -- maybe Mars is contemplating coming out with a diabetes-reversing candy bar? I suggest they call it The Sweet Escape (start the music!)Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments (Source: The Diabetes Blog) The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=838066 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:00:00 +0100 838066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=830982&cid=t_113568_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F149949459%2F Speculation that Seung-Hui Cho had autism circulated after last April’s shooting massacre. On August 20, the Wall Street Journal reported that Cho had been diagnosed with selective mutism while in high school in Fairfax County, Virginia. The Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel on what happened on April 16th is now available: The August 30th Washington Post notes: The [8-member] panel [appointed by Virginia governor Tim Kaine] found that Cho showed signs of mental health problems from childhood and was treated by both counseling and medication at different times through high school. In 1999, after the shootings at Columbine High School, Cho began to write about suicide and homicide, the panel reported. When he was preparing to go to college, his family and high school guidance c... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=830982 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:35:35 +0100 830982 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4060750&cid=t_113568_109_f&fid=34859&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.davemsw.com%2Farchives%2F2007%2F08%2Funknown_to_va_tech_cho_had_anxiety_disorder.php The sad thing about Cho, is that his problem was well beyond the ability of the school and mental health system had with which to cope. Even though Cho appeared to have been pretty well served by the high school in their special ed program, there were deeper seated problems than just an anxiety disorder. Could a similar support program in college headed off the massacre? Possibly. But it also may not have. He was destined to have a melt down at some point. The only question was how much collateral damage there would be. washingtonpost.com "Fairfax County school officials determined that Seung Hui Cho suffered from an anxiety disorder so severe that they put him in special education and devised a plan to help, according to sources familiar with his history, but Virginia Tech was never t... Ψ Dare To Dream... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4060750 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:33:39 +0100 4060750 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=586021&cid=t_113568_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2007%2F05%2F01%2Fmy-dogs-get-more-respect%2F **once again, I have yet to form a complete thought….but am heading to DocNo’s, so maybe I’ll have something later** So you get a leftover from my personal blog: ************************************* Good questions being raised today here at  Psych Central, about just this question, regarding the taking of rights “for the good of society” H/T Furious Seasons  okay, on with [...] (Source: bipolar chicks blogging) bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=586021 Tue, 01 May 2007 17:07:45 +0100 586021 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=575572&cid=t_113568_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F112560783%2F I’ve been puzzling over the title of an article in the Student Operated Press by Peter Giordano: Autism May Be Coming to a Home Near You—-Maybe Even Yours. The wording sends echoes of some blockbuster movie “coming to a theater near you soon” (so autism coming into one’s home would be positive?), but there is also a sense of something a bit sinister (as is autism is going to make its way, home-invader style, into your house, so look out……). For those of us who have autism very much in the house already, what I like to call the Autism Reality Show is nothing to be afraid of, and makes for some pretty good viewing, too. (Source: Autism Vox) Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=575572 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:04:19 +0100 575572 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=574266&cid=t_113568_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F112491609%2F Talk to the Chos is the title of an op-ed by Dave Cullen in today’s New York Times. Cullen, who is writing a book about the Columbine High killers, notes a sad—a terrible irony: Fourteen days before Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, “[a] judge ruled …… that depositions by the parents of the gunmen in the 1999 Columbine school shootings would remain sealed until 2027.” Cullen writes: . It would be tragic to also have to wait 28 years to hear from the family of Seung-Hui Cho, the killer at Virginia Tech. But the tense legal standoff that led to the Columbine ruling is likely to repeat itself in Virginia if we don’t quickly devise an alternative. In the Columbine case, as in Virginia Tech, the killers’ families went into seclusion and rel... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=574266 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:10:20 +0100 574266 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=564910&cid=t_113568_109_f&fid=34875&url=http%3A%2F%2Fballoonballoon.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fmedical-surrealism-issue-02.html The mind, body, and spirit are working as one organism in the world. Death only gives hope and life to renewal. And anything you do or say is connected to the well being of this organism.TABLE OF CONTENTS:1. How would you like to die a hundred times over? And die in so many different ways? Here you can read about a woman who likes to experience a variety of imaginative deaths every day. [contributor: howidiedtoday at HOW I DIED TODAY]2. To have a nose, or not a nose. That is the question when worrying about a better way to clip one's nose hairs. Death nose, and death knows. [contributor: Mark A. Rayner at THE SKWIB]3. Voices inside the heads of other people are quite hard to hear. We all want to hear voices sometimes, and we wonder what the voices might say. The vocal cords of those voices... American Center for Surreal and Paranoid Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=564910 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:01:00 +0100 564910 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=561451&cid=t_113568_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2007%2F04%2F22%2Fyour-smoking-offends-me%2F That’s quite popular these days. It’s PC to poke fun at the double quarter pounder with cheese as well. Well while you’re feeling so damn secure upon that pedestal, remember that when rights begin to be taken away…it always starts with “sounding popular” I do not want to turn this into some 2nd amendment debate. That is NOT [...] (Source: bipolar chicks blogging) bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=561451 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:43:59 +0100 561451 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=556914&cid=t_113568_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fcho-seung-hui-symptom-of-ugly-social.html When Cho Seung-hui fired his last round into his own head, I am personally, morally certain that he did so feeling both a sense of relief and with a sense of having struck a blow for justice. He was wrong, of course.But after looking over such information as I've been able to find, I strongly suspect that there was a high barrier to him coming to a more "reasonable and rational" viewpoint - and a great deal that leads me to suspect that - within his own narrow, but probably quite sane perspective - his actions were completely rational and justified.It's pretty damn clear that within his lifetime, there were few, if any reality checks or positive, useful interventions, nothing to introduce a bit of reasonable doubt regarding the universal malevolence of "normal people."That would be the dis... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=556914 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 556914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=553772&cid=t_113568_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Ftroubled-youth-neurobiology-of-violence.html As more details surface over the troubled life of Seung-Hui Cho, unrecognized schizophrenia seems to increasing likelihood in the tragedy that unfolded at Virginia Tech. As with any slowly progressive brain condition that affects behavior, the changes may be so gradual that it may be hard to recognize. The first neurosurgery operation I ever scrubbed in on was a storeowner who had been shot during a robbery. It was thought that he had been grazed by a bullet, but after he had returned home, his wife brought him back to the hospital saying that he had undergone a personality changed and now had an explosive personality. What they found was that a bullet fragment had lodged in his temporal lobe, and it had been missed on a CT scan because it had - blended into bone. Schizophrenia can go unre... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=553772 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:02:00 +0100 553772 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=553962&cid=t_113568_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2007%2F04%2F18%2Fhow-was-cho-overlooked%2F That’s the question on all the news media tonight. He had a history of mental illness. He got in trouble for stalking girls. He would not speak to his suite mates. Even a professor saw that something was wrong with him from his bizarre, dark plays that he wrote. He took pictures of girls, then [...] (Source: bipolar chicks blogging) bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=553962 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:31:21 +0100 553962 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=551974&cid=t_113568_140_f&fid=35443&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesplinteredmind.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fif-virginia-tech-gunman-was-on-meds.html Today's news was filled with little else but the terrible tragedy of how a mad gunman opened fire on innocent college students on an American campus. I never dreamt that I would find a personal connection to this nightmare, but hot off the Drudgereport I followed a link that read "Investigators believe Cho at some point had been taking meds for depression..." "What on Earth does Depression have to do with killing people?" I thought, but investigators apparently thought otherwise:Investigators believe Cho at some point had been taking medication for depression. They are examining Cho's computer for more evidence.Sources: Virginia Tech gunman left note | Chicago TribuneI'm not sure what evidence they expect to find about his medical history on his computer. You'd think that they would find t... The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=551974 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:27:00 +0100 551974