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 'dissatisfaction'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:01:41 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5130817&cid=t_194153_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F14%2F2-must-try-mindfulness-practices%2F “Just as an untamed elephant can do damage, trampling crops and injuring people, so the untamed, capricious mind can cause harm to us and those around us.” So writes Jan Chozen Bays, M.D., a physician and Zen teacher, in her book How to Train a Wild Elephant & Other Adventures in Mindfulness: Simple Daily Mindfulness Practices for Living Life More Fully & Joyfully. How often have you let negative thoughts run your life? Let a punitive perspective take over so you end up beating yourself up for the smallest of supposed offenses? Or just experienced the days like you’re listing through a boring book, going through the motions but skimming the significant stuff? Something that can help is mindfulness. According to Chozen Bays, “Mindfulness unifies our body, heart and mind, br... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5130817 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:02:49 +0100 5130817 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028213&cid=t_194153_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fthe-age-of-medical-disconnect%2F2011.07.14 It’s the age of medical disconnect. The disconnect describes the emotional and intellectual detachment that physicians feel from their patients and patients from their doctors.  This disconnect is the result of a confluence of factors, some from within the profession itself, others are more broadly social and economic. To understand the disconnect you need look no further than your neighbor or your parents.  Dissatisfaction is evolving as the norm.  Patients feel increasingly marginalized in their experiences with physicians.  Shrinking length of visits, indifferent attitudes, poorly coordinated evaluations, difficulty obtaining test results, an institutional feel to the patient experience, and the overall sense of not feeling at all important. The truth is that many of us are really... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028213 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:00:13 +0100 5028213 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4997615&cid=t_194153_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F04%2Fhappy-independence-day-2011%2F We’re celebrating our Independence Day here in the U.S., so I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and safe day of celebration. The United States is celebrating our 235th birthday today. I’m honored and blessed to be living in a pretty great country (although, like every society, we certainly have our flaws). The United States was born of great dissatisfaction with the way the people were then being governed, especially an ever-increasing and seemingly never-ending tax burden. Today’s United States faces some of the same concerns — taxes keep going up while government takes on more and more. Let’s hope it never gets to another Revolution, but at the same time, I hope our politicians remember that their citizens don’t have endless pockets.... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4997615 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:11:55 +0100 4997615 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4984449&cid=t_194153_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhow-to-complain-effectively-about-mistreatment-at-a-psychiatric-hospital%2F2011.06.29 For those who don’t follow the comment sections of posts, there have been commenters who have been telling us about the awful experiences they have had as psychiatric patients.  In particular (but not exclusively) as  hospital inpatients.  Commenters have used terms like “abuse” and “humiliation” and describe awful scenarios.  One person asked why the mean nurses don’t get fired, everyone knows they are mean including the staff.  Others throw the baby out with the bath water, one bad experience.  There is implication by at least one commenter that he/she would rather die (presumably permanently) rather than face a day on a psych unit again.  The suffering in these posts is palpable. To those who feel better after leaving comments on Shrink Rap, by... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4984449 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4984449 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4975864&cid=t_194153_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcancer-patient-threatened-with-legal-action-because-he-blogged-about-bad-hospital-experience%2F2011.06.28 I’ve recently come across a really controversial story about a cancer patient who blogged and complained about his hospital treatment and has been threatened with legal action by an NHS trust. Daniel Sencier was worried about delays at Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary and had surgery at another hospital. He complained to North Cumbria University Hospital Trust and it came up with an action plan to improve care. But Mr Sencier, 59, of Penrith, then received a letter threatening legal action. The trust declined to comment. Mr Sencier, a photography student, had expected an apology but then received a letter saying the trust would consider legal action if his blog contained “unsubstantiated criticism”. *This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll* (Source: Better H... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4975864 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:00:10 +0100 4975864 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952844&cid=t_194153_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthecommunications.files.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fsatisifaction1.jpg While by no means a representative sample of how we think about physicians, there is a clear pattern to the comments.  A lot of people feel disrespected by their doctors…and they are pretty angry. Here’s what patients (including a lot of former patients) had to say.  I attempted to summarize the comments by category and included the top five categories of comments below. #1 – “Being on time is a two way street.” – patients are expected to be on time for their appointments – why aren’t physicians expected to be on time.   Doctors think and act as if their time is more valuable than the patient’s time. #2 – “Listen to what I have to say.” “Doctors should realize that many patients have more life experience and have done more research about a cond... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952844 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:00:04 +0100 4952844 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4459957&cid=t_194153_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fdoctors-and-patients-wish-their-relationship-was-better%2F2011.02.10 Physicians said in a survey that noncompliance with advice or treatment recommendations was their foremost complaint about their patients. Most said it affected their ability to provide optimal care and more 37 percent said it did so “a lot.” Three-quarters of patients said they were highly satisfied with their doctors. But they still had complaints ranging from long wait times to ineffective treatments. Those are just some of the findings from two surveys, the first a poll of 660 primary care physicians conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center in September 2010 and the second a poll of 49,000 Consumer Reports subscribers in 2009. The magazine reported its results online. In the doctors’ poll, physicians named these top challenges: – 76 percent o... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4459957 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4459957 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3224871&cid=t_194153_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F01%2F31%2Flawyers-and-depression-an-interview-with-daniel-lukasik%2F Today I have the honor of interviewing Daniel Lukasik, a distinguished attorney and the creator of the very cool website LawyersWithDepression.com. Daniel also writes the Lawyers With Depression blog, which covers a range of different topics, from spirituality to how to make smart decisions as professionals. Question: Why are so many lawyers depressed? Daniel: 1. Lawyers are Pessimistic Thinkers. According to Professor Martin Seligman, lawyers have a “pessimistic explanatory style.” This is not the same thing as seeing the glass as “half empty.” Rather, pessimistic lawyers tend to attribute the causes of negative events as stable and global factors (It’s going to last forever, and it’s going to undermine everything.) The pessimist views bad event... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3224871 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:59:42 +0100 3224871 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2912250&cid=t_194153_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F20%2Ffat-talk-free-week%2F Talking about our weight, the circumference of our thighs or our disastrous double chin is as natural (and hard to resist) as comparing ourselves to others, which is as natural (and hard to resist) as blinking. And apparently, it brings us together. According to one study, we bond over fat talk. When everyone’s doing it, it can be tough not to join in. “Because women feel pressured to follow the fat talk norm, they are more likely to engage in fat talk with other females,” Martz [co-author of the study] told LiveScience. “Hence, women normalize their own body dissatisfaction with one another. If there are women out there who feel neutrally or even positively about their bodies, I bet we never hear this from them for fear of social sanction and rejection,” she said. And the fat ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2912250 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:19:44 +0100 2912250 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1649298&cid=t_194153_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F343595723%2Fbroken_systems_push_broken_sta.html  Have you ever compared specific roles in a productive firm … compared to failing companies? Wander through any organization where workers tell you dissatisfaction is rampant and where systems are flawed ... and observe people’s roles in action. First, notice how a few dominate, while successful companies encourage interactive roundtable discussions about pretty much any topic.Second, check out the passive workers who complete required routines without questioning … as compared to vibrant interactions in competitive organizations … where leaders also learn daily.Third, see leaders who mandate tasks … as compared to the lively interactions where workers at times also lead.Fourth, watch workers who mainly listen to dictates … as co... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1649298 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:13:35 +0100 1649298