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 'dorothy'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:05:05 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4330998&cid=t_173062_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F69gsw3BvO6Q%2F By Jason KuznickiRadley Balko writes: [I]t’s worth remembering that the government initiates violence against its own citizens every day in this country, citizens who pose no threat or harm to anyone else. The particular policy that leads to the sort of violence… is supported by nearly all of the politicians and pundits decrying anti-government rhetoric on the news channels this morning. (It’s also supported by Sarah Palin, many Tea Party leaders, and other figures on the right that politicians and pundits are shaming this weekend.) I hope Rep. Giffords—and everyone wounded yesterday—makes a full recovery. It’s particularly tragic that she was shot while doing exactly what we want elected officials to do—she was making herself available to the people she serves. And of course... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4330998 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:16:11 +0100 4330998 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3808722&cid=t_173062_111_f&fid=34834&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMentalNurse%2F%7E3%2FdpT-GCFi9RM%2F In the past couple of days two different articles have appeared on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website, both critiquing the proposed 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. DSM-5 to its mates. If you haven’t come across it, this is the manual produced by the American Psychiatric Association, giving a shopping catalogue of psychiatric diagnoses. One of them may be yours to keep. Of the two critiques, one is written by a clinical psychologist, Dorothy Rowe. The other by a Lacanian psychoanalyst, Darian Leader. Both make reasonable points about the various difficulties of defining mental illness. Both then go on to say more about their own ideological biases than they do about psychiatry. Let’s briefly list the valid problems with makin... Mental Nurse blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3808722 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:02:30 +0100 3808722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3570061&cid=t_173062_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FEFLfYWaWj5Y%2F Earlier this year, the FDA inaugurated a new panel - the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee - which was formed to review and evaluate “safety, dependence and health issues” concerning tobacco products. But it wasn’t long before there was criticism that some panel members held conflicts of interest (see here and here). At issue has been that a few of the members have ties to drugmakers that market or are developing products designed to help people quit smoking. For instance, the panel roster notes that its chair, Jonathan Samet, who is a public health expert at the UCLA, is listed as a member between 2004 and 2009 of Pfizer’s Tobacco Advisory Board, and Pfizer sells Chantix. The resume provided by Jack Henningfield, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3570061 Mon, 17 May 2010 14:16:09 +0100 3570061 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3490789&cid=t_173062_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FGDmarWsKf7g%2F STS-131 crew members gather in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station for a teleconference, while space shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station. NASA astronaut Alan Poindexter, commander, holds a communication system at right center. Also pictured (clockwise from bottom right) are NASA astronauts Stephanie Wilson, Clayton Anderson, Rick Mastracchio (mostly obscured) and Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, all mission specialists. We’ve come a long way, baby. A really, really long way: NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center yesterday morning, bringing to an end a historic mission which featured the largest group of women to simultaneously be in space. ... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3490789 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:02:24 +0100 3490789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3283495&cid=t_173062_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2010%2F02%2F18%2Folympians-raise-cancer-awareness%2F Filed under: Cancer SurvivorsWinter Olympic Bobsledder Emily Azevedo was just a child when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her doctors gave her a 50 percent change of living five years if she had chemotherapy. Twenty-five years later, Azevedo's mother is still cancer free. Azevedo is just one of many Olympians whose lives have been altered by cancer and who has stepped up to raise awareness about the disease. Azevedo works with the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. (NBCF), which focuses on saving lives through early detection and providing mammograms for those in need. Legendary United States figure skaters Scott Hamilton and Dorothy Hamill have also battled cancer since becoming Olympic champions. In 1997, Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist, was diagnosed with ... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3283495 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3283495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984784&cid=t_173062_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FMTmkItfLiyM%2F This morning, Politico Arena asks: The Fort Hood tragedy: Why does it matter, or not, what we call it? Is it being politicized? My response: If we want to be technical, what we call the Fort Hood massacre matters, and James Taranto got it right in Monday’s Wall Street Journal:  It was not a terrorist attack, targeting noncombatants, but an act of guerrilla warfare, carried out by one of our own in apparent contact with the enemy, and hence an act of treason. But the deeper and far larger problem is why the Army didn’t act sooner against this man and, even more, why it is, as Dorothy Rabinowitz put it in yesterday’s Journal, that “the tide of pronouncements and ruminations pointing to every cause for this event other than the one obvious to everyone in the rationa... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2984784 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:23:45 +0100 2984784 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2580296&cid=t_173062_113_f&fid=35744&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fe-CareManagement%2F%7E3%2FuB_rESw-8VU%2F About a year ago, we read about about Dorothy Tillman’s heroic efforts to get a copy of her aunt’s  medical records. Here’s a recap:  On a Saturday evening Dorothy took her 86 year old aunt to a hospital in Montgomery, Alabama. Frustrated after an overnight stay in the ER which she said yielded “little treatment”, she requested a copy of her aunt’s medical records before leaving. When she was told that it was hospital policy to request records “in writing”, Dorothy escalated her requests for the records. Refusing to leave without the records, she was brought to the floor by security guards and arrested on charges of  criminal trespassing. The Chicago Tribune reports that Dorothy has been VINDICATED! (more…) Article Series - We want our medical records! NOW!&... e-CareManagement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2580296 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:30:40 +0100 2580296 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2233659&cid=t_173062_113_f&fid=35744&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fe-CareManagement%2F%7E3%2FuB_rESw-8VU%2F About a year ago, we read about about Dorothy Tillman’s heroic efforts to get a copy of her aunt’s  medical records. Here’s a recap:  On a Saturday evening Dorothy took her 86 year old aunt to a hospital in Montgomery, Alabama. Frustrated after an overnight stay in the ER which she said yielded “little treatment”, she requested a copy of her aunt’s medical records before leaving. When she was told that it was hospital policy to request records “in writing”, Dorothy escalated her requests for the records. Refusing to leave without the records, she was brought to the floor by security guards and arrested on charges of  criminal trespassing. The Chicago Tribune reports that Dorothy has been VINDICATED! (more…) Article Series - We want our medical records! NOW!&... e-CareManagement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2233659 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:30:40 +0100 2233659 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1704642&cid=t_173062_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F08%2Fdoroty-livadas-new-futile-care-case-in.html This is the future that Futile Care theorists hold for us. If you sign an advance medical directive granting a proxy the right to make your health decisions on your behalf in the event of incapacity--and that proxy wants life support ceased--that decision is sacrosanct, and woe betide the outsider (even other family members) who try to interfere. But, if doctors decide that the proxy's decision to maintain life support is "inappropriate," well then, to hell with the advance directive, and indeed, to hell with the proxy.Just such a scenario is unfolding today in Rochester. Dorothy Livadas named her daughter Ianthe to be her proxy. But Ianthe is exercising independent judgment requiring life support to continue that the hospital doesn't want to provide, and so the hospital has sued to have h... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1704642 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:08:00 +0100 1704642 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1560929&cid=t_173062_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F324720580%2F Tuesday morning Jim and I were interviewed for an autism documentary in the making. The director and his crew came to my office in Jersey City, which is in an old single-family house, with barely any space between it in and the neighboring houses (one of which contains my college’s mailroom). Jim and I were interviewed together, which was, frankly, fun. Not that we don’t spend rather a lot of time talking to each other, but it’s a different thing to be asked questions—about autism, neurodiversity, “recovery,” how I got started blogging, when we first thought “something” was up with Charlie, how we ended coming back to New Jersey in 2001—-with the camera on you. Amazingly, Jim and I managed not to interrupt each other. I spend (as you ca... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1560929 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:40:17 +0100 1560929 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1352767&cid=t_173062_137_f&fid=36083&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FIAmAnAlzheimersCaregiver%2F%7E3%2F264673448%2Fmy-mother-at-age-of-85-was-real-dynamo.html She lived on her own, paid her own bills, and took care of herself....... My mother at the age of 85 was a dynamo. She lived on her own, paid her own bills, and took care of herself. She had been doing this for more than ten years since the death of my father. She was on her own. My mother was often spotted walking to the pool in her community.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: I am an Alzheimer's Caregiver) I am an Alzheimer's Caregiver blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1352767 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:22:24 +0100 1352767 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1289866&cid=t_173062_113_f&fid=35744&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fe-CareManagement%2F%7E3%2F248521877%2F by Jill Kuraitis  Vince gave me Dorothy’s story to read, and here’s what I said:  GO DOROTHY!   ::::goofy little happy dance:::   Dorothy is my new hero. I love people who are willing to go to the mat for a cause, especially one having to do with the elderly, children, the disabled and less fortunate than we. Since Vince and I have been overwhelmed by the swamp of details of taking care of our family elderly for about, oh, 13 years - my parents, his aunt and uncle, pretty soon his mom -  nobody knows better than us how utterly nonsensical the systems are. Our friends call us “The Geezer Whisperers” and email us for advice dealing with their relatives’ health care paperwork nightmares.  Since Vince has a deep understanding of  how American health care ... e-CareManagement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1289866 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:39:18 +0100 1289866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1284826&cid=t_173062_113_f&fid=35744&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fe-CareManagement%2F%7E3%2F247023504%2F We underestimate how much people REALLY want medical infomation about themselves and their loved ones.  Dorothy Tillman wanted it so badly that she was arrested!  Read more at Jaz-Michael King’s blog, A Scanner Brightly.   Hap tip to Jen McCabe Gorman for spotting this amazing story. Share This (Source: e-CareManagement) e-CareManagement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1284826 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:14:08 +0100 1284826 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1131243&cid=t_173062_136_f&fid=36051&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FCancerCommentary%2F%7E3%2F211592363%2F Here’s another celebrity that is in the news this week but sort of in a delicate way because of cancer. Who can forget former Olympic gold medalist, figure skater Dorothy Hamill? Even if the rest of the world doesn’t know her,  America knows her very well. She is such a public figure who one (or two?) months ago re-appeared in the eyes of the media telling us of her battle about eating disorder and depression. She came out skating once more and with a new book. Now, in a statement yesterday, Dorothy Hamill is undergoing treatment for breast cancer at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. The prognosis is favorable, but the 51-year-old Hamill said she will miss some of the “Broadway on Ice” tour while she is having treatment. She hopes to rejoin the tour in Fort Laude... Cancer Commentary blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1131243 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:16:00 +0100 1131243 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=758733&cid=t_173062_137_f&fid=35371&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthecaregiver.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fcatching-first-signs-of-dementia.html Looking back, there is little doubt in my mind that if I had had the proper education or information I would have realized my mother was suffering from dementia sooner. Most people like me tend to ignore the symptoms at first believing they are simply signs of "old age". Anyone who ends up in my shoes knows and understands that a person in the early stages of dementia or Alzheimer’s can function with some normality--even drive a car. It is not until they deteriorate or until some "event" takes place that we wake up to reality.The article on the next page is one of the best I have read. The basic underlying premise is that behavior changes slowly in the elderly and if they begin to suffer cognitive impairment it will be evidenced in behavioral changes. Sometimes these changes can be quite... CareGiver, The blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=758733 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:02:00 +0100 758733 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=513032&cid=t_173062_137_f&fid=35371&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthecaregiver.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F12%2Fmy-mother-dynamo-2.html This is a picture of my mother Dorothy who is 90 years young, Kristen my mother's granddaughter, and Ryan her greatgrandson.This picture was taken at the Banana Boat in Boynton Beach Florida, May, 2006.The CareGiver Blog Robert T DeMarcoAllAmerican Senior Care AllAmerican Senior Care Weblog Senior CareElder CareCareGiver Alzheimer’sDementia CareGiverHealth and wellnessWeblog (Source: CareGiver, The) CareGiver, The blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=513032 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 03:51:00 +0100 513032 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=513006&cid=t_173062_137_f&fid=35371&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthecaregiver.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F10%2Fnumber-one-maybe-i-should-have-known.html I should have started this Blog three years ago. My, how time flies. I have a lot of catching up to do for sure so just bear with me. Some days I’ll go back to the beginning and tell you our story. On other days I will tell you what is happening on the spot. I’ll vent about my mother. If she is up to it I will encourage her to tell you in her own words what is going on in her head.......I became a CareGiver before I had any idea that the word existed. It all started back in late 2003 after a series of strange occurrences by my mother. I guess I should have known when my mother ran her car over an abutment and scraped off the entire side of her car on a tree. Me, more than 1000 miles away, I was told the car was not that bad. Two days later and on the scene, I found out the car was tota... CareGiver, The blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=513006 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:19:00 +0100 513006