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 'fort'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:03:55 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4433135&cid=t_150757_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F03%2Fnidal-hasan-exactly-the-man-many-knew-him-to-be%2F Army Maj. Nidal Hasan was exactly the kind of man many people knew him to be. And that’s why they continually promoted him and sent him some place else. Because nobody, apparently, was willing to intervene despite many warning signs about his behavior. Those are the findings from the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. They found that the massacre allegedly carried out by Nidal Hasan could have have been prevented. Had just one person acted on the information many different people had, the tragedy that occurred at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009 may have been prevented. “The officers who kept Hasan in the military and moved him steadily along knew full well of his problematic behavior,” the report found. “As the officer who assigned Has... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4433135 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:00:13 +0100 4433135 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3644690&cid=t_150757_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F06%2Falabama-department-public-health-issues-swimming-advisory-beaches%2F The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) has issued a swimming advisory for Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, and Fort Morgan because of the contamination of oil from the BP spill. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3644690 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:07:40 +0100 3644690 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3564067&cid=t_150757_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Fhit-new-battle-between-david-and-goliath For healthcare policymakers, the perfect world would probably include a healthcare sector in which providers of all sizes worked together to make the transition to new HIT as quickly and efficiently as possible. But based on comments coming out of a conference in Florida this week, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The conference is the Spring Summit, sponsored by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation, that is being held this week in Fort Lauderdale. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3564067 Fri, 14 May 2010 13:58:24 +0100 3564067 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3538078&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FBab5R3VnWa4%2F By Benjamin H. FriedmanBusinessweek has a story quoting a former federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, Michael Wildes, speculating that Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber, made so many mistakes (leaving his house keys in the car, not knowing about the vehicle identification number, making calls from his cellphone, getting filmed, buying the car himself) that he may be the “dumbest terrorist in the world.” But Wildes can’t accept the idea that an al Qaeda type terrorist would be so incompetent and suggests that Shahzad was “purposefully hapless” to generate intelligence about the police reaction for the edification of his buddies back in Pakistan. Give me a break. This incompetence is hardly unprecedented. Three years ago Bruce Schneier wrote an art... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3538078 Wed, 05 May 2010 18:14:44 +0100 3538078 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3508244&cid=t_150757_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F04%2F27%2Farmy-transition-units-a-dark-place%2F This article makes it seem like the problem still exists, and the Warrior Transition Units may have made some issues even worse by over-medicating soldiers upon their return. Perhaps a government oversight committee will open an independent investigation to get to the truth of the matter, and ensure soldiers are receiving the care they need. Read the full article: Feeling Warehoused in Army Trauma Care Units (Source: World of Psychology) World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3508244 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:30:10 +0100 3508244 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3411094&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FnHXpN68eSsE%2F By Jim HarperExcellent recent posts by my colleague David Rittgers have covered the legal (and practical) issues involved in terrorist detention. Take a look at “The Case against Domestic Military Detention” and his follow-up, “Playing Chicken Again.” He has also lectured on the Hill about terrorism strategy, relating themes I used to open our 2009 and 2010 counterterrorism conferences. The gist is that terrorism seeks overreaction on the part of the victim state. Lacking power of their own, terrorists try to goad states into overzealous and misdirected responses that serve their aims. A prominent aim among members of the al-Qaeda franchise is mobilization of others, one of five strategies that U.S. National War College professor of strategy Audrey Kurth Cronin la... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3411094 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:05:43 +0100 3411094 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3374111&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FI_SOJfqUdrQ%2F By Jim HarperI wrote some posts a few months ago (1, 2, 3) about the difficulty of discovering and preventing essentially random events like the Fort Hood shooting. I was pleased by the compliment security guru Bruce Schneier paid them in his recent post, “Small Planes and Lone Terrorist Nutcases.” (Such happy subject matter we get to write about!) Now comes Radley Balko with a great column illustrating what you get when authorities try to “get ahead” of this problem. “Pre-Crime Policing” tells the story of a gun buyer who had been tagged with the adjective “disgruntled.” A SWAT team appeared on his property, police tricked him into surrendering for a mental evaluation, they illegally entered his home, and they seized his guns. Says the ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3374111 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:53:31 +0100 3374111 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3239548&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGm8h5rMVYhE%2F By Roger PilonToday Politico Arena asks: Terror suspects: Eric Holder’s defense (nothing new here)–agree or disagree? My response: There’s no question that after the killings in Little Rock and Fort Hood, the decision to try the KSM five in a civilian court in downtown Manhattan, and the Christmas Day bombing attempt (the government’s before and after behavior alike), the Obama-Holder “law-enforcement” approach to terrorism is under serious bipartisan scrutiny.  And Holder’s letter yesterday to his critics on the Hill isn’t likely to assuage them, not least because it essentially ignores issues brought out in the January 20 hearings before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, like the government’s failure to have its promise... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3239548 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:38:06 +0100 3239548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3178814&cid=t_150757_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F01%2F15%2Freport-on-fort-hood-hasan%2F The AP reported this morning that the Army report to be released today will implicate Army Maj. Nidal Hasan’s supervisors and those who knew of his troubled behavior, but failed to detail it in his records or further followup on it. Hasan’s disturbing behaviors were detailed as far back as during his medical residency and were apparently known to anyone who worked closely with him in a supervisory capacity. And when they became aware of his behavior, did they detail it and pass it along to Hasan’s future bosses? Apparently not: Hasan got passing grades and a promotion in part because disturbing information about his behavior and performance was not recorded by superiors or properly passed to others who might have stepped in, the report found. As Hasan’s training p... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3178814 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:45:54 +0100 3178814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003730&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fo_wl0uhJLxg%2F Colleagues and correspondents have kindly shared their understandable discomfort with my conclusion in recent posts that the Fort Hood shooting was nearly impossible to discover in advance, and thus prevent. The one ray of hope I can offer is that the shooting itself makes such things more foreseeable, putting the military community and investigators on notice prospectively that this kind of thing can happen. No formal policy change can do more than the Fort Hood shooting itself to ferret out inchoate incidents like it in the future. Belief that the Fort Hood shooting was easily preventable, though, is 20/20 hindsight. I first read How We Know What Just Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life to get a handle on how it became so plausible after the September 11, ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003730 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:34:03 +0100 3003730 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003734&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FKCglQpiCXZE%2F In the past eight months, the unemployment rate has jumped from 7.2 percent to 10.2 percent. Here’s why. Three trillion reasons to hope the Senate is not as fiscally reckless as their counterparts in the House on health care reform. Obama a federalist? Not quite: “Not yet a year into his administration, Obama’s record on 10th Amendment issues is already clear: He’ll let the states have their way when their policies please blue team sensibilities and he’ll call in the feds when they don’t.” More here. It’s time to get immigration reform right: “Republican leaders need to liberate themselves from the Lou Dobbs minority within their own ranks that will oppose any legalization. Democratic leaders need to face down their labor-unio... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003734 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:49:21 +0100 3003734 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2999621&cid=t_150757_111_f&fid=34716&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FNurseRatchedsPlace%2F%7E3%2FPIx1l-NSA2Y%2F Dear Uncle Sam: I know it’s been a rough week. I’m sure you’re grieving the lost of life at Fort Hood just like the rest of us, but I’m compelled to write you this letter. I hope you take it in the spirit in which it is meant. I read an article at Salon.com today that made me wonder about your judgement. Since when did you stop listening to your doctors? The article was about Dr. Kernan Manion, a psychiatrist who wanted to help troops before they went postal on military bases. Uncle Sam, Dr. Manion use to work for you at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Then he got fired. Why did you give Dr. Manion the boot for stating the obvious? He pointed out that troops at Camp Lejeune are getting bullied by superiors and dumped into an overwhelmed mental health care system when... Nurse Ratched's Place blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2999621 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:10:24 +0100 2999621 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2995995&cid=t_150757_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2009%2F11%2F16%2Fshockumentary-a-horror-genre-for-our-times%2F Jennifer Carpenter in 2008 film Quarantine My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up: They say we know who we are by the myths we cherish. I’d planned to weigh in on the third-season finale of “Mad Men,” a show that is both a valentine to and a critique of the 1960s. But I got sidetracked by another kind of myth – a tale of horror. Last night I watched the 2008 film “Quarantine.” Whether filmmakers intend it or not, all horror movies tap into the anxieties of their times. With “Quarantine,” it’s the war we’re now fighting. Japan’s 1954 “Godzilla” put the trauma of the atomic age on display for all the world to see. The 1956 film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” reflected the fear of communism taking over o... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2995995 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:44:46 +0100 2995995 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984777&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FODpp6kuKYzg%2F Commentary on the Fort Hood incident can be categorized three ways: reaction, response, and rejoinder (commentary on the commentary). Reactions generally consist of pundits pouring their preconceptions over what is known of the facts. These are the least worthy of our time, and rejoinders like this one from Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University in the Fort Hood section of The Politico’s Arena blog dispense with them well: Of course [Fort Hood] is being politicized; there is no issue that is immune to exploitation by politicians and media commentators. The problem is that there are an infinite number of “lessons” one can draw from a tragic event like this — the strain on our troops from a foolish war, the impact of hateful ideas from the fringe of a great religion... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2984777 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:39:46 +0100 2984777 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984784&cid=t_150757_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=2977263&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FMKdMzR_2CCI%2F The country is unpacking the recent shooting at Fort Hood and analyzing the perpetrator intensely. Along with natural shock and curiosity, a principle reason for doing so is to discover what can prevent incidents like this in the future. When faced with any risk, including rampaging gunmen, there are four options: Prevention—the alteration of the target or its circumstances to diminish the risk of the bad thing happening. Interdiction—any confrontation with, or influence exerted on, an attacker to eliminate or limit its movement toward causing harm. Mitigation—preparation so that, in the event of the bad thing happening, its consequences are reduced. Acceptance—a rational alternative often chosen when the threat has low probability, low consequence, or both. (Ther... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2977263 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:51:16 +0100 2977263 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2977272&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Frhu-1uSAIRs%2F As Marcy Wheeler notes, the press seem to have settled on the term “lone wolf” to describe Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan, which means it’s probably only a matter of time before we encounter a pundit or legislator who is cynical or befuddled enough (or both) to invoke the tragedy in defense of the PATRIOT Act’s constitutionally dubious Lone Wolf provision. (A “matter of time” apparently meaning the time it took me to write that sentence: We have a winner!) Though the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would renew the measure, their counterparts in the House wisely—though narrowly—voted to permit it to expire last week. To spare anyone tempted by this argument some embarrassment: The Lone Wolf provision is totally irrelevant to th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2977272 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:37:52 +0100 2977272 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2967340&cid=t_150757_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F11%2F06%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-november-6-2009%2F I’m attending the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy today, and I’ll write more about the inspirational work this organization has been doing for 25 years shortly (not just in Georgia, but throughout the entire country). The people who are attending this symposium — as well as the Carter Center itself — have done much to improve mental health care in the U.S., but it’s not something you hear enough about. It’s heartening so many great minds coming together to share best practices and ideas for improvement (especially at this unique time in healthcare history). Not just policy wonks, but also physicians, mental health practitioners, administrators, consumers, CEOs, you name it — they’re all here. All talking about wa... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2967340 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:06:23 +0100 2967340 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2908649&cid=t_150757_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F19%2Fthe-psychology-of-the-parents-of-balloon-boy%2F This past week we saw the news media captivated by the idea that a 6-year-old boy, Falcon Heene had been carried off by a weather balloon. That is until the boy was later found in his own garage attic and shortly thereafter it was revealed on a television news show that the entire incident was likely a hoax. In replying to a reporter’s question, the young Falcon turned to his dad on camera and said, “You guys said that, umm, we did this for the show.” Oops. The parents — Richard Heene and Mayumi Heene — have all along claimed it was not a hoax or a publicity stunt. Now, according to The New York Times, the parents will voluntarily surrender to police as soon as charges are filed, which is expected to happen on Wednesday. While the truth continues to unfold, th... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2908649 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:15:52 +0100 2908649 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2774583&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fswine-flu-immunisations.html The government's chief commissar for immunisations, Professor David Salisbury, has said that nurses have a "duty" to be immunised againstswine flu. A poll by nursingtimes.net showed that 30% of respondents would refuse to have it. If the government is surprised at the number of nurses who will not have the immunisation, just wait to see what happens when they offer it to doctors. On the facts available to date, I will not be having it. Nor will my family. I will not be the only doctor taking this view.In 1976, after a swine flu outbreak at Fort Dix in the US, a vaccine was hastily manufactured. It had to be withdrawn a few weeks later as it was causing serious neurological problems. Science has moved on since then, you may say. That could not happen now. But, if governments have confidence... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2774583 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:25:00 +0100 2774583 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441688&cid=t_150757_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F05%2F28%2Fsoldiers-ordered-not-to-kill-themselves%2F Brig. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, according to CNN, has “in effect ordered his soldiers Wednesday not to commit suicide” in the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell. Why? After nearly one soldier per week committed suicide at the post between January and mid-March, the Army instituted a suicide prevention program that “seemed to be having good effects” until last week, when two more suicides occurred, he said. Yes, these are not positive numbers and the Army needs to do more to combat the stigma of seeking help for a psychological concern such as depression. They can begin by promising soldiers that such treatment seeking will have no negative effect on their ability to move up in the Army and get promoted in the future. You wouldn’t hold someone from getting a pro... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441688 Thu, 28 May 2009 23:41:14 +0100 2441688 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1999836&cid=t_150757_177_f&fid=38133&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FTubalReversalBlog%2F%7E3%2F469565185%2Funethical-tubal-ligation.html Catrina had a tubal ligation during a C-section delivery without her knowledge or consent. She tells readers how she came to find out her tubes had been tied and how tubal reversal at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center gave her back her life and control over previous decisions her ex-husband had made for her. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog) Tubal Reversal Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1999836 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:32:15 +0100 1999836 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4060709&cid=t_150757_109_f&fid=34859&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.davemsw.com%2Farchives%2F2008%2F08%2Fgaps_in_system_kept_ivins_at_highsecurity_lab.php More information in the anthrax case have emerged, questions about security of US weapons development, the story of his last couple years under the FBI investigation, and details about Dr. Ivins psychiatric condition in the past year and his treatment. Associated Press "Privacy concerns, bureaucratic loopholes, the demands of a criminal investigation -- all combined to let Ivins keep his job and stay out of jail for years. And in the high-security lab until last November. Or was it just that the government's evidence was too weak to act? That's what Ivins' attorney says. "If it's such earth-shattering stuff, what's been going on since 2005?" Paul F. Kemp asked Wednesday after the government made its case with a news conference and a pile of documents. "Why is he on the street if they ... Ψ Dare To Dream... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4060709 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:25:00 +0100 4060709 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1516582&cid=t_150757_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F311431595%2F The parents of a sixth grade girl with autism are filing a lawsuit against the Fort Wayne Community Schools, on the grounds that the district failed to protect their daughter. As reported in today’s Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana), The girl, a special education student with autism, was allegedly sexually molested by another student on two occasions on April 25, 2007, during a classroom movie session, according to court documents. After each incident the girl told her teachers, school principal and bus driver about what had happened, the document said. When the girl’s mother called school officials, she said she was told that an “incident happened at school … but nothing had occurred and that the student’s hormones were involved,” according to court documents. The girl... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1516582 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:00:32 +0100 1516582 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1337979&cid=t_150757_140_f&fid=35479&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbipolarhousewife.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fon-my-mind.html Pretty much, the major item weighing on my mind is just how much I really HATE living in Fort Worth! That, and I've had some issues with my wrist, something resembling carpal tunnel, although I admit I've had no confirmed diagnosis. Therefore I haven't been typing much. I probably shouldn't be doing it now, but guilt over my lack of blogging has gotten the better of me.So what's so terrible about Fort Worth? Maybe nothing, really. I guess it just doesn't feel like home, and I feel like a fish out of water. It's ultra-conservative, rural, and overwhelmingly centered on white American culture. If that makes you feel at home, this might be a place for you. But it isn't for me. I prefer a more multicultural feel, and more artistic and outdoor activities. Maybe more freedom of thought . . . Jus... The Bipolar Housewife Experiment blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1337979 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:50:00 +0100 1337979 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1312376&cid=t_150757_140_f&fid=35479&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbipolarhousewife.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fwazzup.html Hey, peeps, out there in the world somewhere . . .I've been gone for some time now, mostly because I really felt confused over what I could safely write about. Allow me to explain, as briefly as I can. My husband works in television, and although there are dozens of stations around the country and my blog is so seldom read, the community is actually very small. It wouldn't take much for someone to put pieces together and determine his identity. So, when the biggest news in my life has to do with clandestine job interviews, a possible interstate move, secret freelance work for competing networks, there isn't much I can blog about. I could easily get him in trouble at work, sabotage his work relationships, and other consequences I haven't even considered. While I think the risk is small, my ... The Bipolar Housewife Experiment blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1312376 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:34:00 +0100 1312376 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1229339&cid=t_150757_85_f&fid=36194&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftesstermulo.com%2F2008%2F02%2F14%2Fcokes-biggest-surprise%2F It all started when this arrived in my email inbox: Actually, I thought it was a hoax first, because it arrived at a time when I was busy answering comments left by MLM employees in my blog. So, I emailed the sender and asked how she came by my email address. And quite promptly, she replied that she got the email address from my personal blog (this blog). I googled her name, Greta Razon, and her affiliation, Keren Pascual Public Relations and Events Management Services and found nothing wrong. I replied to the RSVP invite and fixed my schedule. The event is supposedly Coke’s “Biggest Surprise” to be held at BGCEA Community Facility, right across the NBC Tent. So, okay, I do not really know what to expect from this event nor could I really bother Ms. Razon about it, si... Prudence and Madness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1229339 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:52:17 +0100 1229339 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=805909&cid=t_150757_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F08%2F17%2Fmodernist-painter-and-diabetic-charles-demuth%2F Filed under: Type 1, Drugs, Events, PersonalitiesWorks by the modernist painter Charles Demuth (1883-1935) are now on display at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Add Demuth to the pantheon of notable Americans with diabetes. Demuth lived nearly his entire life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He had a hard life, being type 1 diabetic at a time before digital meters and pumps and all that good stuff. Not only that, he was diabetic at a time when insulin was only beginning to be used. So, you may well ask: what did they do in the dark, dark pre-insulin days? Well, dear reader, the treatment was pretty unsophisticated. Starvation, basically. They got you eating as little as possible. Not surprisingly, life expectancy was not good in those days! Demuth suffered from a lack of energy and... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=805909 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 805909 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=797119&cid=t_150757_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F143738684%2F A district diagnositician from the Forth Worth public school district said that Sam Peters was not autistic—-he was later diagnosed with PDD-NOS by the Child Study Center in Fort Worth and Mental Health Mental Retardation of Tarrant County. According to the August 13th Star-Telegram, his parents, Jon and Jessica Peters, decided to move to the Keller school district where Sam initially did well in a four-student classroom, with a teacher trained to work with autistic children. But then, another “district diagnostician” said that “Sam doesn’t have autism. The family’s request for an independent evaluation was refused; the Peters sued the school district but lost their due process hearing. Sam will not receive special education services in the Keller distri... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=797119 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:22:15 +0100 797119 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=785906&cid=t_150757_135_f&fid=35263&url=http%3A%2F%2Fronhudson.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fblog-post.html Over the weekend, Roger and I visited my mom in Wilmington and took some time to stop by the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher. Here are some photos of the plants and animals that are on display.This is a Venus Flytrap, a carnivorous plant that only grows within a small radius of Wilmington, NC.Click on any image to enlarge it.Two examples of one of my worst nightmares: rattlesnakes. I can not recall if these were Eastern Diamondback or not, but I think they are.Tree frogs cling to the inside of their glass enclosure.Yes, we do have large alligators in eastern North Carolina.This cuttlefish is seen head-on as his colors oscillate.Pink coral.Blue Coral.A clownfish among the tentacles of an anemone.Jellyfish, gracefully potential pain.Translucent, the jellyfish displays the floral patte... 2sides2ron blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=785906 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:36:00 +0100 785906