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 'frustrated'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:11 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4789522&cid=t_132779_134_f&fid=35179&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscottsdiabetes.com%2F2011%2F05%2Fsloppy-evenings-low-blood-sugars-guilt-and-fear%2F This has been an active week for me. It feels good. My body feels good. Four days of basketball, with one seriously kick ass weight session afterward. Four days of tossing a football around with my son and shooting baskets with my daughter. One short bike ride back home after taking my old pickup truck to the repair shop. As far as exercise, I’m doing it. And it feels good. But I get sloppy in the evenings. High carb foods combined with estimated carb counts and ballpark boluses PLUS a lot of exercise and activity equals an evening full of lows that leave me feeling fat, guilty, foolish, frustrated, helpless, stupid, and scared. The first low blood sugar I treat with glucose tabs. But because I’ve been so sloppy with my insulin dose, they are not enough to do the trick. So I ha... Scott's Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4789522 Fri, 06 May 2011 06:53:22 +0100 4789522 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3816767&cid=t_132779_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fanger-management%2F Anger can be a very real problem for people in recovery from codependency, addiction, alcoholism or compulsive gambling. Anger is a word we apply to a wide range of feelings. . . Anger can be as simple as a minor irritation. We frequently feel angry when we’re frustrated or when our plans are thwarted. Annoyances may be barely noticeable at first, but if annoyances continue, they can generate considerable wrath. We feel a form of anger when we’re disappointed and let down–most often it takes the form of resentment. When we’re angry, but don’t want to make a deal of it, we use a euphemism, “I’m really teed-off.” Anger is frequently a response to being hurt or suffering loss. Even so, we may not recognize it as such. For example, if someone says, “I never ... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3816767 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:54:00 +0100 3816767 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3560234&cid=t_132779_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fdespite-uncertainty-why-doctors-should-hang-in-there%2F2010.05.12 There is discontent in the house of medicine. So many physicians struggle. They seem to wade through uncertainty every day — uncertain about diagnoses, about pain, about disposition. We find ourselves uncertain about our jobs, our futures, our finances. The consultants we call are uncertain about their practices and whether they can remain viable in the coming years as medicine evolves into something we may find unrecognizable. Some days, as I enter my 17th year of practice, I don’t know if I can bear to walk around our little department for 10 or 20 more years, like some gerbil on an exercise wheel. I am uncertain if I can bear the weight of more entitlements, more confabulated stories, more regulations, and manufactured drama. I wonder if I can endure decades more of circadian... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3560234 Wed, 12 May 2010 20:00:50 +0100 3560234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3552245&cid=t_132779_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhy-creating-healthcare-consumers-wont-work%2F2010.05.10 I [recently] gave a speech at the Midwest Business Group on Health’s (MBGH) 30th Annual Conference. The MBGH is one of the country’s leading organizations on healthcare, and its members include the leading innovators and thought leaders on healthcare in America. It was a privilege to present to them. I spoke about why healthcare just isn’t a consumer business in spite of all of the effort to turn people into healthcare “consumers.” At Best Doctors, we have a closeup view of what happens to people when they try to find their way through the healthcare system. It’s not a pleasant picture. Healthcare consumers –- if you can call them that –- are often lost, confused, frustrated, alone. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at See First Blog* (Sourc... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3552245 Mon, 10 May 2010 22:00:43 +0100 3552245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2386952&cid=t_132779_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F05%2F03%2Fif-only-keeping-you-stuck-and-frustrated%2F Two words. Six letters. So much potential for destruction. You say it to yourself and so do I, sometimes without even realizing it. Do you even realize how powerful it is? If only I had more time, I would exercise. If only my parents weren’t so annoying, I’d be less stressed. If only I had a bigger house, then I’d be more organized. If only, if only, if only…You know, it isn’t just the “if only” part that is so damaging. By itself, it just a harmless wish or fantasy. It’s saying “then”, as if you only have permission to have this better outcome when the first part happens. Let’s break this down once, shall we? Take the example about having a bigger house and being more organized. I threw this one in for me. We still live in... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2386952 Sun, 03 May 2009 16:44:08 +0100 2386952 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2325109&cid=t_132779_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2FXTHS-cB1N2E%2Fwayback-wednesday---three-words.php Courtesy of the "Wayback Machine", I bring you the early entries I made in my online diabetes journal. This was back before Blogger made things easy, and I had to write the entries in HTML. The journal is no longer available, but thanks to the wonderful tools available on the internet, I was able to find much of my old stuff. I'd like to share one of the old... (Source: Diabetes Daily) Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2325109 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:00:00 +0100 2325109 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1960640&cid=t_132779_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2F14%2Fyou-can-only-change-yourself%2F One of life’s hardest lessons to learn is that you can only change yourself. Some people spend inordinate amounts of time and energy upset, angry, or frustrated by other people’s thoughts and behaviors. But to what end? You can rail against the rain or feel sanguine about the snow, but there’s not a whole lot you can do about it. Why should we, by default, believe we can change another person’s — an independent, thinking self just like us — behaviors and thoughts with just a few choice words? If you think about it for a minute, it sounds kind of ridiculous. Yet we don’t think about it when we have an emotional reaction to someone else’s behavior or words. We say things like, “How could they say such a thing!” or “How can... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1960640 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:38:42 +0100 1960640 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1696142&cid=t_132779_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F08%2F10%2Fdoctors-behaving-badly-enough%2F The Joint Commission, the accreditation body that certifies hospitals, has had enough of doctors’ bad behavior and the hospitals who tolerate them. They have required hospitals they accredit to adopt a zero-tolerance policy toward bad behavior from staff, which must include a code of conduct and a way of disciplining offenders. Why is any of this necessary? Because virtually every hospital has had at one time the angry surgeon who yells at his operating room (OR) team (or worse) when the tiniest thing goes wrong. Today’s Boston Globe has the story: During an operation at a Salem hospital last summer, an orthopedic surgeon [Dr. Murray Goodman], frustrated by a pair of scissors that wouldn’t cut, threw them and narrowly missed a nurse. [… Describing another doct... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1696142 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:25:51 +0100 1696142 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1484871&cid=t_132779_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F06%2F01%2Ftip-of-the-tongue-moments%2F How many times have you been in the middle of a conversation with someone and need to use a word or remember a name that just completely leaves you? You sit there are try and remember it for a few moments, but if it doesn’t come, you move on, frustrated by your brain’s seeming inability to remember that name you never really forgot. Jonah Lehrer wrote an excellent article in today’s Boston Globe describing this phenomenon and, more importantly, how researchers are using it to gain insights into how the brain stores and processes information. How might the mind keep track of its own contents? For the last several decades, scientists have assumed that the brain contains some innate indexing system, akin to a card catalog in a library, that allows it to immediately real... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1484871 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:17:39 +0100 1484871