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Complimentary remedies for the flu: How Good Morning America failed
Talk of the widespread and dangerous flu circulating this year has the public on edge and hungry for quality information about how to protect themselves. ABC’s Good Morning America isn’t helping with this segment featuring chief medical correspondent Jennifer Ashton, MD, titled “3 complementary natural remedies for the flu.” It’s a mess of conflicting messages about herbal approaches to managing flu symptoms. And it positions Ashton — an ABC physician-journalist who’s brought in to report the story — as the only expert perspective about the effectiveness of these products. Continue reading ... Your...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 29, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kevin-lomangino" rel="tag" > Kevin Lomangino < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Complementary remedies for the flu: How Good Morning America failed
Talk of the widespread and dangerous flu circulating this year has the public on edge and hungry for quality information about how to protect themselves. ABC’s Good Morning America isn’t helping with this segment featuring chief medical correspondent Jennifer Ashton, MD, titled “3 complementary natural remedies for the flu.” It’s a mess of conflicting messages about herbal approaches to managing flu symptoms. And it positions Ashton — an ABC physician-journalist who’s brought in to report the story — as the only expert perspective about the effectiveness of these products. Continue reading ... Your...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 29, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kevin-lomangino" rel="tag" > Kevin Lomangino < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs

So the flu shot is only 10 percent effective. Here are 5 reasons to still get it.
So you heard the flu shot is 10 percent effective. With so many sources of information available, the primary care provider’s role increasingly becomes that of educator. It is important to me that the parents of my patients make informed decisions, so when I have a parent decline the influenza vaccine, I make an effort to ask why. The number one response I hear has been “What’s the point? The flu shot is only 10 percent effective this year.” In my discussions with parents, I’ve pinpointed several issues that are raised repetitively. Here’s five of them. 1. The effectiveness of your child’s flu shot is unknown...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 27, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jennifer-variste" rel="tag" > Jennifer Variste, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

What ’s the point of a perfect patient chart?
Last week I made a patient’s chart perfect. Not bragging, but ultimately it ended up being pretty easy, and I’ll explain how and why in a little bit. This was a patient I had not seen in several years, with a number of chronic medical problems, for which he had been taking less than optimal care of himself since I had seen him last. Here for a “checkup,” we talked about his health conditions and how he had been over the past few years. I got a little update on his family and all the things he had been up to, and then he and I — along with his wife, who was here with him for the appointment ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/fred-n-pelzman" rel="tag" > Fred N. Pelzman, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Health IT Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Can the dwindling numbers of primary care physicians explain decreased life expectancy?
Newborns born in 29 other countries of the world have life expectancies exceeding 80 years; yet, an infant born in the U.S. in 2016 is expected to live only 78.6 years according to recently released statistics. While death rates fell for 7 of the 10 biggest killers, such as cancer and heart disease, they climbed for the under-65 crowd. The irrefutable culprit is the unrelenting opioid epidemic. Last year, life expectancy declined for the first time since 1993. The last two-year decline was in 1962 and 1963, more than a half-century ago. I predicted (accurately) it would decline again this year unless there was a dramatic...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 16, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/niran-s-al-agba" rel="tag" > Niran S. Al-Agba, MD < /a > Tags: Policy Primary Care Public Health & Source Type: blogs

Success stories in driving up adult immunization rates
As we continue to lead longer and healthier lives, too many Americans aren’t taking advantage of an easily accessible set of tools that could protect their well-being into old age: adult vaccines. As a nation, we’ve embraced a regular schedule of vaccines for our children. But science shows that they are proven life-savers for us grown-ups, too. The numbers are staggering: tens of thousands of Americans die each year from flu while another 200,000 people will be hospitalized with the disease. Some 19,000 people over 65 will die from pneumococcal pneumonia, which also puts 200,000 people in the hospital each year and ad...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/james-appleby" rel="tag" > James Appleby, RPh, MPH < /a > Tags: Conditions Geriatrics Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Is this is why women so often settle?
Being 100 percent, authentically you is extremely freeing. It is awesome, brave, and takes courage and strength. It is also completely exhausting at times. Like, I-think-I-have-Influenza tired. The more I age, the more I advance. The more I advance, the more I realize how living my life in the constraints of other’s opinions or wants or desires for me is not an option. This leads me to be lonely at times, and on an unchartered path. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 16, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sasha-k-shillcutt" rel="tag" > Sasha K. Shillcutt, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs

Medical workers: Vaccinate yourselves first
Just under half of health care workers do not get their annual flu vaccine. Some of these workers contract the flu and unknowingly transfer it to their sick hospitalized patients, and in some cases, because of them passing the flu along, those patients die.   We know the most important reason for health care workers to get vaccinated against influenza is that it is the most effective way of preventing influenza among their patients. And yet, unfortunately, many health care workers are putting patients at unnecessary risk. If medical professionals know this, then why aren’t they complying?  As physicians, one of the mo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 12, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/joseph-r-masci" rel="tag" > Joseph R. Masci, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Hospital-Based Medicine Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Make a difference by being a vaccine insister
When a patient is diagnosed with a chronic disease, like diabetes or hypertension, physicians don’t merely suggest medications to lower blood sugar or blood pressure – they insist that patients take medications to protect their health. However, the recommendation to get an annual influenza (flu) shot to prevent flu is often not as emphatic. Research has shown that patients are much more likely to get a flu shot when it is offered or recommended by a health care professional. National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW), an annual event created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a great time for h...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 5, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/william-schaffner" rel="tag" > William Schaffner, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs

This is the deadly virus you need to look out for
Days are getting shorter and evenings are getting cooler in temperate regions in the Northern hemisphere. This also means that the flu season will be around the corner soon. Most people group influenza (flu) and cold together and refer to the “cold and flu season” as the time of the year when we expect to come down with a “flu bug” and consider it “normal” or customary. Some are even convinced that they “never get the flu.” These attitudes presume the flu to be just like a “bad cold.” This is far from the truth: Influenza is nothing like a cold! The flu and the common cold are caused by different viruse...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 30, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/melvin-sanicas" rel="tag" > Melvin Sanicas, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Cardiology Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs

This doctor gave flu vaccines to her patients. You won ’t believe what happened next.
Flu season is upon us, and with it a chance to test out my persuasion skills on a deeply skeptical public. Consider this recent patient of mine, a young man in college who came in for an ankle sprain. “While you’re here, why not get a flu shot?” I asked. He looked at me as if I were a car mechanic offering a few more add-ons to his maintenance exam. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/elisabeth-poorman" rel="tag" > Elisabeth Poorman, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Infectious Disease Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Paging the surgeon general: America needs you
The Office of the Surgeon General existed since 1871 when Dr. John Woodworth was appointed the first supervising surgeon of the national hospital system. In the previous year, the Marine Hospital was reorganized into the national hospital system. On January 4, 1889, Congress formally recognized the new personnel system as the Commissioned Corps. The Corps was established along military lines and initially consisted of only physicians. They were mobilized wherever their services were needed. Before the year 1968, the surgeon general was head of the Public Health Service (PHS). In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson delegated ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 14, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/linda-girgis" rel="tag" > Linda Girgis, MD < /a > Tags: Policy Public Health & Washington Watch Source Type: blogs

The flu vaccine doesn ’t cause the flu. Period.
Flu vaccines are available, and so that means that the anti-vaccine brigade is out in force. The Daily Mail published an anti-vaccine op-ed by a former reality TV contestant named Katie Hopkins. It was followed by a shorter counter argument by a doctor, but when you are given less than half the word count and are at the bottom of the page it is hard to mount an effective response. Hopefully the Daily Mail will give us an op-ed next week on how the earth is flat. I noticed many responses to Ms. Hopkins on Twitter were from people who claimed that they previously caught the flu from the vaccine. Continue reading ... Yo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 22, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jennifer-gunter" rel="tag" > Jennifer Gunter, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs

What one good doctor taught this mother about grief
We were brand new to the clinic, looking for a new doctor after our beloved pediatrician had retired. Our three living children are healthy as galloping horses — a simple fact made astonishing after the deaths of their two sick sisters. But they still need well-checks and vaccines and strep tests and a place to call about rashes and fevers and flu. So here I was, hugely pregnant, waddling in the door with a newly minted three year old, ready for his yearly check-up. He clung to my leg, worried about shots and whether I would stay with him the whole time. My concerns were less immediate, more long-term. The baby kicki...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 29, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/laura-fanucci" rel="tag" > Laura Fanucci < /a > Tags: Patient Pediatrics Source Type: blogs