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Why I stopped prescribing narcotics, and never looked back
I was never a big prescriber of narcotics.  I grew up “country,” in a tougher world where your parents taught you to accept pain as a part of life.  Pain is how you know you’re still alive. They’d tell me, “if you’re hurtin’ you ain’t dead yet.” You fell down; it was going to hurt.  You learned not to fall.  Twisted your ankle doing something stupid (and it was always while doing something stupid, like jumping off the roof), well we’ll wait a day or two and see how it goes.  Put ice on it, and next time think harder before you jump off the roof.  Just because everyone else was doing it, yada y...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Pain management Source Type: blogs

The Brain Stage: The Power & Promise of The Cephalic Phase for Health
Listen to the Podcast or Read the Transcript [00:00:03] Hi I’m Dr. Alan Greene pediatrician and I’d like to talk with you tonight about The Brain Stage. [00:00:10] I remember vividly when I was a pediatric resident in training go to a Grand Rounds about a surprising topic. [00:00:18] The function of the brain and the function of the skin and one of the things that dermatologists talked about was a common procedure freezing warts. Freezing warts was then, and is still, one of the most common ways to get rid of warts. What she talked about was how wildly different the results were in different studies. People use...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - May 23, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized Cephalic Phase Placebo The Brain Stage Source Type: blogs

U.S. Gasoline Prices Depend on Global Oil Markets — Not “Independence”
Alan ReynoldsI still have a  1979 bookmark that says, “INFLATION IS A PAIN IN THE GAS.”Funny but wrong. U.S. gasoline prices follow gyrations in world oil markets, which depend on global (not domestic) supply and demand.What actually happened in 1978 –80, an important German study from Bruegel reminds us, was the Iranian revolution and the Iran ‐​Iraq War: “The 1978 Iranian revolution decreased global supply by 4 percent and led to a price increase of 57 percent. The 1980 Iran‐​Iraq war decreased global supply by 4 percent and led to a price increase of 45 percent.”What happened to world oil market...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Mindfulness and Sleep: Advice from Experts
This article is Part Three in a series, click to read Part One and Part Two. I am just a little bit obsessed with sleep. My own, my children’s and… well… even yours really. Of course I am not alone in that. There are many books, websites, organizations and careers built around getting better sleep! When you are a new mother, the level of sleep deprivation you experience can be a shock, unlike any kind of tiredness you have ever felt before. It can undermine your health and well-being very quickly, and clearly has flow on effects on your enjoyment of motherhood and your child’s well-being. I used to joke af...
Source: World of Psychology - December 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kellie Edwards Tags: Interview LifeHelper Mindfulness Psychology Sleep Stress Behavioral Sleep Medicine moodiness Sleep Deprivation Source Type: blogs

The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
June 09, 2022 Edition-----The Russian war on Ukraine is now well over 100 days old. The destruction and deaths are just awful and the world is being seriously re-shaped. Where this ends is unknowable but unlikely to be good.In the US we are seeing almost daily mass shootings and no-one seems to know what to do. Just pathetic.In the UK the hangover is slowly lifting after the 4 day royal celebration.In OZ we are having an energy crisis which we hope we will find solutions for soon!-----Major Issues.------https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/australias-labor-government-faces-a-whole-new-economic-ball-game/news...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Nora Ephron’s Final Act - NYTimes.com
At 10 p.m. on a Friday night in a private room on the 14th Floor of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital on 68th and York Avenue, my mother was lying in her bed hallucinating, in that dream space people go on their way to being gone.She spoke of seeing trees, possibly a forest. And she mentioned to Nick, my stepfather, that she had been to the theater where her play was showing and that the audience was full. In reality, she had not left the hospital in a month, and the play, "Lucky Guy," was nearly a year away from opening.My brother, Max, and I stood there in disbelief. Though it had been weeks since her blood count showed any ...
Source: Psychology of Pain - March 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo: the end of a myth
Conclusions It is clear from meta-analyses that results of acupuncture trials are variable and inconsistent, even for single conditions.  After thousands of trials of acupuncture, and hundreds of systematic reviews (Ernst et al., 2011), arguments continue unabated.  In 2011, Pain carried an editorial which summed up the present situation well. “Is there really any need for more studies? Ernst et al. (2011) point out that the positive studies conclude that acupuncture relieves pain in some conditions but not in other very similar conditions. What would you think if a new pain pill was shown to relieve muscu...
Source: DC's goodscience - May 30, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia acupuncture badscience Bait and switch quackademia CAM quackery Source Type: blogs

The Painful Politics of Painkillers Opioids are deadlier than ever, but research into cannabis is still taboo
Opioids like oxycodone and methadone have been prescribed for pain relief since the early 1900s. But the rise of these painkillers, most notably Oxycontin, as a panacea treatment for chronic pain in the past two decades has been costly. Dr. Barth Wilsey, a physician specializing in chronic pain at the University of California Davis Medical Center, has watched their growth with increasing concern. Although he recalls only one patient death in his 17-year career, it's not an uncommon way to go: In 2010, 22,134 people died from prescription drug overdoses, a number that has quadrupled since 1999.“In my perspective,” says ...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 13, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

The Foundation of You: From Sorrow to Resilience
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ~ Kenji Miyazawa If the title of this article called to you, know that your stories are not who you are. They do not define the person you are, rather they are vital understandings we must experience in life. When we come here we arrive in a family that has already its own story, so we grew up believing that those are our own too and we keep adding life experiences, like they were blanket layers in which we can wrap up, whenever we feel the world is too hard to handle. Spending your lifetime hiding behind your stories can become a comfort place to be in! Bu...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sofia Barao Tags: confidence happiness self improvement resilience Source Type: blogs

Why toddlers have sleep issues, and how to solve them
As your baby becomes a toddler, chances are they will give you some sleepless nights. In this week’s post I’ve got your solution. But first a little fun fact. Strange but true: whether or not your toddler awakens you, each night you’re almost certainly waking up about every hour or so – nearly everybody does. The difference is that most of the time you go right back to sleep. Why, oh why, doesn’t your baby do the same? A couple of things are at play here: The first is that your baby is just about to learn to walk, and secondly, separation anxiety generally peaks around this time. Since your baby i...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 7, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Newborn & Baby Sleep Sleep Habits Toddler Toddler Sleep Top Sleep Top Toddler Source Type: blogs

Clinical SPECT/CT—Time for a New Standard of Care
I haven't been able to attend the SNMMI (Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) meeting in quite a while. It is unfortunately scheduled on the first week of June, and even if I can score the week off, I'm usually off on vacation with the family.This year's meeting was in Vancouver, my most favorite city on the planet, so I'm doubly deprived. It's in St. Louis next year, and I'm going to try my best to be there.One of the highlights of the SNM (I still can't get used to the new title) is, not coincidentally, the "Highlights" lecture at the end of the meeting. There are several different sections of this concludi...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - October 14, 2013 Category: Radiologists Source Type: blogs