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Remembering your healthcare passion
by Scott Kashman Yesterday afternoon, we celebrated one of our nurses who received recognition among her peers. With National Nurses Week next week (Happy Nurses Week!), this was the beginning of our celebration. As our system chief nursing officer detailed why this particular nurse was receiving recognition, our award-winning nurse started to realize she was the one being honored. Nicole, the nurse being recognized, started to tear up even before her name was announced. Of course, there were not too many dry eyes (mine included) when you saw the impact this recognition meant to her. She indicated she was having a real...
Source: hospital impact - May 4, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Wendy Johnson Source Type: blogs

Special occasion
I always make an effort with how I look, but today I dressed with special care. First, extra-pretty underwear. I have always liked good underwear – at 36DD, if you’re not prepared to invest in some decent bras you end up with what Joy calls ‘Grandma breasts’. (For clarity: this is a generic term, not a specific reference.) And, post-cancer, I’ve become even more keen on beautiful bras and matching knickers, reminding my body on a daily basis that it’s doing a damned fine job of wellness, and I appreciate it. But today I chose one of my favourite sets. Then, a short dress covered in butte...
Source: Bah! to cancer - May 3, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Cancer Diagnosis mammogram Source Type: blogs

Squished
Well, the mammogram was over pretty much before it had begun, conducted by a fiercely friendly and efficient mammographer. (Is that a word? It is now.) Appointment at 2, called in at 2.05, done by 2.10. I regretted that I forgot about the pre-emptive paracetamol. It takes quite a lot of force to render something that’s built to be bowl-shaped into a two-inch-thick flat plate. My breasts spent the rest of the afternoon going, “what was that about?”. If they’d been in a cartoon they’d have been surrounded by stars and tweeting birds until about 4 o’clock. (Although, just in case you’...
Source: Bah! to cancer - May 6, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Cancer Diagnosis mammogram Source Type: blogs

Canada - Fired doctor sues B.C. Liberal government, claims interference to protect party donors
The claim was made by Dr. William Warburton, an expert in health-data research who was previously under contract with the Ministry of Health investigating the effects of atypical antipsychotic medications. Warburton is arguing that the Ministry’s alleged wrongful termination of his contract caused him a loss of more than $100,000 and that comments attributable to MacDiarmid were made “falsely and maliciously” and amount to defamation. None of the allegations contained in the claim’s statement of facts have been proven in court. The defendants have yet to file a statement of defence. The court file states: “The...
Source: PharmaGossip - May 7, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Last chance
I’m sure you remember that I invited you to take part in Race For Life at Northumberlandia on 23 May – not only do you get to raise money for Cancer Research UK, and hang out at one of the coolest places in Northumberland, but also you get to see how difficult I can make sounding a klaxon, as I have the honour of starting the race. What’s not to like?! I may even persuade Alan to put a pink flower in his hat again, as he did in 2010 (I think it was 2010). Well, entries for the Nortumberlandia Race For Life close TODAY, my friends, so follow the link in this article and come and join me, my lovely daughte...
Source: Bah! to cancer - May 7, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Cancer Treatment northumberlandia Race for Life Source Type: blogs

Link feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. Love this - "Neuroscience may be sexier than psychology right now, and it certainly has a lot more money and celebrity. But they really cannot get along without each other." Alison Gopnik in the Wall Street Journal. 2. New Scientist has started a new column written by people with "mysterious neurological conditions". The first is by Heather Sellers who has a severe form of prosopagnosia (AKA face blindness). 3. There's been lots of coverage this last week about NIMH director Thomas R. Insel's announcement that his organisation - the wo...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

The Gendered Situation at Harvard Law School – Part I
The Harvard Crimson‘s Dev Patel has an outstanding series of articles this week on gender inequality at Harvard Law School. Here are some excerpts from the first article, titled “Once Home to Kagan and Warren, HLS Faculty Still Only 20 Percent Female” in the series. Just 20 percent of U.S. senators are female. Women make up a mere 21.6 percent of the lawyers who serve as general counsels to Fortune 500 companies. Only three of the nine Supreme Court Justices are women. But these figures are still higher than the proportion of women within the ranks of the Harvard Law School faculty. At Elizabeth Warren an...
Source: The Situationist - May 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Distribution Education History Law Source Type: blogs

The Gendered Situation at Harvard Law School – Part II
The Harvard Crimson‘s Dev Patel has an outstanding series of articles last week on gender inequality at Harvard Law School. Here are some excerpts from the second article, titled “In HLS Classes, Women Fall Behind” in the series. Among the top students in their graduating classes, men and women entering Harvard Law School earn similar undergraduate grades and LSAT scores. But as soon as students step into Wasserstein Hall, a dramatic gender disparity emerges. Indicators suggest that female students participate less and perform worse than their male counterparts over the course of their three years at the ...
Source: The Situationist - May 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Distribution Education History Law Source Type: blogs

Random Kurdish round-up
I keep thinking I will Get Organised And Do A Proper Post About Kurdistan but, quite frankly, if that goes as well as Getting Organised And Sorting Out My Photographs Period, it’ll never happen. So, on the grounds that something is better than nothing, let me show you some photographs, chosen because I like them and they mean something, and, as my mother says, we’ll make that do. This lady, who speaks no English, and I, who speaks no Kurdish, have a great affection for each other. Mountains! The place where I bought clove necklaces to hang in wardrobes and yarn stashes to keep the beasties away. The man was v...
Source: Bah! to cancer - May 16, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Life is Good kurdistan Source Type: blogs

Frocked
Alan and I went to a Do on Thursday. The dress code was black tie, which we love. I was especially excited because this was my chance to wear my jli Kurdi, the dress I had made when I was last in Kurdistan. (You may remember me choosing the fabric, here.) Here I am with my handsome husband. Here is my dress in all of its glory. The best thing about wearing it was that I forgot I was wearing it at all. I’m sure I’m not the only woman who’s bought a dress for a person she isn’t; and so spends an evening being worn by a dress, looking uncomfortable and feeling squashed. But this jli Kurdi was right t...
Source: Bah! to cancer - May 19, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Life is Good kurdistan Source Type: blogs

TWiV 233: We’re surrounded
On episode #233 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Rich, Alan and Kathy review aerosol transmission studies of influenza H1N1 x H5N1 reassortants, H7N9 infections in China, and the MERS coronavirus. You can find TWiV #233 at www.twiv.tv.
Source: virology blog - May 19, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology aerosol transmission avian influenza CoV-MERS gain of function guinea pig H1N1 H5N1 h7n9 MERS coronavirus Middle East coronavirus reassortants respiratory infection TWiV viral virulence Source Type: blogs

A grateful and glad heart
Yesterday, I got this through the post: Today, I have the honour of speaking at a Race for Life event and, more importantly, taking part. So I suppose it’s no surprise that I’m thinking about cancer – and the glorious absence of it from my slightly-the-worse-for-wear breasts – more than I would on your average Thursday. The last almost-five years have shown me what a lot I’ve had to do in the world; what a lot would have gone unaccomplished if I hadn’t been treated when I was. And by that I don’t mean that the world should be grateful that I was here; I’m not talking about m...
Source: Bah! to cancer - May 23, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Life is Good Race for Life Source Type: blogs

Hospital 'deserts' a growing problem in major urban centers
by Alan Sager In 1960, 42 acute care hospitals with 8,000 beds served Detroit's 1.7 million residents. But only four hospitals with 2,700 beds survived to serve 700,000 residents in 2010. All of the survivors are costly major teaching hospitals. Especially in winter, ambulances are sometimes challenged to provide rapid response to the people of a 139-square-mile city whose residential side streets rarely see snow plows. Detroit is not alone. Hospital "deserts" are conspicuous--and growing--in broad expanses of St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington, Atlanta, several Texas cities, New York City's boroughs, and elsewhere. ...
Source: hospital impact - May 25, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Wendy Johnson Source Type: blogs

Way up high
The last time I was on my way back from Kurdistan, somewhere in the sky between Erbil and Vienna, I had one of those moments of absolute peace. So absolute I am still thinking about it. Perhaps it was the feeling of two weeks’ work well done, or the excitement of being reunited with Alan soon, or the prospect of a holiday. Perhaps it was the effects of the gin and tonic, or the feeling of encroaching sleep. Perhaps it was the music I was listening to. I just remember being so calm, so settled, so still. Which is curious in so many ways. First up, I wasn’t still. I was travelling at – well, at fast, becaus...
Source: Bah! to cancer - May 29, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Life is Good Musings harry christophers the sixteen 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