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My Personal Stroke Story
I first shared my story in 2008 as the Passion Speaker for the American Heart Association at the Go Red for Women Luncheon in San Antonio, Texas. And I told my story many times in the next few years to the various corporate partners and in private homes where both men and women had gathered to learn about women’s risk for stroke.
Today, more than 16 years after having a stroke, I continue to tell my story with others as a You’re the Cure advocate in Washington DC. I presented at the Maryland Million Hearts Symposium and on Washington DC’s CBS TV station WUSA9 last winter. You can watch my interview with WUSA9 here.
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 24, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Reconceptualizing Health and Health Care: Why Our Cancer Care Delivery System Is In Crisis
Cancer Care System in Crisis
Americans fear cancer. In a poll for MetLife, when participants were asked which major disease they feared most, 41 percent said cancer, 31 percent said Alzheimer’s disease, and small percentages of other respondents said other diseases. Not surprisingly, The National Institutes of Health has a budget allocation of $4.9 billion for 2014 to The National Cancer Institute, far more than any other Institute and over 25 percent of the NIH’s total funding to study organ-based diseases ($19.2 billion).
Despite this longstanding commitment to cancer research, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reporte...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 23, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Carolyn Payne and William Dale Tags: All Categories Chronic Care End-of-Life Care Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Long-Term Care Source Type: blogs
Marijuana May Be a Treatment for Alzheimer's disease
A new preclinical study indicates that THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, may slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's Reading Room THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) is the active ingrient in marijuana that produces a psychoactive reaction. THC is a naturally occurring chemical substance in the marijuana plant. Cancer patients have used marijuana medicinally to find relief from the pain, nausea, and loss of appetite that can be caused by cancer treatments.Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail: Marijuana compound may offer treatment for Alzheimer's diseaseNew preclinical study indicates THC m...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - August 28, 2014 Category: Dementia Tags: Alzheimer's marijuana alzheimer's news Alzheimer's Treatment brain dementia marijuana marijuana research memory Source Type: blogs
How does chronic pain management work? A hypothesis to ponder
There have been increasing calls for clinicians and researchers to move away from using grouped results from randomised controlled studies because these fail to distinguish between those people who do really well and those who do not. Eminent researchers like Amanda Williams, Chris Eccleston and Steven Morley have said it’s time to move away from “black box” RCTs in chronic pain, and begin to use more sophisticated methodologies to examine not only outcomes but processes during therapy (Williams, Eccleston & Morley, 2012). While early studies comparing CBT-approaches to chronic pain vs waiting list ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 24, 2014 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Cognitive behavioral therapy Coping strategies Research biopsychosocial Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Cognitive Behavioural Therapy pain management self management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
The Price of Compassion - Commercialized Hospices and the Mistreatment of Vulnerable Patients
Introduction - Commercialized Hospices We have occasionally written about the rise of the commercialized hospice industry, and concerns that commercialized hospices may not be providing the compassionate care they promise. As we have discussed before, the hospice movement began with small, non-profit, community based organizations meant to provide compassionate palliative care to the terminally ill. However, in the US, the hospice movement has been co-opted by commercial hospices, often run by large corporations, which may put profit ahead of compassion.Several long investigative articles have appeared this yea...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: Carlyle Group deception Fillmore Partners Gentiva Golden Living HCR ManorCare hospices marketing private equity Vitas Source Type: blogs
A Soldier’s War on Pain - NYTimes.com
Four years and a lifetime ago, a new war began for Sgt. Shane Savage.On Sept. 3, 2010, the armored truck he was commanding near Kandahar, Afghanistan, was blown apart by a roadside bomb. His head hit the ceiling so hard that his helmet cracked. His left foot was pinned against the dashboard, crushing 24 bones.Sergeant Savage came home eight days later, at age 27, with the signature injuries of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan: severe concussion, post-traumatic stress and chronic pain. Doctors at Fort Hood in Killeen, Tex., did what doctors across the nation do for millions of ordinary Americans: They prescribed p...
Source: Psychology of Pain - May 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Bright and Filled with Potential
Wensday – Entry 45: There are many people who want me to state that 2013 was my best year ever, but truthfully it was the hardest, most exhausting and stressful year I can ever remember living through. This was the year my favorite minivan was totaled and replaced with a pale imitation. This was the year I went through extensive physical therapy to treat two prolapsed disks in my neck and spine. This was the year my daughter's epilepsy worsened due to the same car accident, reaching life-threatening tonic clonic stages for the first time in her life. This was the year I spent months—MONTHS—sick with pneumonia and the...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 1, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Journaling Source Type: blogs
Embrace a Sense of Humor: THE PITCH
My husband returned from physical therapy today asking, “Where is The Pitch picture?”
Suspicious of his intentions, I asked why he would want it. Evidently he shared the story with his therapist, to the therapist’s great delight. For years I’ve been telling the story – and always say Clay thinks it is funnier than I do… he probably tells it better too. I figured, why not share it again?
THE PITCH: Embrace A Sense Of Humor
When the girls were about 9 months old, I was asked to throw out the first pitch at a major league baseball game. Even with all my dance training, I have never been particularly ...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - December 17, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Events & Media Stress Less Laughter and stress relief Source Type: blogs
Are We Waiting For Godot?
Ten reasons I feel pessimism about our current healthcare environment (in brief):
Process vs Product
Computers are just machines. I repeat, they are just tools. Health information technology is a shell which houses knowledge and human ability. It is nothing more . Electronic medical records may either streamline our thought processes or make them more cluttered. They will not, however, lead to better or more perfect care. They haven't yet, and they won't in the future. And they are prone to be adulterated by commercial intentions. Looking for an answer to our complex healthcare p...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - November 11, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
Doctor Doofus
There's nothing I can do, and nothing original I can say about the collapse of our republic, I'll just outsource to Timothy Egan then move on to my regular blogging agenda. Or rather, I will say this. It is really depressing to think that there are horrid communities in this country, full of racist, ignorant, cruel and repulsive people who would actually vote for the malignant clowns who run the Republican party. I will make sure never to visit such places.Now, on to Stayin' Alive. In spite of 20 years or more of serious efforts to improve the quality of medical care and to rein in overdiagnosis, overtreatment and jus...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
Who Would Win in a Fight Against Josh Sundquist and Me?
Author's note: The character described in this multi-part story is my creation and should not be interpreted as the actual public figure. Although most of the events are fictional, the helpful and motivating aspects of his character are real, and for that I am grateful to have received his guidance.
Read this first: Who Would Win in a Fight between Josh Sundquist and Me?
I followed Josh Sundquist to a bar near his residence in Clarendon. Though unsure if my south Arlington status would be accepted there, I desired his wisdom on life and love. I was diagnosed with Ewing’s during the age of invincibility, leadi...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - July 6, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: living habits imaginative Source Type: blogs
Aligning incentives to achieve health IT adoption
Pursuing a career in health care was inspired largely by my family – whether they know it or not. My father was a biochemist and neuroscientist, my mother a dietitian and health care researcher, a sister is a physical therapist, and a cousin is a pharmacist. My path in health care has been different from theirs, with an emphasis on health care strategy, innovative business and program development, and executive leadership of both non-profit and for-profit companies.
In my experience, one of the biggest challenges in improving the performance of our health care system is to reduce the wide and inexplicable variations ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: HIT/Health Gaming EHR health IT HIE Source Type: blogs
In Gaming, Some See Tools to Treat Pain - NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — Fifteen-year-old Reilly woke up one morning with a sharp, stabbing pain in his left leg that soon spread to other parts of his body. The pain, which started early last year, forced him to quit soccer, and he spent the next four months being poked, prodded and scanned by doctors.The test results were inconclusive. "No one could tell him why he was in a ball on the floor unable to function," said Nina, his mother, who agreed to be interviewed only on the condition that the family's surname be withheld.Finally, last June, Dr. Sarah Rebstock, a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children's National Medical Center, ga...
Source: Psychology of Pain - April 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
A Path to Personalized Pain Treatment? | Pain Research Forum
Opioids are in crisis. Many physicians and patients say that the medications can be used responsibly to treat chronic pain. Yet experts also warn that prescriptions are out of control and fueling an epidemic of abuse, overdose, and death. Government agencies have responded with tighter regulations, but investigators say the only real solution is to identify the most suitable candidates for opioid treatment: those patients most likely to experience effective analgesia with minimal adverse consequences. In a recent paper, a panel of prominent pain researchers and clinicians outlines a research agenda for ...
Source: Psychology of Pain - April 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Who Would Win in a Fight Against Josh Sundquist and Me?
Author's note: The character described in this multi-part story is my creation and should not be interpreted as the actual public figure. Although most of the events are fictional, the helpful and motivating aspects of his character are real, and for that I am grateful to have received his guidance.
Read this first: Who Would Win in a Fight between Josh Sundquist and Me?
I followed Josh Sundquist to a bar near his residence in Clarendon. Though unsure if my south Arlington status would be accepted there, I desired his wisdom on life and love. I was diagnosed with Ewing’s during the age of invincibility, leadi...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - January 16, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: living habits imaginative Source Type: blogs
