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What is the future of Health 2.0 in Europe?
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Pascal Lardier, International Director of Health 2.0 asked me for an interview about the future of health 2.0. Here is the interview and an excerpt:
Basically, the medical acts remain the same: doctors will continue to receive their patients. But both stakeholders need to adapt and be able to deal with the rapidly growing amount of information available online. As the patient’s motivation is clearly more important (their health is at stake), they are more open to these innovations/developments while medical professionals use the internet and social media for other purposes: education, collaboration, diagnostic technologi...
Source: ScienceRoll - September 12, 2011 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: Health 2.0 Interview medicine medicine 2.0 Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Variations on a theme of anti-vaccine nonsenseEmail this article to a colleague.
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If there's one thing about anti-vaccine activists that is virtually their sine qua non, it's an utter lack of understanding of science. Actually, a more accurate description would be that it's a highly selective understanding of science. Nowhere do I find this to be the case as much as when I see anti-vaccine loons pulling what I like to call the "toxins gambit," or, as I've put it before, "Why are we injecting TOXINS into our babies?" It's a gambit that anti-vaccine activists seemingly never tire of, and it comes in a wide variety of forms, but they all have one of two things in common. Either a chemical that is not toxic...
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 12, 2011 Category: Surgeons Tags: medicine Source Type: blogs
The power of the written word - information therapy, patients and doctorsEmail this article to a colleague.
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While it's true that lots of patients will search for information about their medical problem on the internet, most will still want their doctor to make the final decision . While I agree that it's always a good idea to get corroboration from an expert, and life’s easy when both your doctor’s opinion and the research you have unearthed agree, when they differ, please do not automatically assume that your doctor is always right !We sometimes naively believe that doctors are experts at everything - or at least that the doctor whom we have chosen to go to is extremely well informed and knowledgeable. This is not true, and...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 11, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine Health patient Second opinion Services Physician Information Therapy Doctor-patient relationship Source Type: blogs
EMR News From Australia Creates Enthusiasm In The E-Patient MovementEmail this article to a colleague.
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Big news from Down Under: the Sydney Morning Herald reports that a group of fifty consumer health advocates has unanimously backed an “opt-out” process for enrollment in electronic health records, reversing their previous position.
The issue is whether by default all patients have an EHR. “Opt-out” means you’re in by default – your records will be stored electronically – and you can opt out if you want. “Opt-in” means you do not have an EHR unless you specifically ask for one.
The group, the Consumer Health Forum, cites evidence from the neighboring country of New Zealand, in which (more…)
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Source: Better Health - September 11, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DavedeBronkart Tags: News Australia Consumer Health Forum e-patient movement EHR Electronic Medical Records EMR New Zealand Opt-in Opt-Out Participatory medicine Participatorymedicine.org Patient Participation Sydney Morning Herald Source Type: blogs
Does Your Practice Need a Practice Management Consultant?Email this article to a colleague.
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Sometimes, it is hard to answer that question. I know it is hard for me sometimes. Therefore, to make the decision easier for those of us that are managers of practices ourselves, I decided to create a little graph.
By the way… if you don’t know what SOAPM is, click here and here. The MGMA? Click here.
Hope this helps…
Source: Pediatric Inc - September 11, 2011 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Brandon Tags: Consulting Leadership Lessons The Business of medicine Source Type: blogs
Nature: 08 September 2011Email this article to a colleague.
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On this week's show, the beginning of plate tectonics, one hundred years of superconductivity and the link between bird wings and dinosaur forelimbs.
Source: Nature Podcast - September 10, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Nature Tags: Science & medicine Source Type: blogs
How to Find Treatment For ADHD 3 Questions to Ask Before Deciding on the Treatment For Your ChildEmail this article to a colleague.
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It is a sad fact of life that up to 20% of children with ADHD may not benefit at all from being medicated with psychostimulants. William Pelham, a respected ADHD expert has revealed that in his analysis of countless studies on the ADHD medications, that he has concluded that after three years of being on these drugs, the effects on the ADHD child will wear off. As a long term solution, the use of these psychostimulants does not seem to be the answer at all when we want to find ADHD help. We must look elsewhere to find treatment for ADHD.
The first question you must ask is how effective and how safe are these medications? T...
Source: Life With ADHD - September 10, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: ADHD Dad Tags: ADHD Medication adhd medicine Find Questions treatment Source Type: blogs
Decline in catheter associated UTIs noted long before Medicare's blame gameEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Notes from Dr. RW - September 9, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: hospital medicine infectious disease quality and safety Source Type: blogs
Doctors as bottlenecksEmail this article to a colleague.
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Doctors are an integral part of the healthcare delivery system and whenever people are worried about the poor quality of healthcare in India, one of the standard solutions is to start more medical colleges so that we can train more doctors to provide better medical care for patients . I do not think an insufficient number of doctors is actually a problem .I think having too many doctors is the real problem – and creating more doctors will just aggravate this.
This is because of the way the system is designed today. Everything revolves around doctors and doctors have become a bottleneck in delivering healthcare . A lot o...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 9, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine Health Health care India doctor patient Healthcare in India Physician Source Type: blogs
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario: Proposing a policy that legitimizes quackery?Email this article to a colleague.
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ORAC NOTE: Work kept me out late last night going out to dinner with a visiting professor. Fortunately, it was actually pretty fun. Unfortunately, it kept me from cooking up a heapin' helpin' of the Insolence, either Respectful or not-so-Respectful, that my readers crave. So instead, here's a repost from elsewhere. I didn't think I could use it because the deadline for the survey I discuss was originally September 1. Fortunately, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) extended the deadline to September 16, making this post relevant for exactly one more week. Enjoy! And go and comment!
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Source: Respectful Insolence - September 9, 2011 Category: Surgeons Tags: medicine Source Type: blogs
New Complication from Contaminated Cocaine - Bilateral Necrosis of the Ear Lobes and CheeksEmail this article to a colleague.
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Interesting fact: Traces of cocaine taint up to 90% of paper money in the United States. Paper money become contaminated with cocaine during drug deals and directly through drug use, such as snorting cocaine through rolled bills. Amounts of cocaine found on U.S. bills ranged from 0.006-1,240 micrograms of cocaine per banknote (50 grains of sand) (http://bit.ly/27V5Yt).
Since 2005, levamisole (commonly used as to treat worm infections in humans and animals), has increasingly been used to mix cocaine for street use.
In 2009, 70% of cocaine seized at U.S. borders contained levamisole, causing an increase in cases of n...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - September 9, 2011 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Rheumatology Drug Abuse Vascular medicine Source Type: blogs
Why doctors need to learn to translate !Email this article to a colleague.
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I just got this email from a patient." When i was child , I had a problem of testicles, that my both testicles were on the up sides. So I had done two operations from p.i.m.s Islamabad. One was completely successful. That doctor had done operation and shifted my left testicle on the exact place. I mean down side. And when doctor had done another operation for my right testicle to shift that down side. Then doctor said that i have operated this testicle this will go sometime on down side. But the right one is still on the up side. But i do not feel any pain or any other problem in both testicles. But my left testicle is on ...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 9, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine doctors Translation Physician Source Type: blogs
Why I feel it is unethical for a doctor not to have their own websiteEmail this article to a colleague.
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I met a doctor yesterday for whom I have high regards . He is extremely competent ; patient-centric and compassionate. I was talking to him about the importance of using patient education tools and websites for delivering Information Therapy.
He had a completely different take on things . He felt that a lot of doctors use these tools as alternatives to actually sitting down and talking to the patient. He was aware of doctors would actually cut short the consultation by telling the patient – Go, take this brochure – it will tell you everything you need to know and then we can go ahead and schedule your surgery”.
Tho...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 8, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine patient Patient Education Brochure Communication Website Physician Information Therapy Source Type: blogs
How should hospitalists collaborate with consultants and what's the risk?Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Notes from Dr. RW - September 8, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: hospital medicine Source Type: blogs
Chronic meds disappear from the list at dischargeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Notes from Dr. RW - September 8, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: hospital medicine quality and safety Source Type: blogs
FUTON Bias. Or Why Limiting to Free Full Text Might not Always be a Good Idea.Email this article to a colleague.
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A few weeks ago I was discussing possible relevant papers for the Twitter Journal Club (Hashtag #TwitJC), a succesful initiative on Twitter, that I have discussed previously here and here [7,8]. I proposed an article, that appeared behind a paywall. Annemarie Cunningham (@amcunningham) immediately ran the idea down, stressing that open-access (OA) is a pre-requisite for the TwitJC [...]
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - September 8, 2011 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Citations digital library Publications PubMed/MEDLINE Researchblogs #TwitJC Academic publishing Bias Full text search Futon Bias Journal Journal Club medicine OA Open Access Open access journal Public Library of Science t Source Type: blogs
How unhappy patients can help improve medical practiseEmail this article to a colleague.
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I see a lot of patients who are extremely unhappy with their earlier IVF doctors because they think they received very poor quality treatment. However patients are extremely reluctant to divulge the name of the doctor where they have taken treatment earlier , and I wonder why this is so.
I think one reason is that they are embarrassed about how poorly informed they were when they selected the first doctor.
Another reasons is that the general impression amongst people is that the medical profession is a closed society , which is very protective of one another ; and that if they criticize one doctor, the other doctor may g...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 8, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine Health In vitro fertilisation India patient Doctors (2000 TV series) Physician Doctor-patient relationship Source Type: blogs
"Traditional" nonsenseEmail this article to a colleague.
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One aspect of "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) is the resurgence of practice of what has frequently been called "traditional Chinese medicine" (TCM). I've pointed out before that TCM is a prescientific system of medicine based largely on superstition and vitalism. Indeed, where ancient Greek and European medical systems believed that disease is due to imbalances in the four humors, TCM postulates disease to be due to imbalances in the five elements: Water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. These elements are thought to be related by cycles known as the Shen or Nourishing Cycle and the Ko or Regulating cycle. None...
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 8, 2011 Category: Surgeons Tags: medicine Source Type: blogs
Should Indian hospitals be marketing online ?Email this article to a colleague.
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I met a marketing manager of a corporate hospital today. They spend a lot of money advertising in magazines and newspapers so I asked her - Why don't you spend the money online ?She pooh-poohed the idea because she felt this would be a waste of money . She quoted studies have showed that internet penetration in India is only 4%; and was very skeptical as to whether online advertising would be cost-effective for her hospital.It took me a long time to convince her that her thinking was completely flawed. if hospital advertising needs to be successful it needs to reach out to its target market – patients ! Everyone knows th...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 8, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine India Marketing Internet marketing patient google Hospital Information Therapy Source Type: blogs
A great gift for your doctor - his own personal website !Email this article to a colleague.
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Most patients are extremely grateful to their doctor for taking such good care of them . Of course you pay him his professional fees, but many patients would like to be able to show their appreciation in a more tangible fashion , and are often at a loss as to how to do so .Here’s a simple suggestion - gift your doctor his own personal website . This will have his own domain name - for example , www.drpinto.in ! This unique , special and tangible gift can help him to improve his productivity and provide better care to his patients ! Not only will this website help them to establish its own digital identity on the net , it...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 7, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine United States In vitro fertilisation India patient Physician Information Therapy Doctor-patient relationship Source Type: blogs
Doctors need help to make decisions---but what kind of help?Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Notes from Dr. RW - September 7, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: politics and policy evidence based medicine Source Type: blogs
Optical Biosensor for Continuous Rapid Detection of Health ThreatsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers from Stratophase, a firm out of Southampton, United Kingdom, just published a paper in journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics, describing the technology inside their SpectroSens chip, a new optical micro device designed to rapidly detect pathogens and biochemicals. The chip can be loaded into a robust device to simultaneously identify 16 different potential health threats like anthrax and ricin toxin.
The chip works with light that reflects in different wavelengths in different situations. The reflectors, which are called Bragg gratings, will reflect one wavelength and let all other wavelengths pass through una...
Source: Medgadget - September 7, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Jan Sinnige Tags: Diagnostics Military medicine Nanomedicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
The problems with guidelines - the elephant in the roomEmail this article to a colleague.
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Infertile couples often get upset when their doctor refuses to provide them with the treatment they want. This is especially a problem in places like the UK where the NHS pays for IVF treatment. Because IVF treatment is expensive , doctors need to follow guidelines which have been laid down in order to ensure cost-effective use of limited resources. The one who pays the piper calls the tune !
Because these guidelines are laid down by bureaucrats they're all in black and white, which means the ability of the doctor to make decisions is remarkably curtailed . He has little autonomy and cannot break the guidelines or tailor ...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 7, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine Health Evidence-based medicine In vitro fertilisation India Professional patient Physician Source Type: blogs
Why Your Practice Should be On Google PlacesEmail this article to a colleague.
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According to a Pew Internet study, 87% of adults use search engines (mostly Google) to find information. And an increasingly amount of those searches are for local stores and establishments. Seventy-three percent of all online activity is related to local content, according to data released by Google.
One of the ways to take control of your listings on search engines is to sign up for a free service by Google called Google Places.
This free tool allows you to not only list your medical practice, but also list how it appears online. You can add a map of your location, your services, photos, health insurance plans you curren...
Source: Pediatric Inc - September 7, 2011 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Brandon Tags: Marketing Internet Customer Experience Branding The Business of medicine Advertising Google Google Places Search engine optimization Search Engines Web search engine Source Type: blogs
Why do hospitals waste money on marketing executives ?Email this article to a colleague.
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A new trend in Bombay these days seems to be that at all the new corporate hospitals , diagnostic centers and imaging centers employ marketing professionals . They are titled " doctor relationship executives " , and they go around from one GP to another , inducing and cajoling them to refer patients to their center . It’s a highly competitive business, because if you need to survive, you need patient turnover and throughputs . These executives are very popular among GPs, because their major selling point is that they provide inducements , which are primarily financial in nature. You can call this a referral fee – or a ...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 7, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine Health United States India patient General practitioner Hospital Medical Specialties Source Type: blogs
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Sigh.
Why, oh, why do news organizations do such ridiculously stupid things?
In this case, the CBC decided to put up a poll regarding the chickenpox vaccine. Here's the setup:
The Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS) says children should receive two doses of the chickenpox vaccine to avoid losing immunity and developing the disease as adults.
Chickenpox is an infectious disease that results in a blister-like rash, itching, tiredness, and fever. (Dr. John Noble, Jr./CDC)"Adults who get chickenpox have more serious illness, are more likely to get pneumonia and to be admitted to hospital. They also have a higher death rate f...
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 6, 2011 Category: Surgeons Tags: medicine Source Type: blogs
Should I get my tests done before I come to you for a consultation ?Email this article to a colleague.
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A patient just called up asking for an appointment . She had irregular cycles, and wanted to know if she should get blood tests done to check her hormonal profile for TSH,PRL, FSH,LH and AMH done before coming to see me.I was very pleased she was well-informed – and it's true that a lot of diagnosis in modern medicine today is based on lab investigations. In fact , there are some neurologists who look primarily at the CT and MRI scan to make a diagnosis, rather than examine the patientWhile it's true that tests have a useful role to play, it's equally true that they need to be done properly in order to provide value to t...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 6, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine Health In vitro fertilisation patient Conditions and Diseases Diagnosis Anti-Müllerian hormone Information Therapy Source Type: blogs
Grand Rounds 7-50: Dr. Rich Did a Great Job… Jobs, Jobs, Jobs…Email this article to a colleague.
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In the old days, bloggers whose posts were included in the Grand Rounds would link to that post from their own blog. Grand Rounds, for those who are not familiar, is a weekly compilation of the best of the medical blogosphere. I used to refer to the Grand Rounds once in a while, but quit this [...]
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - September 6, 2011 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Medical Grand Round Blog Blog Carnival Grand Rounds Medical Grand Rounds medicine Source Type: blogs
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Dr. Rich, Covert Rationing, is the host for this week’s Grand Rounds. You can read this week’s edition here. While Grand Rounds is normally the highlight of everybody’s week here in the medical blogosphere, this time it’s different. ………….. But be assured that there is good stuff to follow. So, if you find yourself incapable of focusing your attention on Grand Rounds at the moment, simply bookmark this page, and return to it once your sense of soaring happiness returns (as it inevitably must) to a more normal state. Be assured that this week’s entries are timeless enough to outlive your ecstasy (a...
Source: Suture for a Living - September 6, 2011 Category: Plastic Surgeons Tags: Blogging grand rounds shout outs medicine poetry Source Type: blogs
Oh, no! There's DNA in my Gardasil! Or is there?Email this article to a colleague.
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Over the weekend, I chilled out a bit, at least as far as the blog was concerned. I won't make too much of a secret of it, but thanks to the new policy of the new owners I have a decision to make. In the meantime, while I'm dithering, you, my readers, were deluging me with requests. Well, it wasn't exactly a deluge. Maybe three or four e-mails. But, hey, over a dull holiday weekend, when I spend most of the time either working on a grant or working in my yard? That's a deluge! Never let it be said, either, that I don't give the people what they want (usually, at least). So what are the latest depredations, antics, silly st...
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 6, 2011 Category: Surgeons Tags: medicine Source Type: blogs
Using Information Therapy to cut out cuts and kickbacks !Email this article to a colleague.
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Today's Times of India has an article documenting corruption in medical practise .It does a good job with describing the problem, but does not offer any solutions. This is a major tragedy - because it just drives another wedge in the fragile doctor-patient relationship. I wish reporters would talk about success stories rather than focus only on problems !I feel one effective solution which can create a win-win situation is using websites to provide online Information Therapy !Ix need not be restricted to just providing medical facts about an illness. By providing information about local and regional medical facilities; the...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 6, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Political corruption medicine Health India patient Times of India Physician Information Therapy Source Type: blogs
Why Research the Biology of Non-Mammals so Heavily?Email this article to a colleague.
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A comment from a reader on a recent zebrafish-related news post:
IMO it's a waste of money and scientists. We should only focus on mammals, because humans are no fish. It won't help us much, if at all.
That last assertion is not true, in fact. A great deal of exploratory life science research is first accomplished in species like fruit flies, nematode worms, yeast, zebrafish, and the like. Outside the realm of mammals there exists a small menagerie of species that have proven useful in the laboratory. Yet any of that work to ultimately make it to human clinics will first be repeated or confirmed in mammalian species such...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 6, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Why online consultations are often more efficient than face-to-face consultationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The traditional mode of communication between doctor-patient has always been face-to-face. This has always been the gold standard, and it is believed that the best way of enhancing the doctor-patient relationship is to allow the doctor to see the patient , talk to him and touch him. While there is no doubt that talking to a doctor can be extremely reassuring for the patient, it's also true that it's becoming increasingly hard to do face-to-face consultations. Commuting to visit the doctor is no longer a trivial exercise in many cities; and given the fact that there are very few doctors and too many patients , results in pa...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 5, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine Health Health care patient Expert Physician Information Therapy Doctor-patient relationship Source Type: blogs
Nostalgia for the house callEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nostalgia for the house-call
This is one from the archives, by the way, but it remains true. What we miss in medicine is probably less about money and more about freedom, connection and control.
Not too long ago, I made a house call. As a physician accustomed to working in the emergency department of a hospital, this was quite a change of pace. But it involved dear friends and their sick child, and it was a joy. We had spoken on the phone and I had some concerns about their infant, who was stricken with a high fever. When I went to their home I took only my stethoscope. That and my experience as a physician and parent of...
Source: edwinleap.com - September 5, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Edwinlea Tags: Physician wellness Uncategorized culture economics emergency medicine encouragement for doctors family medicine in general Source Type: blogs
Own the Oxylog 3000!Email this article to a colleague.
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If you're a doc or nurse in Australasia and you take care of critically ill patients chances are you should be familiar with the Oxylog 3000.
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 5, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency medicine Featured Intensive Care Pre-hospital / Retrieval Procedure drager oxylog 3000 settings simulator ventilator Source Type: blogs
The future of American medicineEmail this article to a colleague.
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This happens to be a holiday weekend. Believe it or not, sometimes even Orac needs a break from life, the universe, and every blog, particularly this one. I'll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, I realize that I've posted videos like this before (in fact, I'm sure that at some point or another I've linked to this one, but, hey, it's a holiday). However, this one is amazingly prescient, given that it dates back to the early 1990s.
Have fun commenting, and Orac will return on Tuesday--or even possibly before that.... Read the comments on this post...
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 5, 2011 Category: Surgeons Tags: medicine Source Type: blogs
Why I am bullish on the Indian healthcare IT sectorEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Indian healthcare system has become sick. The system is broken and needs to be fixed. However conventional approaches are just not going to work.
Trying to set up new medical colleges to churn out new doctors just increases the supply of doctors which only ends up in increasing the demand for more medical treatment. After all, the one thing doctors are good at doing is creating a demand for their services - they are not going to sit around twiddling their thumbs doing nothing ! More physicians just means an increased volume of "supplier-induced" medical services. There is a persistent positive correlation between the ...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 4, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: medicine USA United States Health care India Business opportunity patient Healthcare in India Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 034Email this article to a colleague.
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The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care.
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 4, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Blog News Education Emergency medicine Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
Comic Books Educate Children About Their Medical ConditionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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I’ve recently come across Medikidz, a fantastic initiative with a mission to help children understand medical information, especially diseases. I cannot imagine a better way to promote such important messages to children.
Millions of children worldwide are diagnosed every day with conditions that even their parents may find difficult to comprehend. Most children don’t understand their medical conditions, or associated investigations, procedures and treatments, and are often scared by what is going on around them.
That is where the Medikidz come into action!
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Source: Better Health - September 4, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Berci Tags: Opinion Children Comic Books Diagnosis Education Explanation medicine medicine 2.0 Medikidz Prevention Superheroes Treatment Understanding Illness Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Ivy League Medical Schools Embracing Technology For TeachingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Add Yale’s School of Medicine to the growing list of medical schools that are embracing the iPad as the primary source of medical teaching.
This upcoming year Yale will be giving their medical students, all 520 of them, an iPad 2 with an external wireless keyboard. We’ve covered with great depth the growing list of medical schools using iPads as the main tool for learning — such as Stanford, UC-Irvine, and many more.
“Yale School of Medicine this year will outfit all students with iPads and no longer provide printed course materials. The initiative, born out of a going-green effort, could (more…)
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Source: Better Health - September 4, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Iltifat Husain, M.D. Tags: News Apple Apps Boston.com Classroom tools Going-green effort Harvard School of medicine iPad Medical School Printing costs saving money Smartphone Stanford Textbooks UC-Irvine Yale School of medicine Source Type: blogs
16th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) will be held in Berlin, 13-15 September 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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The 16th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) will be held in Berlin, 13-15 September 2012 on the theme “Hidden Stories: What do medical objects tell and how can we make them speak?”.
Here’s the call for papers from Thomas Schnalke, director of the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum:
Dear friends and colleagues!
After a highly inspiring conference of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) in Copenhagen in 2010, it is my pleasure to invite the members of the association, as well as interested scholar...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 4, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: conferences history of medicine museum studies Source Type: blogs
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Source: ScienceRoll - September 4, 2011 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: medicine Source Type: blogs
Nature: 01 September 2011Email this article to a colleague.
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On this week's show: free will, an ancient hominin tool kit and doing overtime in an open-all-hours lab. Plus, the best of the rest from this week's Nature.
Source: Nature Podcast - September 3, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Nature Tags: Science & medicine Source Type: blogs
Back again, 23andMe still $hits the bed with their reportsEmail this article to a colleague.
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This report had this patient seriously concerned. Until of course I took a G-D Damn pedigree and found out they had ZERO, I repeat ZERO Asian ancestry/ethnicity, let alone Han Chinese....
The risk report from 23andSerge listed them as high risk. How in the world did that work?
(BTW, if you don't believe me, just ask and I will send you the time stamped pdfs, with name redacted of course)
You know why that worked? Because the brainchildren at the Google owned company forgot to put an ethnicity/ancestry filter on their reports. Instead they just felt that an asterisk would work just fine.....
Well Guess what 23andMe,...
Source: Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You - September 3, 2011 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: The personalized medicine group of CT greenwich genomics 23 and me navigenics Source Type: blogs
Can you display pain without lesion?Email this article to a colleague.
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It’s notoriously difficult to display invisibles in medical exhibitions. And what’s more invisible than pain? When you break a leg, the lesion is visible, but the pain is not. A mostly subjective sensation, chronic pain has few, if any, visible physical correlates. How do you display headache?
I came to think about this when I heard about the Birkbeck Pain Project, which invites contributions to a workshop organised by Daniel S. Goldberg, titled “The History of Pain Without Lesion in the Mid-to-Late 19th Century West”. The workshop will deal with the social, cultural, and medical status of what we mig...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 3, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: conferences displays/exhibits history of medicine Source Type: blogs
Webicina’s Award-Winning iPhone App: Updated!Email this article to a colleague.
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The award-winning iPhone app of Webicina.com just got a new update. Download it for free! (Also on Android!)
Modified design, small changes in the content, better navigation among the medical social media resources it features. And new highscore board for the best health 2.0 quiz players.
Source: ScienceRoll - September 3, 2011 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: medicine medicine 2.0 Mobile Web 2.0 Webicina Source Type: blogs
Stem Cell Research and Crohn’sEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study (by Celgene) is very similar to a previous study that was performed by Osiris a few years ago. I wanted to participate in the Osiris study, but we had just moved back to the states and I was starting a new job. Besides, I just had a colonoscopy — and they were going to make me repeat it. But now that I’m due for another colonoscopy, my career is basically in limbo, and I’m scared to try Cimzia, I’m ready to try this.
The trial studies the effects of PDA001 on the immune system and how this affects Crohn’s disease. Adult Stem cells can be harvested from many different places, such as the bone marro...
Source: Life with Crohn's - September 2, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Crohn's disease Crohn's disease medicine Crohn's disease treatment Crohn's research Crohn's treatment spirituality Crohn's blog Crohn's doctor God medication Source Type: blogs
What's up with all the drug shortages?Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Notes from Dr. RW - September 2, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: pharmacology hospital medicine politics and policy Source Type: blogs
From self-reported Patient Data to Mobile predictionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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E-Health 3.0: How Can The Semantic Web Change The World Of Internet Health Information?
TEDxOverlake – Dr. H. Jack West – Self-Educated Patients and The Future of Cancer Care
A beginner’s guide to digital pharma: part 15 – implementation
“Don’t believe those that say you can’t measure the return on investment (ROI) of digital and social media programs – if you can’t measure it you shouldn’t be doing it…”
NHS medical director urges GPs to use Skype for consultations
He said some GPs already offer consultations via Skype and may interest many others. ‘Then I find myself thinking that...
Source: ScienceRoll - September 2, 2011 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: Health Health 2.0 medicine medicine 2.0 science Ted Talks Video Web 2.0 What's on the web? Source Type: blogs
The fixed mindset of the anti-vaccine activistEmail this article to a colleague.
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One of my interests in skepticism and critical thinking has been the similarity in the fallacious arguments, approach to data, and general behavior of those who are--to put it generously--not so skeptical or scientific in their approach to life. I'm talking about believers in the paranormal, quacks, anti-vaccine activists, conspiracy theory mavens, Holocaust deniers, creationists, anthropogenic global warming denialists, and cranks of all stripes. Indeed, it is this similarity in mindset that led Mark Hoofnagle to coin the term "crank magnetism," a perfect description of how people who believe in one form of crankery often...
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 2, 2011 Category: Surgeons Tags: medicine Source Type: blogs
