October 7th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Medblogger Shout Outs
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Thanks to the ladies at the Disruptive Women In Healthcare blog for hosting me during my period of homelessness. Here’s an excerpt from my post:
Of course, modifying behavior is the holy grail of medicine. We physicians wish that our patients would optimize their diet and exercise choices and become fully compliant partners in managing their chronic diseases. Unfortunately, fifty percent of patients forget to take their meds and over 30 percent don’t refill their prescriptions. Twenty percent say they don’t take the full course of treatment and fifty percent of patients don’t take drugs as directed. What’s a doc to do?…
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October 7th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Medblogger Shout Outs
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Thanks to Dr. Cris for hosting me during my “homeless” period. Dr. Cris blogs from Australia:
Thanks to DrVal for providing this cartoon by way of a guest post. She is currently blogless and is taking a round the world blog tour. Look out for Val at a medblog near you!
October 7th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Medblogger Shout Outs
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Thanks to my dear friend Dr. Rob for allowing me to “crash” at his blog during my period of homelessness. Here’s an excerpt from one of my posts:
The Law Of Conservation of Mass
Students of physics, and doctors who were not asleep during all of their pre-med classes, will recall their professor’s lecture on the “law of conservation of mass.” This law of physics states that: “matter cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged.” This is the primary reason why no one can truly lose weight. The law of conservation of mass means that even if you do lose weight, someone else has to gain it, because matter (fat) cannot be destroyed, only rearranged…
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October 7th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Medblogger Shout Outs
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Thanks to Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel/Deaconess hospital in Boston, for hosting me at Running A Hospital. Here is an excerpt of my post:
I took a beginning Spanish course at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, about ten years ago. One day I was at a local grocery store, picking through some apples and oranges when I noticed several women looking at me with utter disgust. I couldn’t imagine what was bothering them and returned their gaze with an innocent shrug.
“Sucio!” [dirty] uttered one under her breath. And the women shook their heads and pushed their shopping carts away from me in a huff.
My mind went into overdrive trying to figure out what I could possibly have done that was so utterly distasteful…
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October 7th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Medblogger Shout Outs
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Thanks to Ian Furst for hosting me during my period of blog homelessnes. Here’s the post that he featured at his blog:
Thanks to Dr. Val for making a guest appearance at Wait Times. Val is a former Candian now living south of the border. When you make it to Waterloo (or Toronto) I’ll have some back-bacon on a bun and a pint of Canadian waiting for you.
Check out Ian’s blog here.
