April 15th, 2010 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, News, Research
Tags: American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, APHA, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, CCDM, CDC, Cellular Device, Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, Infectious Disease, Internet, iPhone App, Journal of Tropical Medicine, Medline Journals, Mobile + Web, Mobile Phone Platform, Public Health, Unbound Medicine, WHO
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Unbound Medicine has teamed up with the American Public Health Association (APHA) to release a mobile and web version of Control of Communicable Diseases Manual (CCDM).
Like other Unbound titles, CCDM is available on most popular mobile phone platforms and is optimized for the unique nature of each device type.
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual for Mobile + Web includes Medline Journals, which allow users to view citations and abstracts from the latest issues in selected journals such as the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Tropical Medicine, and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), then link to full-text articles.
CCDM for Mobile + Web also includes RSS news feeds from relevant sites such as APHA, WHO, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
April 15th, 2010 by Kimball Atwood IV, M.D. in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Opinion, Research
Tags: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Natural Medicines, Natural Remedies, Naturopathy, NCCAM, Pseudomedicine, Pseudoscience, Pseudoscientific method
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For a number of reasons, well-argued many times here on SBM, it would be beneficial to American citizens if the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) were abolished. This does not seem to be in the cards anytime soon.
Here, then, are my suggestions for making the Center less dangerous and less of a marketing tool for pseudomedicine than it has been since its inception. Some suggestions might even make the Center somewhat useful. They are listed in order of priority. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Science-Based Medicine*
April 14th, 2010 by KevinMD in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Opinion
Tags: General Medicine, Hospital-Owned Practice, Medical Center, Medical School Debt, Primary Care, Private Practice Medicine, Solo Practitioner, Young Doctors
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I’ve written previously that the days of the private practice physician are numbered. A detailed piece from the New York Times confirms the exodus.
Young doctors who are burdened with medical school debt exceeding $150,000 are opting for the financial stability that a salary from a hospital-owned practice, or a large integrative medical center, can bring. Gone are the days where a solo practitioner can hang a shingle and practice in a small office, or in days past, a room adjoining their home.
Read more here: Private practice medicine will soon become extinct.
*This blog post was originally published at KevinMD.com*
April 14th, 2010 by Shadowfax in Better Health Network, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Caregivers, Colleagues, Compassion Failure, Dehumanization, Dehumanized, Emergency Department, Emergency Medicine, ER, General Medicine, Healthcare Workers, Medical Blogs, Patient Care, Patient Disregard, Primary Care
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Intueri (Maria) has it. Go read. Really. I’ll wait. Go read then and come back here, because I have something to say, too. She writes beautifully, and it’s a hard read. I almost stopped before I finished it, and I did flinch more than once. The man she writes about was in my ER today, or at least someone very like him.
He was rolled onto a hallway gurney, given a cursory inspection, and left to sleep it off before being given the “bum’s rush out” when he became more sober and obnoxious. He was viewed by the staff as an irritation, a burden, an annoyance. Smelly, dirty and creepy. Scaring the children as they walked by to their rooms. Nurses were short-tempered and brusque to him, and the doctors avoided him as much as possible. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Movin' Meat*
April 14th, 2010 by RyanDuBosar in Better Health Network, Health Policy, News, Opinion
Tags: American Academy of Nursing, American College Of Physicians, Cecil B. Wilson M.D., CVS, Doctor, Doctorate, General Medicine, Healthcare Policy, Jack Needleman, Medical Specialty, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Societies, Primary Care, Primary Care Shortage, Retail Clinics, Wal-Mart, Walgreens
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Nurse practitioners are demanding a wider scope of practice and even to be called “doctor” if they have a doctorate. And 28 states are considering giving them what they want, to which physician societies object.
Health policy analyst Jack Needleman (a Ph.D., so he gets to be called doctor, too), says the quality of care is the same. (He’s also an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.) AMA president-elect and internist Cecil B. Wilson, M.D., a Master of the American College of Physicians, (who is definitely called doctor) says the primary care shortage is a call for more physicians, not for fewer. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at ACP Internist*
