January 12th, 2010 by BarbaraFicarraRN in Better Health Network, Health Tips
Tags: Advice, Consumer, Empowered Patients, ePatient, How To Take Control Of Your Health, Nursing, Tips
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Empowered health consumers know how to take charge of their health and are proactive in their care.
Whether they’re surfing the web for health information, visiting their doctor or health care professional, or a patient in the hospital; empowered health consumers know how to question and communicate.
This blog is a continuation of the “He Said, She Said” post where I promised to give you tips about how to be an empowered health consumer.
Sabriya Rice, CNN Medical Producer had a similar idea.
Here are my 3 tips to help you become an empowered health consumer: Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Health in 30*
January 12th, 2010 by DrRob in Better Health Network, Health Tips
Tags: Behavior Change, Lifestyle Choices, Obesity, Preventive Health, Primary Care, smoking, Stress, Underlying Causes, Weight Loss, Wellness
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Every year it happens: people come to me telling of what they are going to be doing different in this fresh new year. People are going to stop smoking, start exercising, and (especially) lose weight. This year, I am among the resolvers.
Every year, most people fail.
Which makes me wonder what it is about us humans that allows us to act against what we know is best. Why is it that educating people is rarely enough to fix a problem? Why should we have an obesity “epidemic” when very few people really want to be obese? Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Musings of a Distractible Mind*
January 12th, 2010 by KerriSparling in Better Health Network, Medblogger Shout Outs, Opinion, Patient Interviews
Tags: Bloggers, Blogging, Diabetes, ePatients, Exploitation, FTC, Harrassment, Industry, Influence, Patient Bloggers, PR, PR Professionals, Press Releases, Social Media
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Quick post to the PR professionals in the healthcare sphere:
When someone dies, it is terrible tragedy. That person leaves behind a family, loved ones, and – especially when they die young – their future. If someone dies as a result of diabetes, or due to complications from diabetes, or from something else entirely but they happened to have diabetes, and you decide to exploit their death to gain pageviews for your website? (See also: Brittany Murphy, Casey Johnson)
Come on.
There’s a difference between passing on information that could help people improve their lives, and then there’s pure, TMZ-style exploitation. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Six Until Me.*
January 12th, 2010 by RamonaBatesMD in Better Health Network, Book Reviews, Health Tips
Tags: Bernard Ackerman, Dermatology, Dermatopathology, Eric Fettmann, FDR's Deadly Secret, Franklin D. Roosevelt, melanoma, Metastases, Oncology, Plastic Surgery, Skin Cancer, Steven Lomazow
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Earlier today I wrote a short article which resulted in correspondence with one of the authors of the new book, ‘FDR’s Deadly Secret’ by Steven Lomazow and Eric Fettmann.
Dr. Steven Lomazow sent me a copy of his Archives of Dermatology article with Dr. Bernard Ackerman, this photo, and a pdf of his book which I have spent the afternoon reading.
The article goes through a series of photos of FDR from his younger days to his older ones, showing the progression and changes. From the article: Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Suture for a Living*
January 12th, 2010 by Shadowfax in Better Health Network, True Stories
Tags: Baby, Brain, CAT Scan, Depressed Fracture, Emergency Medicine, Head Trauma, Hematoma, infant, Patient Historian, Pediatrics, Signs
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Exaggeration, drama, and histrionics are very much the rule of thumb in the ER. Someone comes in and claims they were stabbed with an eight-inch butcher’s knife, and the police later bring in the actual weapon, and it turns out to be a three-inch penknife. Someone claims to have taken a whole bottle of tylenol, but their serum levels turn out to be nowhere near the toxic level (or even zero). A patient reports to you that their last pneumonia was so bad their doctor didn’t think they’d pull through, but you check the records and see they weren’t even in the ICU. (The sole exception to this rule, of course, is the stated alcohol intake, which is usually about half to a third the actual alcohol intake.) Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Movin' Meat*
