May 16th, 2010 by Peggy Polaneczky, M.D. in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Humor, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Anger, Anxiety, Diet and Nutrition, Dietetics, Emotional Eating, Family Medicine, Food and Drink, Frustration, General Medicine, Irritability, Managing Stress, Marriage and Family, Mood Disorders, Mood Eating, Obese, Obesity, Overeating, Overweight, Primary Care, Psychology, Relationships, Sedating Yourself With Food, Sedative, Sustenance, Weight Gain
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Dr. Whoo and I seem to be in the same place at the same time — we both struggle with our weight because we’re using food for something other than sustenance. We use it to manage stress. Overeating is, after all, a wonderful sedative. It soothes the savage beast and all that. And it really works. I’ve probably saved my marriage and my job and kept from killing my kids and my husband by sedating myself with food. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at The Blog that Ate Manhattan*
May 14th, 2010 by KevinMD in Better Health Network, Humor, Medical Art, Opinion
Tags: A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor, Career-Change Options, Cashier, Doctors, Drug Rep, Family Medicine, Financial Consultant, General Medicine, Hate Medicine, Internal Medicine, M.D., Medical School, Physicians, Primary Care, Quit Medicine, Starbucks, Stay-At-Home Mom, Stop Practicing Medicine
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What awaits some physicians who decide to quit medicine:
Source: A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor
*This blog post was originally published at KevinMD.com*
May 13th, 2010 by DrRob in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Humor, Medical Art, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Affected Synovium, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, CTS, DIP, Distal Interphalangial, Family Medicine, Finger Deformity, Fortune Teller, General Medicine, Hand Examination, Hand Lines, Hand Movements, Hand Puppets, Hand Shadows, Internal Medicine, Madam Linda, MCP, Metacarpal Phalange Joint, Nerve Damage, Neurology, Orthopedics, Osteoarthritis, Palm Reading, PIP, Primary Care, Proximal Interphalangial, RA, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Thenar Eminence
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Back to the subject at hand.
To those who are relatively new to this blog, one of the most popular…uh…tolerated series of posts has been my series on the physical exam. If you haven’t done so already, you may want to go back and read the posts to get in the proper mindset (or destroy enough brain cells).
Astute readers will note that doctors are not the only professionals to examine the hand.
Long before we knew anything about carpal tunnel syndrome or the thenar eminence, we had Madam Linda and her cohorts looking at the hand for signs of what the future will bring for the individual that happens to be connected to the hand in question. Just as stars and planets can have a peculiar interest as to whether a person will run into money, the lines on a person’s hand can foreshadow a person’s future. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Musings of a Distractible Mind*
May 8th, 2010 by KevinMD in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Health Tips, Humor, News, Opinion
Tags: Boston Nit-Picker, Children, Communicable Disease, Get Rid of Lice, Hair, Head Lice, Head Lice Nits, Head-To-Head Contact, Healthcare Field, Infestation, Itchy, kids, Killing Lice, Lice-Killing Industry, Licebeaters, Medical Profession, Parasites, Parasitic Insects, Parents, Pediatricians, Pediatrics, Pediculosis Capitis, Scalp, Texas Lice Squad
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What’s one of the fastest growing healthcare fields? A professional nitpicker — as in the profession of picking lice out of hair.
In a recent New York Times story, it’s becoming apparent that parents will do anything to get rid of lice. Part of it is the stigma associated with it, part of it is the “ickiness” factor. As a parent myself, I certainly understand the sentiment. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at KevinMD.com*
May 7th, 2010 by DrWes in Better Health Network, Humor, News, Research
Tags: Cardiology, Congestive Heart Failure, Donate, Harvested Wild Turkeys, Heart Disease, Human Heart Problems, Medical Research, National Wild Turkey Federation, Turkey Hunters, Wayne State University, Wild Turkey Hearts
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From Freep.com:
“Medical researchers at Wayne State University have asked hunters in the state [Michigan] to donate the hearts of harvested wild turkeys for researching heart disease and congestive heart failure.
The National Wild Turkey Federation recently joined the school in making the appeal. Researchers hope that tests using wild turkey hearts could lead to medical breakthroughs for combating heart problems in humans.” Read more.
-WesMusings of a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist.
*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Wes*
