August 28th, 2010 by KerriSparling in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Humor, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Carbohydrates, Counting Carbs, Diabetes Diet, Diabetes Management, Diabetes Tools, Dietetics, Endocrinology, Food and Nutrition, Good Food Choices, High-Carb Foods, Imbalanced Food Selections, Precision Carb Guessing, Six Until Me
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I keep measuring cups in my purse so that I can measure out my dinners out to be exact. I keep a small food scale in the glove compartment of my car so I am never guessing how many ounces a certain item might be. And I have the Calorie King booklet in my pocket at all times, so that I’m never left guessing. I even sewed pockets into all my clothes, just to bring the booklet around.
(The previous paragraph is filled with lies. Big, fat ones.)
I wish I was a precision carb counter. I wish I had the patience for it, always either eating pre-packaged and factory-analyzed foods or spending my time carefully measuring and weighing any home cooked adventures. But I am not a precision carb counter. I’m a precision carb guesser. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Six Until Me.*
August 28th, 2010 by John Mandrola, M.D. in Better Health Network, Health Policy, News, Opinion
Tags: College Basketball Arena, Community-Based Corrections, Courier-Journal, Dismas Charities Inc., Doctor Career Day, Doctors As Government Employees, General Medicine, Government-Dependent, Government-Funded Care, Healing The Body, Healing The Spirit, Louisville, Luxury Box, Medical Business Model, Medical Business Profit, Non-Profit, Ray Weis, Yum Center
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Yes, it’s true — most doctors may soon be government employees. No, not the Lasik surgeons, the plastic surgeons, or the dentists — they were clearly more focused on career day. But is it necessarily a bad thing if all of your income comes from federal, state, or local governments?
If your business is caring for the medical needs of the less fortunate, a Medicaid doctor or a VA doctor perhaps, then your luxury box may be something more Thoreau-like, maybe some nice lawn furniture in the backyard. On the other hand, if your business model involves caring for recently-released prisoners or drug addicts, then you are in the financial sweet spot. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Dr John M*
August 28th, 2010 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, Book Reviews, Opinion, Research
Tags: Bonk, Curious Science of Life in the Void, Dan Buckland, History of Cadaver Research, History of Sex Research, Mary Roach, Medical Research in Spaceflight, NASA, National Space Biomedial Research Institute, NSBRI, Packing For Mars, Space Programs, Space Travel, Stiff
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Book review by Dan Buckland
(Dan Buckland is an editor at Medgadget and an MD/PhD student at Harvard Med/MIT whose thesis deals with diagnosing back injury in spaceflight using ultrasound.)
Mary Roach, author of previous entertaining books Bonk (a history of sex research) and Stiff (a history of cadaver research), has turned her considerable talents in translating decades of research into a readable review of human (and animal) spaceflight experimentation.
The title of her new book, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, is a bit of a misnomer — only the last chapter is devoted to the medical advances needed for a trip to Mars. However, it is a great layman’s history of the biomedical results of both the American and Russian space programs.
Through my own research and academic career I’ve been peripherally involved with many of the recent studies she mentions in the book, and I know many of the people she interviewed, so I give her credit for taking some fairly complicated concepts and distilling them to relevant anecdotes and asides. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
August 28th, 2010 by Nicholas Genes, M.D., Ph.D. in Better Health Network, Humor, Opinion
Tags: Dr. Nicholas Genes, ED, Emergency Department, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Room, ER, Goldfrapp, Medical Humor, Medicine and Music
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Somebody at Apple likes Goldfrapp. They’ve used her latest album for this tutorial and the sublime Seventh Tree was pictured on the first Apple descriptions of the Remote app. It’s nice when a monolithic institution shows a little personality. Of course, my interest in Goldfrapp is mostly professional: Who else has sung as well about ending up in an emergency department?
*This blog post was originally published at Blogborygmi*
August 27th, 2010 by RamonaBatesMD in Better Health Network, Health Policy, News, Opinion
Tags: Breast Cancer, Breast Reconstruction, Cancer Surgery, Cosmetic Surgery, Doctor-Patient Communication, Healthcare Law, Oncology, Patient Education, Plastic Surgery, State of New York, Susan G. Komen, Treatment Options, U.S. Department of Labor, WHCRA, Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act
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Recently the [state of] New York signed a law requiring hospitals and doctors to discuss breast reconstruction options with the patient prior to her undergoing cancer surgery. It troubled me that this law was needed. Is it not the duty of the physicians and surgeons to educate the patient on the options available?
We need to make sure the patient and their family know of the treatment options which may vary depending on the diagnosis and stage: Radiation, chemotherapy, surgery (lumpectomy, mastectomy, axillary dissection) — a combination of treatments.
Even if the patient and her physicians don’t chose to do immediate reconstruction, isn’t the discussion and information part of the discussion? At least inform the patient of the option.
Do we physicians and surgeons need another law to ensure we do right by our patients? Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Suture for a Living*
