November 4th, 2011 by BarbaraFicarraRN in News, Opinion
Tags: Adults, BlogWorld Expo, conference, Connection, Doctors, Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, LinkedIn, Los Angeles, Networking, Nurses, Panel discussion, Patient Engagement, Physician Engagment, Social Health Track, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube
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Social media has changed the landscape in health care. Social media is a powerful and phenomenal platform to help educate consumers, raise awareness of health issues and connect with consumers and colleagues.
Social media gives a voice to patients and consumers and it allows the conversation to get started with doctors and other health care professionals. Social media is all about the patient and it paves the way for new modern medicine to emerge.
Tapping into technology allows for the real-time and immediate exchange of information.
Consumers and physicians tapping into social media networking
According to a study published by Pew Internet and American Life Project, 65% of adult internet users use social networking sites and 80% of internet users gather health information online.
In a recent study by QuantiaMD and Care Continuum Alliance, over 65% of physicians Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Health in 30*
November 3rd, 2011 by Linda Burke-Galloway, M.D. in Opinion, Research
Tags: Abuse, American Congress of Obstetrician-Gynecologist, CDC, Depression, Domestic Violence, Dr. Christie Palladino, Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway, Georgia Health Sciences University, Homocide, Mental Health, OB-GYN, Pregnant Women, Psychiatry, Social Work, Suicide, Unplanned Pregnancy
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In a recent medical study, violent deaths of pregnant women outnumber traditional causes of maternal deaths such as post partum hemorrhage or pre-eclampsia . I am not surprised. In September 2010, I wrote an article entitled 7 Reasons Why Pregnancy Becomes a Deadly Affair after an 18 year old college student almost lost her life at the hands of her football-playing boyfriend because she became pregnant. Pregnancy is not a benign act and 50% of them are unplanned.
Dr. Christie Palladino, an ob-gyn physician at the Georgia Health Sciences University and main researcher of the study, looked at data from 17 states and found 94 pregnancy-related suicides and 139 homicides from 2003-2007. Approximately 45 % of suicides occur during pregnancy, often precipitated by Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway*
November 3rd, 2011 by Dinah Miller, M.D. in Opinion
Tags: Apple, assistant, Clinician, Help, iPhone, Medicine, Mental Health, Physician, Psychiatry, Siri, Technology
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Next week, it will be my turn to write our article for the Clinical Psychiatry News website. Over there, we try to have our writing more specifically aimed at an audience of psychiatrists. I’m going to be writing an article on Siri and the Psychiatrist….in honor of my new iPhone 4s and the “personal assistant” function named Siri. Okay, I’m obsessed. Everyday, I find new things it can help me with. Today, I asked it, “What’s the meaning of life.” What, you don’t ask your cell phone the finer existential questions? Siri answered, “All available evidence suggests chocolate.” Wow! How old is Liza Minelli? 65 years, 7 months, 20 days. Calculate a tip? No problem. Convert Celius to Fahrenheit? A cinch. And she takes dictation. “Siri, please text Patient A Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Shrink Rap*
November 2nd, 2011 by MotherJonesRN in Health Policy, Opinion
Tags: Financial Industry, Healthcare Industry, Inequality, Insurance, Lillian Wald, National Nurses United, NNU, Nurses, Occupation, Occupy Wall Street, Protest, Social Justice
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Lillian Wald was a famous nurse activist and writer. She’s my role model. Lillian stood up for the little guy by providing health care to the poor, and she advocated for social justice during the Gilded Age. For those of you who may not know, the Gilded Age was a time of great wealth for a fortunate few in America. You might call these people the original 1%. Wall Street bankers and robber barons were buying politicians and running amok while building vast fortunes off the backs of the working poor. Sound familiar? It’s funny how history has a way of repeating itself.
I believe that Lillian Wald, the founder of public health nursing, would support the Wall Street Occupation if she were alive today. Lillian didn’t wring her hands when someone needed help. She got her hands dirty. I bet she would be encamped with the protesters, caring for the sick and blogging about Occupy Wall Street events. Nurses working the frontlines at the Occupy Wall Street protest rallies report that Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Nurse Ratched's Place*
November 2nd, 2011 by Peggy Polaneczky, M.D. in Health Policy, Opinion
Tags: Amendment 26, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Ban, Birth Control Pills, chemical abortifacents, Condoms, Contraception, Dr. Freda Bush, Family Planning, Fertilization, Gynecology, Hormonal Contraception, Mississippi, OB/GYN, Outlawed, Personhood Amendment
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On November 8, Mississippians will be voting on ballot amendment 26 , the so called “Personhood Amendment” that if passed, would declare a fertilized egg a person.
The question at hand is, would the Personhood Amendment be used to outlaw contraception?
Dr. Freda Bush, an Ob-Gyn and spokesperson for the Personhood amendment in Mississippi, seems to think it will not. In a press conference in support of the amendment in September, she stated this –
The personhood amendment will not ban the use of hormonal contraceptives.
The video of this press conference is being used to reassure voters about the intent of amendment 26. And yet the information Dr. Bush presents about contraception and the amendment stands in complete contrast to that which the personhood movement itself has presented. Here is the standard “talking point” on contraception from personhood sites at states across the country seeking to pass similar amendments – Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at The Blog That Ate Manhattan*
