Tag: medicine
group name: healthyself
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September 20, 2007 08:23 AM EDT --
Everyone was in place. The labor nurse stood whispering encouragement into the patient's ear and brushing the sweat soaked hair out of her eyes. The father of the baby stood on . . .
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September 27, 2007 09:10 AM EDT --
Placing the laptop bag on the office chair, I glanced at the "to do" stack of charts on the short metal bookcase in my office. Going through the mountain of charts filled with medication . . .
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September 11, 2008 09:33 PM EDT --
On the anniversary of September 11th we all are naturally drawn to that day in 2001 and recall what we were doing when the towers fell. For me, this will always remind me of that one day in . . .
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March 25, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
In 1929 a group of teachers in Dallas received what is generally considered the first modern health care insurance plan. At a rate of fifty dollars per month, they were considered to be pre-paid . . .
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August 12, 2009 09:00 AM EDT --
“I know what you’re thinking,” he said to the husky staring at him inquisitively. “How many times is this idiot going to change his pants?”
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January 14, 2008 11:01 AM EST --
Have you ever gone to your doctor's office and received a small bottle or blister pack containing a medication sample? Chances are good that if your physician is among the 78% of doctors . . .
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January 14, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
Politicians and policy makers often will take a stance that one of the solutions to our health care woes is to reward physicians who provide quality medical care. This isn't too much of a . . .
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March 25, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
Politicians and policy makers generally look at the decline of the US healthcare system from a broad macro-perspective-numbers of uninsured, newborn mortality rates, the cost of healthcare as a percentage . . .
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April 17, 2008 04:58 PM EDT --
On the second Wednesday of the month for the last eight years a group of ten or so primary care physicians in an average American community has met over dinner for an event known as Journal . . .
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October 19, 2007 11:29 PM EDT --
When the first widely used antibiotic, penicillin, gained wide spread use in the 1930's it was effective against many bacteria including staphylococcus aureus . Within a decade of medicine's . . .
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October 04, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
Standing on the back porch of the building I gazed out at the miles of evergreens surrounding our small logging and farming town. Clouds now blanketed the sky heralding fall in the Pacific Northwest. . . .
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October 24, 2007 01:15 PM EDT --
The view of downtown from the forty first floor of the office building was nothing short of spectacular. Large pane windows that consumed an entire wall allowed a full view of monstrous . . .
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December 10, 2007 09:16 AM EST --
Sometimes I walk out of the exam room and just shake my head in disgust. It happened again. With a deep sigh, I acknowledge that now I'm behind schedule and going to spend the rest of the . . .
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September 10, 2008 08:31 AM EDT --
The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation has issued a new twenty one page document that will undoubtedly make great strides in turning the tide on one of this country's . . .
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September 13, 2008 09:13 AM EDT --
JAMA's recent article on the sorry future prospects for primary care (see my previous post at The Country Doc Re port) did catch some headlines in mainstream media, but the story demonstrated . . .
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September 16, 2008 09:13 AM EDT --
Former Oregon governor and ER physician, John Kitzhaber, spoke for the medical staff of an area hospital last evening offering his thoughts on the fundamental flaws of our current healthcare system . . .
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August 22, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
When I was a second year medical student, our class prepared to purchase our set of equipment to be used in physical diagnosis—opthalmoscope/otoscope, reflex hammer, tape measure, pocket Snellen . . .
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August 29, 2007 03:14 PM EDT --
You may have noticed that computer terminals seem to be very slowly popping up in local clinics, hospitals, and emergency rooms. Amazingly, in the generally high tech world of medicine, integration . . .
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September 14, 2007 08:25 AM EDT --
Is it just me or has there been a large increase in the number of medications being labeled with the FDA’s “black-box” warning as of late? Finding myself fixated on this question . . .
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September 12, 2008 09:32 AM EDT --
This week's JAMA takes a look at medical education and the results are not too flattering for primary care. The most startling statistic was that out of 1177 internal medicine residents surveyed . . .
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