Do Foreign Medical Graduates âDoctorâ Better?
Yes, according to a study in today’s Health Affairs. (The full text of the study is available only to subscribers, but Kaiser Health News Daily has a good summary of its findings and links to other...
View ArticleCharlie Chaplin on Failure
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. - Charlie Chaplin Post from: BlissTree Charlie Chaplin on Failure (Source: Healthbolt)
View ArticleARBs and lung-cancer risk in a new meta-analysis by Dr Ike Sipahi
Heart failure and transplantation with Dr Ileana Piña - Cardiologist and heart failure and transplantation specialist, Dr Ileana Piña, from Case Western Reserve University shares her views on...
View ArticleAre computers in medicine narcotic? "Why did the National Programme for IT...
This article shows the muddled thinking behind the health IT mania. My observation: when you see the word "revolutionary" in the same paragraph as health IT you're dealing with hysterics.The "patient...
View ArticleThe Number 1 Reason Why Your Life is a Failure
Do you think your life is a failure? Why? Is it because you havenât accomplished any of your goals? Or because you arenât financially stable? Donât have a beautiful home? People can be very...
View ArticleCerner's Blitzkrieg on London: Where's the RAF?
In the Battle of Britain in WW2, the Royal Air Force (RAF) heroically repelled a foreign invasion of the UK.The Supermarine Spitfire, key defense tool in the Battle of Britain. (Worked without major...
View ArticleFocus on exercise in older men and in women at ESC 2010
Two understudied groups were the focus of papers presented in Stockholm that underline our incomplete understanding of biomarkers and of left ventricular hypertrophy in female athletes. (Source:...
View ArticleAn example of an inexcusable health IT "glitch": Eclipsys Sunrise
An example of an inexcusable health IT "glitch." Reported to FDA MedWatch: The Eclypsis Sunrise Clinical Manager EMR/CPOE is in use at [snip] Hospital.This system appears to have a serious deficiency:...
View ArticlePatients Starved For Time With The Doctor
If youâre into health care consumerism, you’ll enjoy my guest blog post at CDHC Solutions magazine. CDHC Solutions focuses on consumer-driven health plans. Consumer-driven plans are a form of âhigh...
View Article4 Ways to Turn Failure into Success
Conclusion Your potential is limitless. What you can do is only limited by your belief. Try, try and try again until you find your way and start moving on towards your dreams! If you liked this post...
View Article7 Must Read Success Lessons from Stephen Covey
Stephen R. Covey is the author of the best-selling book âThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.â His book has sold more than 15 million copies around the world since it was first published in...
View ArticleBrain Swelling and Damage Associated With Vaccines
Catherine Frompovich Vactruth.com 09/16/2010 Brain Swelling and Damage Associated With Vaccines – Inappropriately Labeled Shaken Baby Syndrome Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines Meeting Sept....
View ArticleJournal of the American Medical Association 2010 (Vol. 304 No. 12)
This article determines the value of self-management counselling plus heart failure education, compared with heart failure education alone, for the primary end point of death or heart failure...
View ArticleRe-Defining Your Path to Success
Why do so many people fall short of their goals, even when they actively prepare and plot out a course of action? The answer is surprisingly simple. Our motivations are flawed. Oh, we formulate our...
View ArticleShould âOld Ageâ Be A Cause Of Death?
The Washington Post asks whether “old age” should be reconsidered as a legitimate cause of death for the elderly. Because more people are dying at very advanced ages with multiple system failure, it’s...
View ArticleCongestive Heart Failure â Signs and Symptoms
Cheyne-Stokes respiration (Source: Inside Surgery)
View ArticleHot Heads and Government Failure
By Thomas FireyThe left-wing blogosphere and left-leaning newspapers have spent the past few days joyously incensed over the story of a Tennessee city fire department that allowed a home to burn...
View ArticleBasic Health Education: Not So Basic
The past two weeks Iâve been the âdayfloatâ resident on the cardiology inpatient service. With the 30-hour-shift work ârestrictionsâ placed on medical residents, there has been a need for new...
View ArticleHigher Education Subsidies Wasted
By Tad DeHavenA study from the American Institutes of Research finds that federal and state governments have wasted billions of dollars on subsidies for students who didnât make it past their first...
View ArticleLetting go and letting God
We werenât originally designed to keep everything in play all the time. Something got broken in us when we left the Garden of Eden. We stopped trusting that God was good and that we were the apple of...
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