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More Medical Students Would Like Internal Medicine But Can’t Handle Debt
A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine looked at med students’ views of internal medicine as their first choice between 1990-2007—three years shy of 20 years of data. There is good news about students’ perceptions but no news about ways to reduce debt load.
Topics: News
911 Needs 911 Help for Its Own System… Cell and Text Calls Can’t Get Through
What many don’t know is that a 911 call from a cell phone is not one that provides GPS location information to 911 crews. On a landline, 911 operators can locate callers precisely. Text messaging is too new for the 911 system to have adopted, either. Fixing this infrastructure would require a huge infusion of [...]
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Acupuncture Goes to War: Navy Doctors Using It to Help Wounded Warriors with Concussions
Can needles and lights help soldiers in Afghanistan who have sustained concussions, the mildest form of brain trauma? Some Navy battlefield doctors are trying acupuncture-plus with some success.
Topics: In Brief
A + Site for Checking Medication Information… Doctors and Nurses Use It
Be sure to check out Epocrates.com, a professional site which enables consumers to check out medication information, too.
Everything you ever wanted to know about a medication lives here.
One of the best features is one which allows you to ID a pill you have but don’t know the name of.
In addition, you can read the same [...]
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Desktop Medicine Is 21st Century Medicine…This Could Be A Good Thing, Says JAMA
Many TPR items are about the value of time in health matters. This excerpt from a full, free commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association, explains a new kind of medicine: Desktop medicine. It explains why doctors are at computer terminals so much of the time and why this is here to stay. It can work for the doctor-patient relationship if done right. It won’t be easy to do, however.
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Time Is a Powerful Tool for M.D.s and Patients Alike…And There Is Too Little of It
Time is not on our side. It is not on the side of the doctors. It is not on the side of the patients. It is not on the side of their families. There has not been enough time for decades. New research comes out every day. Technologies change constantly. The administrative time needed for patient care passed absurd a long time ago. We need meaningful documentation of patient care. We do not need time-wasters, the number of which keep growing like kudzu.
Topics: How To Speak Doctor
“I Am 85…If I Were in My 60s, Maybe Even 70s, I Would Think About Treatment. Not Now.”
When people love the patient, they often hope for the patient to make a different decision than they have. This is a little story about the worries of an “almost-daughter” and the remarkable woman facing death her way. Families and close friends may have a tougher time dealing with impending death than the patient. Who wants to be the one who gives up? We all can learn from this patient’s story.
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Do Your Doctors Have a Communications Problem? You May Be Able to Help
Primary care doctors and specialists each think they do a better job at communicating about patients.
The “senders” of patients, primary care doctors, think that “most of the time,” they do a better job than specialists.
Interesting. The specialists think “most of the time,” they do a better job of sending information back to the patient’s own doctor. What can you do? Read on.
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How to Know When You Should Not Believe Those Lying Eyes
It is terrible to discover someone has lied to you. Yet life teaches us that liars are good at it, so what are we to do?
This fascinating study, described in a full, free text article from Current Directions in Psychological Science explains how we may improve our odds when liars send their words into our [...]
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More Patients Die 30 Days After Surgery If They Have Do Not Resuscitate Orders
This is a story which could easily cause misunderstandings based on headlines alone. Patients who had do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders had a higher risk of mortality within 30 days of surgery than those who do not have DNR orders, according to a study just published in the Archives of General Surgery.
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