(Too much serious stuff on my mind, to post serious material. Time for humor thanks to ScrubsMag.)
thuc:
New data on concierge medicine
Concierge medicine is a growing style of practice in healthcare in which a patient pays an…
(via dorasnursing)
I love to hate dogma. And there’s probably nothing in surgery more sacred and more ingrained than how to take care of a wound. Everybody knows that you have to keep surgical or traumatic wounds dry, and that once you can get them wet, showers are good at baths are bad. Right?
And for…
Find Out How Your Local Hospital Ranks re: Safety
The L.A. Times published an article describing an organization that grades local hospitals based on their safety records.
To find how your local hospital ranks, use the original ranking organizations website.
(Source: rnratched, via hippieontheinside)
I think I’d take the short burst of pain, given a choice.
My LOL (little old lady) patient is on the bedside commode trying to have a BM after being constipated for a week…
… and I, of course, can’t leave her because she’s a huge fall risk.
… also, it’s 0600 and everyone else is calling to get help going to the bathroom too.
Add to it that she’s S/P THR, and you’ll never get to your charting.
Physicians Walk Out of National Obamacare Meeting
According to live tweets and images sent from ophthalmologist Dr. Kris Held, nearly all doctors had walked out in protest and disgust of Obamacare implementation talks at a prominent national health care meeting. Typically, The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Government Relations session is a well attended, formal business conference where brilliant minds in medicine convene. This year was a different story. With talks of Obamacare implementation and compliance underway, doctors left and right had left the auditorium.
You’ve probably heard about it, and may have even seen a video about the popular (read: let’s watch stupid human tricks) viral experience called ‘the cinnamon challenge’.
More than the ‘why do it’, what’s the physiology behind it? Seems that cinnamon is primarily cellulose (water resistant and resistant to the enzymes in our mouths), and volatile organic compounds in finely powdered form that make your respiratory system gasp and gag. And in this process there is a good chance of fine powder being inhaled down the trachea and into the lungs to irritate the tissues.
This fad has led to increasing calls to Poison Control Centers, and to Emergency Depts. Animal studies have shown that “intratracheal exposure to cinnamon can have deleterious effects, including granulomata, interstitial fibrosis, alveolar histiocytosis, alveolar lip proteinosis, and alveolar cell hyperplasia.”(1)
