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Medical Education
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Medical education is a complex business. How do you take young, energetic, hard working, bright people and transform them into caring physicians? Do you teach them five days a week, eight hours a day? Do you give them time for independent study? Do you have grades? What about class ranking? Do you teach compassion? Do ...1 day ago -
Integrative Medicine and Total Health
AlternativeMedicineGuides.com —
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Image via WikipediaIntegrative medicine seems to be a more useful term than alternative in some ways, as it implies taking the whole patient into account. Alternative medicine just means something that is not in the mainstream of medicine, which could, and does change over time. Integrative medicine could ...1 week ago -
Therapy: Does it ever end?
The Shrink Tank —
Authority: 91
"The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates Can therapy be addictive? You bet. But so can watching TV, exercising at the gym, body piercing, tanning beds, and cosmetic surgery. Just about anything that feels good (and even a whole lot of things that feel bad) can be used to excess. For certain, some ...1 week ago -
Toxic Shopping Sprees?
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The health impact of synthetics has been a shameful open secret in the U.S. for decades. But an Op Ed by Nicholas Kristof in last Sunday’s New York Times , titled “Cancer From the Kitchen,” shows the very serious problem is finally coming to light. Kristof attended a conference held by environmental health ...1 week ago -
How Coaching Works: Coachs Commentary
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Watch How Coaching Works: A Short Movie on You Tube We released a movie titled "How Coaching Works" as a way to explain coaching via YouTube using an animated cartoon. This blog series aims to share the psychological underpinnings of the cartoon. The first blog provides insight into the approaches used by the ...1 week ago -
Medical Homes: Making Room for Mental Health
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Our health care system is plagued by a lack of coordination. Fragmentation is particularly acute in the mental health system, affecting both cost and quality. A large percentage of individuals with mental health conditions rely on primary care for treatment, making it important these settings adequately address these ...2 weeks ago -
Reaching Children who Live in a World of their Own
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"A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor," said August Bier, a German surgeon practicing at the turn of the 19th century. The best recent medical evidence reflecting the wisdom of Biers statement comes in a new study in which researchers trained mothers to treat their autistic toddlers at ...2 weeks ago -
When Therapy Becomes an Addiction
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I had the great delight this summer to reconnect with a writer-friend Judith Schwartz. We had met 15 or so years ago through the American Society of Journalists and Authors . I found her warm and Intelligent and enjoyed our conversations about writing. Then she moved to Chicago and we lost touch. I later heard ...2 weeks ago -
In Praise of Public Hospitals
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Public hospitals have a bad rap. They’re viewed by many as hospitals of last resort, and most patients with private insurance do anything to avoid them. As a long-time physician in a public hospital, I’m sensitive to this reputation. I wouldn’t work in my hospital if I didn’t feel that it delivered excellent ...2 weeks ago -
Got CFS? Dr. Oz Tackles the XMRV Virus
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On Thursday’s show (12/3), Dr. Oz did a great job introducing the new research showing the presence of XMRV viral infections in CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). As the earlier show I appeared on focused on general fatigue, I have been encouraging Dr. Oz to do a segment focusing on CFS, and on XMRV in particular, and ...2 weeks ago -
Revealing Your Christmas Present (A Little Early)
Stan Gardner, M.D. —
Authority: 125
Dear Healthy Thinkers, Whoa. Remember how yesterday I told you about my son Josh who couldn’t sleep, he was so excited about an idea he had? We were sitting at the table right after Thanksgiving, and he launched into this great (and scary) idea of a gift for you that would help you to become healthier and more ...2 weeks ago -
Harvard Reflections - Part IV
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Inspired by "Change" at the Harvard Conference on Coaching in Medicine and Leadership I am co-director of a new Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School and in September we held our second Harvard Medical School Coaching in Medicine and Leadership Conference . We brought together ...2 weeks ago -
My Christmas Gift: A Healthier New Year for You!
Stan Gardner, M.D. —
Authority: 125
Dear Healthy Thinkers, You know how in the last several days I have been giving you little hints that I’m up to something big? I’m so excited I can hardly type this! I have something incredible to share with you: a Christmas and New Year of Health gift that I am GIVING to you. It’s too big to tell you ...2 weeks ago -
Blood Pressure Meds and Coughing
Stan Gardner, M.D. —
Authority: 125
I have worked with 15 disabled veterans who have complained of coughing while on Lisinopril for their blood pressure. It stopped when they used Fosinopril. Can you explain this? There are 6 categories of medications that are used for blood pressure control. Lisinopril is in the category of an ACE inhibitor, ...3 weeks ago -
7 Tips to Relieve Holiday Stress
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While ‘tis the season to be merry, for many of us, it’s also a season for stress, anxiety and angst, which leads us to behave in ways we’re sure to regret later. During this time of year, people often resort to bad habits—they may cave into sugar cravings, go for the booze and overdose on caffeine. In part, ...3 weeks ago -
Do Vitamins Cause Cancer?
drgina —
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Weighing the benefits of nutritional supplements I am reprinting a press release from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service that discusses a newly published study, sure to get press, that implies that a simple folate supplement increases cancer rates in patients who are diagnosed with heart disease. This press ...3 weeks ago -
Healthcare Reform Bills Legitimize Quackery
Better Health —
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I’ve been warning folks about this for years - and alas, fake medicine and quackery has finally oiled its way into the healthcare reform bills. We are in the midst of a growing primary care shortage, and on the brink of vastly expanding health insurance coverage without increasing the supply of physicians and ...3 weeks ago -
Leave it to the naturopaths…
Skepfeeds-The Best Skeptical blogs of the day —
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…to give you an insight of what delusion sounds like . I probably should apologize for the prolonged absence from the blogosphere, but what the hell this is my blog and I’m not going to. It’s not like there was any void of skeptical goodies to peruse during my absence, so suck it up and stop whining. As I am ...3 weeks ago -
Rehabbing "Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew"
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"Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew," is a reality television show that tracks a group of celebrities whom enter psychiatric treatment for sex addiction. Enticing, right? Unfortunately this show breaks few barriers in following the traditional reality TV recipe: one part spontaneous behavior, one part rehearsed behavior, and a ...4 weeks ago -
New cancer target for non-Hodgkins lymphoma
Science Blog - Science news straight from the source —
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NEW YORK (Nov. 22 2009) -- Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects lymphocytes, or white blood cells.4 weeks ago
