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Updated 3/2017-- photos/video and all links (except to my own posts) removed as many are no longer active and it was easier than checking each one.

Grand Rounds is taking a week off. Next week it will be hosted by Pizaazz. So I’d like to point you to Dr. Wes’ post from yesterday, Time in a Bottle

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This is a short video honoring some of the scientists who developed the lifesaving combination of breaths and chest compressions now known as CPR. 

 

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MedGadget is has announced the winner of their contest: Imagine Medicine Contest: Please Meet the Winner!

When we announced the Imagine Medicine contest last month, we hoped to see a showcase of photography that imagines medicine from as many angles as possible. …….. So after reviewing all the photos, we are proud to announce that the winner of this year's Imagine Medicine Contest is Inge Vugs for his photograph Beelitz Heilstätten; The former surgery room of the abandoned hospital in Beelitz Heilstätten. ……..

Do take a look at all the submissions below, and we want to thanks all of you who have contributed to this exciting competition. …….

Go take a look at the others and see the winning photo full size.

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Cervical cancer is in the forefront of my consciousness these days. A young friend, Sarah, had surgery back in early summer, radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection. Hers was Stage IIA. She is doing well. UAMS is taking care of her. She recently shared with me the fact that she has a blog: Cargo. I encouraged her to update it. I hope she will.

Sarah also told me of a friend of hers who has inoperable uterine cancer. This young woman also has a blog: Gray Skies Are Going to Clear Up. I think from what Sarah tells me, this young woman’s is Stage IV.

As Sarah says at the end of one post in her letter to anyone and everyone:

…….I am angry that this happened to me and I am only 29. Cancer sucks.

I am totally grateful. My Cancer could be worse. I have two beautiful healthy kiddos. I learned of the first abnormal pap smear after my 6 week check up after having Margo. …….

There is a song, Bring The Rain, by Mercy Me. I love it.

Ladies, please go to your GYN regularly and take them seriously when they say you need to have something done. I know those tests are no fun but this is seriously not going to be fun. Take care of yourselves because putting it off or skipping a year or two can be devastating.

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Doctors and other healthcare providers are not immune to drug and alcohol abuse. This article by Joel Hood is a couple of weeks old, but if you missed it is about a fellow doctor who battled drug addiction now counsels others to kick theirs.

Richard Ready had been a drinker most of his life, but by the time he became chief resident of neurosurgery at a prominent Chicago-area hospital, it was drugs, not alcohol, that kept him going,

Ready took stimulants to keep alert through his daily rounds. He took heavy pain relievers to numb his emotions after his mother's death. He wrote himself a prescription for the sedative Tranxene to calm his nerves before an important seminar. …….

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NPR’s series The Long View featured Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Kitchen yesterday. At the end of the interview, she shared her recipe for 'Red Pepper Soup With Ginger And Fennel'

With dozens of cookbooks published and her own cooking shows in the U.S. and Britain, you'd think Madhur Jaffrey had planned all along for a life in the kitchen. But the Indian chef began her career as a classically trained actress. ……….

Jaffrey's cooking career, however, began well before her film days when, at 19, she left her family's comfortable home in Delhi to study at England's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Jaffrey, a scholarship student with little money, was expected to eat at the local canteen. But when it came to British college grub, the chef tells NPR's Renee Montagne that she didn't like what she found. ………

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Via twitter and @drjvpoblete: Eyebrows are the frame for your face, here's tricks to maintain them: http://bit.ly/h6E63b

…..eyes are the widows to you soul, but your eyebrows are the frame for your face. ….., having sloppy or non-existent eyebrows may completely ruin your look. Below are some of the top eyebrow tips out there so you can be sure that your brows are in tip-top shape ……

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The Alliance for American Quilts is hosting another quilt contest. This is the 5th annual contest. I entered the past two years. You can see my finished quilts here and here.

This year's theme, "Alliances: People, Patterns, Passion," is as open-ended as the last and celebrates cooperative relationships that work towards a common goal.

Important: This year's deadline is much earlier: March 7, 2011. The reason: all entries will be exhibited at the American Quilter's Society show in Paducah, April 27-30. Our grand prize winner this year will have their choice of any Handi Quilter quilting machine!! Visit the "Alliances" homepage for full details and the downloadable entry form.

Shout Outs

Updated 3/2017-- photos and all links (except to my own posts) removed as many are no longer active and it was easier than checking each one.

Colorado Health Insurance Insider is the host for this week’s Grand Rounds! You can read this week’s edition here.

Welcome to Grand Rounds.  As we get back into the work week routine after the Thanksgiving weekend, we have a great collection of health care articles for you to browse through.  Enjoy! ……..

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MedGadget is hosting a new contest: Imagine Medicine: The Photography / Photoshop Contest

…………Welcome to the Imagine Medicine contest!

We are looking for fascinating medical photography that... imagines medicine.

Nothing is off the table: portraits, group shots, happy shots, tragic shots, clinical shots, photoshop illustrations, macro, micro, and anything in between. Can you imagine medicine, showcase it as art, and make us wonder?

Here's the lowdown. The contest is open to all. Upload your photograph(s) to Flickr, and tag them with "imaginemedicine" and "medgadget" keywords. Make sure you add at least one sentence describing your work. The deadline for submissions is 11:59pm ET on December 5, 2010. The winner will be announced on December 10th and the prize is a brand new 16GB iPad with Wi-Fi. ………

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Information is Beautiful has some wonderful grafts on Vitamin D (photo credit) which includes this one:

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The above is very timely as NPR presented a story by Richard Knox on vitamin D this morning:  Medical Panel: Don't Go Overboard On Vitamin D.

The Institute of Medicine is throwing cold water on the latest dietary supplement fad: big doses of vitamin D.

Humans make vitamin D when they are exposed to the sun. But many worry that clothing, indoor living and sunscreen are depriving most people from enough of the sunshine vitamin. It's also hard to get enough vitamin D from the diet, proponents say, despite fortification of milk and orange juice.

But the Institute's Food and Nutrition Board, which makes official recommendations on dietary intake, says advocates of high-dose vitamin D are going overboard.

After two years of study and debate, the panel says children and most adults need 600 international units of vitamin D a day. People over 70 need 800.  ……

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Via twitter from @doctorwes:  Barbara Walters discussed her aortic valve replacement candidly: 4 'second-opinions' and a change of cardiologist http://bit.ly/g6Jtom

………. Here’s the great news. You are not allowed to go to the dentist for at least three months after the surgery, because bacteria from your teeth can travel to your heart and cause an infection. No dentist. Also, no vigorous exercise for weeks. You experience great fatigue. No one raises an eyebrow if you take a nap every day. Finally, open-heart surgery sounds so awful that everyone worries about you, and what with the phone calls, the notes, and the flowers—all extolling your virtues and letting you know how wonderful you are — you feel as if you were reading your obituary. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, even though the operation is relatively routine, there is still a 1-to-2-percent chance that you won’t make it. Someone actually could wind up reading your obituary.  ………….

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Another via twitter comes from @drdavidballard: How early psychologists looked to magicians to turn illusions into reality .... http://bit.ly/emGQ3D

It is a link to an article in the December issue of Psychologist by Peter Lamont:  The misdirected quest

At the end of the 19th century, Hermann and Kellar were the two greatest conjurors in the world, though who was greatest depended upon whose publicity one believed. In the United States they competed over audiences and advertising space, and each considered the other his arch-rival. When Hermann died in 1896, Kellar was free to establish his reign and, aside from his notable achievements in the world of magic, he was almost certainly the inspiration for the Wizard of Oz. But before Kellar became the grand wizard, and shortly before Hermann’s death, the two great rivals agreed to compete in a quite different environment – the psychological laboratory. ………

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This quilt was shared with me by two people on twitter (@KnittingNephron and @jdcmlewis).  It was posted on “The Daily What” yesterday.  (photo credit)

iPhone Baby Quilt of the Day: By Harriet Rosin for her grandson, Gabriel.  Benjamin Stein adds: “There’s a Nap for That!” (Obligatory.)

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I’m hoping to attend with a couple of friends -- Arkansas Women Bloggers Meetup Scheduled! (photo credit)

When: December 11, 2010 11am-1pm

Where: Museum of Discovery @ 500 President Clinton Avenue

Why: Meet other bloggers and help decide future activities/goals for AWB

We will keep you updated with event details as we pull them together.

To RSVP, you can leave a comment on this post. If you're on Facebook, you can RSVP and invite friends at the event page. You can also RSVP by emailing us at arkansasbloggers@gmail.com.

Shout Outs

Updated 3/2017 -- photos and all links removed as many no longer active. and it was easier than checking each one.

Maria Gifford, Better Health, is the host for this week’s Grand Rounds.    You can read this week’s edition here.

As newly-appointed content manager of Better Health and editorial assistant to Dr. Val Jones, I’ve been given the honor of hosting this edition of Grand Rounds — a weekly summary of the best health blog posts on the Internet.

This week’s submissions cover a nice mix of issues important to health and medicine, which I’m presenting in alphabetical order (excuse my somewhat ultra-conservative ways, as I’m originally a product of the Mayo Clinic, and even after jumping ship nearly five years ago, I’m still affected due to my unchanged, self-inflicted physical location — I’ll find my social-media legs soon, I’m sure!)

From geriatrics to Viagra, PET scans to personality disorders, dentists to American Idol, you’ll find it in this ever-so-tidy session of Grand Rounds.

Read, learn, enjoy…
Best of health,
Maria

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The Muse, RN  is the host of the latest edition of Change of Shift (Vol 4, No 23) !   You can find the schedule and the COS archives at Emergiblog. (photo credit)

HAPPY NURSES WEEK! ! !

It is my extreme pleasure to bring you all this edition Change of Shift!  My thanks and enduring gratitude to Nurse Kim @ Emergiblog…. beside whom, I just know, I’d love to work….

Here’s to all the Greatest Nurse Bloggers who submitted for this edition AND to their Blogrolls where I ‘discovered’ at least one additional blogger to showcase.  (pssst – thanks for listing the nursing and medical blogs that you follow on your sites!  Its a GREAT way to find each other.)

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Dr Wes has done a review of a film I wish all of us could see:  The Vanishing Oath: A Review

…..As background, the film is a three-year project born in 2007 just before the great US health care reform debate began. Over 200 hours of interviews were conducted explore a simple question: why Dr. Flesher had grown to hate medicine.

It would have been easy for Dr. Flesher and Ms. Pardo to make his story nothing but a rant, but instead, we find that their story is an honest attempt to understand how someone so enthusiastic at the start of their training could become so quickly discontented with the realities of emergency room care and our bloated health care delivery system…….

Addendum: The film will be premiered in Chicago on 25 May 2010. Seating is limited.

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It’s Primary Voting Day in my home state, Arkansas, as well as many other states.  I hope you will get out and vote if you live in one of these states.  In Arkansas, KATV Channel 7 has a nice website with lots of information on the races, the candidates, etc.

The one in Arkansas which seems to be garnering the most national attention and money is the Democratic Senate race between incumbent Senator Blanche Lincoln, Lt. Gov Bill Halter, and businessman D.C. Morrison.

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 Medgadget is sponsoring the The 2010 My Medical Museum Competition along with Dr. Allen Roberts, aka GruntDoc.

This contest is an opportunity to showcase your medical museum's treasures, as well as to document your local medical history and explain how clinicians and scientists in your area contributed to medicine. So, make a presentation and tell everyone a fascinating story.

To get everyone on equal footing, we've implemented a dynamic publishing platform where you create an online presentation. The My Medical Museum website will let you upload pictures, file reports, embed videos, and make a presentation that will impress the judges. Collaboration is fine, too -- form a group and grant access so your teammates can contribute.

The Grand Prize is a brand-new Wi-Fi 32GB Apple iPad, no less.

So, what else are you waiting for? Gather your friends, family or fellow medical geeks and head over to explore your local medical museum. Develop your presentation and finalize it by Sunday, June 13, 2010.

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Dr Rob in his 46th House Call Doctor podcast discusses Anaphylaxis and Serious Allergies

What Is Anaphylaxis?

The most serious and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction is a condition known as anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis happens when an allergen is recognized by antibodies, which you’ll recall from last week’s article are special proteins in the body that recognize invaders. When antibodies mistakenly identify a normally benign substance—like peanuts-- as an invader in the body, the antibodies immediately combine with certain white blood cells, releasing histamine and other substances that have a profound effect on the body…….

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Thank you @sandnsurf for tweeting this “Patterns of Visual Math - Naturally Occurring Fractals http://tinyurl.com/2d7wmc”    The fern may be a simple example, but you need to check out the others.  Beautiful!

FRACTAL FERN: One very simple way to understand fractals and the meaning of "lteration" is to examine a simple recursive operation that produces a fractal fern thru a "chaos game' of generating random numbers and then placing them on a grid.

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Dr Anonymous’ BTR show guest this week will be Larry Bauer from the Family Medicine Education Consortium.   The show begins at 9 pm ET.

Upcoming shows (9pm ET)

5/27: Dr. Jay Lee, Family Physician & Health Policy Expert