| Doctor Shortage…How Do We Fill the Prescription?
It takes a fair amount of time for growing pains to get worked out when expansion comes to professional sports. The athlete pool is diluted and sometimes importing players from other countries fills the void. Baseball has Japan and Latin America to draw from, hockey has Europe, and soccer has the whole world. These imports remind us that there is plenty of opportunity to hone athletic skill outside of the United States. The medical world is slowly realizing that the U.S. is running out of doctors and a real shortage is looming. Within a dozen years, there is the potential need for 200,000 more physicians and the training may not be available for those doctors in this country. While medical schools are increasing enrollment and 15 new schools of medicine and osteopathy have opened, those newly minted MDs may not have a place to get their graduate training.
Staph-Killing Properties of Clay Investigated by UB Researchers
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- What makes some clays such powerful antimicrobial agents capable of killing MRSA and other virulent bacteria? It's a question that University at Buffalo researchers have been studying for several years. With funding from the National Institutes of Health-National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the UB geologists are studying the surface characteristics of naturally occurring antimicrobial clays, including some clays from France, to determine why they are such effective killers of bacteria. Researchers from Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, to whom the UB researchers are under subcontract on that grant, have recently shown that French clays can destroy Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, also called MRSA.
One on One with Lisa Hanfileti
One on One is a weekly feature profiling Clark County business people. So, you're an acupuncturist and your husband is a doctor - you don't normally see those two specialists in the same office. Actually, he is a pediatrician and a medical acupuncturist; I'm a licensed acupuncturist. Does your husband do traditional Western medicine? No, he doesn't. He worked at The Vancouver Clinic for six years doing primary care pediatrics. His was introduced to this field when I told him that I wanted to change my career and go into acupuncture. He got training in medical acupuncture, and he gradually incorporated it into his practice, but acupuncture doesn't fit the traditional Western model of in-and-out medicine. So what spurred the two of you to start Points of Origin? We started on this path probably 10 years ago, I was having headaches and I was also suffering from insomnia.
Dr. Pou and the Hurricane — Implications for Patient Care during ...
During the flood after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, health care providers in marooned New Orleans hospitals worked in almost unimaginably difficult conditions while awaiting rescue. Nowhere was the situation more desperate than at Memorial Medical Center, where for 4 days a small staff struggled to care for critically ill patients in a dark building with no electric power, no fresh water, a flooded first floor, a nonfunctional sanitation system, and an interior temperature above 100°F. Dr. Anna Maria Pou, a cancer surgeon on the faculty of Louisiana State University School of Medicine, was supervising residents at Memorial when Katrina hit on Monday, August 29, and she remained at the hospital after the storm. Pou, 51, is a New Orleans native whom colleagues describe as a dedicated, hardworking physician who, though physically small, "had a huge presence."1 At least 34 patients died at Memorial during and after the storm, and shortly thereafter, media reports began to suggest that some had been euthanized.
Osler selects Siemens Canada as long-term partner
BRAMPTON, Ont. Siemens is bundling its expertise in the areas of healthcare, building automation, fire and security, and communications in delivering on an unprecedented contract awarded from William Osler Health Centre (WOHC) for the new Brampton Civic Hospital, located in Brampton, Ont. The contract awarded to Siemens will form the cornerstone of the healthcare solutions and clinical patient care services offered by WOHC.
The order includes Siemens Global Solutions, the healthcare consulting arm of the Medical Solutions Group, plus MRI, CT, Angio, MI (Nuclear Medicine), Cathlab, Womens Health, Urology, Radiography, RIS and PACS technologies. Working with WOHC, the Global Solutions group identified the key drivers and criteria that would provide the healthcare facility with a complete technology roadmap.
Getting Enough Sleep Will Help Raise Your Exam Scores - AASM To Teens
With the academic year at the half-way mark, millions of high school students are preparing to take their mid-term exams. Unfortunately, research is increasingly showing that more and more teens are not getting enough sleep, which can have a negative impact on their grades. Teens are no longer adhering to "lights out". Among the reasons for these changes in sleeping patterns are increased part-time working hours, talking on the cell phone, computer usage and watching television at bedtime. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), success on exams in the classroom is tied to sleep.
William Kohler, MD, medical director of the Florida Sleep Institute, director of pediatric sleep services at University Community Hospital in Tampa, and an AASM pediatric sleep expert, says that teens need more sleep than adults because their circadian rhythm is easily disrupted.
The Bonds of Race
But as book has piled upon book, expert upon expert, guru upon gimmick, the whole messy realm has cried out for a rigorous, cultural cartographer. It has found one, finally, in Anne Harrington. A Harvard historian, she has expertly mapped the transmission of mind-body ideas in The Cure Within, showing us where they come from and why exactly they seem to have nine lives. That mind-body medicine has provoked influential skeptics to speak out against it hasn't checked its growth. In the late 1970s, Susan Sontag famously attacked the belief that character causes disease. "Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have deserved it," she wrote in Illness As Metaphor. Marcia Angell, then an editor at the New England Journal of Medicine, echoed the fear that patients swept up in psychologizing would feel "the anguish of personal failure" if they couldn't cure themselves and might even "come to see medical care as largely irrelevant." Yet the mind-body message continues to thrive.
More researchers embrace mind-body connection
Tagging along with winter come ailments that challenge most Western doctors: stress, back and joint pain, head colds, heart attacks, anxiety, depression, upset stomachs and insomnia.Is it time to try acupuncture, hypnosis, meditation, guided imagery and massage?
Surprisingly, even the most conservative mainstream research hospitals now answer "yes!"Twenty years ago, the mind-body connection was largely dismissed by U.S. doctors as a wacky concept in healing. Today it's a staple of integrative medicine, the discipline that blends complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, with conventional treatments and places more emphasis on treating the whole person.About 75 percent of medical schools have CAM courses in the curriculum, and the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine includes 39 academic health centers, including Mayo Clinic as well as Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Duke and Yale universities.To help doctors catch up on the growing body of evidence-based research on CAM therapies, the University of Chicago's Tang Center for Herbal Medi-cine Research and the Mayo Clinic co-hosted the annual Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine."The encouraging thing is that CAM treatments require self-care," said Brent Bauer, director of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at the Mayo Clinic.
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