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The Harms of Being Labeled a 'Difficult' Patient. Top Story - May 2022.
Imagine you’ve just been handed a complete copy of your medical records. As you’re skimming it, you find that one of your physicians left a note in your chart stating that you were difficult and non-compliant during one of your appointments. “That can’t be right,” you think as you try to remember what might have gone wrong during that appointment. There was that one time you refused a medication you didn’t feel comfortable taking, or maybe it was the time that you cried because the doctor suggested that it was all in your head… but surely that wasn’t enough to warrant a note like that, right?
By Aston Martinez 4 years ago in Longevity
Death Dreams
When I was a wee girl, I was the last in a blended family of six kids, the youngest by twelve years. I was born in 1938, a time of infamy. Hitler was rattling sabers in Europe, about to invade Poland, and everyone who paid attention knew the world was in for a major bloodbath.
By Alice Donenfeld-Vernoux4 years ago in Longevity
How the World Learned to Manage the Flu
We'll cover the first pandemic, vaccinations, and record-keeping lessons learned. But before we get started, let's review some of the most important things we know about the virus. First of all, let's review how scientists spotted the virus using electron microscopes. This allowed medical researchers to identify a new subtype, H3N2, in 1968.
By Shaheer Malik4 years ago in Longevity
How would the technology you mentioned above benefit patients and the healthcare community at large?
Conceptual Medical care changes drastically due to innovative turns of events, from sedatives and anti-infection agents to attractive reverberation imaging scanners and radiotherapy. Future mechanical development will continue to change medical care, yet while advancements (new medications and therapies, new gadgets, new virtual entertainment support for medical care, and so forth) will drive development, human variables will stay one of the steady impediments of forward leaps. No expectations can fulfill everyone; all things being equal, this article investigates pieces of things to come to perceive how to contemplate how to get where we need to go.
By Abhishek Gupta4 years ago in Longevity
A Terrible Person Does Terrible Things to Save Humanity from a Terrible Disease
The story of how English Physician Edward Jenner "invented" the smallpox vaccine is oft told. He noted that there was one population of persons that were never infected with smallpox, milkmaids. It turns out that the milkmaids would get infected with a different but similar virus, cowpox (cowpox virus is also referred to as Vaccinia though in truth it is only related to Vaccinia with both belonging to the Genus Orthopoxvirus), which provided protection against infection with the deadly small pox virus (Variola virus, also a member of Genus Orthopoxvirus). From this one observation came the birth of the first successfully developed vaccine. It is a vaccine which would lead to the elimination of a truly terrible disease that had been a scourge of humanity since ancient times. The first recorded smallpox epidemic occurred in 1350 B.C.E., during the Egyptian-Hittite War. In 430 B.C.E., the second year of the Peloponnesian War, smallpox hit Athens and killed more than 30,000 people, reducing the population by 20 percent. Even into modern times, before Jenner's vaccine, when a case of smallpox was discovered in a particular community, the standard operating procedure was to burn it to the ground. The disease was that feared.
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Longevity
Freedom, power -never balanced
Freedom is…The power or right to act, speak or think as one wants, The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved The state of not being subject to or affected by something undesirabl This is the official definition of the word freedom.
By JPWrites.24 years ago in Longevity
Recommitting
I have wanted to lose weight since I can remember. I’ve been overweight, I’ve had an eating disorder and everything in between. It has not been an easy road mentally or physically up to this point. I’ve been “committed” to my journey more times than I can count, and I always stop for one reason or another. I always end up right back where I started. I’ve said “this is the last time I’m going to restart” more times than I’d like to admit. I really don’t even want to say it again. However, I am growing as a person, I am learning more about what I can and cannot handle, and what I can and cannot do. One of my biggest faults is that I give it absolutely everything in me, or I give it nothing. Frequently, I give it absolutely everything, get burnt out too quickly, then give up. Even at the start of this year. I tried to do 75 Hard, and about 25 days in, I fell off and tried to keep going, then I ended up with a flare up and used it as an excuse to forget the whole thing.
By Emily McDonald4 years ago in Longevity
