#JohnsHopkins UP is offering a 30% discount w/the code HMOR24 on all its books, including mine, Finding the Right Words: A Story of #Literature, #Grief, and the #Brain, the #memoir I wrote w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller. If you click on the book link & then click on the figures link, you'll see images of the brain that might be helpful. The glossary also includes terms that are good to know when going to the #doctor. Bruce & I hope you find it helpful.
Skop – who has called the supreme court’s overturning of #RoevWade “a victory in the battle but not the end of the #war” – has argued in favor of forcing #rape and #incest#victims as young as nine or 10 to carry #pregnancies to term.
"Translated to the population of #Canada, our survey estimates that more than 6.5 million adults across the country don't have access to a family #doctor or nurse practitioner they can see regularly. And even those lucky enough to have a family doctor are struggling to get timely care for urgent concerns or care on evenings and weekends."
Dr. Tara Kiran, family physician/researcher at MAP Centre at St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto & UofT.
Doctor mistakenly operated on a kid's tongue instead of finger.
How can a doctor commit such a mistake. It's such a traumatic experience for the kid!!!
A Doctor operated on 4-year-old patient's tongue instead of her finger in Kerala and faced public uproar due to which he got suspended.
#Dinosaurs in #Doctor#Who, who would have guessed...
Lets take a look at what they show, and break down what we can see.
They say they are 150m years in the past, in #Wyoming
In this image we can clearly see a #Brachiosaurus.
As far as I know, its been found in #Colorado which is close enough for it to migrate there.
It also looks fairly accurate for a #Giraffatitan adjacent species.
Brachiosaurus is from the Morrison formation, which has dinosaur-bearing exposures in at least 7 (wikipedia lists 13) states in the western USA. Wyoming is more or less near the center.
For the past 3 nights and yesterday afternoon, I've had a nose bleed out of my right nostril. Not gushing like a hit but a trickle. Luckily, it wakes me before I make a mess of pillows/sheets. 😳
I haven't been hit in the nose. No extra exertion or exercise to cause it. No previous issues with anything else other than the usual aches and pains of being old(er).No racing hereart rate or anything I can attribute it to.
Our medical centre has just put up some of its fees ($63 a visit) and introduced "Note that appointments running over time will be charged at $20 per 5 minutes, including for community services card holders. A standard appointment only allows 10 minutes of consultation and 5 minutes for your clinician to make notes. Only one item can be addressed safely in a standard consultation." (NZ$)
What sort of charges do you experience where ever you are in the world?
@leighelse@bananabob Our local pharmacy is now much more than a pharmacy. They do blood pressure checks, blood sugar level testing, consultations and dispensing of over the counter meds for minor ailments. Inoculations.
@StillIRise1963@ProPublica Remember when the Repubs said under the Affordable Care Act the Dems would create death panels? Turns out only insurance company execs can do that.
16 Apr 1660: b. Hans Sloane at Killyleagh Co. Down, #doctor & naturalist, investor in the slave trade, whose collections became part of the foundation of the #British Museum
A #Houston#hospital is investigating whether a #doctor altered a #transplant list to make his patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new #organs.
#MemorialHermann-Texas Med Ctr in #Houston, where Bynon oversaw both liver & kidney #transplant prgs, abruptly shut those down in the past wk while looking into allegations.
Thurs, the #medical ctr, a UTexas teaching #hospital, said it had found evidence a #doctor in its liver transplant prg had effectively denied patients transplants by changing recs. Ofcls ID’d the dr as Bynon, who is employed by U #Texas#Health#Science Ctr & has lead Mem Hermann’s abdominal transplant prg since 2011.
It was not clear what could have motivated Dr. Bynon to possibly tamper w/the records.…
…In recent yrs, a disproportionate number of #MemorialHermann patients have died while waiting for a liver, data shows. Last yr, 14 patients were taken off the center’s waiting list because they either died or became too #sick, & its mortality rate for people waiting for a #transplant was higher than expected, acc/to the Scientific Registry of #TransplantRecipients, a research grp.
No one was in the waiting room👍Mom's follow up appointment went well. No new blood work until end of April. I got her blood pressure dosage increased⚕️
Took Mom to see the community gardens & watch rapids at Gorge Park, after her #doctor's appointment - photos to follow.
Now, back home & steaming up some frozen dimsum from Fairways Market. I work 3-7 today.