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3 ways physicians can improve their adaptability skills
Clint Hubler Medical & Allied HealthcareDoctors who travel to new practices face a host of complex challenges. They interact with new colleagues and patients and often work with new tools and processes. Adaptability is one of the most important qualities a locum provider can possess. There are three tools that can help a doctor become more adaptable to new surroundings.
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Are GMOs worth the risk?
Lauren Swan Food & BeverageGenetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food supply has been a hot topic in the U.S. for the past several years, reaching its peak with the passing of The Farmer Assurance Provision (The Monsanto Protection Act). Many Americans, regardless of ethnicity or political party, want foods containing GMOs to be labeled — 82 percent, according to the Huffington Post. Meanwhile, barely more than a third of Americans believe GMOs are safe to eat, regardless of labeling.
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Challenges in machine perfusion preservation for DCD liver grafts
Sharee Ann Narciso Medical & Allied HealthcareThere is a critical shortage in the number of available donor graft tissues, and donation after circulatory death (DCD) seems like the next best solution. It is vital to maintain the viability of organs until transplantation to ensure optimal graft survival and function. So far, the most commonly used preservation method in clinical practice is static cold storage. However, the risk of ischemic damage when performing DCD grafting jeopardizes the viability of organs during cold storage. Whether static cold storage is the best method to avoid organ deterioration from DCD is still unknown.
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Unreliability of blood pressure measurements with manual readers
Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani Medical & Allied HealthcareThere have been intensive universal efforts to promote appropriate techniques to measure blood pressure. However, the quality and accuracy of blood pressure measurement is under question in clinical settings. Several studies have been conducted on the routine, manual office blood pressure readings, where inconsistent readings were frequently observed. Some of the factors affecting these imprecise readings included: poor measurement techniques, conversation with patients during the readings and patient anxiety.
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Just another day at the office?
Dr. Howard Koseff Medical & Allied HealthcareYou know the usual morning drill: alarm, haul yourself out of bed, coffee, exercise, breakfast, news, and then it's the carbon-burning commute to work. The order in which we get the list done may vary, but this is essentially what the start of an average day looks like not only for family doctors but for most of the working public, too. Well, not for me.
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Drug information education for practicing physicians: Part I
Mike Wokasch PharmaceuticalThe recent announcement that GlaxoSmithKline would no longer pay physicians to do educational or promotional speaking about disease and prescription drugs got me thinking about the state of physician education, especially as it pertains to drug information for physicians.
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Innovative medical plastic devices define the road ahead
Don Rosato ManufacturingFuture medical device innovations are expected to center around six major technological areas.
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Breast cancer screening: A long road ahead
Dr. Jonathan Kaplan Medical & Allied HealthcareIn a recent New York Times article, the authors give a great summation into the truth and uncertainty in breast cancer screening. With such an emotional and destabilizing life event as breast cancer, women want clear and concise information. This article and the JAMA article it is based on takes a courageous stand to say: It's not clear and certainly not concise.
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Health spending growth low for 4th consecutive year
Pamela Lewis Dolan Healthcare AdministrationFor the fourth consecutive year, growth in healthcare spending remained historically low. But the likelihood this trend will continue, and how the Affordable Care Act will impact it, is still in question. From 2009 to 2012, the U.S. saw the slowest growth in healthcare spending since the government started tracking these trends in the 1960s, according to data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Flying HEMS into Haiti
Mark Huber Medical & Allied HealthcareThe Caribbean nation of Haiti — the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere on half the island of Hispaniola — has been in need of everything for so long that the dire state of its 10 million people often is sadly viewed akin to the tide: Something man cannot change. But one group is intent on bringing medical assistance to Haiti by establishing an HEMS operation there. To understand what a big step this is, it's important to understand a bit about the impoverished nation.
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