Best medical-review blog, blog carnival week

What happened to Carnival medblog "Grand Rounds"?

It is sad to see that the disappearance of the Carnival medblog "Grand rounds". The weekly summary of the best medical blog post was published from 2004, with only a few breaks. There have been issues for more than a month, and no new ones are planned. A new initiative from Health Care SoMedia review could replace some of them http://goo.gl/73RpE

This post is a part of a project to recreate a weekly review, or the best medical blog carnival blog posts. Feel free to send your suggestions to my email at clinicalcases@gmail.com. "Best of Medical Blogs-weekly review, blog carnival" will be released on Tuesday, just as the old Grand rounds. The organizers of blog carnival Grand Rounds. @ NickGenes, and @ DrVal are aware of this project.

As physicians to manage Social Media profiles

Personal vs. Professional: how doctors handle Their Social Media profiles is a blog post by Matt Wood of http://goo.gl/JNyu1 blog of medicine from the University of Chicago. Matt has posted a series of great blog post recently about using social media. Doctors at the University of Chicago are clearly the leader in using social media in a city with a rich history of great medical centers as medicine UChicago, Northwestern, Childrens ' Memorial, Rush, Loyola and Northshore. Matt tries to discover what makes the UChicago doctors more comfortable using social media that their peers at other institutions: http://goo.gl/JNyu1

Consumers use social media for medical decisions

Consumer expectations for Social Media Healthcare – this is a brief summary by Ed Bennett, "a maker of lists" of using the oragnizations healtchare social media http://goo.gl/REXqV

Digital strategies for health care organizations-a good overview from the Australian http://goo.gl/PZtWl blog IV line

Salaries of doctors

Dr. Mandrola quotes a colleague experienced salaries of doctors: "we are all happy with what we do. What upsets us most is seeing what others are doing. " Since then, I try not to dwell on what others do. http://goo.gl/WBnJq

Health care social media is a "moral obligation" for physicians

Health care social media is a moral obligation, says Farris Timimi, M.D., Medical Director for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, quoted by "Fierce health IT". Social media must be grown and nurtured for patients. "Our patients are there. Our moral obligation is to meet them where they are and give them the information they need so they can try to recover, "said Dr. Timimi. "You have to be ready for this. Builds for patients; not for themselves. "This is not marketing," he added. "This is the right thing to do" http://goo.gl/BHzKf

Social media is no longer a moral obligation for physicians rather than appear on TV and radio shows and write newspaper columns. It's nice if you have the time and the ability to do so, but the most important things is to focus on what matters most — providing the correct diagnosis and the best treatment possible for your patients.

Comment by Twitter:

Westby Fisher, MD @ doctorwes: Best of Medical Blogs-blog carnival week, RIP bit.ly/KsBSLJ

Laika (Jacqueline) @ laikas: after the demise of Grand Rounds @ DrVes begins its weekly blog review bit.ly/Iqgcmx Gr8 initiative; but still missing the old GR

WB Medical Education @ WBmeded: hope to control some of these last, looks interesting RT @ DrVes: Best of Blogs: weekly medical blog carnival, goo.gl/fb/d870P

Mike Cadogan @ sandnsurf: another great way to control your information overload with the Best of Blogs-weekly medical review bit.ly/K1stxo

 

Mayo Clinic offers supplements, Stress Management, massage and acupuncture in Mall of America

Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. In another Boost in the realm of well-being, Mayo Clinic now offers one on one consults with doctors of integrative and complementary medicine on campus and where customers are-right in the Mall of America. See this 3-part video series below:

Dr. Bauer, Dr. a. Brent Bauer is a physician in the Department of general internal medicine and supervisor of complementary and integrative medicine program Research at Mayo Clinic.

Nancy Drackley, a physiotherapist, massage therapist and massage therapy supervisor at Mayo Clinic.

Tony Chon, m.d, a physician in the Department of general internal medicine and a member of the complementary and integrative medicine team at Mayo Clinic, discusses acupuncture.

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Diary-writing has psychological benefits-Journal of happiness studies

The writing has been used extensively as a coping strategy and was applied to improve psychological well-being. One study found that suicidal poets used more first person singular pronouns (I, me, mine) compared to the control group of poets.

This study from Taiwan, published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, investigated the psychological shift in the paradigm of diary-writing (PDPD) and its alleged psychological benefits.

Study participants were assigned to write about their recent negative life experiences twice a week for 2 weeks in PDPD (diary-writing) or comparison group (non-diary-writing).

The group writing diary (PDPD) showed a decrease of negative emotions and an increase in positive emotion immediately after each session of writing (short-term effects).

They also had an increase in psychological well-being for at least 2 weeks (long-term effect).

References:

The psychological shift in the paradigm of diary-writing (PDPD) and its psychological benefits. Jen-Ho Chang, Huang Chin-Lan and Yi-Cheng Lin. JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS studies, DOI: 10.1007 2012/s10902-012-9321-y

Google Plus comments and Twitter:

Lin w: I think the blog writing could have the same effect?

Ves Dimov, m.d.: It depends on the type of blogging that do, but yes, blogging can be a positive experience too.

Dr. Amal Hasan @ DrFloona: Diary-writing has psychological benefits bit.ly/wwMDmr "until someone else reads it

Dean Giustini @ giustini: Diary-writing has psychological benefits bit.ly/wwMDmr [isn't this why we blog Ves?]

@ DrVes: well, I'm not sure. I do not blog about "bad experiences". Blog Archive for me =

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Top articles in medicine in April 2012

Here are my suggestions for some of the best articles in medicine in April 2012 so far:

Dr. Breslow, who tied up good habits for longevity, dies at 97-NYTimes http://goo.gl/ftRDR-probably worked for him. Its recommendations: do not smoke; drink with moderation; sleep seven to eight hours; exercise at least moderately; eat regular meals; maintain a moderate weight; eat breakfast. Dr. Breslow found that a 60-year-old who followed the recommended seven healthy behaviors would like a 30-year-old who followed in less than three.

Activation of free fatty acid receptor 1 (FFAR1) by TAK-875 experimental drug Offers hope as new diabetes therapy j.mp/IQTDnd

Vitamin D doesn't improve academic performance in children http://j.mp/ICZpyu (studio)-also does not help patients with pneumonia

Phthalates can double risk diabetes-phthalates are chemicals found in cosmetics, scented candles, plastics http://j.mp/ICZ5j7

Endangered species, found in Chinese herbal medicines ... http://j.mp/HF001J

Google began Google Scholar http://j.mp/HBGIez--utilizzando magazines ranking metrics for http://j.mp/HBGK6f. Google top 100 magazines and NEJM is no longer the "top dog" http://j.mp/HBGYKB according to the metric g scholar publications. The most cited NEJM article is "vitamin D deficiency" followed by "CT-An increasing source of radiation exposure" http://j.mp/HBHsAi

NEJM has now 17 interactive medical cases-http://j.mp/Hw5F59 free online full-text

12-Word Social Media policy from Mayo Clinic: Don't Lie, don't pry, don't Cheat, you cannot delete, do not steal, do not reveal http://bit.ly/Hr8c1E

Chinese herbal medicines made from plants may be responsible for Aristolochia urinary tract cancer-BMJ http://j.mp/I1pCD5

5 Futures for academic medicine. "Drivers of change in academic medicine:" Great fame "asking buyers to healthcare"-PLoS Medicine http://j.mp/Hw07t4

FDA approves "PET Scan Alzheimer" by Eli Lilly-radioactive agent florbetapir Tags sticky clumps of amyloid in the brain http://goo.gl/VbQi7

Articles were selected from my streams of Twitter and Google Reader.

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Understanding Healthcare Attorney-Cleveland Clinic video

This is very important: Advance directives are legal documents that provide instructions on who should oversee medical treatment and what are your wishes for end-of-life, in case you are unable to speak for themselves.

Advance directives include:

-Health care power of Attorney
-The living will

Everyone over 18 years should consider assigning power of attorney to someone health care.

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