Posted by Sean on July 12, 2010
Of course! Lets solve our failure to act and lack of consistent lifestyle discipline with a pill.
Years of gluttony and being ‘victimized’ by our own choices surely will be corrected by taking a pill right?
Right?
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Posted by Sean on July 12, 2010
My Health
Without it I wouldn’t be able to enjoy all the things in my life!
My ‘Family’
This includes my beautiful wife, my family and all my wonderful friends. I am truly blessed with all the love in my life.
My Occupation
In these tough times, I still love what I do and appreciate the chance to continue doing it. Put it simply, I have a job I love.
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Posted by Sean on July 11, 2010
The waste…
Life truly is fleeting, and is of course temporary. The one and only gift we cannot return, nor get a refund. We don't get a re-do on life, or a re-try.
Life is what you make it, and I'm still confused by those who either choose to waste it, or simply not choose at all and let it fly by. By the time most notice the time has passed it's almost too late to pick up the pieces or search for what they missed.
What are you doing with your chance?
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Posted by Sean on July 10, 2010
The latest installment of Change of Shift is up over at Emergiblog.
It’s apparently our great blog carnival’s 5 year anniversary! Change of Shift has been around the interwebs and the blogosphere for 5 years! Whew! A truly monumental milestone. Way to go Kim!
There are a lot of great submissions as always. We have ourselves a video game themed carnival! Be sure to check out the latest edition of our beloved blog carnival.
Nope. I suck. I missed again.
As always a BIG THANK YOU to Kim over at Emergiblog for getting the CoS party started, and keeping the fire going!
Carpe Diem
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Posted by Sean on July 10, 2010
The July-effect does exist, but not in a bubble. I have been witness to the reality of the new onslaught of residents.
Yes, there is an air of hesitancy amongst the staff, but it can be horribly exaggerated.
It is all in the approach and the delivery of care. The health care team is only as strong as it’s weakest link and that link can be the new resident, the new surgeon, the new nurse, etc. The list is endless.
While mistakes can and are made we all need to take the July-effect with a grain of salt.
Ignorance and pompous arrogance are the main culprits that sparked this spiny urban legend within the hospital systems. The July-effect does exist, but it’s not something we have to be afraid of.
Nor should it be cause for some sort of public panic.Amplify’d from www.cnn.com
More than 16,000 U.S. medical school graduates are awarded M.D. degrees each year, and many enter their residency programs at teaching hospitals in July. Now, a growing body of research suggests that month might be a more deadly time in U.S. hospitals.
According to a recent study from the University of California, San Diego, deaths from medication errors increase by 10 percent during July, a so-called July effect as students graduate from medical school and enter residency programs.
Researchers examined more than 240,000 death certificates of people who died of complications from medication errors between 1979 and 2006, and found mortality rates consistently spiked in July, especially in counties with teaching hospitals.
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Posted by Sean on July 10, 2010
It was like watching a movie..
Oh My Gawd! She came from behind and cut his neck! He was just standing there talking to us and all of a sudden she was there. Came from behind the desk and cut his neck!!
He's bleeding from his neck!
So much blood!
What happened? Did that really just happen?
She's still coming at him with that knife! He's holding her hand in defense and she's still going after him.
Oh wait, others are jumping in to help. It took 4 people to bring her down.
He's still bleeding!
Call the police!
(Yes – scariest moment in my life.)
True story:
http://mystrongmedicine.com/2009/09/22/happy-belated-re-birthday-to-me/
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Posted by Sean on July 9, 2010
No clocks. No watches. No agenda. No schedule.
Just me, my wife, the beach and the sun. Add in some great food and soothing drinks and I'm dreaming.
I live my life by the clock everyday of the year. My dream vacation is steering as far away from that madness as possible.
Dreaming the dream…
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Posted by Sean on July 8, 2010
There is quite a large population of people out there that believe spot reduction works (*GASP*). Yes, some if not a lot of the general public still believe that they can lose weight focused on a certain area of their body.
"I just want to lose a couple inches off my waist"
"I want to get rid of that flab on my arms"
"I need to thin out my thighs"
All of this stems from those darn info-commercials you see on TV (I seem to remember seeing them on Sunday early morning). The Thigh Master, Ab Scissor, Step Master, etc. They all promote weight loss to a specific area of the body. If you do this exercise or that exercise you’ll lose that unwanted extra weight from that body part or area of the body that your are exercising. I also think this is where the crazy idea of ‘do sit-ups to get that toned abdominal area’ originated from (GEESH).
Read the rest over at Scrubs Magazine: Losing weight one spot at a time
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Posted by Sean on July 8, 2010
I think the book 'Blink' by Malcolm Gladwell has intrigued me the most. The book 'opens your eye' to some of the most interesting phenomena around the world in the present as well as the past.
Our decision making skills still fascinate me, especially the 'blink of an eye' decisions we make in that singular moment that produce a cause an effect that we still cannot predict.
Is it instinct? Is it something learned?
Facinating.
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Posted by Sean on July 7, 2010
So there is a casting call out for this new TV show titled ‘Cali Nurse’. It’s being dubbed a ‘sexy docu-series’.
Check it out:
The show is seeking real nurses and nursing students, but the casting material makes clear that it is going to focus on damaging stereotypes. The show wants "gorgeous" young females (ages 21-30 only) who will experience "comedy, romance, and fun" and are all about "big hearts" and "dates with McDreamy."
REALLY?!
SERIOUSLY??!!
Just how many levels of disrespect does this cover? I mean because that’s what nurses are all about right?
We don’t actually think on our feet, use critical thinking skills, or dare I say – save lives!
*sigh*
And you wonder why there is such an information-gap and delusional fog of mystery between what really happens in health care and nursing and what we see on TV? The quest continues.
Check out the full article here: Cali Nurse: New reality show seeks "gorgeous" young females
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