World AIDS day

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World AIDS Day 2009

To raise awareness and support the 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS, find ways that you can learn, act, and give.

Learn	Act	Give
UNAIDS: Uniting the world against HIV/AIDS.	All For Good: Volunteer for HIV/AIDS related activites in your area.	The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria: Make a donation through the United Nations Foundation.
IAS: Check the latest developments in HIV/AIDS.	ONE Campaign: Fight preventable diseases.	(RED): Give (RED), Save Lives. Watch the Lazarus Effect.
LIVING PROOF: Investments in global health are working.	Act Against AIDS: Be part of the solution.	Watch Alicia Keys' benefit concert for World AIDS Day live on YouTube.

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20 bucks for your brain

5 Shocking Reasons Your Brain Isn't Worth Twenty Bucks Exposed

Dementia after 'going under' for surgery can await seniors NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- To date, hospitals have not found a billing code that insurers will reimburse them for the $20 cost of the disposable sensor for your brain monitor for 'going under' for surgery. Anesthesiologists have not told hospitals how important brain monitoring is to avoid postop dementia from routine anesthesia over-medication. Anesthesiologists have not heard the 'avoid over-medication' message from their leaders because their organizations vitally depend upon millions of dollars in support from America's pharmaceutical companies, aka, 'Big Pharma.' Big Pharma gets its profits from more drug sales, not less. "If brain monitors were used nationally, as much as 30% of anesthesia drugs would not be sold while Americans would still be getting excellent anesthesia care," opines prominent anesthesiologist, Dr. Barry Friedberg. Americans do not understand the trail of dollars that appears to keep their (presumed) safety advocates from telling them what they really need to know; i.e. anesthesia over-medication affects 99.9% of Americans 'going under' without a brain monitor while anesthesia awareness affects 0.1%. Just like too much alcohol is not good, recent studies have also shown that too much anesthesia is not good for your brain as well. Postop dementia is a very common problem after 'going under' for surgery, especially for seniors. Confusion can last hours, days, weeks months or, in the worst cases, permanently. "Brain monitors help avoid too much anesthesia and postop dementia," says Friedberg. Without the voice of a non-profit like Goldilocks Anesthesia Foundation, the American public may never hear what they need to know to be their own safety advocates if they need to 'go under' for surgery. "The nine essential questions you must ask your surgeon before surgery are on www.GoldilocksAnesthesiaFoundation.org. Download them and take them with you when you first see your surgeon," says Friedberg. "Cost effective health care starts with caring more about patients than what we do for our drug companies' bottom lines," concludes Friedberg. Disclaimer: Neither Dr. Friedberg nor the Foundation receive financial support from makers of brain monitors. Dr. Friedberg's Goldilocks Anesthesia Foundation is a public, non-profit organization whose mission is to educate Americans about the public health risks of anesthesia over-medication and the value of brain monitors in avoiding those risks. Please visit www.GoldilocksAnesthesiaFoundation.org and www.drfriedberg.com.

Achieving Balance with Precision Nutrition

John Berardi: fuses his PhD with fitness and nutrition

Evolve Your Fitness

So on top of the normal breakfast reading, I was looking at some recent Crossfit Norcal posts on the Evolve Your Fitness Blog.

Off that I was able to discover under their recommended reading a doctor by the name of Michael Eades. He makes some awesome posts regarding nutritional science, nutriceutical industry. On his website, he mentions that he is used to read six or more books per week! Imagine that! I don't think it's just scientific journals or publications, but the going rate on even one book per week is amazing! I think I may just try that one out too....

Anyhow, here's Dr. Eade's twitter for additional links to some great reads, including his most recent post regarding the fact that Diabetes Cases are expected to double in the next 25 years. It's such a sad thing to read about. However, I think it made me realize that these studies aren't meant to put a dark cloud on the topic or on the future of America. Rather, by informing others, health care providers and interested parties can take a stance and revolutionize change by using that awareness to make better health choices and decisions.

In essence, evolve your fitness, update your nutrition and change your health, for life.

To Health everyone!

Young people

http://politics.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=21254&external=118055.proteus.fma

Questions to contemplate

1. What impact will the projected demographic changes have on our organization?
Demographic changes
(btw, the research on this issue makes me realize that I never want to become an epidemiologist)


2. What cultural issues or challenges should this organization(medicine as a whole) and I begin addressing now?
Preventative health measures




3. What are the barriers to addressing the above issues?
Barriers to health include:
information accessibility



4. What are the available resources and supports?
County programs
MPH awareness


5. List ways supervisors and managers (Hospitals, groups, and medical schools) can facilitate workforce changes in cultural attitudes,

behaviors, and values media attention: twitter, facebook, commercials (think Kaiser commercials)
continuing education for administrators and doctors
streamlining programs from private sector into the public sector( at a reduced cost)



6. How prepared are this organization and I to effectively respond to cultural practices of patients?

Oath

Oath:
I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:

To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art.

I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.

I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.

But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.

I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art.

In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves.

All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.

If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot.

Thoughts

In not more than 300 words, state why you want to become a physician and what you can bring to the world of medical health in today's multicultural society.

Becoming a physician goes beyond childhood dreams of helping others in a white coats Becoming a physician is a position/occupation where I can use my gifts and talents
to heal others

preserv the purity of life and MY arts. The art of medicine is the expression of my knowledge and beliefs.
To work for the benefit of the sick
a healthy nation makes for a productive nation




What is the experience that stands out the most?
If I don't have hte clinical experience recently, what experience in my mind, solidifies my goal to become a physician

However, I do know I have a passion for the ability to cure


WHat does it take to become a physician in today's multicultural society
Understanding
Empathy of others cultural backgrounds
CULTURAL COMPETENCEi
Honesty, passion,

multicultural --> influence -->
Filipino and Santa Ana and Vietnamese
Filipino contribution
Filipino nurses
contribution to medicine
self-sacrificing nature as an attitude
attitude contribution
psychological sense
filipinos
Training, medicine
merging the science of medicine with the art of patient center care

Brainstorming and MindMapping- Essay C

Essay A: MAIN:
Personal Statement

Please include personal information that is otherwise not included in the applicaiton

Essay B:
Global Scholars Program:

Your commitment to dedicating at least a part of your professional life to practicing medicine in a developing country or underserved region.

Essay C:
Please discuss the most significant issue affecting the future of health care delivery in the country in which you intend to practice medicine