As friends of mine know, I have changed my diet to “near” vegan for about 6 months now, based on reading and review of data that I had not seen before (but actually has been around for a while). Since so many people have asked me, and then want some place to go, I’m creating this post so I can refer people later.
Posts Tagged ‘health’
Guide to Veganism
Posted in Health Sciences & Medicine, Personal Health, tagged food, health, healthy-living, nutrition, restaurants on May 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Surviving the Winter – Colds, Flu, and other Virii
Posted in Personal Health, tagged health, medicine, Patient Information on January 12, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Yup, I finally made a page. I got tired to saying the same things over and over again during the winter time.
Patient Instructions for Viral Infections
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The New Yorker: The Checklist
Posted in Biographies, Health Economics, Health Sciences & Medicine, tagged economics, health, medicine, Politics, Public Health, science on December 16, 2007| 1 Comment »
A really great article by Atul Gawande (writer of “Complications” and “Better”) was published in the New Yorker. The ariticle follows the work on intensivist Dr Peter Pronovost, who made simple workflow interventions which made dramatic reductions on the rate of complications in the intensive care unit. The following quote, however, made him an instant hero to me:
“The fundamental problem with the quality of American medicine is that we’ve failed to view delivery of health care as a science. The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is insuring those therapies are delivered effectively. That third bucket has been almost totally ignored by research funders, government, and academia. It’s viewed as the art of medicine. That’s a mistake, a huge mistake. And from a taxpayer’s perspective it’s outrageous.”
A link to the article is here.
Thanks Phil Andrus at the Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Critical Care Blog for bringing this to my attention.