Monthly Archives: February 2010

Confronting Gender Issues—Passionate Persuasion or a Deluge of Data?

By Linda | February 24, 2010

The last few months have been filled with new audiences for speech making about gender discrimination in healthcare. In December, when I finished my speech at a small scientific meeting of about 150 members and guests of the Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children, I asked my good friend and mentor, [...]

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No Best, Only Better Practices—Lessons from the Olympics

By Linda | February 22, 2010

Simplistically put, the current thinking on the healthcare overhaul enjoins us to “identify the “best” practices and just have everyone follow them.”
There are at least two major flaws with this concept. First, there are no best practices. There are only better practices, everyday.
Second, everyone is different. No two patients are going to [...]

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When Patients Become Parents: A Blast from My Past

By Linda | February 19, 2010

Monday morning my office was filled with “new” patients. Seeing patients and families whom I have never met has a very different rhythm from a follow-up visit, so I alternate my days—mornings or afternoons for “new.”
After 26 years of practice in Buffalo I have met somewhere between 800 and 1000 new patients. By [...]

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Time to Put the Stops on Soda Pops!

By Linda | February 17, 2010

Not a day goes by without a new proclamation about the health risks or the health benefits of some food or drink. All this talk about digestion is enough to give you indigestion. But better indigestion than cancer.
So what’s the truth in this? Let’s look at our friends, the Italians, and others [...]

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The Fem 2.0 Blog Carnival: Shifting the Public Narrative

By Linda | February 11, 2010

A Work/Life Balancing Act—We Need More Net!
A blog carnival! Get onboard for another not-so-thrilling ride on the merry-go-round of “shifting the public narrative”, a/k/a “bringing more attention,” to how we (women) need to have help in balancing work and life! I, for one, am tired of going round and round and round, and [...]

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Vaccine Safety–A Tale of Two Tots

By Linda | February 8, 2010

It was 1985. An 18 month infant was brought into my office. Her mother was concerned because her previously speaking daughter had ceased talking. (Today we might first think of autism, but 23 years ago that was quite unusual.) I had already placed tubes in her ears at age 12 months [...]

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The Hall of Shame: Autism is Not Caused by Vaccinations!

By Linda | February 4, 2010

British Medical Journal, Lancet—Welcome to the Hall of Shame!
The foundation of medical knowledge is based on publications which are “peer-reviewed.” This is supposed to mean that several other experts in the field have read the scientific paper and then judged the information to be worthy of dissemination in a medical journal, allegedly for the [...]

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Free Danny from the System

By Linda | February 3, 2010

Danny comes into my office fairly frequently, usually with his father and one or more aides from the group “home” where he lives. He looks like a junior varsity football player with his padded shoulders, padded chest, his helmet and the multiple bruises he wears on his face, neck, arms and legs. A [...]

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Happy Groundhog Day!

By Linda | February 2, 2010

Groundhog Day, the movie, starring Bill Murray, is not just a comedy, although it was pretty funny. It is a highly philosophical commentary on living a meaningful life. Its deeper message is one that really should (and maybe, after this posting, could) enhance ( or maybe even replace) the usual message of [...]

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Who Are You Anyway?

By Linda | February 1, 2010

Patients in the hospital need to be seen everyday by an attending physician (I believe the assignation “attending” comes from the idea that the doctor is “attending” to a patient’s health or care). Rounding is the name of this activity which requires me to go around and see the patients for whom I care [...]

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