The Dangers of FaceBook

Journal article from Student BMJ:

The Dangers of Facebook

Posted 12/29/2008

Neil Graham; Philippa Moore

Abstract
Increasing numbers of doctors and medical students are turning to websites such as Facebook to make friends, chat, and organise social events. These innovations have made some aspects of life easier and are a powerful tool for communication, but they also blur the line between our personal and professional personas. With the veneer of friendship that's offered on these sites, it's all too easy to reveal more information than is appropriate. If this information falls into the wrong hands, problems can arise about your integrity, employment, and fitness to practise medicine.
Introduction

In a recent study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the Facebook profiles of a group of medical students in Florida were scrutinised with the aim of establishing how dangerous Facebook could be in the intersection of personal and professional identities. The study found some profiles publicly displaying photographs of trainee medics drinking to excess, engaging in sexual behaviour, and, in one instance, posing with a dead racoon. Three of the 10 students in the sample had also joined groups on Facebook that could be interpreted as sexist or racist.[1]

Whether the private activities of a medical professional have an impact on their ability to practise is debatable, but it cannot be denied that putting private material in such a public arena has the potential to undermine trust in the profession.

What's interesting about this is that Doctors are normal people (surprised?). We get up to the same shit that others do. That's why Scrubs is such a bloody realistic show! Believe it or not.

The difference now? Our real personalities are available on the web for our patients to see. If we're not careful. Suddenly they know we're not God. Bummer.

A NEW STEALTH WEAPON ACUPUNCTURE GOES TO WAR..AIR FORCE DOCTOR HAS BEEN TRAINING MILITARY DOCTORS IN BATTLEFIELD COMBAT ACUPUNCTURE

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ACUPUNCTURE TO REDUCE PAIN IN COMBAT

I have read that some medical centers offer acupuncture but I was amazed to read that the U.S. Military has enlisted acupuncture into combat and will start to train combat doctors to use acupuncture. The military plans to enlist acupuncture in the battle against war time pain. Military doctors will learn battlefield acupuncture.




"Acupuncture involves placing very thin needles at specific points on the body to try to control pain and reduce stress. There are only theories about how, why and even whether it might work".



Colonel Richard Niemtzow of Andrews Air Force Base developed and named the battlefield acupuncture technique in 2001. "It is a radical departure from classical Chinese, French and German ear acupuncture. He said he realized its possible military value and the events of the World Trade Center influenced him to name it battlefield acupuncture.






As an Air Force acupuncturist, Colonel Niemtzow has trained hundreds of his military counterparts. Battlefield acupuncture focuses on locations on the ear that he said have been known for hundreds of years as effective areas for pain control. The ear is also practical because it can be readily accessed whether on the battlefield or in a hospital bed".




"Now the Air Force, which runs the military’s only acupuncture clinic, is training doctors to take acupuncture to the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. A pilot program starting in March will prepare 44 Air Force, Navy and Army doctors to use acupuncture as part of emergency care in combat and in front line hospitals, not just on bases back home".

Battlefield Acupuncture Introduced

Acupuncture for Acute and Chronic Pain in Air Force Personnel

Air Force to Train Combat Docs to Use Acupuncture

POINTING AND SHOOTING YOUR WAY TO BETTER PHOTOS WITH A POINT AND SHOOT DIGITAL CAMERA

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MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE WITH DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY YOU AS THE NEXT ANSEL ADAMS WITH A DIGITAL CAMERA

If you follow this blog you may know that one of my avocations besides medicine is digital photography and digital cameras (and if you don't I'm telling you now). Here is an illuminating article from the NYT about how to get better pictures and photos even if you have one of those "point and shoot cameras". There are so many things you can do with digital photography ,it's limited only by your imagination.



"The not-so-dirty, not-so-little secret about even the simplest point-and-shoot cameras is that they work best if you know just a tiny bit about what’s going on when you snap a picture. Otherwise, even scads of megapixels and image stabilization and other ballyhooed features can’t save you from overexposed images and washed-out colors".

Point-and-Shoot (Digital Camera) Does Not Preclude Thinking

Video Review of Casio EX-FH 20

WHAT ARE PROTEINS WHY DO VEGETARIANS HAVE TO WORK HARDER TO GET PROTEIN

WHAT ARE PROTEINS?

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When people talk about food having protein do they know what they are talking about? Do you know what protein is? Most people know in a general sort of way, that meat like steak, hamburger and chicken and fish have protein. That's because they are made of muscles and other tissue that is constructed out of biological material generically know as protein. Protein is a vital building block of all biological organisms. But there are many thousands, in fact hundreds of thousands of proteins throughout nature. What do they have in common? Proteins are made of chemicals called amino acids. So by eating protein, your body can deconstruct the proteins and get a source of amino acids to use for building..

WHY DO VEGETARIANS HAVE TO WORK HARDER TO GET PROTEIN?

Because many non meat proteins may not have all the amino acids the body needs. Therefore, vegetarians need to insure that they are getting a variety of protein sources that have the adequate amino acids. See the famous book Diet for A Small Planet by Francis Moore Lappe.

WHAT DO PROTEINS DO IN THE BODY?

What don't proteins do in the body? Besides being structural parts, proteins are involved as enzymes that make chemical reactions possible. Insulin, for example, is a protein made in the pancreas and released into the blood stream to push the glucose in the blood into the cells of the body. Prescription insulin is made by bacteria that have been programmed with the genes to manufacture insulin. Although the human body has hundreds of thousands of proteins and proteins are made by following the instructions of genes, the body is estimated to have 25,000 or 30,000 genes. So the manufacture of a protein is not just a one to one correspondence with a gene. In fact, it's turning out that the old idea of genes as long strands of dna is just a part of the whole genetic story. Besides the fact that dna strands are broken apart and recombined in new arrangements there are other factors added to the dna that impact the genetic behavior, a field called epigenetics, but I digress.

How to Cure HIV. The Book.

OH MY GOD! That picture I used in the last post led me to this book. WTF.

New Revised! Including new research and findings showing what the true causes of HIV & AIDS are and lead directly to their cure! 53 CURED Cases The First Year Cure, not treatment, is the subject of this book. In 1991 Dr. Clark discovered the source of HIV. Once the source became clear the cure became obvious. but would it work? After curing 53 cases in a row, all who used this method, Dr. Clark could wait no longer to present these findings. Since that time many more have been cured, too many to be added to this book. Most important is adding yourself to that list! Electricity can now be used to kill bacteria, viruses and parasites in minutes, not days or weeks as antibiotics require. If you have been suffering from HIV infection or AIDS related illness, learn to build the electronic device that will stop it immediately. It is safe and without side effects ad does not interfere with any treatment you are now on.

Buy it now and save yourself. Crisis. Real medicine is not about anecdotal case studies - it's about randomised control trials.

How to cure HIV

Sometimes, "lost in translation" can be bloody dangerous. See this site.

"What is this HIV Cure meant for?- This cure for HIV is a holistic HIV cure with A bio Magnetic Cards / Bio Magnetic Tablets and immune enhancing herbal medicines. No side effects in this. This s purely ethical and most successful treatment in the history of HIV. Very easy to use -Even a 10 year old boy can use this. This is most potent HIV cure available.

What is the procedure of action of treatment?
Bio Magnetic Cards Or Bio Magnetic Tablets will perform as very strong fusion inhibitor (entry inhibitor) that completely stop HIV cure from entering CD4 Cells. by creating a negative charge CD4 which will repel negatively charged HIV and prevent it from attaching the surface of CD4. So HIV can not complete its life cycle. Thus it will die in due course and will be expelled from body through excretion like that of urine etc.

What will be result-?
HIV will be destroyed and soon the body will start to gain weight . All symptoms will be subsided and CD4 count will be back to the normal. All opportunistic diseases will be cured as well. The HIV cure will be termed that because HIV 's end is the result of the HIV cure."

HIV is the biggest epidemic we've ever had. This kind of stuff makes me want to cry. It should be taken down. Someone phone Google.

PUSH UPS PULL UPS AND LET DOWNS HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO GET FIT AND TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK BY EXERCISING

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SIX MONTHS TO SEE THE CHANGES IN YOUR BODY FROM WORKOUTS AND EXERCISE

You join a fitness club or start a workout regimen and say to yourself "this time it's for real I am going to A. Lose weight B. Buildup my triceps C. Get a better figure" or all the above. And then reality smacks you in the face as you exercise day after day and no changes seem to be happening. All that weight lifting, treadmill running, push ups. pull ups and let downs!



"To make a change in how you look you are talking about a significant period of training." That's Dr. William Kraemer, a professor of kinesiology. " In our studies it takes six months to a year.".."that is with regular strength training workouts using appropriate weights and with a carefully designed individualized program."



See the NYT article

Fitness Isn't an Overnight Sensation