February 2012
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Flavorwire » The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in... →
Gorgeous!
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Repurposed buildings for the community
Green light given to alternative health centre in Chesham
Can you imagine more abandoned buildings and sites being re-purposed with the interests and backing of the community? The visual and performing art centers that could spring up? The open space lacking in urban areas? The centers where community events could take place and bring everyone together, reducing the isolation that is slowly...
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“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of...”
– Maya Angelou (via xxxi-i-mcmxcii)
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“The other question to ask is just how representative the group is of Australian...”
– War against natural medicine - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Medical research rarely yields immediate results -... →
I’m all for trying things to affect your health, but some of these studies really just make no sense. “$406,000 was spent to determine if brewed coffee enemas could help treat pancreatic cancer”?
WHAT?
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“The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily...”
– Eli Pariser, TED Quotes
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“Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.”
– Stanley McChrystal, TED Quotes
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World Press Photo Winner →
A story in 11 pics of the last years of a woman with Alzheimers life as her husband cares for her.
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3pm slump? Why a sugar rush may not be the answer. →
Protein not sugar stimulates cells keeping us thin and awake, new study suggests.
A new study has found that protein and not sugar activates the cells responsible for keeping us awake and burning calories. The research, published in the scientific journal Neuron, has implications for understanding obesity and sleep disorders.
Wakefulness and energy expenditure rely on “orexin cells”, which...
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“Adam Drewnowski, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, has spent...”
– Thankfully someone is writing about this.
What Food Says About Class in America - The Daily Beast (via verticaltheory)
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Alameda Community Acupuncture - Alameda, CA Patch →
Welcome Alameda Community Acupuncture! A quick profile on one of the newest community acupuncture clinics.
Ketamine: instant relief of depression? →
Ketamine: instant relief of depression?
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Charlie Chaplin meets Inception
It took me forever to find this again. The score really does it for me.
world-shaker:
And my first YouTube doubler. Almost guaranteed chills.
Charlie Chaplin meets Inception.
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Museum bunny gets acupuncture for twitching head -... →
Ummm…ok. So does this mean the bunny responded via the placebo effect to the vet’s demeanor and expectations?
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Drug war report: Mexican government "cannot...
Mexicans living in constant fear not only of the cartel’s violence but getting caught in the crossfire. The constant low level stress of living like this has got to be doing all kinds of funky things to the population.
univisionnews:
On January 9th, Mexican police found 13 bodies near a gas station in Michoacan state. In a report released on Tuesday, consulting agency Stratfor says that...
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Community Acupuncture in Canada →
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Complementary and alternative therapies in... →
What caught my attention was this, “[Dr. Menachem] Oberbaum, who does not accept unproven CAM techniques and believes some can be harmful, continued that ‘in the long run, including CAM in the conventional repertoire will lower the health expenses. A recurrent middle-ear infection patient who visits a physician every two months in the first three years of his life and who swallows a...
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Communities Learn the Good Life Can Be a Killer -... →
How the environments we have built are killing us and what we need to do now.
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Spreading the love to MDs and nurses-Practice
So the first part of the MD/nurse love was the admin stuff. Getting my foot in door, planting my feet inside the door, making sure people came through the door, etc. That’s the not-fun stuff. The fun stuff (again if you can call dealing with people’s pain “fun”) happens once they’re seated and ready for acupuncture
When I first started at the hospital I was nervous...
January 2012
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“For all its recent stumbles, the movement’s prospects of getting a woman under...”
– An article from the NY Times on a young Chilean activist making waves. Dammit we need this here.
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“‘Tis not always in a physician’s power to cure the sick; at times the disease is...”
– Tough to keep this in mind when someone is in strong pain in front of you.
Ovid (via medicalstate)
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“We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
– Mother Theresa
“We’re fighting for a society in which everyone is important.”
– From this article in Mother Jones
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“I understand the need for documentation, but at some point when the...”
– Paperwork causes unintended distractions for physicians and nurses
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Acupuncture and Health Insurance-Pt. 1
I just received an email from the California State Oriental Medicine Association asking for practitioner and patient support in getting acupuncture covered as an Essential Health Benefit (EHB) under the President’s Affordable Care Act. This would mandate coverage of acupuncture by all insurances by 2014. This and the other item on the acupuncture associations’ wish list, Medicare...
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south austin community acupuncture's blog: A... →
All this and then some. A view of the acupuncture fees/patient commitment front from the community acupuncture side.
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Utne Reader: How Doctors Choose to Die →
After being surrounded by undignified death it makes sense that MDs want the exact opposite.
utnereader:
Doctors have the very best medical care at their fingertips. They read journals that publish the latest medical findings; they know the most up-to-date treatments for various ailments and diseases; they might even play golf with a top surgeon or two. And yet, when faced with death, many…
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“[…] The sun roars at the prayer’s end.”
– Dylan Thomas, from “Vision and Prayer” (via the-final-sentence)
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Spreading the love to MDs and nurses-Admin
For the past year or so I’ve been giving acupuncture treatments to staff at a hospital. I was introduced to their employee assistance program director via a nurse who had gotten good results at my office. It has been a “fun” learning experience, if you can call dealing with hospital staff’s pain fun. Here’s a 2-parter about that experience so far. This one deals with...
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Power of Touch in Clinic →
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Barefoot Doctor CA in CBS news in Philly!
Congrats Jenny at Barefoot Doctor CA for your segment in Philly’s CBS news! Check her out here.
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Testing my mettle
I confess to being a glutton for doubt. I love reading about medicine, physics, math, biotech, etc. What we continue to learn through the hard sciences is amazing to me. Well, some of what I read is how acupuncture is a sham/quackery/deceptive. A good summary against acupuncture as a valid form of therapy can be found here. I expose myself a lot…maybe too much…to these articles and...
ly2me asked: in response to your answer on my acupuncture question.. i have chronic lyme disease so migraines, very stiff/tight neck and overall pains are overwhelming, so I'm looking into acupuncture for some relief!
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