February 2012
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Flavorwire » The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in... →
Gorgeous!
Feb 24th
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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...
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of...”
– Maya Angelou (via xxxi-i-mcmxcii)
Feb 22nd
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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)
Feb 21st
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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?
Feb 20th
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“The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily...”
– Eli Pariser, TED Quotes
Feb 16th
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“Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.”
– Stanley McChrystal, TED Quotes
Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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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.
Feb 11th
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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...
Feb 9th
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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)
Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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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.
Feb 7th
Ketamine: instant relief of depression? →
Ketamine: instant relief of depression?
Feb 6th
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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.
Feb 6th
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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? 
Feb 5th
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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...
Feb 5th
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Community Acupuncture in Canada →
Feb 2nd
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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...
Feb 2nd
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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.
Feb 1st
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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...
Feb 1st
January 2012
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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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.
Jan 30th
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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)
Jan 30th
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“We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
– Mother Theresa
Jan 29th
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“We’re fighting for a society in which everyone is important.”
– From this article in Mother Jones
Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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“I understand the need for documentation, but at some point when the...”
– Paperwork causes unintended distractions for physicians and nurses
Jan 28th
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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...
Jan 27th
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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.
Jan 27th
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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…
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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“[…] The sun roars at the prayer’s end.”
– Dylan Thomas, from “Vision and Prayer” (via the-final-sentence)
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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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...
Jan 23rd
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Power of Touch in Clinic →
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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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.
Jan 20th
Jan 20th
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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...
Jan 19th
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!
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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