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Mothers in Medicine
Mothers in Medicine Great posts this week from FreshMD and RH+. Would be so great to see everyone's Day In The Life. Maybe this could be an upcoming Topic Week...
Mothers in Medicine What if I'm just watching Glee?
Medical News: Even Indirect TV Time May Increase Kids' Aggression - in Pediatrics, General Pedi
Source: www.medpagetoday.com
The more TV a young child watches -- and the more time mom and dad spend in front of the tube -- may increase aggressive behavior among kids, researchers say.
Martina Byl Scholtens For when your patient asks you about the hot cheerleader that could only walk backwards after getting the flu shot.
Source: www.theness.com
Robert E. Bartholomew is a social scientist who specializes in mass delusions. He describes them here, in an article he wrote for the NESS, but also in a longer article here for the Skeptical Inquirer and in his several books. About mass delusions he writes:
Source: www.nytimes.com
Having a father help with the child-rearing is important. Having a mother back him is more important.
Martina Byl Scholtens An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
Source: www.nytimes.com
Suppressing fever, which is part of the immune response, might impair the body’s ability to make antibodies, researchers said.
Martina Byl Scholtens Surgeon and mother Cynthia Verchere writes about the importance of office assistants and secretaries in balancing life and work.
Source: www.bcmj.org
I feel very fortunate and privileged to count myself among the 50% of married people who married well. Now in our twentieth year of marriage, my husband has proven to be the most amazing partner, father, provider, and companion that any woman, let alone a woman surgeon, could ask for. ...
Medical News: H1N1 Pandemic Claims 76 Children's Lives, CDC Says - in Infectious Disease, Flu &
Source: www.medpagetoday.com
Since the start of the H1N1 pandemic in April, 76 children have died because of the disease -- with 19 more deaths reported to the CDC in the past week, an agency official said.
Mothers in Medicine Feel like writing a novel next month?
Source: www.mothersinmedicine.com
You may or may not know that November is National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000 word "novel" in one month. (50,000 words may be a little short ...
Mothers in Medicine Pauline Chen rocks.
Source: www.mothersinmedicine.com
I had the recent opportunity to listen to physician-writer and fellow mother in medicine, Pauline Chen,speak at a university function. I had read some of her columns in The New York Times (she has ...
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Are you getting vaccinated for swine flu? Are your children? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2
Source: roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com
Will the nationwide swine flu vaccination program work?
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RH+ on being content...now. http://www.mothersinmedicine.com/2009/10
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From the moment my first visitor came to see me in the hospital, as I was holding my brand spankin’ new baby boy, they all began to echo the same message “Enjoy every minute! They grow up so ...
Mothers in Medicine A good reminder to be present, always.
Source: www.nytimes.com
All too often, mothers and nannies are tuned in to their cellphones, BlackBerrys and iPods, not their young children.
Mothers in Medicine Fizzy states the sad truth
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When someone makes a comment about rich doctors, I want to punch them.The median med school tuition for last year according to AAMC is about $40,000. That is just tuition, not including room and board, academic expenses (some schools require laptop purchase), health insurance, or gas money. ...
Mothers in Medicine juliaink's fabulousness
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Here are few remarks excerpted from a talk I gave about a travelling National Library of Medicine exhibit on women in medicine that is currently at my school and may come to others. The exhibit is very worth a visit, even from an overbusy motherdoc. ...
