We are Hungry Video

I plan to blog quite a bit more on childhood nutrition in general, but the We Are Hungry video on YouTube, made by students in response to the new school lunch guidelines, has been making the rounds.   If you haven't seen it yet, I've embedded it below:Read more...

Kata Mutiara: Pendidikan dan Harapan

Kata bijak: Pendidikan dan HarapanCAPTION Kata kata indah bergambar dan kata mutiara kehidupan : Pendidikan melahirkan harapan baruKata kata bijak kehidupan,Gambar Motivasi, Kata Mutiara kehidupan, Kata kata IndahKata Bijak: Pendidikan melahirkan harapan b...

Kata mutiara motivasi: Percaya diri,Sukses menanti

Kata bijak motivasi:Percaya diri,sukses menantiKlik untuk mengetahui berapa resolusi monitor andaKata kata indah bergambar dan kata mutiara kehidupan : Percaya diri adalah cara meraih suksesKata kata bijak kehidupan,Gambar Motivasi, Kata Mutiara kehidupan, Kata kata IndahKata mutiara motivasi: Percaya diri adalah cara meraih suk...

Kata Bijak Motivasi: Perubahan dan Kematangan

Kata bijak motivasi:Perubahan dan KematanganKata kata indah bergambar dan kata mutiara kehidupan : Perubahan menghasilkan kematanganKata kata bijak kehidupan,Gambar Motivasi, Kata Mutiara kehidupan, Kata kata IndahKlik untuk mengetahui berapa resolusi monitor andaKata mutiara motivasi: Perubahan menghasilkan kematan...

Health Care Academics' Unrest and Bad Health Care Leadership?

Last month we discussed a recent, large scale study of physician burnout, and wondered whether it would finally inspire some discourse about why physicians are really so upset.  In particular, we hypothesized,  based on some real, if limited data, that physician angst, dissatisfaction, burnout, etc may mainly be a response to the problems with leadership and governance of health care organization we post about on Health Care Renewal.After...

Allegheny Health System Computer Crash (Again) and Paper Backups

I reported on a health IT crash in my May 2011 post "Twelve Hour Health IT Glitch at Allegheny General Hospital - But Patients Unaffected, Of Course..."Now, there's this at the same healthcare system:Computer system at West Penn Allegheny restored after crash Liz NavratilPittsburgh Post-GazetteOctober 2, 2012 The computer system at West Penn Allegheny Health System crashed about noon today, temporarily leaving doctors and nurses to work off...

Honesty and Good Sense on Electronic Medical Records From Down Under

Australians seem to not be as seduced by the Siren Song of cybernetic miracles as health IT leaders in the United States.It took an Australian computer scientist at U. Sydney to dissect and perform a detailed analysis of the internals of an American EHR system, the results of which were disturbing to say the least.  This was a task the American members of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) should have taken on.  It's not...

Abnormal OGTT Results - The many causes

direct image linkAs often happens, when looking for something a bit more specific, I came across this image at right, which led me to this webpage:  Laboratory Testing for Diabetes Mellitus.Curve 1 is a normal OGTT, Curve 6 is a diabetic.  The other causes are listed: Pathologic conditions causing impaired, or diabetic, glucose tolerance results:Hypercorticism - curve 5. Acromegaly - between...