By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Earlier today when I went to check in on Twitter, here’s the message I saw: Twitter is currently down for maintenance. We expect to be back in about an hour. Thanks for your patience. (Twitter.com) 3:35 pm EST May 13, 2009 It’s understandable that Twitter needs a little TLC. Twitter–once an obscure toy for social networking insiders, but suddenly a way millions of regular people are communicating online–probably needs…
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A Salty Tweet from Sanjay Gupta, MD By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Here’s a good quick health tip I came across today from Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN’s Chief-Medical Correspondent. It appeared on his Twitter feed: quick health tip: read labels: not just calories, but sodium. cut to less than 2 grams/day and you will have less swelling of face and legs. about 12 hours ago from web (about 8:30 am) – via Twitter @Sanjayguptacnn…
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Read More...After 40 Years, Patients Still Crave Attention and Respect
The Doctor/Patient Relationship By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA What do patients want? Despite the technological promises of the Health 2.0 movement, in some ways it’s really no different today than it was forty years ago. An article that appeared in Time Magazine on May 13, 1966 says: Today, Americans get far better medical care than ever before; as for the rest [of the doctor-patient relationship], they are often lucky to get as much as…
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By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA It’s always frightening to learn of outbreaks that the CDC labels as a “public health emergency”. While the swine flu may be new to us in name, it’s not new to us in what it is at its core, how we have to prepare ourselves for it, should it arrive in our area, and what we can do to protect ourselves. The reason we now see it in humans…
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