by Elizabeth | Mar 28, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, For Doctors and Physicians
Putting Medical Science Under the Microscope, Part 2 Last Friday morning, the Medscape Internal Medicine digest which popped into my inbox contained the following two news items: Statins Increase Diabetes Risk Up to 50% in Older Women ‘Suggestion’ of...
by Elizabeth | Mar 27, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, For Doctors and Physicians
Putting Medical Science Under the Microscope, Part 1 Last year Nature published a survey in which well more than half of the 1,500 scientists surveyed stated they have been unable to reproduce the results of medical research — even when they were trying to...
by Elizabeth | Mar 23, 2017 | For Doctors and Physicians
Fear is the Last Thing We Need in Medicine I recently watched Danielle Ofri’s TED talk titled Fear: A Necessary Emotion For Doctors. Dr. Ofri begins her talk by relating how she became paralyzed with fear while in the middle of resuscitating a dying patient...
by Elizabeth | Mar 21, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, Chronic Illness, Health at Work
Work Should Make You Well If you google the phrase “working is making me sick,” you get over 99 million hits. Search engines work so quickly that we don’t usually take notice of the number of hits we get, but I’ll tell you that 99 million...
by Elizabeth | Mar 17, 2017 | Health at Work
4 Ways to Create a Healthier Workplace When you think of health in the context of your job or your company, the first thing which springs to mind is probably health insurance. Or you might think of wellness benefits, such as gym memberships. But having health...
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