Archive for April, 2007
30Apr A video for your thoughts…
Thanks to Eugene Barsky at the UBC Physio-Info blog for the heads up on this one. This video makes you think a bit....see it here: Glumbert.com: Shift Happens. Labels: evolution, misc.
30Apr Sticker Shock
The above is a Graham Watson Photo. A friend of mine recently suffered the most dreaded of all cycling injuries: the broken collarbone. Everything about this broken bone was ho-hum. It was not a severe fracture and the care to fix the bone was minimal: a sling, rest, some pain meds. However, the entire experience was valuable as a look into costs r
26Apr Metro Spirit Blog Mirror
Green Tea at MCG Research at MCG finds some good news for tea drinkers. Labels: public health, Research
26Apr Free, Open Information
As an avid fan a peer reviewed journals, I get very excited when a journal does not charge a fee for its content. A new medical journal has recently been introduced, Open Medicine, from Canada. Its authors are the martyr type, having recently been fired from another open source journal over issues of editorial freedom. I wish them well in this new
25Apr I'm Officially Sensitive!
As some of you may know, I recently was involved as a tester in a research study at USC. As testers, we were required to perform repeated muscle tests on subjects quadriceps using 4 different types of tests. I was reviewing the final manuscript and found the following paragraph: "The sensitivity of both the isometric and dynamic manual muscle tests
24Apr Metro Spirit Blog Mirror
Posts From Another Blog: Why living in the south is bad for your newborn... Having a Baby? Move North! Labels: Metro Spirit, public health
24Apr What Are You Looking For?
Perhaps you may have noticed, perhaps not, but for the past several weeks, a new functionality has been added to this blog. I created my own custom search engine using Google Custom Search. The premise behind my search is that I attempted to combine a mix of high quality consumer and professional information sources into one comprehensive rehabilit
23Apr Who are the Experts in Musculoskeletal Care?
This interesting article published in Military Medicine, a smallish peer-reviewed journal asked just that question. The investigators administered a standardized examination that assesses knowledge in managing musculoskeletal conditions to uniformed Physical Therapists. They then compared the results to other healthcare providers. The results: Orth
18Apr Comparative Visual Healthcare Spending
This is interesting: MSNBC did some calculations of the US budget and presented it in terms of a $1000 household budget. Most of your tax dollars go to finance healthcare. Personally disturbing for me, b/c I spent less than $400 on healthcare for myself last year! For the picture, click here. I wonder how much we could deduct off that amount if no
18Apr Why Referal for Profit is Dangerous and Thoughts on Radiology
Yesterday, the journal, Health Affairs, published a study that investigated referral for profit in the context of advanced radiological imaging. Here is what they found: ABSTRACT: Using data from a large insurer in California, we identified the self-referral status of providers who billed for advanced imaging in 2004. Nearly 33 percent of providers
