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This is a great tool we should all be taking advantage of.

very good bottled water consumer info Now, what should we drink?

Ok, I posted this earlier on the wrong submission, so here it is on the correct submission: One of the best posts about the nursing shortage I've read in a long time, referencing another great article about the same. Good job Kim!

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Crisis is not looming over medicine it has already struck. We (the US) spend thousands of dollars on healthcare now for each person in the countury and the ROI is horrible. When we compare our system to other countries we are behind in several indecies.

"Crisis is looming over medicine..."is the title in Editorial 0f MD&ID:The on line,Journal of the association of producers of medical devices and instruments in U.S. This is a Financial and Moral Crisis. The remedy?Preventive Medicine.Everybody should be his own doctor first.It takes brain and vision to do just that. This article relate to global studies that are being assembeled by G.E. Health Task Force and the Miliken Institute Santa Clara California.

Ha ha to #8... I never answer my phone when I know they're calling me to come in! (Sometimes you can just tell by the time of day that the phone rings!)

But no, it's so funny! THIS made my day.

Primary care in the US is fading for all the reasons you mention and more. The challeges of dealing with multiple insurances, running a practice (who learned about THAT in medical school?) and keeping up with technology while actually SEEING patients contribute to it's demise. I hope that physicians become more savvy in dealing with these issues, and get compensated for what they are worth!

It's an entire year away. I think we all can prepare.

I love it, Fat cannot be create nor destroyed, only transferred. I'm stealing that one!

I notice this quite often. Patients with history of MI often becomes depressed after.

I also doubt she fits the profile. It's good for you that you have a daughter interested in her health at the age of 8, I have faculty mates (aged 20+) who eat anything they get, without any interest in the quality of food. I am sure the environment where children grow, their family in your daughter's case, count a lot :)

I've gotta keep a watch of my daughter. She's only 8. She's already an exercise junkie, does sit ups, very interested on healthy foods, cuts down on fatty, afraid to be like one of her friends who's "fat." Oh, she's also intelligent and she's a perfectionist. Does she fit the profile? Not yet, I think. I don't want to discourage her good choices in life but I'll keep my eyes open.

I can’t live without paper towels. I paper towel toilet door knobs, faucets . . . I about died when I saw my daughter touched the flusher lever with her bare hand when she was four. Guess what, I made sure she never does that again. I agree. Microbiology should be a prerequisite to ANY major.

Not surprising. We've heard about the benefits of human touch to NICU babies, right? A hospital I work for offer professional massage by a massage therapist available to patients and employees because of the known benefits of it to reduce mental and physical stress, and pain.

That certainly is a way to confuse the poor guy.

If you're interested in this topic, DB is ranting about it on his blog - http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3783

There's been talk of doing this in the UK for quite some time. Cigarette packs in the UK already carry dire and detailed warnings, such as 'Smoking clogs the arteries and causes heart attacks and strokes' and 'Smoking can cause a slow and painful death'. Adding picture might be a step too far though, as the proposed images are pretty gruesome (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3085312/Pictures-of-diseased-lungs-on-cigarette-packets.html) and most smokers are already perfectly aware that they are harming themselves.

Romania already has implemented this since the early summer, this year.

Great article!

Wow. Apparently I'm supposed to bring a change of clothes to work now?

I can't see the opt-out program making it.

If the patient was never seen by triage then it can't really be the hospitals fault. Seems like a homeless man seeking some shelter.

If it is free and for everyone then it must be better right? Not.