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Molecular Diagnostics: The New Double Edged Sword for the New World Order
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
The future has arrived. The newest buzz word in medicine is "molecular diagnostics". There isn’t even a standard definition in Wikipedia as yet, but as near as I can ascertain it is an emerging subdivision ...
The Foundation of Good Health: The Scorpion and the Turtle
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
There is a story about the scorpion and the turtle. They were sitting on the edge of a wide and deep river and both wanted to cross. The turtle was observing the current and calculating ...
Tracking the Five Hottest Topics in Google Trends—Day 2
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
The Five Hottest Topics in Google Trends as of July 8, 2010, 4:00 P.M. are stress tests, spy swap, earthquake, oil spill in Gulf of Mexico, Alisa Maier. Of course the public is very fickle ...
The Top Five Hot Topics in Google Trends
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
The top five hot topics in Google trends as of this writing are heat wave, climate change, oil spill in Gulf of Mexico, Lindsay Lohan, and illegal immigration. There seems to be an even mix ...
The Double Negative
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
Josh was dumfounded. He was stuck in a movie wishing he could be in the audience watching the main character take a hammering. There was no place to run. It was one of those few ...
Health Care Reform and Depression on the 4th of July
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
We are in the middle of 2010 gearing up for fireworks; waiting for the new health care reform law to take effect. Eleven state attorneys general said they wanted to challenge the law as being ...
The Legal Implications of Missed Diagnosis
By Thomas A Sharon, Rn, Mp · 14 years ago
Missed diagnosis leads to either no treatment or the wrong treatment for medical problems, which can have catastrophic results resulting from treatable conditions. We have no clue as to how widespread the problem is, but ...
The Line
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
We are always dealing with an unseen truth that governs our lives and exists beyond our capacity to notice.
Tow the line, line up, stay in line, you’re way out of line, walk a straight ...
The Point
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
That which cannot be measured is the start of everything measurable.
Stay on point. Make your point. It’s pointless. Point it out. It’s not polite to point. Where are you pointing? Get the point? There’s ...
Taking Shape – The Geometric Keys to Joy and Success
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
"Why do I need to learn this Stuff?" Tobias, a fifteen year-old boy, was talking in group family therapy about how much he hated school. A teenager who hates school; what a surprise! But his ...
The Miracle Cures: Harness your Healing Power
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
A while ago I was channel surfing on my TV and caught site of a preacher wearing a white Armani silk suite speaking to a huge audience in an arena somewhere in the Southeast region ...
The Regression of Secular Progression
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
As a Jew, I find it both fascinating and alarming to watch the political/philosophical/moral debate raging in this country between the leftist secular progressives and right wing Christian fundamentalists. As most of us know, the ...
Medical Errors, Mistakes and Misadventures: "What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate"
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
The Institute of Medicine Identifies "Health Illiteracy" as a Root Cause of Medical Error
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report on April 8, 2004 [IOM Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion] stating ...
Prosopagnosia: the Psychological, Spiritual and Social Impact
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
As a nurse I have come across numerous occasions when patients could not recognize family members and friends. Usually, these were people with trauma brain injury or stroke. I have witnessed the devastating impact this ...
The Role of State Governments in Preventing Medical Errors
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
On August 7, 2008, the Chicago Tribune posted a blog entitled "Illinois ponders how to treat medical errors" (chicagotribune.com). It was a scathing commentary on the lackluster performance of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and ...
Healing the Body and the Mind with Kabbalah: Health Secrets from the Seventh Heaven
By Moshe Sharon · 14 years ago
Humans are constantly at war with their emotions. The human intellect is in a constant struggle over good and evil with its animal side. The result when the evil side succeeds: We behave badly; we ...
Hospital Trauma (Part 1): Falling and Other Mishaps
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 15 years ago
Every hospital has risk assessment and fall prevention protocols, yet every hospital has patients falling out of bed, while walking, during transfer, from a chair, from the portable commode, from the toilet, from a seated ...
Standards of Care in the Emergency Room: The Emergency Waiting Game
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 15 years ago
THE EMERGENCY ROOM is the place where most of us enter the health-care system. Many are there with undiagnosed life-threatening conditions when they first arrive. Their survival depends on how fast and accurately the staffers ...
Intervention for Prevention of Bedsores
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 15 years ago
How Bedsores Can Be Prevented
Time and attention are the basic ingredients for preventing bedsores. Both are becoming scarcer with the ever-dwindling number of nurses in the workforce. When a person is bedridden, the main ...
Dialysis
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 15 years ago
Dialysis is an artificial process that imitates the kidneys. There are two types: (1) peritoneal (abdominal), which requires infusing a special solution into the abdomen and draining it back out, and (2) hemo (blood), which ...