“There’s a very racist approach that we in med have perpetuated for years,” said John Sheagren, MACP. “My plea is that we eliminate in the introduction, the definition of people by race, lifestyle or ethnicity.”
In other words, no more “This is a 65 year old black female…” when you’re presenting a case. If the patient’s race is relevant to treatment, bring it up later in the discussion, not at the start of the introduction, Dr. Sheagren advised.
Exploring the collaboration and tension between journalists and public health workers at times of crisis.
April 14, 2011
Reblogged from BU on tumblr.
Introducing
Boston Young Healthcare Professionals
Connecting the Next Generation of Healthcare Leaders
Thursday, April 28, 2011
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Microsoft New England Research & Development Center
One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Tel: (857) 453-6000
Spend the evening celebrating the launch of BYHP by meeting the founders and Advisory Board, learning more about BYHP’s plans for the coming months, and connecting with both young and experienced healthcare professionals!
With remarks by
William F. Cass
Principal at The Suffolk Group
Former member of the Massachusetts Legislature
Former Vice Chairman of the Healthcare Committee
and
Carey Goldberg & Rachel Zimmerman
of WBUR’s CommonHealth Blog
Former Boston Bureau Chief of The New York Times & former health and medicine reporter for the Wall Street Journal
Free • Appetizers • Parking Available • T-Accessible
For more information and to RSVP, go to http://byhplaunch.eventbrite.com/
Boston Young Healthcare Professionals (BYHP) is a new organization that exists to connect emerging and passionate healthcare leaders in the Greater Boston area to foster strong relationships and build knowledge across all healthcare disciplines. By providing members and the larger healthcare community with educational, professional development, networking, and civic engagement opportunities and events, BYHP will serve as a forum for young professionals across all healthcare disciplines to connect, collaborate, and share knowledge and experiences.
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Use #byhp when tweeting about BYHP
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www.byhp.org
info@byhp.org
Applications of Population Genetics
The statistical measures of population genetics add pieces used to elucidate the puzzle of population structure and history. We know that no natural population can possibly meet all the requirements for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, but in most cases, scientists begin their study of a population with a priori (prior) knowledge of what dynamics may be influencing the population. Armed with some basic knowledge, they use statistical analyses to further address complex questions. For example, it may be known that an endangered species has gone through a genetic bottleneck, and that there is a great deal of non-random mating occurring resulting in inbreeding. Information on the population’s effective population size, heterozygosity levels, and inbreeding coefficients for particular individuals can be used to design relocation or captive breeding programs which will maximize the genetic variation in successive generations. The study of population genetics is increasingly important as we struggle to maintain healthy wild and domestic populations and ecosystems, for our benefit and theirs.
Reblogged from Science :))
The Health of Reform (NYTimes)
Reblogged from Health Politics
District Day at Scott Brown’s Office
Save Service District Day is a nationwide advocacy event to prevent dismantling national services programs (AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, City Year, among many others). Today, Friday February 25, 2011, community service advocates visited their local representatives speaking to the importance of national service.
I participated in District Day at Senator Scott Brown’s Boston office.
First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge how helpful and welcoming the Senator’s staff was. They did their best to accommodate a very large group (that I believe did not have an appointment). They were happy to collect our stories of service and relay our message to the Senator.
It was also great to meet so many passionate alums, members, and friends of AmeriCorps. It was especially moving to meet family and friends of AmeriCorps members.
I was so impressed by the ~60 people who braved the cold rain today to show their support. Diverse range of programs were represented: AmeriCorps state/national, City Year, VISTA, Community HealthCorps and Jumpstart. I am sure other programs were represented too! I didn’t get a chance to speak with everyone since it was such a large group.
I am 2nd row center, tan coat (partially obscured). Photo Credit: Save Service blog
Lastly, a big thanks folks at Serve Next and Be the Change for organizing District Day.
Incredibly, the McDonald’s product contains more sugar than a Snickers bar and only 10 fewer calories than a McDonald’s cheeseburger or Egg McMuffin. (Even without the brown sugar it has more calories than a McDonald’s hamburger.)
NY Times on McDonalds “Oatmeal”. It’s hard to believe that they’ve infused more sugar than a candy bar and almost as many calories as a hamburger into OATMEAL.
(Source: The New York Times)
The Obsession with Beauty is a Public Health Problem
“Women’s bodies are constantly turned into objects, into things…it creates a climate in which there is widespread violence against women. I’m not at all saying that an ad like this directly causes violence against women; it’s not that simple. But turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. We see this with racism, we see it with homophobia, we see it with terrorism. It’s almost always the same process. The person is dehumanized and violence then becomes inevitable…
And girls are getting the message these days so young - that they need to be impossibly beautiful…and they also get the message that they are going to fail - that there’s no way they’re actually going to achieve it…
The obsession with thinness…, the tyranny of the ideal vision of beauty, violence against women - these are all public health problems that affect us all. And public health problems can only be changed by changing the environment.”
Jean Kilbourne
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(via healthlitchick, klaatu)
Reblogged from Health Literate Chick
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