Conversation Starters

Dear All, Hopefully, I’ll add more specific nutrition tidbits that I learn throughout the year, but I wanted to start by posting these websites below. Unlike some of the other nutrition sites out there, (as far as I know) these ones aren’t selling diets or health food products. They also try to examine the actual research, data and evidence on the topics. As with anything, please be careful about what “evidence” exactly is: it’s easy for someone to take a couple of sentences from a research …

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Dear all, Last month, we had lecture on liver injury (hepatotoxicity) and tylenol. Too much tylenol can lead to serious sickness. If you are taking tylenol or giving it to your children — check very carefully, make sure it is truly safe and the right time to take it. For those with liver injury or drinking alcohol, the suggested dose is approximately NO MORE THAN 2 grams every 24 hours. If you accidentally take too much tylenol, go immediately to the hospital and tell the staff that you …

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Dear All, Last semester, Sarah Buel, a professor, lawyer and inspirational advocate of women’s rights, came to talk to our medical school class. As you know, the Vagina Monologues were written by Eve Ensler in part to raise awareness of Domestic Violence issues. In the same theme, Dr. Buel wanted to spread awareness and teach us how to recognize and support our family and our friends who may be victims. My video is on some of the things were learned. I think what surprised me the most was …

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4/3/07 I went to a talk by Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon, author and professor at Harvard. He did a study looking at why doctors accidentally leave sponges, tools in a patient during surgery, called “Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery.”
N Engl J Med. 2003 Jan 16;348(3):229-35.
This video is aboout what I learned from him in this paper and from asking him a couple of questions.

For more of a written description:

http://bostonmedicalstudent.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/surgical-errors-part-i-leaving-tools-inside-the-patients-body-by-accident/

General idea behind these health videos:
I’m a first year medical student in Boston. Every day, I’m learning exciting and critical topics on medicine and health. But too often, the things I’m learning about never reach the public.

I wanted to try an experiment — sharing health information on youtube, with the sole purpose of trying to get more important health information to you all. Unlike some of the other health videos out there, mine are not about promoting a book, a diet, a pill, an agenda. I hope to answer your questions either through e-mail or through the video updates — please, please, (please!) e-mail me any questions and I will try my best to answer them by asking my professors and by citing credibles sources (JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, etc…)

e-mail:
unitedstatesmedicalstudent@gma il.com

I hope this experiment works — and if it fails, I hope someone sees these videos, says, “hmmm, these are bad videos, but I love the idea,” and decides to go for it.

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P.S. I wanted to point out something important: I’m just a medical student, so my posts are hopefully conversation starters, but only conversation starters — not medical advice. If my posts intrigue you, please read more about the topic and discuss about it with your doctor. I’d be happy to send you the information in the journal articles I talk about. Also, the opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of Harvard Medical School, its affiliated institutions, or Harvard University. Best wishes!

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In the episode My Favorite Mistake, Christina decides to amputate the gentleman’s foot — but she didn’t consider another alternative (hyperbaric oxygen treatment). Please be careful of people who say hyperbaric oxygen is a cure-all — because it’s not (more rigorous research is needed). But I wanted to share this information as a possible consideration.

References:

1) “[hyperbaric oxygen] might have a role in reducing the risk of major amputation in patients with diabetic foot ulcers.”

Non-surgical and drug treatments. From the British Medical Journal 2006;332;900-903

2) Hyperbaric Oxygenation Accelerates the
Healing Rate of Nonischemic Chronic
Diabetic Foot Ulcers. Diabetes Care 26:2378–2382, 2003

General idea behind these health videos:
I’m a first year medical student here at the U.S.. Every day, I’m learning exciting and critical topics on medicine and health. But too often, the things I’m learning about never reach the public.

I wanted to try an experiment — sharing health information on youtube, with the sole purpose of trying to get more important health information to you all. Unlike some of the other health videos out there, mine are not about promoting a book, a diet, a pill, an agenda. I hope to answer your questions either through e-mail or through the video updates — please, please, (please!) e-mail me any questions and I will try my best to answer them by asking my professors and by citing credibles sources (JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, etc…)

e-mail:
unitedstatesmedicalstudent@gma il.com

I hope this experiment works — and if it fails, I hope someone sees these videos, says, “hmmm, these are bad videos, but I love the idea,” and decides to go for it.

____________

P.S. I wanted to point out something important: I’m just a medical student, so my posts are hopefully conversation starters, but only conversation starters — not medical advice. If my posts intrigue you, please read more about the topic and discuss about it with your doctor. I’d be happy to send you the information in the journal articles I talk about. Also, the opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of Harvard Medical School, its affiliated institutions, or Harvard University. Best wishes!

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Dear All,
This is a video about some of the first year medical school classes we are taking. Hope you enjoy it!
Jeff

for more random stuff, my blog is:
www.bostonmedicalstudent.wordpress.com

P.S. I wanted to point out something important: that the opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of Harvard Medical School, its affiliated institutions, or Harvard University. Also, I’m just a medical student, so my posts are hopefully conversation starters, but only conversation starters — not medical advice. If my posts intrigue you, please read more about the topic and discuss about it with your doctor. I’d be happy to send you the information in the journal articles I talk about. Best wishes!

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