How to fight physician burnout - KevinMD shares his personal experience

Mosquito controls with AGO bucket traps, Autocidal Gravid Ovitrap (AGO), tested by CDC

Autocidal Gravid Ovitrap (AGO) bucket trap is a standard 5-gallon bucket adapted in a specific way to capture mosquitoes. AGO traps are avai...

Who are the doctors who don't get stressed at work? Check if you have the personality type

Who are the doctors who don't get stressed at work? According to this meta-analysis, the personality type to have is: extravert who is o...

Unprecedented range of therapeutic options for rheumatic diseases is now available — challenge is to make them accessible

From The Lancet: Small molecule inhibitors of Janus kinase (JAK) Much of the recent knowledge of the underlying mechanisms that drive rheuma...

Get Ready for Your Next Meeting With the Boss–at the Gym

From WSJ: As an alternative to meetings, buff bosses are inviting their employees to exercise and work out (video): Some prospective employe...

How to live to 100: avoid "major agers", choose foods that love you back

The one and only Dr. Roizen shares tips for Living to 100, using some memorable buzz words, among them: - avoid the "major agers" ...

Even short term use of oral steroids (less than 30 days) linked to increased risk of severe infection (sepsis), blood clots and fracture

One in five American adults in a commercially insured plan were given prescriptions for short term use of oral corticosteroids during a thre...

Eurovision 2017 - what are your favorite songs?

Here are some of the more popular ones: The full list is here: Eurovision 2017 - Official Music Videos

How to be happier at your workplace: from employee, and from employer, perspective

Robert Steven Kaplan has addressed these 2 topics in 2 Google talks and 2 books, they are linked below. I developed 2 sheets based on the id...

Indoor Tanning is Out - video message from the American Academy of Dermatology

American Academy of Dermatology: Not only can the ultraviolet radiation from indoor tanning beds lead to wrinkles, it also increases the ris...

"Bodies have a way of not keeping up with your brain or your career" - Glover from Deep Purple on approaching retirement

Roger Glover from Deep Purple: "We're all about late 60s, early 70s, and bodies have a way of not keeping up with your brain or you...

"Everything changes and nothing remains still, you cannot step twice into the same stream" vs. Occidentali's Karma

Francesco Gabbani won Festival di Sanremo 2017 with his catchy song “Occidentali’s Karma” (“Westerners’ Karma”) and will represent Italy dur...

The Corrs are back with a new album

The Corrs are back with a new album, here is one of the singles: The Corrs - I Do What I Like - recorded at Church Studios: The first single...

The freak accident that changed Charles Krauthammer's life

From Wikipedia: Charles Krauthammer is an American syndicated columnist, author, political commentator, and non-practicing physician whose w...

What happens when you have lunch with Chuck Norris

"I heard medicine takes Chuck Norris to feel better", and more in this commercial by UnitedHealthcare (US insurance company): The ...

Plan-based Diet and Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death - by Michael Greger, M.D. (video)

Plan-based Diet and Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death - by Michael Greger, M.D. (video), a lecture and Q&A session at Tompkins Count...

Patient-centered communication: what are the basic skills?

Communication skills needed for patient-centered care include: - eliciting the patient's agenda with open-ended questions, especially e...

Percentage of U.S. residents with up-to-date screening for colorectal cancer remains at 60% - what options, other than colonoscopy, do we have?

From the NEJM: The percentage of U.S. residents with up-to-date screening for colorectal cancer has not increased appreciably since 2010 and...

Physician ratings at Cleveland Clinic (video)

The CEO and the Chief Experience Officer explain the rationale behind the physician ratings at Cleveland Clinic: Disclaimer: I am an allergi...

Problem solver

From Italian : Pedro and Domenico jump, but Oreste thinks about it a bit... and finds another solution. #donkey #problemsolving Related: Thi...

Gadgets Galore - Best of CES 2017

From WSJ: As the tech world reveals the products that will impact the year ahead, Personal Tech columnists Geoffrey A. Fowler and Joanna Ste...