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- I had an email from DS yesterday (again) inviting me to review their new privacy policy. Here's an excerpt:" For example, many of our Services require you to sign up for a Sharecare Account. When you do, well ask for personal information, like your...
- Oh, it's me again, handing out reading assignments. Here's today's:http://www.vox.com/2016/6/1/11712776/healthcare-footprintThis one should be required reading for everyone who works in the medical field.I got home from work today to find a message...
- I was skipping from link to link a couple of days ago and found this: http://www.cfah.org/blog/2012/when-you-fear-being-labeled-a-difficult-patient Worth a read. It talks about how people, even the highly-educated, well-paid managerial types, are...
- https://www.yahoo.com/finance/exclusive-makers-took-big-price-increases-widely-used-100704229--finance.htmlHeadline story on Yahoo's home page this morning. Thought you all might enjoy it.
- I have been on a pretty rough patch of road recently, but this one might take the cake.As I think I have mentioned, my job situation is precarious. The small business where I have worked for over thirty years is going through some changes. I've...
- I have had a split in the tip of a finger for two or three weeks now, and it just won't go away. I saw a doctor the other day who asked why my finger was bandaged. When I told him, he asked if any of my meds could be causing it. Other than things...
- Celebrex!I had a rheumy appointment 10 days or so ago, and she introduced us. Our first date was at bedtime that night. It was amazing. I stayed asleep. Rolling over onto my shoulder or hip didn't wake me. I got out of bed the next morning and...
- I don't know if any of you saw the news about the drug-trial-gone-wrong in France this week. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/world/europe/french-drug-trial-hospitalization.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 I had originally read that the drug in question...
- Here are some of the highlights of my day today.I needed to have a fasting blood sample drawn, so out the door with no breakfast. First, out to the nice people who do alterations to get the zipper in my winter jacket replaced. Sign on the door: ...
- Here's an example of why I think my rheumy hung the moon: her office sent out both an email and a robocall letting everyone know when they would be closed over the upcoming holidays, and making sure to remind patients to check prescriptions so...
- The news has been full of stories this week about NSAIDs being linked to heart attack and stroke. Seeing as most of us probably have at least half a dozen bottles of NSAIDs in medicine cabinets, nightstands, purses and pockets, it is of...
- Hate to say we told you so, but Bluedogs and I might have been right this time. This was on my Yahoo page this morning: http://www.delish.com/food/a43162/kale-poison-thallium/
- . . . has rheumatoid arthritis!I'm sure some of you have been following the story of Harper Lee and the upcoming release of her novel, "Go Set a Watchman", written prior to "To Kill a Mockingbird". Anyway, the first chapter has been released...
- Reading 2leftfeet's post about support of friends (or not, in this case), I have a question. When and why did it become acceptable and common for people to rail against the use of prescription drugs, surgery, and other mainstays of good, effective...
- Just in case any of you haven't stepped outside at night, there's a great show going on. Just after sunset, in the western sky, Jupiter and Venus are moving closer and closer. July 1st, which is Tuesday, they will be at their closest, then will...