Ivanhoe Insider
Newsletter
6/30/08
Back to Basics
What follows are some quotes from doctors in this week’s stories, so click on the doctors’ names if you want to know more about what’s in the reports:
From Duke University, anesthesiologist Dr. TJ Gan said the following about using acupuncture as a complement to traditional anesthesia for managing surgical pain: “There is evidence to suggest that if you control the pain well during surgery, not only does it benefit the patient immediately post-operatively, but there is also increasing evidence to suggest that this will prevent longer-term pain problems.”
Talking about collaborative rounds, where nurses, doctors, therapists and others connected with patients’ health care have daily meetings where they discuss each patient, Brett Kissela, M.D., a neurologist at University Hospital in Cincinnati said he believes only a small minority of hospitals around the country have a collaborative rounds program like theirs, and that “We feel that it makes for a better patient experience and definitely provides for better patient care.”
Corby Martin, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist in Baton Rouge, said about his “research kitchen” where they’re studying the science of obesity and looking for the magic combination of macronutrients that will promote satiety, “We are investigating different environmental interventions that can help control body weight…” When asked about what science could do in terms of creating foods or different things for the diet, Dr. Martin also said that “…going back to basics is probably a good option for us.”
Discussing the problem of a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which affects about a quarter of a million people every year in non-professional athletes, Atlanta’s Dr. David L. Marshall says that young girls are at highest risk and that “For every male there’s going to be five to eight females of the same age that tear their ACLs.”
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Finally, make sure you see our reports on “Dangers in the Backyard” where something found in the backyard could be a new cause of diabetes, and items you likely have in your own kitchen might be harming your children’s health. This is an excellent two-part series produced by our newest addition to Team Ivanhoe, Melissa Medalie - Harrisburg’s loss is Ivanhoe’s gain!
And there"s more where that came from...
Marjorie
Bekaert Thomas
President, Ivanhoe Broadcast News