• Hope everyone is coping well with July in an academic hospital. The ER has been very busy, but our residents are rising to the challenge. We have been impressed with all of the new faces of consultants in the ER. Everyone has been sticking to Mama’s Rules. Check out the article, it is from a…
Wellness Ideas: Hard work of being lazy: • Post on Book of Life on the importance, and seriousness of being lazy.“By contrast, the easy bit can be the running around, the never pausing to ask why, the repeatedly ensuring that there isn’t a moment to have doubts or feel sad or searching. Business can mask a vicious…
For those who noticed, Practice of Wellness is evolving to a less frequent (monthly) but longer newsletter for wellness practices. Hopefully you have been keeping up with your daily practice of taking care of yourself. Here are some ideas for this month. Open Access: • This article about the business of publishing comes from an emergency medicine…
Longevity: • The Longevity Code, by Kris Verburgh, MD adds to the recent literature on how we can live longer, healthier lives. Much of this book matches advice from Longo, Mattson, and Mitteldorf.• Verburgh is big on hormesis, calling it one of the 4 pillars of his approach. He hits on radiation hormesis, pointing out the long…
Catastrophizing: • Definition: “to imagine the worst possible outcome of an action or event : to think about a situation or event as being a catastrophe or having a potentially catastrophic outcome.”• Humans are very good at this. As we evolved, having the creativity and habit of imagining how events can go wrong, hugely wrong, would have saved…
Snack: • It is tough to find low carb foods that do not require refrigeration or preparation. Duke’s sausages are low carb, no sugar, jerky style snacks. They have no nitrites, so none of the issues that accompany cured meats (cancer risk, inflammation, etc). They have tons of flavors now. And they are at almost every store…
Wellness: • This week is the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Wellness Week. They have a nice email series, and do a solid job of encouraging us to prioritize wellness. In the EM office this week we have good coffee, free massages, and a handful of other perks for the residents. • No matter what you…
Shortness of Time: • Cool post from the Farnam Street blogon time. They start with some thoughts from Seneca on how we misallocate time (see quote below). Then they give 4 ways we misunderstand time in the modern world. We think we want to be productive, but really we want more time. • We should all make a…
Real Salt: • Sea salt is very different from table salt, which is simply sodium and chloride. The people at Redmon are very passionate about salt. • They sell a product (Amazon, Whole Foods, etc) that is unrefined true sea salt from Utah. You will notice the slightly sweet, more complex flavor of their salt. Spoiler alert,…
The System: • Shocking graph showing the growth of physicians and administrators in healthcare from 1970 to 2009. Much like higher education, medicine continues to become more complicated, with more rules, while costing much more. Physicians are making less money and patients are spending more. You really have to see the graph to understand the magnitude…
