Archive for June, 2011
Benefits of Using Your Car Less
GO GREEN. We hear the message just about everywhere these days. And Americans seem to be responding in great numbers. We are becoming more conscious of how our choices are affecting the environment, and we seem to be making steady progress toward a cleaner, safer and healthier environment for the generations to come.
I am in full support of going green, so I was shocked to come up against my own stubborn thought pattern one morning as I was walking my daughter to school.
Diabetes Mellitus (DM)
If you are a health-conscious person, you would have come across the word diabetes mellitus or even heard of it a few times yourself. Thus, with that in mind, I will focus briefly on the aspect of classification and non-pharmacological therapy of DM.
Classification of Diabetes
Type 1 DM
Type 1 DM is known as insulin-dependent DM as patients have little or unable to synthesize insulin hormone. Hence the name, they will eventually be dependent on insulin injection for their survival. This type of DM is a result of the autoimmune destruction of ²-cells (which produces the insulin hormone) in the pancreas. It mostly occurs in adolescent and children. In general, they are less than 30 years old with a lean body habitus. However in some cases, it could also be found at any age group.
Is Your Doctor’s Inability to Remember Pain Compromising Your Medical Care?
Do you ever feel that your doctors and therapists just don’t understand you? As a chronic pain patient, I was often appalled at the lack of understanding and empathy I received from the people treating me. In fact, I often found myself fantasizing about bringing an ice pick or knitting needle into a doctor’s office and stabbing it into the practitioner’s back or knee so I could say, “There! Feel that stabbing pain? That’s exactly how I feel!”
Because doctors and therapists did not grasp the amount of pain I was dealing with, my pain management was being badly mismanaged. I knew that in order to get appropriate care, I was going to have to find an answer to my question, “Why don’t they understand? I puzzled over the problem for a long time, trying to work out the reasons so many of the medical professionals I met were blind to my pain. I read. I observed. And bit by bit, answers began to emerge.