Showing posts with label problem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label problem. Show all posts

Thursday, January 27, 2011

When will the moderate drinking a problem?

Jay Ducote Court, a pork shoulder butt injected with honey and Bourbon with its award-winning BlackBerry, Bourbon, and smoked for 12 hours.  Ducote estimates, good food and drink, but says he sometimes exaggerates.

Nicole Colvin Jay Ducote butt injected with honey and Bourbon Court, a pork shoulder with his award-winning BlackBerry, Bourbon, and smoked for 12 hours.  Ducote estimates, good food and drink, but says he sometimes exaggerates.

Ever wonder if you reach for the third glass of wine or order that third parties are cocktail, if perhaps you push it? Now, you're hardly alone, especially during the holiday season, when food and alcohol on most mountains are showered social events.


Jay Ducote is one of those drinkers, the wonders if it is to exaggerate with alcohol. He absolutely enjoying his food and drink, and writes about in his blog, bite and booze. The blog chronicles of his adventures in southern Louisiana, where he lives. He enjoys, mix, eating and drinking in his own homemade recipes. Bourbon often plays an important role.


How much is safe?


Ducote says he's a great guy who tolerate more alcohol than most. If he goes with friends or become a football game watches he have often three to four drinks. But sometimes he wonders if he consumed too much. At this point, he says only a break in the rule and not drink at all for a few days take.


Experts describe Ducote's drinking habits as "gray zone": considered what is more, sure, but less than what is considered risky. Health professionals keep two drinks per day than safe amount of consumption for men and one drink per day as safe for women.


Psychologist will Corbin defines risky drinking as binge drinking more than five beverage for a man and more than four drinks for a woman over a period of two hours.


Corbin says some people probably drink within the range of safe and binge drink without drink in too much trouble. But others may be at higher risk for alcohol abuse, if you receive up to two, three, even four drinks per day.


At the Arizona State University studying Corbin of this gray area drink to try to figure out who is at risk for problems and who is not. He does his research in a bar laboratory. It is a scientific laboratory cover black to simulate a bar disguised environment complete with dark floors, chandeliers, a flat screen TV and rows of bottles behind the bar.


Who is at risk?


Volunteers come to the bar for one night only, fill out a questionnaire and then are served three cocktails, over a period of 30 minutes.


Everyone is the same drink vodka mixed with 7-up, cranberry juice and lime served.


One of the questions that wants to answer Corbin, through observation and this drinkers in question, is whether your expectations about alcohol affect how much you actually drink. For example, for some people just coming into the bar works lab on your behavior, before you have even one thing to drink, Corbin says.


"And people can observe in the real world also" Corbin says. "If you go with a group of friends in a bar before you have completed the first drink are often more social and speak louder Act."


Once their three drinks have used his research volunteers, Corbin asks, how you are feeling. Are you for example strengthened? Do you feel excited or happy? Or do you feel a little depressed, dizzy, drowsy, perhaps even a bit sick?


The family factor


What is find Corbin is that people by alcohol feel stimulated rather drink to keep if given the chance. Other researchers search for known risk factors for alcohol problems, such as family history and a bright personality.


And finally, researchers hope that what "moderate" drinker transformed a complete picture in "Problem" drinker. Harvard epidemiologist Eric RIMM says, for example, if you're a child of a mother or father, alcoholics, is that, then maybe the healthiest amount of alcohol is 0 (zero).


But research conclusively, who is like Jay Ducote in this drink "Grey area", it may be best to simply add your own individual risk factors and make then a reasonable judgment about whether you really want to have third glass of wine or cocktail.

Bless you


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Monday, November 29, 2010

The Penguin problem

Nobody moves when everyone moves so that no one moves.

  To overcome the Penguin problem has to do a lot with creating expectations.A recent letter from Dr. James O'Connor in the doctor presses practice a voice from the physician community which I never before heard haben.seinem essay is entitled "use meaningful — doctors have no choice ".

Dr. O'Connor argues that doctors are effectively forced the adoption facts cited EHRs.Er and achieved a powerful conclusion:

Revisiting the Penguin problem of EHR adoption. What here's happening?

View Dr. O'Connor's comments relating to the Penguin problem the EHR adoption:

Should Dr. O'Connor's write as a sentinel event - a possible early signal of massive changes ahead? Las his conclusion and consider associations such as the collective actions of the Federal Government, payer and doctors strong expectations of EHR adoption create:

I never seen an article like Dr. O'Connor's plan - a letter from a doctor that to effectively express that doctors are feeling pressure to rise ice floe and directly into the aquatic environment of the EPO adoption.

Is pressure acts as a slight nudge or a painful is perceived in the butt? Dr. O's article suggests the latter, but let's leave the topic for another discussion.

... and you're either way, the ice floe and swimming in the ocean of EHR adoption.

An article by a doctor is probably not enough to get all the penguins in the Water…but, it definitely is noted importance and continue to dribble

Is Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA health care consultant and principal author of the e Care Management blog where was this post.

THCB the more I read the more I have the impression that the EPA for the healthcare analysts always what bloodletting to doctors of the nineteenth century - magic bullet with unrealistic war.Und I'm someone who who actually supports EHR and who worked with 3 different EPA since residency in 2000.


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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Guarantees a problem

I mean this in a partisan manner, but it's really embarrassing to this New York Times article about Republican plans parts read recent health care using the appropriation powers of the House to break into account. I say this because of unintended consequences arising, if you are successful in this approach. Let me give an example.

I think one of the most important aspects of the law is "problem guarantee" health insurance: insurance companies will be no longer allowed, use pre-existing medical conditions as a bar to coverage.A guaranteed problem causes the individual mandate, the requirement that all people health insurance kaufen.Warum?

Left on your own insurer is types of restrictions imposed on pre existing conditions, because you the insurance are the moral hazard aspect.Healthy people offer an actuarial balance for sick people.People buy only insurance, if you need care, the risk profile will swings of the insured population rapidly, disturb the actuarial calculations that if these restrictions prohibited are verwendet.Also, establishing premiums, everyone in the risk pool must have sein.Dementsprechend to ban voluntary insurance.

Said Republican legislators, for example, that you propose to the money, and the staff at the internal revenue limit service, so that the Agency could not aggressively enforce provisions, people to help health insurance and employer to pay for it need to get.

I think the Republicans know that guaranteed problem is popular with Americans and not directly to this provision of the new law aufzuheben.Aber what happens when healthy people start getting opt-out insurance, only to return if you fall ill? the system is quickly out of balance out.This will only lead ironically, to collect bonuses.I do not understand why the Republicans would want that to happen, and I don't understand a strategic political advantage arising from the result.

This makes me wonder whether you have fully considered this and if you understand the unintended consequences of their proposed actions.

Paul is the President and CEO of Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center in Boston.Paul was infection rates in his clinic, despite the fact that to Massachusetts law he is not yet required to do so to publish for the last three years he has blogged about his experience in an online journal focuses on who decided much media attention, as he recently, run a hospital, one of the few blogs we maintained by a senior Hospital Executive.

This is an age-old tactic.

The HIPAA law contains, for example, a universal patient IDWährend this would simplify IT health and systemic costs lower, has explicitly by budgets de-funded was because the law was passed.

My guess is that full knowledge most legislators pass with the ACA, the selective funding would occur.


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