Nuggets for July 29

Yes, we're back with another exciting installment this week. Yours truly is sifting the wheat from the chaff so to speak from all around the internet, and it just keeps getting more interesting.

In the rehab neighborhood

As a rehab nurse, you learn a lot about insurance, whether you want to or not. Insurance dictates just about everything in one way or another in private rehab hospitals. Dr. Ford Vox, a rehab physician in St. Louis, MO discusses the implications of the Obama health plan in this article at http://www.salon.com/. We're not talking politics here, we're talking people and what happens in his state if you get a SCI (or doesn't happen), so check this article out.

Cool nursing stuff

I always enjoy reading LaTonia Denise Wright's Nursing Law and Order because she always has some interesting legal stories or great links. Here's the latest link she posted from the Center for American Nurses about a study on Respect. Read the PDF. It's worth printing!

From the web

I don't think of Forbes as a health magazine, but they did a great review of a recent health book called How To Debunk a Health Myth which is worth a read. The book sounds pretty interesting, so I'll have to get it on my reading list.

When I went to a conference a couple of months ago, I met a great person from the Cleveland Clinic. The Washington Post had a recent article about what President Obama saw there on a recent visit. (Hi Marie!)

Need a cardiac cath soon? You just may care if they have enough technetium-99 soon, according to this recent NY Times article: Radioactive drug for Medical Testing is in Short Supply.

Out in the blogosphere

Here is an excerpt below from an old story I ran into when I went down the list of blogs I've bookmarked on one of my several computers. The story is sad, but the lines below are some of my favorites, because they make you think outside of yourself. Moral of the story: tell people you love while you are alive if you want to be an organ donor.

"A little girl hugged me today. I think maybe I’m on the right path. I’m not sure if I like where the path might lead, but it is a really nice path. Is it possible that we, as a culture, focus too much on the light at the end of the tunnel, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Isn’t it enough to realize you’re standing on a goddamn rainbow."

Enjoy your rainbows wherever you find them. More to come!