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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Carilion Health System, now known as Carilion Clinic, is a large, Roanoke, Virginia-based not-for-profit health care organization. Carilion owns and operates eight hospitals in the western part of Virginia. The company also operates primary care clinics, residency and fellowship programs, laboratories, health clubs, an aeromedical program, and sub-specialty medical practices. Carilion originated with Roanoke Memorial Hospital, which is located at the base of Mill Mountain in southwest Roanoke. The hospital eventually expanded into related health care services and the acquisition of other hospitals. Most prominent was the acquisition of the competing Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley in downtown Roanoke. The deal took several years to complete because of anti-trust concerns by the United States Department of Justice that two of the three major hospitals in the Roanoke Valley would now be under the same ownership. In the early 1990s, Roanoke Memorial adopted the name Carilion for its consolidated health care business. Approximately 6,200 of Carilion's 9,600 employees are in the Roanoke Valley, making it the area's leading employer.In addition to traditional hospital-based services, Carilion has established the Carilion Biomedical Institute in Roanoke in association with Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia. The Institute is a business incubator designed to introduce advanced medical devices into the marketplace. A related goal is the development of a cluster of such firms in the Roanoke area. One such company is Luna Innovations, which is partially owned by Carilion and has oved its corporate headquarters to the Institute's business park. Carilion's management has warned that trends in the health care sector threaten to undermine the organization's financial position. Carilion has gross revenues of approximately $2 billion per year and ran a $93.6 million surplus in the last fiscal year. In response, Carilion has announced plans for a significant business reorganization which will change its emphasis from running hospitals to hiring more doctors in a larger number of medical specialties, with a primary goal of better coordination of patient care and an emphasis on medical education and research. There are currently no plans to sell its eight hospitals. The plan was developed after visits to the Mayo Clinic and other similar organizations. As part of the reorganization plan, Carilion has renamed itself Carilion Clinic. Some local doctors have expressed concern that their independence could be eliminated and that the scale of the reorganization, if it is not successful, could imperil the organization and the quality of health care in the Roanoke area and have formed the Coalition for Responsible Healthcare to express their concerns.As part of the Carilion Clinic's focus on education and research, Carilion and Virginia Tech recently announced plans to establish a small medical school in Roanoke. Carilion currently operates the Jefferson College of Health Sciences which offers a master of science in nursing and 13 associate and baccalaureate allied healthcare programs.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
FORCES THAT IMPEDE CHANGE
| Psychological Forces | Thoughts and Habits that Limit Change |
| Pain versus Pleasure | The immediate pleasure of the habit (gambling) is more powerful than the delayed pain (financial ruin). |
| Fear of failure | “If I don’t change, I will feel even worse than I do now.” |
| All or nothing thinking | “I must lose 50 pounds; losing 10 pounds is unacceptable” |
| Unconscious conflicts—unaware of problems | We may repeat maladaptive behavior because we fail to recognize the destructiveness of our acts. |
| Change is unpredictable | The discomfort of the status quo may be preferred over the anxiety produced by change. |
| Resisting authority | “I don’t like anyone telling me what to do.” |
| An undesirable habit may provide unmet needs. | Drinking relieves stress. Physical abuse provides attention. Eating fills a psychological void. |
Friday, April 18, 2008
Psychopharmacology Update Cymbalta for Chronic Pain
October, 2004 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY UPDATE Volume 4 Number 5
The Dual-Mechanism Antidepressant, Cymbalta, in the Treatment of Pain
Almost 45% of patients with major depression have at least one painful physical symptom including limb pain, backaches, joint pain, and headaches. Abnormalities of serotonin and norepinephrine in the somatosensory cortex and the spinal cord contribute to an increase of painful response in depressed patients. Painful stimuli are more actively conducted up the nociceptive neurons of the spinal cord in depressed patients. In addition, the descending neurons of the spinal cord responsible for diminishing pain reception fail to work efficiently in depressed patients.
Studies have shown that dual-mechanism antidepressants—medications that increase the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine—are effective in treating certain pain syndromes associated with major depression. The dual-mechanism antidepressant, Effexor, targets only serotonin at doses below 150 mg/day and begins to effect norepinephrine (and serotonin) at doses above 150 mg/day.
Cymbalta, (duloxetine), a recently approved dual-reuptake inhibitor, shows relatively equal affinity for binding to both serotonin and norepinephrine across the entire dosage range. This equal affinity for serotonin and norepinephrine seems to enable Cymbalta to be effective in treating a wider range of pain syndromes and have a more rapid onset of action than previous antidepressants.
In one study, Cymbalta proved effective in relief of diabetic neuropathic pain symptoms at a starting dose of 60 mg/day. Several studies of patients with major depression and chronic pain complaints exhibited significantly greater reductions in pain severity after only one week of treatment. Such a rapid improvement in pain severity suggests that Cymbalta has a direct effect on the nociceptive neurons and the somatosensory cortex. Other studies have shown that Cymbalta seems to have a more rapid antidepressant onset of action than other antidepressants making it unclear whether the relief of pain is related to the medication’s antidepressants effects or the pain relief comes from the medication’s direct effects on pain centers.
Regardless of the exact mechanism of action, Cymbalta appears to have several unique characteristics: 1) It is a rapid onset antidepressant; 2) It seems to be an energizing antidepressant; 3) It is more likely to induce full remission of symptoms rather than partial treatment response more commonly produced by other antidepressants; 4) It apparently treats pain syndromes unassociated with depression.
The usual starting and maintenance dose is 60 mg given in the morning. Taking Cymbalta after breakfast can reduce the risk of nausea, a mild side effect most commonly cited during the first week of treatment. Other side effects include insomnia, headaches, somnolence, dry mouth and sweating. Food does not alter Cymbalta’s absorption but delays maximum concentration by about 4 hours. Cymbalta is metabolized by the 2D6 and 1A2 isoenzymes of the cytochrome P-450 system so that co-administration of beta blockers, quinidine, cimetidine, other antidepressants and antipsychotics could elevate plasma levels of Cymbalta or the other agents. Some men taking Cymbalta have more difficulty reaching orgasm. The agent is contraindicated in those patients taking MAO inhibitors, those with narrow-angle glaucoma, hepatic insufficiency and end-stage renal disease. Gradual reduction in the dose is recommended rather than abrupt cessation in order to avoid the occurrence of discontinuation symptoms.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
MAKING CHANGE
There are two types of pain: 1) imposed suffering – acts of flood, fire, famine – that comes from outside our psyche; and 2) elected suffering – a sense of rejection, shame, guilt, loneliness – that we inflict upon ourselves. Imposed suffering protects from the elected kind. The despair of the concentration camp crowds out the loneliness of a dateless prom night.
The patient with cancer illustrates both kinds of suffering. First there is the imposed suffering cancer induces, the pain and sickness the illness renders. The second type of suffering – the elected kind—comes from our own feelings about the cancer.
Patient and surgeon read from a different book. The surgeon removes the tumor, but fails to relieve the sense of vulnerability the patient feels from the inflicted cancer.
WHY PEOPLE CHANGE
The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans experienced calamitous flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The storm surge came from the east via flooded Saint Bernard Parish and from the west through two large breaches in the Industrial Canal flood protection system, creating violent currents that smashed homes and tore them from their foundations. The storm became the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina and many more thousands were rendered homeless.
A College Station resident commiserated with one of the Hurricane evacuees temporarily housed in a local church:
“That must have been the most terrible thing that ever happened to you. You lost your home. You lost your clothes and all of possessions. You have no money. You can’t get in touch with your relatives. Your friends have been displaced. What a tragedy. How will you ever recover?”
The evacuee replied:
“Surely that storm was a terrible thing. I was scared and pretty well knew I was going to die. Then a boat came and they took us to the Superdome, and it was like the devil himself had come down and was torturing us. We were all crowded together and squashed-up. People were yelling and crying. It was hot and dirty. And we all got thirsty and hungry. It smelled bad and it seemed there was no hope for any of us. But somehow, we got rescued and took care of. And now here I am in this nice church. We have food. And water. And air conditioning. And good people are helping us and looking after us.
Yes, that Hurricane was a horrible thing and I never want to go through nothing like that again. But, you know, that Hurricane—no matter all the bad things that happened—was the best thing that ever happened to me and I am thankful for it.
I’m not discounting the bad things that happened to so many people and all the dead people and people who never will find their families, but for me that hurricane was good. If it hadn’t been for Katrina, I would have been trapped in the lower ninth ward for life. Before the hurricane, I had nowhere to go. I had no idea how to go. I had no money to go. I was just there and that was my life. But the big wind came and blew me to a better way of looking at things. And now I have a new life, a new start on life. I’ve got possibilities. Yes, thank God for Hurricane Katrina. I’ve got hope.”
THE TRAGIC FAILURE TO CHANGE
Some people have difficulty changing because they are caught in financial or geographical traps. Let us consider those people, however, who have every opportunity to change, but, nonetheless, continue to engage in self-defeating behavior despite ongoing negative consequences:
Ø Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse can lead to chronic illnesses and premature death. Despite ominous health warnings that are more certain than storm alerts from the National Hurricane Center, surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that very few people are willing to stop their self-destructive unhealthy habits.
Ø 20% of American adults smoke
Ø More than 30% of Americans are overweight
Ø 15% of Americans are binge drinkers
Ø People are often noncompliant to medical treatments
Ø 50-65% of Americans fail to follow their doctors’ treatment recommendations
Ø 10% of hospital admissions among older adults result from failure to follow doctors’ directions
Ø Almost one-third of patients visiting a physician fail to get their prescriptions filled
Ø A Case Western Reserve University survey showed that 54% of glaucoma patients failed to use their eye drops as directed even though these patients knew they would go blind unless they complied with their doctors’ instructions.
Ø 70% of patients receiving treatment at a community mental health center dropped out of treatment before the third visit.
Ø Most serious attempts to maintain behavior change are unsuccessful. A University of Scranton study found that only 19% of those who had made a significant change in a problem behavior maintained the change when surveyed two years later.
Ø People continue to engage in patterns of behavior—anger, violence, nagging, dependency, and jealousy—that are destructive to their relationships and their well being.
REASONS FOR LACK OF CHANGE
EMOTIONAL AMBIVALENCE. A woman complained vociferously about her husband who controlled her. He wouldn’t let her out of the house alone. He wouldn’t let her drive a car. He wouldn’t let her visit friends. When asked why she didn’t leave her husband, the woman replied, “I love him so much.” When the woman was seen two years later. She had the same complaints about her husband. She remained married.
CIRCULAR EXCUSES. Common explanations for lack of change become circular arguments. People may blame their resistance to change on stubbornness, an addictive personality, or self-destructiveness. An explanation for refusing to improve a situation may go this way, “Because my situation is hopeless, I can’t change.” The behavior is then used to support the explanation, “I can’t change because my situation is hopeless.”
REBELLION. Telling someone to change often exacerbates the situation. A highly directive approach causes a person to adamantly resist change. One study showed that the more alcoholics were directed to change the more they drank.
INERTIA. Systems resist change. Physicists call this resistance to change “inertia.” The first law of motion indicates that people, like objects, tend to keep on moving if they are moving and remain standing still if they are still.
BLAMING. It is easier to make excuses for our problems than it is to assume responsibility for our own behavior. The statement “If she didn’t nag me so much, I wouldn’t drink,” is an example of blaming others.
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS. Put an animal in a cage. Apply a mild electrical shock all over the floor of the cage. When the animal discovers that escape is impossible, the animal lies down and passively in the corner of the cage and accepts the shock. Then the electrical shock is applied only to the corner where the animal is lying. The other areas of the cage are shock free. The animal continues to stay in the corner. Humans that are constantly exposed to conditions from which there appear to be no escape will eventually give-up and surrender to the situation.
TWO REASONS PEOPLE CHANGE
1. Pleasure—realizing that new behavior patterns will produce more pleasure than maladaptive behavior patterns brings change. Believing that we can have a better life engenders different approaches. The power to visualize a successful outcome gives the courage to try new ways of doing things.
2. Pain—understanding that maladaptive behavior causes intolerable distress stimulates an alternative lifestyle. Drastic environmental consequences may be required before inertia can be overcome. Imprisonment, financial ruin, homelessness, or the treat of death may be necessary before transformation occurs. Allowing a person to suffer may be the best way to generate change.
BENEFITS OF CHANGE
We, as individuals, feel helpless in a sea of social turmoil where a single life raft offers little expectation for smooth sailing. A harmonious bulwark of social, cultural and spiritual safeguards provide the safest harbor from violent storms. A safe culture would provide:
1. Children raised by two parents.
2. A society that discourages a sense of entitlement.
3. Recognition of individual uniqueness unassociated with power, beauty, and wealth.
4. A spiritual foundation that offers love, joy, peace, kindness, and generosity.
5. A culture that encourages and offers a work opportunity for each adult to provide sustenance for themselves and their families.
6. A society that expects everyone to assume responsibility for his or her own behavior.
7. More negotiation, less litigation.
8. A society that recognizes that some people are more talented than others and at the same time a society that appreciates the less talented as much as the gifted.
9. Respect, concern and the best of care for the mentally
10. Entertainment that lifts the spirit and lightens the heart, rather than entertainment that celebrates violence and social deviance.
11. Communities and small groups that regularly meet together to encourage one another and to stimulate loving friendship and good works.
12. Cultivation of empathy and respect for others.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Psychopharmacology Update August 2004
August, 2004 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY UPDATE Volume 4 Number 4
Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
In 1976 Dunner and colleagues proposed two categories of bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness). These categories were named bipolar I and bipolar II.
Diagnosis of Bipolar I Disorder:
Bipolar I disorder is characterized by depressive episodes alternating with manic episodes. A manic episode is associated with grandiose psychotic features and danger to the self and, perhaps, to others. The severity of the symptoms usually demands that the patient be hospitalized for treatment.
Diagnosis of Bipolar II Disorder
Bipolar II disorder is characterized by depressive episodes alternating with hypomanic episodes. There exists some confusion regarding the term "hypomania" (below mania). A hypomanic episode is unassociated with psychotic features. Instead, a hypomanic episode is characterized by a 4-day (or more) period of persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood. The symptoms of hypomania can be characterized by the acronym DIGFAST:
- D = Distractibility
- I = Insomnia
- G = Grandiosity
- F = Flight of ideas
- A = Activity in unexplained burst of energy
- S = Speech that is fast, pressured, hyperverbal or interrupting
- T = Thoughtlessness that leads of risk taking behavior such as inappropriate sexual liaisons, spending more money than suitable or driving fast/recklessly.
Distinguishing between Recurrent Unipolar Depression and Bipolar II Depression
Because bipolar II patients often demonstrate several episodes of depression before an initial hypomanic episode, patients with bipolar II depression may be falsely diagnosed as having recurrent unipolar depression. When compared to unipolar depressed patients, bipolar II depressed patients are more likely to have the following characteristics:
1. Family history of mania, bipolar illness or substance abuse
2. Earlier age of onset of depression (adolescence or early 20s)
3. A higher number of depressive episodes
4. Mood swings
5. Non-response or agitation on antidepressants
Rapid Cycling
Rapid cycling, defined as the presence of 4 or more mood swings in a year, is much more prevalent in bipolar II patients than bipolar I patients. Brief, frequent episodes of depression are highly suggestive of rapid cycling bipolar II disorder. Antidepressants can exacerbate rapid cycling. Antidepressants can also precipitate a manic crisis in depressed patients that have undiagnosed bipolar illness.
Treatment
Depakote possesses antimanic effects, but more moderate antidepressant effects.
Lamictal is effective in the treatment of depression in bipolar disorder.
Lamictal + Depakote may be required in combination to stabilize rapid cycling.
Lithium functions poorly in rapid cycling patients; and because the therapeutic dose of lithium is close to the toxic dose, lithium treatment must be used with caution, if at all.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Hitch Hiking to Seattle
I didn’t want to leave the orphanage, but if I had to go I thought I would go in style. I packed my suitcase. I also packed my trunk and I had a duffle bag full of clothes. Father Martin a tall, thin man with an Adam’s apple bigger than his neck drove me to the Highway 59 intersection with Timber, the busiest street in Ruskin. I stuck out my thumb and turned the suitcase with the sign
SEATTLE OR BUST
I was nervous and somewhat embarrassed as cars whisked by. After about 10 minutes, I was about to think I would never get picked up. I laugh when I write this because later I would wait 10 hours and remain determined to stand out on the highway until I got a ride.
A car pulled up. I remember President John F. Kennedy’s words: “We stand today on the edge of a new frontier—the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.” During the election of 1960, my friend Joe Clarke whose father was Chief Operating Officer of the Ample Paper Mill was for Nixon. I later learned the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans favored business. They were for low taxes and small government. The Democrats were for the little man; high taxes on the rich, and making hard workers pay the way for ner-do-wells. I supported Kennedy for President because he was handsome and vigorous appearing. Joe Clarke talked about ideology. I didn’t know what to say except I liked Kennedy. I didn’t want to say that I liked him because he looked more Presidential and didn’t sweat on television so I just said, “I like Kennedy the best.”
Sunday, April 13, 2008
An Important Birthday
On April 13, 1970 Wende Lynn Walker was born in Galveston, Texas. Her birth caused shock waves reaching toward the moon.
Apollo 13, with astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. aboard, was on its way to the moon to perform the third lunar landing in a planned series of seven when, about 56 hours into the mission, an oxygen tank blew up, knocking out the command module’s electricity, light and water supply. “Hey, Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” Lovell told mission control, adding that some kind of gas was escaping outside the spacecraft. It was oxygen, and the mission quickly shifted from landing on the moon to getting the astronauts back alive. At the time, Apollo 13 was roughly 200,000 miles from Earth.
The crew moved into the lunar module to escape the decreasing air pressure in the service module, then prepared to make the necessary swing around the moon in order to boomerang back to Earth. Debris from the explosion had knocked out the navigation system, so the crew used the sun to guide the crippled craft home. It took nearly four agonizing days after the explosion before they splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
Bestselling Children’s Authors in the World
Ash notes that "based on total sales of their entire output", the following authors "have produced titles that have been bestsellers - especially those in numerous translations - over a long period."
- René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
"René Goscinny (1926-77) and Albert Uderzo (b. 1927) created the comic strip character Astérix the Gaul in 1959. They produced 30 books with total sales of some 250,000,000 copies." - Hergé
"Georges Rémi (1907-83), the Belgian author-illustrator who wrote under the pen name Hergé, created the comic strip character Tintin in 1929. Tintin appeared in book form from 1948 onward. He achieved worldwide popularity, and the books have been translated into about 45 languages and dialects. Total sales are believed to be at least 160,000,000." - Enid Blyton
"With sales of her Noddy books exceeding 60,000,000 copies, and with more than 700 children’s books to her name (UNESCO calculated that there were 974 translations of her works in the 1960s alone), total sales of her works are believed to be over 100,000,000, making her the best-selling English-language author of the 20th century." - Dr. Seuss
"His books in the U.S. Top 10 alone total about 30,000,000 copies: to this must be added those titles that have sold fewer than 5,000,000 in the U.S. and all foreign editions of his books, suggesting total sales of more than 100,000,000." - Beatrix Potter
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) was one of a series of books, the cumulative total sales of which probably exceed 50,000,000." - Lewis Carroll
"Total world sales of all editions of Carroll’s two classic children’s books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, are incalculable. However, just these two books probably place Lewis Carroll amon
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Top Ten Best Selling Fiction Books of All Time
Cultivate Good Habits
Thoughts-actions-habits-character
Identifying the 20% who make trouble
Excuse making, blaming, refusing responsibility
Delaying gratification
Using pain and pleasure motivators
Taking initiative by asking and acting
The confidence of a Christian with 4 aces
Follow the Golden Rule—Can I trust you?
Show you care—Do you care about me?
Do the best you can—are you committed to excellence?
Accept your limitations
Friday, April 11, 2008
The Top 10 Bestselling Books of All Time:
- The Bible
"No one really knows how many copies of the Bible have been printed, sold, or distributed. The Bible Society’s attempt to calculate the number printed between 1816 and 1975 produced the figure of 2,458,000,000. A more recent survey, for the years up to 1992, put it closer to 6,000,000,000 in more than 2,000 languages and dialects. Whatever the precise figure, the Bible is by far the bestselling book of all time." - Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book)
"Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book could scarcely fail to become a bestseller: between the years 1966 and 1971 it was compulsory for every Chinese adult to own a copy." - American Spelling Book by Noah Webster
"First published in 1783, this reference book by the American man of letters Noah Webster (1758-1843) remained a bestseller in the U.S. throughout the 19th century." - The Guinness Book of Records
"First published in 1955, The Guinness Book of Records stands out as the greatest contemporary publishing achievement. There have now been 37 editions in the UK alone (it was not published annually until 1964), as well as numerous foreign-language editions." - The McGuffey Readers by William Holmes McGuffey
"Published in numerous editions from 1853, some authorities have put the total sales of these educational textbooks, originally compiled by American anthologist William Holmes McGuffey (1800-73), as high as 122,000,000. It has also been claimed that 60,000,000 copies of the 1879 edition were printed, but - since this is some 10,000,000 more than the entire population of the U.S. at that time - the publishers must have been extremely optimistic about its success." - A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard
"Now forgotten, Hubbard’s polemic on the subject of labor relations was published in 1899 and within a few years had achieved these phenomenal sales, largely because many American employers purchased bulk supplies to distribute to their employees." - The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock
"Dr. Spock’s 1946 manual became the bible of infant care for subsequent generations of parents. Most of the sales have been of the paperback edition of the book." - World Almanac
"Having been published annually since 1868 (with a break from 1876 to 1886), this wide-ranging reference book has remained a constant bestseller ever since." - The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
"This tale of sex, violence, and drugs by Jacqueline Susann (1921-74), first published in 1966, is perhaps surprisingly the world’s bestselling novel. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, which has achieved sales approaching 28,000,000, is its closest rival." - In His Steps: "What Would Jesus Do?" by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon
"Although virtually unknown today, American clergyman Charles Sheldon (1857-1946) achieved fame and fortune with this 1896 instructive religious treatise on moral dilemnas."
Make the Most of Your Time
First things first
Learn to say “no” to the unproductive
Success depends on what you neglect
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