January 2019 – Page 2

Essentials of Family Medicine Training

Posted on January 17, 2019 by blogger

According to Wikipedia, the term family medicine is used to connote a medical specialty program which is devoted to comprehensive health care to people of all ages or age group. Thus, it is a form of primary care to provide comprehensive and continuing health care solution to individuals and family indiscriminately i.e. without any discrimination based on age, sex, disease, etc. Family medicine training focuses on the patient in the context of the family and the community and disease prevention as well as health promotion in common.

Thus, according to the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca), the fundamental aim of family medicine is to provide comprehensive and continuing personal care for the individual in the context of the family or the community. Accordingly, the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) was founded 1969 to achieve the following:

It will work to improve the quality of medical care available to the public and establish as well as maintain standards of excellence in the specialty of Family Medicine. Thus, the organization will strive to improve the standards of medical education for training in Family Medicine. Along with alleviating the standard of family medicine education and training, it will also do evaluation of the fitness of specialists in Family Medicine.

Scope of Practice for Family Medicine Specialists: Doctors specializing in family medicine in the United States may hold either an M.D. or a D.O. Degree. Thus, doctors specializing in family medicine or offering family medicine services in addition to the medical degree must successfully complete an accredited three-year family medicine residency program. After doing the three year residency program such doctors become eligible to write the exam for Family Medicine Specialist.

A successful completion of Family Medicine Course helps doctors get attractive jobs in hospitals and health plans. Candidates appearing for Family medicine training are taught topics such as continuing medical education, medical knowledge review, patient care oversight through chart audits, practice-based learning, etc. In addition to regular medical qualification, the American Board of Family Medicine requires its candidates to earn certification through an ongoing process in family medicine. The certification expires after a certain time and candidates are requested to reappear for the same.

The Family Medicine Core Curriculum includes subjects such as Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Obstetrics / Gynecology, Dermatology, Geriatrics, Orthopedics, Emergency Medicine, Hematology / Oncology, Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Nephrology, Pulmonary Medicine, Eye and Neurology, etc. amongst others. ATI Medical Education is a leading provider of simulation software aimed to offer comprehensive and user-friendly study material to prepare for family medicine examination. The Family Medicine Examination program By ATI Medical Education is compatible with Windows PC’s and can be installed on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7. The 3 Hours program is available in 2 CDROMS and 315 color slides. http://www.atiboards.com/

Internal Medicine Doctor – Learn All About Them

Posted on January 13, 2019 by blogger

It sounds scary doesn’t it: internal medicine doctor. Most people hear the phrase, coming from their family doctor’s lips and they panic. It can’t be a good thing to be referred to a medical professional who is known as a doctor’s doctor can it? Actually it’s not as scary as it might sound. An internal medicine doctor is also known as an internist, not to be mixed up with a doctor in training known as an intern.

An internist is highly skilled and trained to diagnosis and treat adult diseases. This is the doctor who specializes in one area of your health and can generally figure out symptoms that can stump your family doctor who does not specialize in one area of the body. Think of Dr. House on the television series and you are on the right page to understand what an internist does.

Your internal medicine doctor will generally not be as vague as Dr. House with a specialty though. Many internists specialize in one subspecialty such as a cardiologist who is a heart doctor or a doctor who only treats infectious disease or geriatrics. There are as many sub specialists as there are diseases and body parts to treat and way too many to list here.

So a referral to an internist shouldn’t be anything to panic you now that you realize that an internal medicine doctor can be someone with the specialty skills and training to treat very specific health issues such as heart disease or infectious disease.

Once you get a referral however you should do your own due diligence to make sure the doctor you have been referred to is the doctor you want to see. A simple check can give you information about your internist’s training, education and skills and help you feel more confident that this is the doctor to help you.

If however you don’t feel the referral is a good match after you have seen the doctor, be sure to contact your family health professional and request the names of a few other doctors as well. You are perfectly within your rights to get a second or even a third opinion if you are unhappy with your diagnose or the treatment options presented to you.

However, you should also remember that an internist is a specialist and they usually know what they are doing and what they are looking at. So if you are getting the same information from your second opinion as you got from your first opinion it may be time to accept a diagnoses and stop looking for a new internist to give you a third or fourth opinion and start working on your treatment plan.

An internal medicine doctor can benefit you by managing your healthcare in a collaborative way with other physicians. To find a good one please see the following: http://www.angieslist.com/.

Fashion Lead To Chinese Herbal Medicine Heat Up

Posted on January 11, 2019 by blogger

Chinese herbal medicine as China’s cultural legacy, and always have a mysterious face. The herbs used to treat human disease, but also has a long history. One of the characteristics of Chinese herbal medicine, is the “Medicinal and Edible” and therefore, on the human body from eating conditioning is traditional. However, as time progresses, the function of Chinese herbal medicine has been developed further, the external use of more and more. From the earliest white ginseng, Radix hair to later, and the persistence of Chinese brands “Six God toilet water” in the six kinds of medicine, herbal beauty in fashion today is more prominent position in the area.

According to research statistics, the world herbal medicine sales has more than $ 16 billion and an annual 10 to 20% annually. L’Oreal, Shiseido and other international brands have been or are ready to start projects in China, Chinese herbal medicine, costly R & D Oriental herbal essence. The next few years, the major brands to increase research and development in this area has become the industry trends.

Countries use the case of herbal beauty salons

China has been using herbal beauty salon has always been a long time, pharmaceutical raw materials can be traced back to several thousand years ago. China’s ancient people thousands of years ago know that the use of internal or external use natural medicine to achieve the purpose of beauty, in the ancient record a lot in this area. However, the use of herbal skin care beauty hot is the rise in recent years, according to Fan, China alone is currently developing the use of herbal cosmetics reached more than 500 species. Today, Chinese herbal medicine can be described as China’s cosmetics market everywhere, from the “head” Let’s talk about, such as wrestlers Kampo, Rejoice ginseng, Herd and other brands, the body of God in terms of six shower gel and so on. As for the facial, ginseng, white fungus, pearls, angelica, Ganoderma lucidum, too numerous to mention.

However, interest in Chinese herbal medicine in other countries, especially Europe, but only a dozen years. Although Europe had a long “drug store” concept, but this “medicine” and the disease with the “medicine” is a hack away, and only refers to the “shops” sell cosmetics only. But with the further development of Chinese herbal medicine and promotion functions, European and American cosmetics also gradually joined the “medicine” concept, Glutathione mainly reflected the essence of natural plant extracts.

The difference is that Japan and Europe, due to Japan by Chinese cultural influence, itself in Japan, “Kampo” is an important therapeutic measures, therefore, in cosmetics, the use of Chinese herbal medicine on an early start, resveratrol and achieved very good results . In the 1990s, Japan’s research and development of Chinese herbal medicine is based on 20% of the annual growth rate of rapid development. Income in Japan has JCID (Japanese generic set of cosmetic raw material) has 114 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine, herbal cosmetics companies for more than 200 species. Currently, Japan accounts for the natural cosmetics, herbal cosmetics market, 50% or more. Since Japan has the advantage of natural herbs, so in recent years, Japan to the United States, France, Italy and other advanced countries, herbal cosmetics exports increased year by year. For more in-depth study of herbal cosmetics, Japan Tsumura Juntendo Medicine Research Institute and the Chinese Ministry of Health signed a Chinese medicine and herbal pharmacology, and practical research protocols. Paula’s systematic study of China, “Taiwan Miyao,” and other medical classics, and joint research with Chinese herbs in cosmetics applications.

In addition, with the rise of the Korean economy, the entertainment industry and cosmetic industry has become a focus of world attention, so the South Korean cosmetics gradually “medicine” and advocates natural plant, natural beauty of the concept in recent years in China with Korean widely popular.

On the one hand is the traditional Chinese herbal medicine cosmetics and healthcare companies to start using the concept, on the other major pharmaceutical companies diversified product line, the drug extended to health and beauty products. In this dual aspect of weaving, and miscible in herbal beauty concept has gained recognition. The second half of 2007, China promulgated the “cosmetic label identifies management practices”, lists the prohibited words marked nearly a hundred, “herbal” as one of the medical terminology is also banned. So now we can hear is not “with Chinese herbal medicine” and as “natural plant essence” or “essence” and other words of. No matter what its name is, the real is the same, that is the traditional, Plant extracts ancient quintessence of modern life, survival for services, can serve well, is good “medicine” is “essence.”

Socialized Medicine Pros And Cons

Posted on January 9, 2019 by blogger

Every update on universal health care insurance I hear on the talk shows has a different opinion. According to some pundits, the countries that use socialized medicine have damaged their economies and are forced to ration medical care to their aging citizens. According to others, they see the advantage or bonus of socialized medicine and all its benefits and see none of the negative aspects of socialized medicine.

I’m in favor of a national health care system. However, we can be sure there are more ways to create a bad system that will be no better than what we have than there are to create a good system. We have to do this right or we are going to be stuck with the negative aspects of Universal Medical Care without all of the positives.

Few people believe that Universal healthcare will not create higher taxes. However, we are paying for our broken system already. If certain of those costs go away, we may wind up with more money in our pockets.

Under our current system, a patient who needs emergency medical services will almost certainly be treated whether or not he or she has the money to pay for the costs of the medical care. You pay for the care. The facility has to increase its charges. It gets the money from its paying patients to make up for the ones that don’t pay. At the same time, it ruins the credit of the patient who can’t write a check for the cost of the services.

Another negative aspect that is an obstacle some talk about is the drain on our economy that may be caused by those who lose their ambition because they get qualify for free health care. I suppose that only time will tell, but I think that if we have more healthy people more people will be available to work. Probably people that are more ambitious are unable to work because of poor health care than there are people who would become lazy when better health care is available to them.

The positives of socialized medicine include the lessening of employment discrimination for the older workers. If the burden of the cost if insurance were shifted to the government, older and sicker workers may be more employable. A small business owner who interviews an older or less healthy applicant, today may focus on how that applicant would raise their group medical insurance premiums and not on the skills and knowledge that person might bring to the job.

Older, more experienced workers will in many cases do a better job than less experienced workers and managers. This can increase the efficiency of a business and mean that the firm and our country moves forward faster than it would otherwise.

Potential entrepreneurs will be able to start their own business without leaving their health insurance behind. The fear of losing medical insurance has kept many people shackled to jobs that they have long ago outgrown. National medical care will perhaps allow some great man or woman to invent the next big thing, whatever that may be.

Today a parent may be unable to pay for both the food she or he needs to feed their children and the healthcare that they need. This can mean that this parent dies early leaving young boys and girls behind. A medical care system with good preventative care that is available to all can keep these parents around to rear their children and better prepare them to be productive citizens.

I think that what we all want is a stronger economy and a better country. Socialized medicine improves our country by making older, more productive employees more productive. It can also extend the time that some of our youth gets to spend with their parents and have a major impact on our future as a country.

Acne Medicine

Posted on January 3, 2019 by blogger

Acne is a combined term that is used to describe a number of skin conditions, like blackheads, blemishes, lumps, and whiteheads. Teenagers and adults can have acne. Stress, hormonal activity, bacteria, steroids, and overactive glands can cause acne.

The various forms of acne are:

Blackheads due to melanin pigment

Whiteheads due to the bacteria inside a blocked pore

Papules are tiny, tender and red spots.

Pustules are red spots filled with pus, and inflamed.

Nodules are bumps under the skin which are large and hard.

Cysts are nodules accompanied by severe inflammation and infection.

The different types of acne include:

ACNE VULGARIS: is a chronic inflammatory condition wherein fluid (sebum) is created by overactive oil and sweat glands.

ACNE ROSEACA: is similar to acne vulgaris, but people also experience skin flushing and a general redness of the area. Sufferers should avoid spicy food and alcohol.

ACNE COSMETICA: is due to the prolonged use of cosmetics, especially those containing isopropyl myristate or greasy ingredients such as lanolin. The best treatment is to stop using the cosmetic causing the acne.

ACNE EXCORIEE: is caused when the skin is damaged by the fingernails and unable to heal due to persistent scratching, which leaves a broad, shallow scar.

CYSTIC ACNE: Cystic acne usually occurs in males. It generally persists beyond 20 years of age and may lead to permanent scarring. This type of Acne can be medically treated with a specialists advice.

OCCUPATIONAL ACNE: This is a common condition suffered by motor mechanics who are frequently exposed to oils and grease.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Changes of climate can cause acne, particularly when one moves to a warm climate from a cool one. This is because warm skin releases more oils and sweat, to keep the body cool. One should use a light moisturizer and cleanse the skin regularly.