Positive Affect
As the old saying goes “No situation can’t be made worse by guilt.” Guilt occasionally gets piled on patients – by others or by themselves – for having gotten cancer or some other evil because they didn’t have the right (positive) mind set.
Negative Affect
At one of the recent meetings of the Radiological Society of North America we presented a study that looked at how patients’ mood affects the likelihood of adverse events during invasive medical procedures.
Drug Usage During Medical Procedures
I was just renewing my license requirements and reading up for some continued education credits. During my research, I came across an article that compared two different ways of placing a gastrostomy tube e.g. a feeding tube that exits the stomach through the skin [1].
Confidence
How can you get confidence when you really need it? Elizabeth Moss Kanter from Harvard Business School wrote a whole book about what makes winning streaks and losing streaks of teams and how the behavior at the top and the bottom of achievement shapes your odds of doing well [1].
Drugs from the Big Bottle
The other day in the drugstore I observed how the pharmacist counted pills out of a big bottle and then scooped them by her bare hands into the vial the patient was going to receive.
Alternative Facts
Sometimes people look at the same thing and “see” something quite different from what their neighbor perceives. You may have seen the picture of the lady before and be asked what you see.
Try to Break Your New Year’s Resolution
You may be surprised to find that if you really TRY hard to BREAK your new year’s resolution you may actually stick to it. That is the power of the word “try.” Use it and the opposite will happen.
Review of the Year While Cleaning up the Photos in the Cloud
Probably like many people you took pictures throughout the year, possibly even lots of them. Selfies, memory boosters, group pictures, attempts at being artsy, and really fabulous shots may be living somewhere in the cloud or on your devices.