Wednesday, October 05, 2011

More EXTREME Body Parts: Part 2

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Diversity in the human body and other living things is a fascinating topic. Last month, the  most popular blog entry was on extreme body fe...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

When Patient Advocacy Becomes Patient Enabling

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Physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, psychologists , physical therapists, and a whole host of other health care professionals entered...
Monday, October 03, 2011

Guest Blog Entry: Are You a Helicopter Parent?

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Today's guest blog entry is written by Dr. Tanya Gesek.  Dr. Gesek is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Syracuse University...
Sunday, October 02, 2011

And the Top 5 MedFriendly Blog Entries in September Were...

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Below are the top 5 most popular blog entries for the month of September. This will be a monthly feature of the MedFriendly Blog and gives ...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Is Asbestos in Your Children's Crayons?

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Is asbestos is your children’s crayons? Can asbestos cause cancer and other serious illnesses? How much asbestos was released into the a...
Friday, September 30, 2011

The 10 Year Anniversary of MedFriendly.com

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October 2011 is the 10 year anniversary of MedFriendly.com . I’ll be going out to celebrate with my family and reflect on how much hard ...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Waking Up with a Live Grenade in Your Face

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This is an amazing story. Imagine selling some food on a street corner, minding your own business. All of a sudden, you hear an explosion...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

My Take on Michael Jackson's Death, Propofol, and His Doctor

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Propofol…also known as Diprivan. Many people reading this may not have heard of the drug that played a major role Michael Jackson’s death ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Waking Up Alive in a Morgue

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Everyone has different fears but one fear that is probably universal is being buried alive. The next closest thing would be finding your...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Medical Blogging and Patient Privacy

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Running a medical blog has become much more challenging over the years. It has always been understood by medical and health care bloggers ...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

How I defeated low back pain

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Anyone who has suffered from low back pain knows how debilitating it can be. I have had low back pain in the past but several months ago I...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Spontaneous human combustion

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If you have never heard of spontaneous human combustion, it refers to cases in which a person is found burned to death (usually in bed) wi...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Top 10 Ways to Tell if You Need To See a New Doctor

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As a patient care provider and someone who is occasionally a patient myself, I am going provide some suggestions on ways to know when it ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Attack of the killer cantaloupes

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Sometimes, trying to eat healthy does not always work out in the way intended. It's ironic that the person who decided to eat a candy ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Video Gamers Solve HIV Protein Puzzle

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Video games and video gamers often get a bad rap in the media, usually unfairly in my opinion. Although my own video game playing has wane...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Amazing Images of EXTREME Bodies and Body Parts

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Remember going to the library as a kid and being the lucky one to pick out that short thick Guinness Book of World Records book that week...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Guest Blog Entry: Chakras 101

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Today is the first of many new guest blog entries on MedFriendly. The purposes of guest blog entries are to introduce the reader to someth...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Abandoning Alzheimer's Patients: My response to Pat Robertson

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I was tempted to avoid venturing into this topic, only because I strive to keep my website and blog away from politics and religion. In th...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Man Found with 72 Bags of Cocaine in his Stomach

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In this week's strange medical story of the week, a man was arrested at an airport in Brazil after he was was found behaving oddly, scre...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

In Defense of Sponge Bob

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Aye-aye maties! This week, a study came out in the Journal, Pediatrics , which concluded that watching Sponge Bob is associated with worse...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

My memories and reflections of 9/11/01

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Ten years ago, on 9/11/01, I remember walking into work at Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) in Miami, Florida. I was a graduate student at ...
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Monday, September 05, 2011

Announcing the New MedFriendly.com

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As we near the 10th anniversary of MedFriendly.com in October 2010, I wanted to take a moment to update readers with many new features of th...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

The Return of the MedFriendly Blog

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The MedFriendly Blog will be returning with regular posts in September of 2011. Please feel free to post any suggestions on the type of cont...