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By Elaine Schattner, MD, on December 7th, 2011
A hit in the women’s breast cancer Twitter league came my way from the Breast Cancer Sisterhood®. Brenda Coffee, a survivor and founder of the Survivorship Media Network, offers a serious post on What Your Oncologist Doesn’t Tell You About Sex.
There’s a music video, Don’t Touch Me that’s annoying but depressingly right on how some women feel in menopause — a frequent and under-discussed aspect of chemo or hormonal therapy for BC, followed by a grounded and unusually frank discussion about what happens to women after cancer treatment, menopause and sex.
Brenda’s right; none of this was included in my med school curriculum or oncology fellowship. Although, in fairness and quite seriously, this was a subject on mine and some other oncologists’ radar long ago. Cancer treatments can have lasting effects on sexuality in men and women.
Worth checking out Brenda’s network and her candid post. You can follow her @BCSisterhood on Twitter.
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See more The BC Sisterhood Takes on Sex After Cancer and What Oncologists Don’t Say
By Elaine Schattner, MD, on November 17th, 2011
Today’s ML comes straight from the Oval Office. President Obama talks about smoking, and how hard it is to stop, and what can be done to reduce the use and long-term health consequences of tobacco.
What I like about this Presidential health advisory:
He credits the ACS, which is sponsoring a smokeout today.
He’s clear about the problem’s scope: “Today 46 million Americans are still hooked, and tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable, early deaths in this country.”
He doesn’t deny his own history. His experience lends credibility to his words; he understands how hard it is to stop smoking once you’ve begun.
He considers a solution: “We also know that the best way to prevent the health problems that come from smoking is to keep young people from starting in the first place.”
He reflects on the power of tobacco companies, which are fighting requirements for candid warning labels on their
See more President Obama Talks About Smoking and Tobacco
By Elaine Schattner, MD, on October 5th, 2011
Last week a video came my way via ZDoggMD, a popular blog by doctors who are not me.
The Office Med School Edition
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The clip is a parody of The Office about Problem Based Learning (PBL).
In a typical PBL, the students meet regularly in small groups. On Monday they begin with clinical aspects of a case. The process involves finding information and researching relevant topics to “solve” the diagnosis and /or a treatment dilemma. Over the course of each week the students move forward, working through a hypothetical patient’s history, physical exam and lab studies to the nitty-gritty of molecules, genes and cells implicated in a disease process.
It’s a lot of fun, usually.
The video was uploaded in February, 2007. It’s attributed to a group of med students at the University of Pittsburgh, class of 2009.
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By Elaine Schattner, MD, on May 11th, 2011
 Med-blog grand rounds this week is hosted by e-patient Dave, who is Dave deBronkart, a real man who was diagnosed with a renal cell (kidney) cancer a few years back. He’s a terrific speaker and an Internet friend.
By coincidence I was searching for the definition of an e-patient, and came upon it there, in a video of his presentation at the TED (for those of you in the 1990s, that would be Technology, Entertainment, Design ideas worth spreading) “x” – meaning independently-organized meeting held in Maastricht a few weeks ago. Dave and others spoke on the topic of “The Year of Patients Rising.”
Dave explains: An e-patient is empowered, engaged, equipped and enabled. Got it?
e-patient Dave, in Maastricht
See more E-Patient Dave Explains What It Means to Be An E-Patient
By Elaine Schattner, MD, on March 29th, 2011
This clip has had me wondering:
The DNA Dance
The video shows kids dancing on a college campus. They’re wearing tee shirts in any of four colors (representing nucleotides?) and lining up and zip-splitting in a semi-coordinated fashion, and having fun.
That’s fine, but let’s face facts: the exercise has little to do with DNA or understanding genetics at a meaningful level. From the Times Learning Network:
The idea was to connect science with the arts and to facilitate student understanding of the role genetic information plays in our lives. It also works on a metaphorical level, as an allegory for the student-faculty relationship and the college experience.
My initial reaction was puzzlement, then concern about higher education in the U.S. mixed with fear for the next generation of scientists: Where are the nucleosomes? Is the bicyclist like a helicase? What happens if there’s a double-strand break? All these things we should know.
Am I being too harsh?
See more Where Are the Nucleosomes?
By Elaine Schattner, MD, on March 28th, 2011
 Unfortunately things are not obviously getting better in Japan. The water, air and food are affected. A few radiation workers are sick.
This morning I came upon a 5-min YouTube clip of Dr. Norman Coleman, a senior radiation oncologist at the NIH’s Center for Cancer Research, via a @NCIBulletin on Twitter. He’s speaking at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo:
Dr. Norman Coleman, speaking March 25 in Tokyo
I think CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR and even Fox should track down Dr. Coleman and use him as an expert when he’s not busy helping resolve this emergency, because it seems he is knowledgeable, reasonable and cautious, besides appropriately tired having traveled and pondered such a complex situation that affects the public’s health.
Then again, it’s always a good idea to hear from a variety of sources -
A recent, perfectly-titled Dot Earth post by Andrew Revkin threads Nancy Grace, a meteorologist, CJR, Jon Stewart and a magician. Read it and watch:
See more An NCI Radiation Oncologist Considers the Situation in Japan, on YouTube (with a link to Nancy Grace)
By Elaine Schattner, MD, on March 2nd, 2011
A surprise today, indirectly, from a medical student in Philly:
You can read about the performance, by a celebratory second-year student at Drexel University College of Medicine, in the Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News Digital.
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By Elaine Schattner, MD, on February 28th, 2011
 Since Watson won on Jeopardy, there’s been lots of talk of robots assuming doctors’ roles. Ten years into our future, machines with programmed empathy and nuanced diagnostic skills will solve diagnostic dilemmas, deduce optimal treatment and make us well.
Yesterday I found a new Xtranormal video, this one crafted by Dr. Charles of his excellent Examining Room blog, on Dr. Watson and the 7 Qualities of an Ideal Physician.
from the Examining Room of Dr. Charles
Dr. Charles cites a 2006 Mayo Clinic Proceedings review on what patients say are essential characteristics of a good physician: The ideal doctor is confident, empathetic, humane, personal, forthright, respectful, and thorough. In this clever, short movie crafted by Dr. Charles, the robot-doctor tries to demonstrate his capability in each of these dimensions in his interaction with a cartoon patient.
I hope the folks over at IBM, who are collaborating with real medical centers now about designing artificial doctors’
See more A Video About a Robot and a Patient
By Elaine Schattner, MD, on February 4th, 2011
 A new Twitter follow led me to LongartsZwolle, a blog by a pulmonologist in the Netherlands. A February 1 post needs no translation:
More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette
The clip is said, on YouTube, to be a 1949 commercial for Camel cigarettes. I tried to find more on this, first by clicking on the Camel website, sponsored by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, but the virtual age filter checkpoints asked me for too much information, so I gave up.
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Note: Using Google translator, I initially found that longarts means “lung” in Dutch. Zwolle is a city north and east of Amsterdam. But @longartszwolle clarified via Twitter: longarts means pulmonologist. — updated by ES, 2/4/11, 9AM.
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By Elaine Schattner, MD, on September 28th, 2010
 “…like a gift with a ribbon around it” ? I’m not so sure about these lyrics. The featured song, “You Won’t Dance Alone” by a band called “The Best Day Ever,“
See more Pink Glove Dance, The Sequel
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