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How will ‘Obamacare’ affect doctor’s salaries?

Pediatrics Question — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:11:22 +0000

I am 16, a far-right conservative, and strongly opposed to the new healthcare bill. I know I’m a little young to care about such topics, but I would like to be a doctor someday. I want to be pediatric orthopedic surgeon to be exact. And before you liberals try and tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about, I have a 4.1 GPA (4.2 is highest you can have as far as sophomore year, but mine will continue to get higher,) and I do my research. I watch the news frequently and have read some medical journals.

So, how will Obamacare affect the salaries of doctors, unless of course if its gets repealed? (I sure hope it get repealed!)
And BTW, don’t question my morals, I am a Christian so of course I care about my future patients! I wouldn’t go into the field for the money. The money is just a bonus. Becoming a doctor is not quick money because of all the schooling required. However, I think doctors should have high salaries because they work hard and go to school for many years. It is a tough profession and you hold human life in your hands! I am going to be a pediatric orthopedic surgeon because I want to help young athletes with sports injuries because I have a connection with that because of my cheerleading injuries. Orthopedics also deals with deformities of the muscloskeletal system. I am going into pediatrics because I LOVE kids! I think it would be a fun and rewarding career!

Have Psycology books been changed to be politicaly correct about gays?

Pediatrics Question — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:11:14 +0000

Recently college textbooks have been altered to no longer classify homosexuality as a dangerous disorder. However, several scientific peer reviewed journals show data reinforcing that they are. Before being changed it was taught that 85% of pedophiles described themselves as gay or bi. The American pediatric association is against gay adoption, and still prescribes to the old data for the protection of children. I know know data is out, but is it corrupted by popular social views?

Does drug abuse rate, high mental health problems, disease, and suicide rate in the gay community harm it’s fight for equality? Or is it ignored for political correctness?

My journalism teacher is a bitch- should I take journalism next year?

Pediatrics Question — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:08:20 +0000

Here’s the story. I’m a sophomore, and I’m editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Journalism is a joint class with yearbook and newspaper being combined and printed with a staff of 10 for a school of 1,300. Any who, last Friday, my journalism teacher took me out into the hallway and was like “I’m removing you from editor because “you’re not objective and you don’t make good choices in choosing what goes in the newspaper, it sounds like you’re angry and it will cause an uproar in the schoool.” I was completely hurt, because I do the whole paper by myself, everyday I come home and design, and write the whole thing. Nobody else contributes, I asked people to sign up to write articles, but nobody ever paid any attention to me and so the paper was always my writing. She went on to say that I never interviewed people in my articles and that I wanted the newspaper for myself and such. I was like first of all, I interview at least two to three people per article. Secondly, the newspaper is a free forum for speech and I only took the job because I wanted the students to be able to speak their mind freely in print. So any who, she had the co-editor of the yearbook take control over the newspaper and I was left to design it. I was completely angry because she made writing articles worth grade points and so all my classmates (all seniors) turned in their work. I was like how come you couldn’t have done that when I was editor, because then this wouldn’t have happened. Any who, so today we were sitting in class and I was staying after class for about 2 hours and I was working all fine and stuff. And I was like sitting there saying how much I can’t stand this class because I’m always left to do everything while everyone leaves. And she was like “I’ve never been rude to you. Don’t you want the best for the paper”, I was like “yeah, of course” and she was like “or do you want it to be like one of your stories or you journal” and I was like, “that was never my intention” and she was like “are you trying to undermine my authority” and I was like “what are you talking about, I haven’t done anything.” So I just sat in silence and didn’t speak anymore. Don’t get me wrong I love that class, or at least I loved it until she fired me as editor on Friday. It was so much fun and really laid back and a good place to vent and stuff, I trusted her and stuff. But now, she’s all hostile and bitchy and she seems vindictive. I hope I can get through the rest of this year, but scheduling classes for next year is next week, do you think I should take journalism again next year? The seniors would be gone. Side note, I do not want to be a journalist, I plan on attending Cornell University to major in pre-med and become a cardiologist/neo-natal surgeon/pediatric surgeon… so journalism is not in my future.

Why do creationists come crawling back to evolution when they need medicine?

Pediatrics Question — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:09:36 +0000

“Evolutionary biology is central to the development of vaccines, drug development, the biotechnology industry and methods for tracking infectious diseases”

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Kim W, Liau LM (2010). “Dendritic cell vaccines for brain tumors”. Neurosurg Clin N Am 21.

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Has anyone heard of Malrotation or had to deal with this?

Pediatrics Question — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:17:32 +0000

My daughter is 7 months old and has had tummy issues since birth. We just found out that she has what is called malrotation. This condition happens during developement and the intestines don’t go into place properly. I am taking her to see a pediatric surgeon as surgery is normally required for this and wanted to see if anyone has gone through and could give me some advice.

My daughter had an upper gi on Monday and the appointment with the surgeon is on Thursday. I am making a list of questions I have and also writing in a journal about everything my baby has gone through since birth.

Serious responses only please, I am not in a state to handle rude comments.

Why does statistics have to be so complicated?

Pediatrics Question — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:13:13 +0000

I’m trying to do research on diabetic children. However, my statistics knowledge is limited. I am reading a journal article entitled “Gender Differences in Reports of Self-Reliance for Diabets Tasks in a Pediatric Sample.” The following is listed…”We discovered a statistically significant child-gender difference in discrepancies between parent perceptions of children’s self-reliance and child reports of self-reliance for diabetes tasks, F(1,98) = 4.45, p < .05, M boys = 1.80, SD = .39, M boys’ parents = 2.05, SD = .38, M girls = 1.87, SD = .45, M girls’ parents = 1.97, SD = .42——–so what do these statistics mean?

what is your reaction about this article as psychology?

Pediatrics Question — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:09:58 +0000

Give me your comment about this article as many detail as u want?
NEW YORK — In a report published in a medical journal this month, two doctors describe a 6-year-old girl with profound, irreversible developmental disability who was given high doses of estrogen to permanently halt her growth so that her parents could continue to care for her at home.

The controversial growth-attenuation treatment, which included hysterectomy, was requested by the child’s parents and initiated after careful consultation and review by an ethics committee.

In their report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Drs. Daniel F. Gunther and Douglas S. Diekema, both at the University of Washington in Seattle, explain the reasoning behind what they hope will generate a healthy debate. Gunther is at the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, and Diekema is at the Center for Pediatric Bioethics.

Caring for children with profound developmental disabilities can be difficult and demanding, they note. For children with severe combined neurologic and cognitive impairment who are unable to move without assistance, all the necessities of life — dressing, bathing, transporting — must be provided by caregivers, usually parents, and these tasks become increasing difficult, if not impossible, as the child increases in size.

“Achieving permanent growth attenuation while the child is still young and of manageable size would remove one of the major obstacles to family care and might extend the time that parents with the ability, resources, and inclination to care for their child at home might be able to do so,” Gunther and Diekema write.

The parents of the 6-year-old, both of whom were college-educated professionals, indicated a strong desire to continue caring for their daughter. Despite having the neurologic development no greater than that of an infant, the 6-year-old responds to her parents and two healthy siblings — vocalizing and smiling in response to care and affection — and “clearly is an integral, and much loved, member of the family,” the authors note.

After extensive evaluation, the combined opinion of a team of specialists is that the child will have no significant neurologic or cognitive improvements.

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The onset of puberty and continued growth caused concern in the parents about how they would care for their daughter long-term, which they clearly wanted to do. They were concerned about having to turn over care to “strangers” and also about the complications that would arise when the child started menstruating.

The child is now a little more than a year into growth-attenuating therapy and approaching the end of her growth, Gunther and Diekema report. “As of yet, there have been no treatment complications.”

The authors feel that growth arresting therapy can be “both ethical and feasible and should be an option available to parents.”

The authors of a commentary applaud Gunther and Diekema for publishing this case report, although they believe that attempts to attenuate growth are “ill advised.”

Nonetheless, Dr. Jeffrey P. Brosco from the University of Miami and Dr. Chris Feudtner from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, say that by beginning the debate, this paper helps to “advance our ethical dialogue as we struggle to define our core values in words, laws, and deeds. Only with further research and public discussion will we learn whether attempts to attenuate growth run with or against our fundamental values in caring for children with profound developmental disabilities.”
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Can’t find this book anywhere. HELP!!?

Pediatrics Question — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:09:22 +0000

I am looking for this book called “My Heart Story: A Pediatric Heart Surgery Journal” by Mark and Patty Navin Young. My brother is going to have open heart surgery soon and I’d like to read up on it. I have looked at borders, barnes and noble, the library…Please let me know if you can think of another place to get it or have found it.
I have looked on amazon too. I’ve looked at almost every bookstore I can think of.

What are occupational risks to becoming a pediatric oncologist?

Pediatrics Question — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:12:16 +0000

I am looking for a journal article too. I am going to school right now to become an RN and need to write a paper about what I want to become and potential risks.

Here is the outline.

Write a 4-5 page paper addressing the occupation you hope to enter, the health risks related to the occupation, and how the risk can be minimized. APA format will be used in writing the paper. To facilitate writing the paper the following questions and suggestions should be addressed.
1.What profession do you hope to enter?

2.Why does this profession interest you? What emotional or personal risks does this interest involve?

3.Are there obvious health risks with this profession?

4. Research the occupational risks of the profession you have chosen. You may wish to interview
someone in the profession. You should also consult professional journals or websites.

5. Choose the risk that is most concerning to you.

6.Find 1 or 2 research articles about the risk and how it might be minimized. Reference the article(s) when writing about the risk, reason for risk, and how to minimize risk in your paper.

What are some good fundraisers to benefit pediatric cancer?

Pediatrics Question — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:09:29 +0000

I am 13 years old, and I’ve REALLY wanted to do something about pediatric cancer for around a year. I have followed blogs and journals that parents with children with cancer update, and I’ve read some pretty terrible things. I read how an iccocent 8 year old little girl, Ellie Potvin, died at home in her moms arms. I’ve read how a tiny two year old, Layla Grace Marsh, had cancer half her life, and then suffered in her last days here on earth. It’s just so sad, reading true and raw stories of pediatric cancer. I really want to raise awareness. It isn’t fair that only 3% of cancer funding goes to kids and the other 97% goes to adults. It’s not fair that 46 children get diagnosed everyday. I just think, what if it was ME. Everyone under 20 has a 1/300 chance of getting cancer. I want to change all this!

I’d love to hold bake sales, sell bracelets, have a car wash, mow some lawns, anything really! I’d love to volunteer at a hospital as well, but none of my local hospitals offer this, and their are no childrens hospitals.

I’m looking for a really good fundraiser, something that will have pediatric cancer research done. I am truely dedicated to this, but I have no idea what fundraiser. Their are so many, it’s so hard to chose one, let alone decide which ones are reliable! Thanks for all your help, I TRUELY appreciate it.

P.S. Make sure it’s a fundraiser that allows you to use their name.
I do not have cancer, but I’m planning to devote my life to becoming a pediatric oncologist and helping kids with cancer.