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Caduceus
Newsletter: Spring 2010.16, Week of
April 26
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It’s the Annual Chocolate Tasting Session, featuring
Dinstuhl’s Gourmet Chocolates,
Thursday, April 29!
For more details,
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Table of
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1. Events coming up. |
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· Thursday, April 29: Annual Chocolate Tasting Session, featuring Dinstuhl’s Gourmet Chocolates, presented by the students of BIOL 103, the Biology of Addiction, 2 to 4 p.m., Room J-10; · Saturday, May 8: University of California – San Francisco’s Dental Information Day. |
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2. Yes, it’s the Annual Chocolate Tasting Session, featuring
Dinstuhl’s Gourmet Chocolates,
Thursday, April 29! |
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3. Saving
Limbs and Saving Lives through Surgery and Research: A biographical sketch of Dr. Lee Rogers,
DPM. |
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Below is the next article in our series of “Career Profiles” on Today’s Podiatrist. As the incidence of diabetes continues to grow in our country, we thought that this particular profile was of great interest. We hope that all our career profiles are giving you more insight into careers in podiatric medicine. Please feel free to pass these profiles along to your advisees, by either including them on your website or by sending them out through your internal list serve. See you in June at the NAAHP meeting in Atlanta! Betsy
Today’s Podiatrist: Lee Rogers, DPM Saving Limbs and Saving Lives through Surgery and Research George Bernard Shaw once said, “Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.” Dr. Lee Rogers has taken that quote to heart and found a way not only to create himself, but also to save lives as he and his colleagues work to create amputation prevention centers across the country. Currently, there are 24 million Americans with diabetes. Across our country, doctors are working to stem this tide and to prevent the nearly 100,000 amputations that occur yearly, mostly on those with diabetes. As part of a dynamic team of vascular surgeons and other specialists dedicated to preventing amputations in people with diabetes, Rogers is currently serving as the associate Medical Director of the Amputation Prevention Center at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Rogers is a native of Gallatin, Missouri, a rural town of 2,000 people. He received his college education at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, where he majored in exercise science. He found himself drawn to biomechanics and physiology and soon realized (with the help of his pre-med advisor) that these areas were an appropriate precursor to podiatric medicine. He attended the College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa, graduating in 2004 with his DPM degree. After a residency in podiatric medicine and surgery at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in New York, Rogers completed a fellowship in Diabetic Limb Preservation and Research at the Center for Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research (CLEAR) in Chicago, Illinois. It was during his fellowship that the need for such a focused specialization became evident to Dr. Rogers. “As a podiatrist, you can mold yourself through your education to become anything you like. You can be a scientist, a clinician, a surgeon, an author--anything, as long as you have the drive. You create your own opportunities.” With the use of many state-of-the-art tools to salvage limbs, including a 3-D wound camera, hydroscalpels, and thermal imaging, Rogers and the team at Valley Presbyterian are building a partnership between DPMs and other physicians. The program offers a highly integrated center which Rogers and the others hope to replicate across the country. “The emphasis this hospital is placing on podiatric care as the center for limb salvage is innovative and ground-breaking.” Dr. Rogers extends his creativity to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), where he serves as the chair of the Foot Council. The purpose of this council is to establish national standards for foot care and to develop education programs in foot care management, promote clinical and scientific research into diabetic foot disease, and foster national and international collaboration between agencies concerned with diabetes research and programs geared toward amputation prevention. Dr. Rogers has over fifty publications in print or in press and has been the investigator on over twenty clinical trials. He has been interviewed by US News and World Report and recently appeared on “The Doctors,” a daytime medical information program on CBS. For more information, contact the APMA at careerinfo@apma.org or call 301-581-9280. To view our career “music” video, use this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHSbeTJUcCM Betsy M. Herman,
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4. ===AAMC
STAT===, e-newsletter from the Association of American Medical Colleges,
April 19, 2010 edition. |
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5. The Ross
University Seminar will be held in Nashville, TN on May 8, 2010. |
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It is intended for Pre-vet / and Pre-Med students and
advisors, and all are welcome. It is for free to attend and it
will give you detailed information about Ross University School of Veterinary
Medicine and School of Medicine. There will also be alumni from each
school speaking about their experiences with Ross. Thank you in Advance! P.S. I will also be able to come to your campus Fall
2010 to give a presentation. Sincerely, Erica Wasserman, Associate Director of Admissions Ross University
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The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (Lewisburg,
WV) will be sponsoring its Summer Open House on Friday, June 25, 2010. |
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7. F.D.A. is
Urged to Set Limits for Levels of Salt in Food, from the April 21, 2010
issue of Science in the News, a daily science digest from Sigma Xi. |
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F.D.A.
Is Urged to Set Limits for Levels of Salt in Food
from the New York Times (Registration Required) High levels of salt in supermarket and restaurant foods should be declared unsafe by the federal government, according to a new report that called on the Food and Drug Administration to mandate maximum levels of sodium in food. Because elevated sodium intake contributes to high blood pressure, which can lead to heart disease and other health problems, a federal effort to cut salt in the food people eat could prevent 100,000 deaths a year, said the report, by the Institute of Medicine. "The vast majority of the U.S. population is consuming sodium at levels that are simply too high to be safe," said Jane E. Henney, a professor of medicine at the University of Cincinnati and a former F.D.A. commissioner, who was chairwoman of the committee that wrote the report. Salt is currently considered a safe food ingredient, and there is no limit to how much of it that companies can put in their products. |
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8.
Marginalia: A Strange Old Tool
. . . Do you know what this is? (Sent to me by a pharmacist, so he oughta
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Here is what Wikipedia has to say on the
subject: Tobacco smoke enema
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A 1776 textbook drawing of a tobacco smoke enema device, consisting of a nozzle, a fumigator and a bellows
A simpler, more portable device. The tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by enema, was a medical treatment employed by 18th-century European physicians for resuscitating drowning victims and other purposes. HistoryThe stimulation of respiration through the introduction of tobacco smoke by a rectal tube was first practiced by the North American Indians.[1] In 1745, Richard Mead was among the first Western scholars to recommend tobacco smoke enemas to resuscitate victims of drowning.[2] One of the earliest reports of resuscitation by rectally applied tobacco smoke dates from 1746, when a seemingly drowned woman is reported as being successfully revived after, on the advice of a passing sailor, the stem of the sailor's pipe was inserted into her rectum and air was blown into the pipe's bowl through a piece of perforated paper.[2] To physicians of the time, the appropriate treatment for "apparent death" was warmth and stimulation. For this purpose, artificial respiration and the blowing of smoke into the lungs or the rectum were thought to be interchangeably useful. The smoke enema was considered the most potent method, however, due to the warming and stimulating properties associated with tobacco in the pharmacopoeia of the period.[2] At the turn of the 19th century, tobacco smoke enemas had become an established practice in Western medicine, considered by Humane Societies to be as important as artificial respiration.[1] In the 1780s, the Royal Humane Society installed resuscitation kits, including smoke enemas, at various points along the Thames.[2] Smoke enemas were also used to treat various other afflictions. An 1827 report in a medical journal tells of a woman treated against constipation with repeated smoke enemas, with little apparent success.[3] According to another report of 1835, tobacco enemas were used successfully to treat cholera "in the stage of collapse".[4] In 1811, a medical writer noted that "[t]he powers of the Tobacco Enema are so remarkable, that they have arrested the attention of practitioners in a remarkable manner. Of the effects and the method of exhibiting the smoke of Tobacco per anum, much has been written", providing a list of European publications on the subject.[5] By 1805, the use of rectally applied tobacco smoke was so established as a way to treat obstinate constrictions of the alimentary canal that doctors began experimenting with other delivery mechanisms.[6] In one experiment, a decoction of half a drachm of tobacco in four ounces of water was used as an enema in a patient suffering from general convulsion where there was no expected recovery.[6] The decoction worked as a powerful agent to penetrate and "roused the sensibility" of the patient to end the convulsions, although the decoction resulted in excited sickness, vomiting, and profuse perspiration.[6] The use of smoke enemas in Western medicine declined after 1811. In that year, Benjamin Brodie showed through animal experimentation that nicotine, the principal active agent in tobacco smoke, was a cardiac poison prone to stopping the circulation of blood.[1] I may observe,
that before I was called to this case, stercoraceous vomiting had decidedly
set in. My object in ordering the tobacco infusion and smoke enemata was to
favour the reduction of any obscure hernia or muscular spasm of the bowel
which might exist. I also directed that the attendants of the girl should,
after she had taken the crude mercury, frequently raise her up in bed, (she
was too feeble to raise herself,) to alter her position from one side to the
other, from the back to the belly, and vice versa, with the view of
favouring the gravitation of the mercury to the lower bowels. Robert
Dick, M.D. (1847)[7] And while you’re cogitating the
above, the meaning of this video
clip gets really scary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57tK6aQS_H0
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Marginalia: Why chocolate is better than men. |
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Dr. Stan Eisen,
650
E-mail: seisen@cbu.edu
http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/
Caduceus Newsletter Archives: http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/Caduceus.html