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Why Can"t Ted Stay Out Of The Emergency Room?

Why Can"t Ted Stay Out Of The Emergency Room?
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A 40-something patient I’ll call Ted has a list of conditions that would have tongue-tied Carl Sagan. Even though I see Ted in my clinic every month, he still winds up visiting the emergency room 20 times per year.

Yes, 20.

Before he became my patient, he went even more frequently. So, the current situation, bad as it may be, represents halting progress.

Inside the hospital, Ted is what’s known as a frequent flier, a patient we see over and over again. Unlike airlines, hospitals don’t offer people like Ted perks or first class upgrades. In fact, they often get worse customer service, like the apocryphal boy who cried, “Wolf!”

Patients like Ted attract a lot of attention from hospital administrators and health policy wonks. Ted’s on Medicaid. And he’s a heavy user of health services. Recent Medicaid data show that the top 5 percent of patients account for more than half of all Medicaid spending.

Intuition says if we can improve the health of frequent fliers then we stand to reduce our nation’s spending on health care. This is an idea that some health innovators call hot-spotting.

But how do we do it?

Turns out that it’s not easy for doctors to move the needle. I see Ted every month, deal with his current health concerns and tweak his medications. But it’s still not enough to keep him from making what I consider frequent, unnecessary trips to the hospital.

His needs go well beyond his office visits with me. A lot of his problems are more prosaic: transportation, basic nutrition and getting his medication filled easily and on time.

This is where our new nurses come in. As part of a Medicare pilot project, our Tulsa, Okla.-based academic practice is paid up to $ 40 a month for each high-risk patient so we can focus on prevention as much as treatment.

The money allows us to employ nurses who work the phones, calling high-risk patients and talking them through their anxieties, reinforcing the need for them to take their medicine, troubleshooting transportation and scheduling screening services.

This last bit really pays off. When patients like Ted come into the office, I almost never have time to deal with the preventive medicine issues because there are so many immediate needs to take care of.

Not only do the nurses schedule colonoscopies and mammograms, they follow through to make sure that patients are educated about the tests’ purpose and that they actually get done.

I was so intrigued by what our new nurses do that I’ve started attending their staff meetings.

Every month we receive an overview of our practice and the number of patients deemed high-risk. We are now swimming in data: how many times patients visit the ER, how many times they are hospitalized, how quickly we see them when they leave the hospital and how often they get readmitted for the same condition.

Our goal with all of those measures is the same: drive them down. We are on a mission to both improve care and contain costs. The data also includes stats on our success with offering and completing preventive services.

It’s a whole new way of looking at our work. Our perspective has moved from a string of one-on-one encounters that are the traditional lifeblood of medical practice to an aerial view of the whole enterprise. It makes me feel like an Apollo astronaut seeing the earth from above for the very first time. It’s an inspiring view.

John Henning Schumann is a primary care doctor in Tulsa, Okla., where he teaches at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine. He’s on Twitter: @GlassHospital

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Room To Breathe: From Chaos to Peace in the Classroom

At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in the classroom is to blame, keeping students from concentrating on their classes. On this edition we’ll hear excerpts from Russell Long’s film “Room to Breathe” which takes us to a middle school in San Francisco, California, that began teaching mindfulness in the hopes of giving students the skills they need to focus on learning.

Broadcasting on public television stations across the country this fall.  Check Room to Breathe website for updates. You can also host your own screening of Room to Breathe for your community, and help bring mindfulness to many more school.

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Ling Busch, guidance counselor at Marina Middle School

Megan Cowan, mindfulness teacher, students and teachers at Marina Middle School in San Francisco

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Police in Canada find 40 snakes in motel room

The reptiles were found in several plastic storage bins on Thursday night in a room in Brantford, Ontario, where a couple who had been evicted from their home were staying, police said in a statement.

Officers have opened a probe into the incident but they did not say where the couple were at the time or whether the pair would be charged with breaking local laws that prohibit owning pythons.

The snakes, which ranged in length from 30 centimetres to 1.4 metres, were in poor health and have been taken in by the Canadian Society for the Protection of Animals, where a veterinarian is monitoring them.

The find comes 11 days after Connor and Noah Barthe, aged six and four respectively, died in the eastern town of Campbellton, New Brunswick when an African python escaped from its terrarium and killed them.

The boys had been enjoying a sleepover with a friend, whose father’s private menagerie of exotic animals included the python.

Animal experts expressed astonishment at the tragedy, many of them noting that, while an African rock python is a dangerous animal capable of killing large prey, it would not normally attack humans.

The initial police investigation found that the snake probably managed to break out of its terrarium and then nosed through a ventilation duct which led into the boys’ bedroom.

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Living room TV "making a comeback"

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UK families are more likely to watch TV together now than they have been in over a decade, according to a study.

Communications regulator Ofcom said 91% of adults watched their main TV set once a week – up from 88% in 2002 – but their attention may be distracted.

It said the popularity of smartphones and tablets was taking teens out of bedrooms back into family rooms.

Most family members now multi-tasked while sitting in front of the TV, the survey of 3,700 over 16s found.

Far from technology pulling family time apart, it said, the huge growth in mobile was actually having the opposite effect. Family members are being brought together just as they were in the 1950s when a TV was likely to be a home’s only screen.

“There are number of factors that are fuelling this – we’re now watching on much bigger, better television sets,” said Jane Rumble, Ofcom’s head of media research.

“But also, there’s the rise of connected devices, such as a smartphone or tablet. We’re coming into the living room today clutching those devices, they offer a range of opportunities to do things while we’re watching television.”

More than half of those surveyed said they distracted themselves from television by talking on the phone, texting friends, using social networks or even watching different content altogether on YouTube or other streaming sites.

A quarter of those asked also said they were “media meshers”, people who use devices to do something related to the programme they are watching. This might be tweeting or using tie-in apps for shows such as Britain’s Got Talent.

Backing up a long-regarded view of the sexes, the research said it was women who were more likely to multi-task when watching TV.

These changing habits have left advertisers needing to adapt but change is slow in happening, said Daniel Knapp, director of advertising research at the IHS consultancy.

“Advertising is an extremely conservative industry, focusing on what works and where a return on investment is clear,” he told the BBC.

Multiplying machines

The trend has been attributed largely to massively increased ownership of smartphones and tablets.

Ofcom said that just over half of adults now use a smartphone, up from 27% just two years ago. The number of tablet owners has more than doubled too, from 11% to 24% in a year.

It means the average UK household owns more than three devices capable of connecting to the internet, with one in five homes having more than six.

In contrast to the proliferation of mobile devices, the number of televisions we own is steadily decreasing.

Teenagers’ bedrooms, once incomplete without a small TV in the corner, are now less likely to have sets.

According to Ofcom’s data, 52% of UK kids aged 5-15 have TVs in their room, compared with 69% in 2007.

Watching television – particularly sports and other live events – is becoming a pursuit enjoyed solely in the living room on TVs that are getting larger.

Sets measuring 43in (109cm) or above accounted for 15.8% of all TV sales during the first three months of this year, up 4.3% on 2012, said Ofcom.

Despite the popularity of on-demand services such as the BBC’s iPlayer, the huge majority of TV watching is still as-broadcast.

“Although there are changes in audience behaviour, when it comes to overall scale, on-demand still cannot complete with linear TV,” said Mr Knapp.

Breaking up

The Communications Market Report, which the regulator publishes once a year, also looks at habits across various different parts of our digital lives.

Tablets are seen by parents as a great way to keep children entertained with apps, as well as providing a way for the youngsters to watch the programmes they want while the adults view other shows.

One in three parents said they encouraged their child to use their tablet for school or college work.

For teens and younger adults aged 16-24 sending messages via mobile internet messaging apps, rather than the typical SMS text, is now more popular.

And compared to older generations, this age group has less restraint when it comes to what is off-limits.

One in five 16-24 year olds said they considered it reasonable to start a relationship via text, email or instant message.

Sixteen percent said they had no problem with ending a relationship in this way. Two percent of over-75s surveyed thought the same.

The report also indicated:

• 85% of tablet owners keep it at home


• 91% of parents said their children use a tablet


• 11% of tablet owners use their device in the bathroom


• Drama is the most popular programme genre to watch on catch-up, news is the least popular


• Mobile internet use among the over-55s has increased considerably in the past three years

Do you agree with the findings? Does your family watch TV together? Send us your comments using the form below.

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Actor Cory Monteith arrives at the ”Do Something Awards” in Santa Monica, California August 19, 2012.


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By Alex Dobuzinskis


Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:51am EDT





(Reuters) – Canadian actor Cory Monteith, heart throb of Fox’s musical-comedy television series “Glee”, was found dead on Saturday at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in downtown Vancouver, police said.




There were no signs of foul play, and the cause of death was not immediately apparent, British Columbia Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe told reporters at a news conference.




In response to a question about whether Monteith, 31, died of a drug overdose, Vancouver Police Department acting chief Doug LePard said he would “not discuss anything that we might have found in the room at this time”.




“We only notified family members about an hour ago, so we haven’t even been able to have those conversations with them,” he said.




Monteith, whose “Glee” character Finn Hudson was a high school football player turned enthusiastic glee club – or musical group – singer, was treated at a rehabilitation facility for an unspecified substance addiction this year.




The actor, who grew up in British Columbia, had talked about what he characterized as a serious drug problem during his teenage years, and was first treated for addiction at 19.




Others were in Monteith’s hotel room on Friday night but evidence, including fob key entries, indicated he returned to his room by himself early on Saturday and was alone when he died, police said. He was due to check out of the hotel that day.




Singer and former “Glee” actress Kristin Chenoweth said in a message on Twitter shortly after the police news conference. “You will be loved. Always.”




An autopsy on Monteith was set for Monday, LePard said.




(Editing by Louise Ireland)





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The Obama administration’s assault on the Second Amendment in reaction to Newtown is not a serious solution. It’s a Band-Aid on cancer. The NRA’s call for armed guards in every school also misses the point. When is anyone going to get serious? The problem is violence, a violence of monstrous and horrific proportions that has infected America’s popular culture.

The Hartford Courant reported on Sunday that during a search of Newtown grade-school killer Adam Lanza’s home after the shootings, “police found thousands of dollars worth of graphically violent video games.” Detectives are exploring whether Adam Lanza might have been emulating the shooting range or a video game scenario as he moved from room to room at Sandy Hook Elementary.

In California, 20-year-old Ali Syed went on a carjacking and shooting rampage, killing three before turning the gun on himself. Syed was a loner and a “gamer” who spent hours holed up in his room, Orange County authorities said. “He took one class at college, and he did not work, so that gives him most of the day and evening, and most of the time in his free time he was playing video games,” reported county sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino.

After Newtown, President Obama and other officials insisted the country needed a “dialogue” about “gun violence,” but there’s been remarkably little exploration of the role of video games and even less of movie and TV violence.

Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia requested a study from the National Science Foundation and was disappointed that Obama’s State of the Union only focused on gun control. “While I recognize the potential constitutional issues involved in tackling media violence, mental health parity and gun control, I am disappointed that mental health issues and media violence were left out of the president’s address,” Wolf said.

The NSF report acknowledged that a link between violent media and real-world violence can be contentious, but explained, “Anders Breivik, who murdered 69 youth in Norway, claims he used the video game ‘Modern Warfare 2′ as a military simulator to help him practice shooting people. Similarly, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who murdered 13 fellow students in Colorado, claimed they used the violent video game ‘Doom’ to practice their shooting rampage.”

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