Epilepsy Talk
How Creative Are YOU?
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There can definitely be a creative side to the electrical mischief that epilepsy produces. Some types of epilepsy can spark inspiration, enhance creativity and bring out the latent artist in you. It can be as diverse as literature…poetry…painting…drawing…dramatics…architecture…philosophy…or physics…to name just a few.
Tags: electrical storms, enhance creativity, Epilepsy, inspiration, latent artist, spark inspiration
Damaged Goods
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There’s something liberating in being expected to fail. No expectations, no explanations.
After all, “you’ll never amount to anything,” you’re damaged goods.
So you’re free to fall on your face. Or reach for the stars. I did both…
Tags: damaged goods, expectations, explanations, fail, fall on your face, reach for the stars, succeed
Ode to a Doctor’s Visit…
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They forget that we live 365 days or 8,760 hours a year with our illness…
We see them for four 30 minute visits or 2 hours in that year while we’re struggling…
Tags: doctor's visit, endless tests, fear, hope, hours, minutes, our condition, respond with respect
A Neurologist Talks About His Own Epilepsy…
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In this eye-opening article from the New York Times, a neurologist talks about his own journey with epilepsy: his perceptions, other people’s reactions (not good) and how he decided to become a neurologist.
Medical Malpractice: State by State
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In “Doctors Behaving Badly,” Heisel tells of his year-long odyssey, investigating medical boards — state by state — across the country.
His research tracks his discoveries on a Google map which shows where he’s been, along with the stories of each doctor’s malpractice.
Tags: doctors', Google map, investigative reporting, malpractice, medical boards, state by state
Doctors behaving badly…
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We all have had at least one experience when a doctor either behaved badly or treated us in a way we didn’t feel we deserved.
“He could have spoken in a nicer tone,” you might mumble to your mother.
But what do you do when the experience with a doctor takes a sharper turn?
What if he doesn’t believe your symptoms or validate your experience?
Tags: behaving badly, disappointment, disrespectful, disruptive physician behavior, doctors', fear, lawsuits, shock, toxic, unprofessional
NEWS: Drug Companies Hire Troubled Doctors As Experts
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An investigation by ProPublica has uncovered hundreds of doctors receiving company payments who had been accused of professional misconduct, were disciplined by state boards or lacked credentials as researchers or specialists.
Syncope or Seizure?
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Studies have now confirmed what some doctors have long suspected — many young people who are given the diagnosis of epilepsy (or seizure disorder) apparently don’t have epilepsy at all.
Instead, they have a condition known as syncope.
Syncope (sing’-koe-pee), the medical term for fainting, is the sudden loss of consciousness and physical collapse due to lack of blood and oxygen to the brain. It can occur with or without warning — as an isolated event — or frequently, over time.
Since syncope can mimic the symptoms of some epileptic seizures — such as muscle twitching, shaking, convulsions and physical collapse — the confusion begins.
“Time Out”
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I’ll be off the web from Friday 5/11 — Wednesday 5/16, spending some quality “together time” with my niece.
I’m sorry if any of my responses are delayed.
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