For the Union-Tribune
Hug your doc
If the case you were sick and you missed, March 30 was the national day of doctors.
Wallethub, a personal financing company, took note by reporting the best and the worst states to practice medicine, on the basis of 19 measures, such as average annual salary, the number of hospitals per capita and the quality of the public health system.
The top 10 of the downward order was Montana, Indiana, southern Dakota, Iowa, Utah, North Carolina, Minnesota, North Dakota, Tennessee and Wisconsin. The last 10 in the growing order were Hawaii, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Oregon, Illinois, New Mexico, Maryland and New York.
Some note articles for graduates of the Faculty of Medicine:
• UTAH has the highest average annual salary for surgeons (adjusted for the cost of living), which is 2.7 times higher than in the District of Columbia, the lowest.
• Northern Dakota has the lowest number of doctors per 1,000 residents, 5.6 times lower than in the highest district of Columbia.
• Florida has the highest share of the population aged 65 or over by 2030, which is twice as high in Utah, the lowest.
• Nebraska has the lowest civil liability insurance rate for the lowest professional fault, which is 8.1 times lower than that of New York, the highest.
• The average annual salary for a family doctor in 2025 is $ 225,000.
Knowledge corpus
Sneezing can regularly exceed 100 miles per hour; A cough launches a relatively laggard 60 mph, but it is still enough force to send large respiratory droplets of 6 feet or more.
Get me that. Stat!
In a study in 2024 of the National Center for Health Statistics, 95% of adults said they thought that knowledge of family health history was somewhat or very important, but that only 15% actively collected this information.
Mark your calendar
April is the month of awareness of irritable colon syndrome, autism, sarcoidosis, oral and testicular cancers, Parkinson’s disease, sexually transmitted infections and stress. April is a very stressful month.
Discourse on the doc
Point of order of happiness – the level of happiness of the basic line of an individual (largely determined by genetics) around which the moods fluctuate. After reacting to positive or negative life changes, people tend to return to their happiness adjustment points.
Phobia of the week
Chérophobia – Fear of happiness. (Guess that the root of the word is not joyful.)
Best medication
Two carrots lead to a car when there is a terrible accident. Both are transported to hospital. A carrot has only minor cuts and bruises, but the other undergoes emergency surgery.
A few hours later, a surgeon leaves to talk to the friends gathered about the carrot. “I have good and bad news. The good news is that your friend will live. The bad news is that he will be a vegetable for the rest of his life. ”
(If you saw the punchline coming, it’s because you eat a lot of carrots.)
Observation
“We were all born crazy. Some remain it. “
– Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Medical history
This week in 1867, using antiseptic methods he presented, the English doctor Joseph Lister finished by treating a series of 11 composed fractures. Its subsequent success of success in the prevention of infection has forever changed surgical techniques.
IG Nobel informed
The IG Nobel prizes celebrate the achievements that make people laugh, then think. A look at a real science that is difficult to take seriously, and even more difficult to ignore.
In 1992, the price of chemistry of the Nobel IG went to Ivette Bassa, an expert in colloids, which were substances made up of insoluble particles dispersed under the microscope suspended in another substance. Bassa was specifically honored for his bright blue Jell-O synthesis.
Medical school
Q: Why do the fingers and toes compete when they are immersed in the water?
A: It is the result of the constriction of the blood vessels. While water infiltrates your skin, the upper layers swell, encouraging the nerves to be drawn from electrical loads and chemicals that contract blood vessels. The negative pressure of the narrowed blood vessels leads to the upper layers of your skin, producing visible wrinkles. Some research suggests that the phenomenon can help humans better grasp water objects.
Curtain calls
Jean-Baptiste Lully was a reasonably acclaimed composer in France in the 1600s. He preferred to direct orchestras using a wooden personnel whom he has pounded on the ground. During a concert in 1687, while vigorously leading a Te Deum, his staff hit his foot, piercing him. An infection has settled, but Lully, who was a passionate dancer, refused to have the amputated gangrene leg and died later.
Lafee is vice-president of communications for the Sanford Burnham Preby Research Institute.
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