The use of the title “Dr.” means that the person has completed an advanced degree program. While it often refers to an M.D. or a Ph.D., it can legitimately be used by many others.
Generally three to four years are required beyond a bachelors degree, and an internship or residency may be required. Here are some of the U.S. and Canadian doctorate degrees:
M.D. - Medical Doctor. This one you already knew, right? Psychiatrists are usually M.D.s (although some are D.O.s).
Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy. This is the traditional academic doctorate. A Ph.D. is qualified to teach at a college or university. Psychologists often have this degree. In psychology a Ph.D. can be in Clinical Psychology (with a focus on research and practice), Counseling Psychology (with a focus on practice in less pathological populations), School Psychology (although many school psychologists do not get a doctorate), or just Psychology (many experimental and social psychologists at colleges have this).
You can also get a Ph.D. in Social Work, nursing, and even things like English, Mathematics, and Philosophy.
Psy.D. - Doctor of Psychology. A clinical psychology degree which places more emphasis on practice than research. Psy.D. programs developed to train practitioners who would keep up with research but might never do much research.
When you research migraines you will be exposed to new words. These terms are used to describe migraine, migraine management, migraine symptoms and suspected culprits behind migraines.
This article is here to serve as a glossary of migraine-related words as defined in the migraine arena. If you know of words that could be listed here please let me know.
Migraine Glossary of Terms:
angiography
an imaging technique that provides a picture, called an angiogram, of blood vessels.
aura
a symptom of classic migraine headache in which the patient sees flashing lights or zigzag lines, or may temporarily lose vision.
basilar artery migraine
migraine, occurring primarily in young women and often associated with the menstrual cycle, that involves a disturbance of a major brain artery. Symptoms include vertigo, double vision, and poor muscular coordination.
benign exertional headache
headache brought on by running, lifting, coughing, sneezing, or bending.
biofeedback
a technique in which patients are trained to gain some voluntary control over certain physiological conditions, such as blood pressure and muscle tension, to promote relaxation. Thermal biofeedback helps patients consciously raise hand temperature, which can sometimes reduce the number and intensity of migraines.
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The VA and Medicare are a few examples of socialized health in the US that works. The only people that say this option doesn’t work are the insurance companies and their hired guns. They are afraid of a little competition. They often refer to the “free market”, but there is nothing free about the health insurance market, when people are sick they are not free to do anything. When it comes to health care there is no free market, there are only people trying to profit off your misfortune.
Look at it this way, the health insurance companies are corporations making a profit of your denied health care benefits and high deductibles. We the people, can have our own insurance option, called Public Option, that will allow us to take care of our own. If these insurance companies are providing an honest service that is worth what they ask to be paid for then they got nothing to be afraid of.
Many in the US have heard the propaganda by the insurance industry all their lives, but if you are like me, if you’ve lived in other countries and talked to others that did, you would quickly see how insane our current insurance system is.
Socialized medicine does work. I know it works in Canada, UK, France, Austria and Australia. I talked to people from each of these countries about their health care system, they were all very satisfied. Are you telling me that we, Americans, are dumber and can’t get a fair system that provides everyone with basic health care like the other nations do? Are we? Are we unable to have a system that is cheaper and fairer? Think about it.
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A recent CBS/ New York Times poll found that 72 percent of Americans (50 percent of Republicans and 87 percent of Democrats) support a government-sponsored health care plan to compete with private insurers.
A clear majority of Americans — 72 percent — support a government-sponsored health care plan to compete with private insurers, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. Most also think the government would do a better job than private industry at keeping down costs and believe that the government should guarantee health care for all Americans.
I am a strong proponent of a single payer health care system but what we have on the table now is a public option, I stress the word ‘option’. So for those of you that like your private insurance from your employer you got nothing to worry about, stay on that insurance. For everyone else that wants the human and American right to health, I urge you to call these ‘D’ senators because they are ….
These Democratic Senators are against The Public Plan Option:
I’ve talked about migraines here before. Here’s a little about my experience with them. I believe I started to have migraines back in 2006. At first I didn’t know they were migraines, I was confused why I kept getting ill and why I had headaches. Then came the auras which made things clear, yes I had migraines, and not so clear because these auras left me almost blind.
By 2007, I was getting one every week. Initially most occurred on the weekend or early in the week.
They were accompanied by the spots of light that usually grew larger, these are the auras, if you don’t know what they’re called. I simply referred to them as bright light spots, or a single bright light spot, that sometimes had other colors mixed in, sometimes had a blank/dark spot as well. The auras often reminded me of staring straight into a flash light.
They would grow and sometimes cover enough of an area in my field of vision that I had to find a place to sit and wait it out because my vision was impaired t a degree that I couldn’t see and operate (walk, meet people or drive) safely.
Naturally other symptoms showed up. Usually after I saw the auras, and even when the auras were long gone, I would deteriorate in terms of weakness and headache intensity until by night time I find myself throwing up and feeling like I am so sick and weak that I could die.
If you haven’t visited the National Geographic photo of the day website you gotta check it out.
I’ve said this before, I love the National Geographic magazines and I love the National Geographic channel and every program they have (along with Discovery and the History channels). I like these media outlets mainly because they go where I can’t go and they show me the rest of the world and nature that I can only wish to see.
Their website “National Geographic Photo of the Day” offers another outlet for me to go and find breathtaking photos of our living world. This is a very valuable resources to those of you who love life and our planet.
I’ve been reading the book: Molecules Of Emotion by Candace Pert. I have a chapter left to go, and I am very eager to read it.
I have to say, the more you read the better this book gets. The first half is more of a biography, and is a very good foundation for the later parts of the book, it also gives you an insight into the life of a scientists in the lab. The last few chapters have a different taste and are loaded with information, names and useful references.
If you are interested in researching holistic and complementary health topics or the body-mind connection, the later half of this book is a very good starting point.
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Thom Hartmann is the nations number 1 progressive talk show host. His radio show and books offer a wealth of knowledge in history and politics, also in ADHD.
He is very level-headed and has a very wise view of the world. I listen to his show as often as I can; every time I listen to his show I get educated, and I’ve been listening for 2 years now. He is an award-winning author of twenty books in print in four continents and 18 languages.
I agree with a lot of what he says and I also learn a lot from him. I am a very pleased listener and supporter.
For that and more, Thom Hartmann has earned his well deserved spot in my ‘Best Of” list.
Research published in the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health on May 9, 2009 documented the cases of 16 infants who were suffering with colic or acid reflux and got complete resolution of their symptoms with chiropractic care. In this study, seven of the infants were diagnosed by a medical physician with colic, while nine had been diagnosed with acid reflux prior to receiving chiropractic care. The infants in this study ranged in age from two weeks to eleven months.
Of the 16 infants a history of birth trauma was reported in 10 of the cases. Upon examination, upper cervical (neck) subluxations were determined to be present in all 16 cases. In this study chiropractic care was rendered for 2 to 6 weeks on the various infants with all patients showing a complete resolution of their symptoms in that time frame.
Dr. Erin Elster, a chiropractor and the author of the study, explained the relationship between subluxation and colic or acid reflux by saying, “Research is revealing that injuries to the upper part of the neck may be a factor in a number of disorders. These injuries lead to misalignments in the neck that may compress the spinal cord and other nerve structures in the neck. This compression leads to nerve interference and can result in a host of disorders such as colic and acid reflux”.
Dr. Matthew McCoy a chiropractor, public health researcher and editor of the journal that published the study added, “It makes a lot of sense when you think about it. “If you damage or compress the neurological structures in the neck this can have far reaching implications on the functioning of the body. Through research like Dr. Elster’s we are finding that correcting the misalignments associated with these injuries reduces the nerve compression and people improve. In this study it was infants suffering from colic and acid reflux.”
I had a discussion with a coworker about water, he said that distilled water will suck out minerals out of my body. I find myself unsure if the idea that “distilled water leeches minerals from the body” is truth or myth. A friend of mine who had Fibromyalgia said her doctor thought her condition was due to drinking distilled water.
One has to be cautious here because money is involved, companies selling distillers may have a different story than companies that sell you water filters.. In the midst of product-selling and marketing wars the truth becomes elusive to consumers.
Even doctors that talk about the topic seem to have a monetary connection to a product, so I cannot trust their talking points either.
A CALL TO DOCTORS: IF any doctor is reading this article, please let me know what your professional opinion on distilled water leeching minerals from the body is. Thanks
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Today, National Geographic had a very interesting article on a mysterious ingredient that seems to be cleaning the Earth’s atmosphere. Here’s some of that article:
Mother Nature has a previously unknown cleaning agent that scrubs away toxic air pollution, scientists have discovered.
What’s more, the existence of the still mysterious substance has shaken up decades-long assumptions about our atmosphere’s self-cleaning process
Many studies have shown that trace gases and pollutants in the lowest level of our atmosphere break down naturally, thanks to molecules called hydroxyl (OH) radicals.
But the breakdown spews out ozone, itself a toxic pollutant and a greenhouse gas. (Get global warming facts.)
Not so in China’s heavily polluted Pearl River Delta, where experts were stumped to find lots of OH radicals but relatively small amounts of resulting ozone
“A New Beginning”
The President gives a speech in Cairo, Egypt, outlining his personal commitment to engagement with the Muslim world, based upon mutual interests and mutual respect, and discusses how the United States and Muslim communities around the world can bridge some of the differences that have divided them. June 4, 2009.
