preventable

Happy Saturday, everybody! I hope yall are well.

We really do have a magician  joining us, today! I swear anyone who works as a Registered Nurse, a Certified Nutrition Specialist, Health Coach, *AND* an Endocannabinoid (Google it) System Nurse Consultant *at the same time* is either related to Copperfield or walks on water for fun.

BUT, Marsha Kentish, RN, BSN, CNS, LDN, is SO down to Earth, engaging, and relatable. Trust me, I had a Blast interviewing her!

We talked about everything from the nutritional needs of our aging women, preventable diseases, vitamins/minerals/supplements, stress, popular diets, meds & midlife, and MORE!

Listen to what she has to say about the gut-brain connection, fluctuating moods, and hormone imbalances. Hmmm...

Dont forget yall sparkly red pen and notebook! Thanks SO much for ya'll support, as always.

AJ

Today’s episode features me reading the first chapter of my new book “PREVENTABLE: 5 Powerful Practices to Avoid Disease and Build Unshakeable Health.”

I just received the first few physical copies this week! 

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Most Pediatric Accidents are preventible. Listen to this podcast for more information.

Most Pediatric Accidents are preventible. Listen to this podcast for more information.

Answer these questions when you are paralyzed by fear:

1. What is the worst case scenario?

2. If that scenario happened, what would you do to resolve it?

3. Is it Preventable?

4.When you are an old person, looking back at this moment what would you tell yourself to do?

For more details on this, Watch Tim Ferris explain it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6jAC6XxAI

The Inspector General of the U.S. DOT has released a report on detention time that should come as no surprise at all to truck drivers. Terry Scruton talks about that, plus an update on the FMCSA’s preventable crash pilot program, with OOIDA Manager of Federal Affairs Jay Grimes.

When settings outside the hospital are taken into account (ED, primary care), the overall number must be considerably higher. While many factors contribute to diagnostic failure, a variety of sources suggest that physician’s thinking has a lot to do with it.

Dual Process Theory describes how the brain makes decisions in one of two modes: through fast, unconscious, intuitive processes (System 1) or through slower, conscious, analytical processes (System 2). Mental short-cuts (heuristics) and biases are predominantly located in the intuitive mode where we spend most of our conscious time, and this is where the majority of decision failures occur. Thinking straight essentially means achieving a good balance between System 1 and System 2 decision making, and much of our cognitive effort needs to go into monitoring what our unconscious brains are doing in System 1. This is referred to by a variety of terms: metacognition, reflection, mindfulness, and others. They all involve cognitive de-coupling from System 1 and characterize the process of cognitive de-biasing. This is not easily accomplished in the ED or any environment where decision density is often high, throughput pressure exists, resources may be limited, and where decision makers may be fatigued and/or sleep deprived.

While medicine has acquired a variety of strategies over the years for de-biasing clinicians, added benefits can be obtained by developing specific mindware to tackle particular biases. Clinicians need to be aware of the operating characteristics of the dual process model of decision making, of the prevalence and nature of biases, and of how to apply and sustain de-biasing mindware in their decision making.