#Cleveland Clinic

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Cleveland Clinic helicopter N759P landing at Kettering Health Main Hospital

taken 9/12/24

takeoff video

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My insurance denied my doctor’s referral to Cleveland Clinic. I am devastated. The doctors around me refuse to take my case because they say my health is “too complicated “ or “needs specialised care we cannot provide”. I am going to appeal. This has been an exhausting two years.

[amedicalhistory]

Day #2 of Antibiotic Awareness Week: What are antibiotics?

Basically, any substance that stops bacteria from growing or multiplying can an antibiotic. Some are naturally occurring, like Penicillin - technically a type of mold, and some are synthetic. They can be oral (taken through the mouth) - liquid or pills, topical (applied on the skill), or injected intravenously (IV).

Antibiotics either destroy parts of bacteria or stop them from reproducing by getting in the way of their ability to make certain proteins. That is why they work on illness and infections caused by bacteria ONLY! Infections caused by viruses have to be treated with antivirals, and infections caused by fungi have to be treated with anti-fungals. The overuse of antibiotics for non-bacterial infections is one of the main contributing factors to the growth of antimicrobial resistance, or drug resistance, among many diseases in the modern era. Because bacteria are living things, they can evolve immunity to antibiotics over time.

To learn more about the different types of antibiotics: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/16386-antibiotics

To learn more about Antibiotic Awareness Week and this year's theme: https://www.cdc.gov/antimicrobial-resistance/communication-resources/usaaw.html#:~:text=and%20antimicrobial%20resistance.-,Daily%20themes%20and%20key%20messages,-November%2018%3A%20Fighting

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Covid-19'un Kalp Sağlığı Üzerindeki Etkileri

Covid-19 ve Kalp Sağlığı Arasındaki İlişki Covid-19 pandemisi, dünya genelinde birçok sağlık sorununu gündeme getirdi. Bu süreçte, Covid-19’un kalp sağlığı üzerindeki etkileri de sıkça tartışıldı ve etrafında bilgi kirliliği oluştu. ABD’nin Ohio eyaletinde bulunan Cleveland Clinic Lerner Araştırma Enstitüsü’nden Dr. Stanley Hazen, Covid’in kalp ve damar sağlığına olan etkileri hakkında en güncel…

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Summer 2025 Graduate Administrative Internship

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.We all have the power to help, heal and change lives — beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.Job…

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Just Let Me Sleep Already! 😴

Just Let Me Sleep Already! 😴 #SleepDeprivaation #Fatigue #DaylightSavingTime

Image Credit: WOKANDAPIX/Pixabay OK, so my mind, body, circadian rhythm, and spirit have not caught up since we officially sprang ahead one hour for Daylight Saving Time yesterday. Give me by the end of the week and let me reassess the situation to see if I am teetering back to some sense of normalcy. But are we really saving daylight or even an hour? Look, the older I get, and yeah I know I am…

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5 Things to Know Before an Ablation Procedure

5 Things to Know Before an Ablation Procedure

Embarking on the journey of an ablation procedure for atrial fibrillation requires careful consideration and preparation. This introduction serves as a compass, guiding you through essential aspects to know before undergoing this heart procedure. From understanding the intricacies of the ablation process to following pre-procedure guidelines and planning for post-procedure care, these insights…

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Do Not Want to be Here 🚑

Tell us about a time when you felt out of place. Now! I feel out of place – now. I am in Cleveland as I write this. It is not where I want to be. I am frightened and I feel distraught...scared really. My partner has an appointment today at the Cleveland Clinic with his new heart doctor. He has to undergo a battery of tests, and then have those results analyzed before his medication is…

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Cleveland Clinic helicopter N759P taking off from Kettering Health Main Hospital

taken 9/12/24

landing video

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Been a while since I posted anything where did I leave off well I've been doing a lot of artwork lately for the darling sample shootout it's a big benefit pool we have here coming up on August 12th these are samples of the banners I'm having printed

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Below is an excerpt from the article:

What does it mean when a person is neurodivergent?

The term “neurodivergent” describes people whose brain differences affect how their brain works. That means they have different strengths and challenges from people whose brains don’t have those differences. The possible differences include medical disorders, learning disabilities and other conditions. The possible strengths include better memory, being able to mentally picture three-dimensional (3D) objects easily, the ability to solve complex mathematical calculations in their head, and many more.

Neurodivergent isn’t a medical term. Instead, it’s a way to describe people using words other than “normal” and “abnormal.” That’s important because there’s no single definition of “normal” for how the human brain works.

The word for people who aren’t neurodivergent is “neurotypical.” That means their strengths and challenges aren't affected by any kind of difference that changes how their brains work.

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1. I Wish It Wasn’t About The Numbers  

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS MY PERSONAL RECOLLECTION AND I MAKE NO CLAIM TO EXPERTISE IN MEDICINE, RECOMMENDATIONS, OR PRETENSE TO WHY PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY DO. THIS IS JUST MY MEMORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO ME, WHAT I’M DOING TO GET HEALTHY.

For many who deal with immune disorders, getting treatment is a horror story of being neglected, dismissed, rejected, and attacked. You’re added to the list of pain sufferers and the chronically ill. You aren’t a person, you’re an account number for a hospital. A statistic for the government. A profit line for big Pharma. Definitely not real. Sometimes not even to members of your family or friends who knew you before your body turned on you.

I'm one of those people.

A standard, sarcastic, aging Gen-X, ever-so-slightly malcontent. For those of you who love the generation comparisons, yes, I was a latchkey kid. I had almost no adult supervision in my tiny mountain town. I swam all summer, read all winter and every night, and was an absolute tomboy.

Which is making what I write normally, romance, absolutely hysterical.

On the surface, I was a very healthy child. During high school, I was what we would call overly scheduled. I did that to myself. In addition to my academic workload and extras, such as choir, I was athletic and did sports. The activities were strenuous, my pain tolerance was incredibly high, and I continued that into my early twenties. Life looked good.

Until what should have been a hiccup. A nothing.

The immunocompromised will recognize what I'm talking about because it’s happened to you. Most people go through their lives never worrying about small medical issues. A minor setback and they heal, but for me, this bump triggered a snowball that became an avalanche that has ruined my health. And changed the course of my life.

Currently, scientists claim about eighty autoimmune disorders exist. For those who don't know, your immune system’s network of cells is supposed to work together to defend against foreign viruses, bacteria, and infection. It's supposed to be smart. To be able to identify what's foreign and what isn't. However, when things go wrong, it can't do that.

The horror of autoimmune dysfunction.

When your immune system gets dumb, it attacks your body. And dumb bodies don't obey rules. It’s just destructive. We give the outcomes different names you may have heard:

Type 1 diabetes

Multiple sclerosis

Lupus

Rheumatoid arthritis

Some are rare and difficult to diagnose, but doctors regularly don’t recognize common ones. Sufferers can go years, even decades, before getting their symptoms diagnosed, and then treatments are often either unavailable or too expensive. That doesn't begin to address medical bias. Women are the ones most frequently affected by autoimmune disorders by a significant percentage, and experience provider bias on a regular basis.

When your body is the enemy, you ask why. Why is this happening? My experience has been that the doctors will do one of a few things: blame you, pretend it doesn’t exist and that you’re crazy, or they throw up their hands and ignore it.

I’m not alone. Many I’ve talked to have similar experiences.

It's your fault.

You’re fine.

We don't know. Here, take this drug.

I can't tell you how painful it is to be told any of these messages. Because none of these are true.

Research shows that genetics and environmental factors, along with the food industrial complex, bear a far bigger part in the current state of health in this country than anyone wants to admit.

The refusal to accept this may be the reason the generic autoimmune problem is on the rise in the United States. And I am one of those people.

A light at the end of the tunnel.

I began to get sick at twenty-six. I am forty-eight now. My slow slide into illness took me to a moment in my late 30s when I thought for a second that I would not make it.

It was scary. The girl who jumped off bridges, went to swing night, was coughing so hard she broke her ribs. She could barely walk. Couldn't work.

I wasn't me.

I’m now in a new program at the Cleveland Clinic. I feel better than I have in over ten years. While those years I lost may be gone, I plan to make the next few the best I've had. I'll share what they're recommending that's helping. Because those of us left behind by normal medicine need to stick together.

Our bodies may be dumb, but we aren't. And we aren't alone.

My journey is available on Kindle Vella.

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0BXL7GN4S 

#dumbbodiesbrilliantminds

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Cleveland Clinic and IBM present the world's first quantum computer devoted to healthcare research

- By InnoNurse Staff -

On March 20, Cleveland Clinic and IBM announced the first onsite private sector IBM-managed quantum computer deployment in the United States. 

The IBM Quantum System One deployed at Cleveland Clinic will be the world's first quantum computer dedicated only to healthcare research, with the goal of assisting Cleveland Clinic in accelerating biomedical discoveries.

Read more at IBM/PRNewswire

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Other recent news and insights

Based on the results of routine hospital testing, machine learning techniques forecast the probability of mortality (University of Alberta)

The first FDA-approved AI-assisted colonoscopy tool to support doctors in detecting polyps that can lead to colorectal cancer (Medtronic plc/PRNewswire)

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A Heartbeat for Pam

https://gofund.me/b2c54fed

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I appreciate how angry you are that people are scamming folx.  Your kind heart made my day.  AND!  You are SO RIGHT that some education is needed here! Taking your advice, I used Google and Google Scholar for this research.

WHAT I LEARNED:

1. The fucked up wellness influencers are often, though not always, neofascist girlies (of all genders) trying to get people with chronic medical problems that are UNDER INVESTIGATED & UNDER TREATED to feel appreciated as a recruitment tactic.  It’s a Problem.  And we all know a fascist Loves a GOOD GRIFT.

2.  The stuff that isn’t about vaginas and shit is actually about stuff that is UNDER INVESTIGATED & UNDER TREATED.  3.  Personal note on the subject of GETTING OUTDOORS AND TOUCH THE GRASS:  Most of the consequences of having under investigated and under treated invisible disabilities like the various types of arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and many others limit how much and what kind of outside time you can do.  How much gardening you can do, for example.  I am in CONSTANT pain that varies in intensity.  My hands sometimes stop working altogether.  Me trying to prune a bush in my garden is not practical.  Me trying to weed my garden, or harvest there isn’t always something I can do.  This year, I couldn’t harvest my radishes in time due to a pain flare, so now i have the most BEAUTIFUL radish flowers!  Enjoying them, too.  So pretty!  So yeah, many of us who need some of the things on your list of scams the wellness influencers were making up really do feel very disconnected from Earth BECAUSE OF OUR INVISIBLE DISABILITIES. 

4.  NOW TO THE GOOGLE LINKS! 4a.  AIP is the AutoImmune Protocol used to identify what is making someone with an autoimmune illness unwell and here is what the CLEVELAND CLINIC (not a ‘fraudster’) says about it. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/aip-diet-autoimmune-protocol-diet/ Autoimmune diseases are horrible and most people tell people who have them that we just want ATTENTION.  No, we just don’t want to die because our body think our body is THE ENEMY.  Quite often the result is INFLAMMATION and CHRONIC PAIN which varies in intensity and location in the body.

4b.  The MAYO CLINIC’s thoughts on those annoying gluten free people (i’m one of them, alas!): https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/celiac-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20352220

4c.  There is clearly some debate among medical researchers about how valid the nightshade allergy might be as an across the board thing: (apologies, that these are behind paywalls)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10620-023-07955-9 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-88473-4_3 4d.  LINK TO THE TOMATO ALLERGY SEARCH I JUST DID ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR:  https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=tomato+allergy&btnG= apparently some people WILL die of eating a tomato, trust me I was surprised, too. 4e.  LINK TO THE DIETARY TRIGGER NIGHTSHADE VEGETABLES SEARCH I JUST DID ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR:  https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=dietary+trigger+nightshade+vegetables&oq=NIGHTSHADE+VEGETABLE

and nightshades seem to be causing inflammation issues all over the place which is one of the hallmarks of many autoimmune disorders.

5.  ON THE VAG NONSENSE - You’re right that stuff is a scam and it can make your body unhappy if you use them. 

6.  In case you want reliable, experiment and research based understandings of herbs as used in Germany - you can read:  https://shop.elsevier.com/books/the-complete-german-commission-e-monographs/blumenthal/978-0-9655555-0-0

which is THE COMPLETE GERMAN COMMISSION E MONOGRAPHS.  This book relates all the science done on each of 300 herbs commonly used by German herbalists.  Helpful.  Very science.  Much research.  COOL.  7.  LINK TO THE GOOGLE SCHOLAR SEARCH FOR ‘AMERICAN HERBAL MEDICINE RESEARCH’  https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2022&q=american+herbal+medicine+research&hl=en&as_sdt=0,48 8.  FINAL THOUGHTS Hope that helps everybody understand some of the stuff that is REAL that is still being researched and discussed and debated by actual medical experts and researchers.  

I know and deeply appreciate that you didn’t intend to throw disabled people without proper access to doctors who give a shit under the bus.  

Those of us with these oddball autoimmune diseases are overwhelmingly not taken seriously by doctors.  We are objects of intense interest to RESEARCH SCIENTISTS, so if we catch one of THAT SORT’s EYE we are guinea pigs.  

We spend a lot of time on Google Scholar finding everything to do with our WTF is wrong now experiences and then we bring that full ass note book to the doctor, who says 'oh you really want attention don’t you’ and how he knows best and won’t even talk to the authors of the study to see if your situation and the ones they’re investigating are a match.  It’s horrid and common.  ESP FOR WOMEN, and even more so for women of color.  

The wellness industry sprung up at first to serve those of us that the medical people generally don’t take seriously.  And then it morphed into a money grab by icky sorts.  Nothing more horrifying than watching people trying to heal while enduring medical neglect get coopted into weird toxic delusional shit.

i hate you alternative wellness natural chemical free vegan non-GMO herbal intuitive whole foods healing raw high vibrational plant based cleanse gluten free superfood supplement blend bullshit!!!! You're not healthier and more balanced and connected to the Earth because your smoothies are full of unidentifiable green and brown powders you got from a subscription box to ✨URTH-CRUNCH VAGINAL ENLIGHTENMENT✨!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!