Weight Bias in Health Care
Overweight and obese patients frequently feel stigmatized in health care settings, and face stereotypes and prejudice from health care providers.
These stigmatizing experiences (also called ‘weight bias’) jeopardize patients’ emotional and physical health. The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University (http://ruddcenter.yale.org) has released this new video in response to a growing concern about weight bias in health care. The video, hosted by celebrity and activist Emme and featuring Rudd Center experts including Dr. Rebecca Puhl and Dr. Kelly Brownell, uses expert commentary and dramatic representation to increase awareness of bias and stigma that overweight and obese patients encounter in health care. Equally importantly, the video presents a range of practical strategies to help providers reduce bias in their clinical practice, and to optimize the health care experience for their overweight and obese patients.
Duration : 0:16:57
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Blood Glucose Monitoring
How blood glucose monitoring can control diabetes.
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Duration : 0:2:26
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Diabetes Treatment: Drugs
Treating diabetes with insulin and other drugs.
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Duration : 0:7:27
What I wish I knew as a medical student
Dr. Robert G. Gish, medical director, liver transplant program for California Pacific Medical Center and Epocrates subscriber, shares three tips for tomorrow’s physicians looking to run a successful medical practice: providing the best in patient care, understanding the business of medicine and obtaining work/life balance.
Duration : 0:0:28
Diabetes Patient Education Subcutaneous Injection
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Diabetes Patient Education
Subcutaneous Injection
The equipment you will need to assemble includes:
* a 1 ml. syringe with a 25 or 26 gauge capped needle between 5/8″ and 1 inch in length * the medication to be given * two alcohol wipes.Carefully, wash and dry your hands.
If your medication comes in a multi-dose vial,
clean the rubber diaphragm of the vial with an alcohol wipe. Discard the wipe into the trash.
Remove the cap from the needle. Pull down the plunger of the needle until the syringe contains the same volume of air as the medication you are going to give.
Hold the vial upside down at eye level. Without touching the needle, insert it through the diaphragm of the vial. Diabetes Patient Education
Keep the tip of the needle below the level of the medication in the vial. Depress the plunger to inject the air into the vial.
Slowly pull down on the plunger to take into the syringe the amount of medication prescribed for you.
Pull the needle out of the vial.
Hold the syringe vertically and flick the barrel with a fingernail to make any air bubbles float to the top under the needle. Diabetes Patient Education
Carefully, depress the plunger to push out the air until the first drop of medication comes out of the bevel of the needle.
Clean the injection site with an alcohol wipe. Start at the proposed site. Wipe in a circular motion, moving outward with each circle to prepare an area 2-3 inches in diameter around the injection site. Let the alcohol dry and discard the wipe into the trash.
Insert the needle through the skin at a 45� angle so that the tip of the needle is under the skin and above the muscle layer.
Gently pull back on the plunger to make sure the tip of the needle is not in a blood vessel … Diabetes Patient Education
… and then slowly inject the medication.
When all the medication is injected, pull the needle out. There is no need to use a band-aid, unless blood appears at the injection site.
Discard the syringe and attached needle into your puncture proof Sharps container. Do not recap the needle.
Wash and dry your hands.
If during the injection, blood does appear in the syringe when you pull the plunger back,
pull the needle out and discard the syringe, needle and medication into your Sharps container and start the whole process again.
Your doctor or nurse will advise you which areas of the body to use for your injections. The injection site should always be rotated so that consecutive injections are never given into the same area.
If you have very little fat under your skin, you can pinch the skin to form a tent, into which the injection can be given.
The needle is then inserted more vertically.
Diabetes Patient Education
Duration : 0:4:59
Before Surgery : Understanding Robotic Prostate Surgery (2 of 4 in series)
Urology San Antonio physicians Naveen Kella, MD and Kenneth Stallman, MD explain what patients can in the weeks and days before robotic surgery to treat prostate cancer.
Duration : 0:5:1
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