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Monday, November 16, 2009

Public Service Announcement: HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS

Public Service Announcement: HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS ["HAI"]

Dear Friends:

I recently received the email which follows from Ms. Barbara Dunn, of HAI Watch News, an affiliate of Kimberly-Clark Health Care. It deals with some of the real-life infection hazards, some of which can be debilitating or fatal, which are all-too-often caused during the course of a routine healthcare visit, medical procedure or treatment. Simply stated...you can check into the hospital for a minor procedure and wind up with a life-threatening infection. The better-informed you are about the nature of this danger, the more proactive that you can be in minimizing your own risks, and those of the ones whom you love.

Some years back, school teachers would quote Poor Richard's and chant, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

While I heartily agree with that sentiment, I would also suggest that you remember the old Internal Energy Plus/ TNNW equation: KNOWLEDGE + APPLICATION = POWER. Educate yourself and stay healthy!

I found the hyperlink in Barbara's letter to be of great interest. Please read on, and click on the link in the letter.

Faithfully, and wishing you the best of health,

Douglas Castle

http://aboutDouglasCastle.blogspot.com

http://www.TheNationalNetworker.com

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Douglas:

One thing everyone can agree on, no matter where they come down on the current health care debates, is that no one should get sick as a result of visiting the doctor.

Hospitals are rightfully expected to get you better but that's not always the case. Sometimes people are picking up infections, from pneumonia to antibiotic-resistant staph (MRSA), while under treatment for other health problems, or even while just in the hospital having a baby. That's a situation that could, and should, be completely avoidable.

Kimberly-Clark Health Care is on the forefront of protecting patients from Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) and has put together a site dedicated to that prevention called HAI Watch: Not on My Watch. The site has information for both healthcare professionals and healthcare consumers.

I would like to ask for your help getting the word out on The National Networker. Here's a microsite which explains everything. Please use any of the images, logos, videos, etc, on your site:

http://www.haiwatchnews.com/

Please let me know if you have any questions and if you are able to post, I'd really appreciated it if you'd send me the link.

Thank you,

Barbara
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Barbara Dunn
barbara@haiwatchnews.com
http://www.haiwatch.com/

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Fool If You Think It's Over: Re-Post. [Please Listen]

Fool If You Think It's Over

The song, "Fool If You Think It's Over," was performed in the 1970's by Chris Rea. I was young, and had aspirations of becoming a professional musician. I cannot forget this song, and the feeling of being obsessively infatuated (I thought at the time that I was in love) with a young woman who was in love with another young man. I now understand the terms bittersweet and exquisite pain. Listen for the line, "Newborn eyes always cry with pain/ first look at the morning sun."

I miss being who I was then. I dream about him sometimes.

Please listen.

If the YouTube Video Player Doesn't Pop Up below, just click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCUV2VT4gwI

I hope that you enjoy it. Good music is one of life's only innocent pleasures.

Faithfully,
Douglas Castle

COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS.

COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS.

I was delighted to receive a comment from Mike on my recent post on http://aboutDouglasCastle.blogspot.com , titled, "OBAMA SAID WHAT?"

Here it is, for all to enjoy --

Mike has left a new comment on your post "OBAMA SAID WHAT?":

It took me 10 minutes to find the comment button.* My favorite is, "President Obama orders banks to loan to those who are qualified" Really? Is he also ordering pizza delivery people to deliver to those who ordered pizza? Who the hell falls for this?

Publish this comment. (I'll publish this one)

Reject this comment.

Moderate comments for this blog.

Posted by Mike to DOUGLAS CASTLE at November 14, 2009 1:05 PM

*NOTE TO ALL READERS: In the future, each of the articles posted on evey one of my blogs, as well as on all of THE NATIONAL NETWORKER Newsletter articles, TNNW UPDATES!, BLUE TUESDAY Reports and other items of interest and industry intelligence will have an embedded pop-form (right at the end of each article) for you to write comments of any length -- deluxe with pictures reverse hyperlinks, and other fancy stuff. No longer will you have to struggle to find a place to put your comment. If you have comments, we should at least make it obvious where you should put them.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Fool If You Think It's Over

Fool If You Think It's Over

The song, "Fool If You Think It's Over," was performed in the 1970's by Chris Rea. I was young, and had aspirations of becoming a professional musician. I cannot forget this song, and the feeling of being obsessively infatuated (I thought at the time that I was in love) with a young woman who was in love with another young man. I now understand the terms bittersweet and exquisite pain. Listen for the line "Newborn eyes always cry with pain/ first look at the morning sun."

I miss being who I was then. I dream about him sometimes.

Please listen.

If the YouTube Video Player Doesn't Pop Up below, just click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCUV2VT4gwI

I hope that you enjoy it. Good music is one of life's only innocent pleasures.

Always,

Douglas Castle

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Thursday, November 05, 2009

No Sooner Did I Put Up That Last Post When...

Dear Friends:

No sooner did I put up my last when Google popped the follwing ad up on my screen (before I had quite gotten around to posting on another blog). Firstly, it was not relevent. Secondly, and as I've noted before, it saddens me to think that a goodly percentage of the persons stumbling upon this ad think it might be for a dating service or a social club. Cry the beloved country.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

The lesson to be learned is that you get irrelevant or downright dangerous results generated from a poorly-crafted search algorithm. Ever wonder why I don't permit Google ads on my sites? Three years ago, I had written an article debunking some of the myths associated with hypnosis; the objective was to explain that all hypnosis is essentially self-hypnosis, and that you cannot be forced to do something, or reveal something which you do not wish to reveal during an ordinary trance (i.e., standard induction, reasonably normal individual, no drugs, chemicals or equipment involved).

Within an hour, a friend telephoned me and said that Google had put an ad on my site for "BLACK OPS HYPNOSIS: Secrets of Controlling Others Revealed" I ditched them after that.

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Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

A NOTE ABOUT HYPERLINKS:
In some of the short newsfeed postings (in particular, those from http://htxt.it/), the hyperlinks are not live. They are not dead -- no, they are merely sleeping. To awaken them, just copy them (Ctrl+C) and paste them (Ctrl+V) into your browser and press the "go" button...the sleeping link will immediately come to life and you'll be directed to the proper page so that you can read the referenced article or posting.