So, I am still on the e-mail list for the family history department at BYU and I get e-mails from them every once in a while, usually job offers for genealogy majors. But today I got an e-mail telling about the progress that has been made in digitizing the genealogy books in the collection from the Family History Library in Salt Lake, along with several other genealogical collections. The link to the database is, www.lib.byu.edu/fhc, if you’re interested in taking a look. I haven’t had a chance yet to see if I could find any new info about my ancestors in this archive, but I did type my name into the “author” field real quick, just to see if anything would turn up. It was fun to see the paper that I wrote about my great grandmother, Nettie Dorothy Graham Spohr, and her ancestors while I was studying genealogy at BYU – I had given a copy of my final paper to the FHL in Salt Lake when I finished it, so I knew they had it in their library, but it was fun to see that it has been totally digitized – photos, genealogical charts, maps, and all, so that it can be easily shared with any interested relatives. Kind of fun. (If you are one of my relatives and are interested in looking at that paper on Nettie, here is the link).
Showing posts with label Research Paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research Paper. Show all posts
11 December 2008
22 August 2007
Another Radio Interview
"A Prescription for Health
Delivering health care to non English speakers can be challenging, but has been studied and mechanisms are in place to help. The pharmacy, though, is another area where problems still exist. Michael Bradshaw, a fourth-year medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin is the lead author on a study of this issue. It appears on the current issue of Pediatrics.”
A couple weeks ago, Michael was interviewed by Mitch Teich of Milwaukee Public Radio about his research paper. His interview aired on the WUWM radio show, Lake Effect, on august 21st. We were pleased that this interview was a little longer than the previous one that he did for Wisconsin Public Radio – it ended up being about 11 minutes long, and Michael said that they included almost the entire interview. If you would like to listen to the interview, just click on the link below (this links to the entire radio show, but Michael’s is the first interview of the show).
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/18/1090312/Milwaukee%20Public%20Radio%20Interview%20of%20Michael%20Bradshaw%2C%20Aug%202007.m3u
Delivering health care to non English speakers can be challenging, but has been studied and mechanisms are in place to help. The pharmacy, though, is another area where problems still exist. Michael Bradshaw, a fourth-year medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin is the lead author on a study of this issue. It appears on the current issue of Pediatrics.”
A couple weeks ago, Michael was interviewed by Mitch Teich of Milwaukee Public Radio about his research paper. His interview aired on the WUWM radio show, Lake Effect, on august 21st. We were pleased that this interview was a little longer than the previous one that he did for Wisconsin Public Radio – it ended up being about 11 minutes long, and Michael said that they included almost the entire interview. If you would like to listen to the interview, just click on the link below (this links to the entire radio show, but Michael’s is the first interview of the show).
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/18/1090312/Milwaukee%20Public%20Radio%20Interview%20of%20Michael%20Bradshaw%2C%20Aug%202007.m3u
07 August 2007
Michael's Wisconsin Public Radio Interview
Taking the right dose can be hard if you can’t read the label 08/07/07
“According to census figures, Milwaukee County has twice as many Hispanics compared to the state as a whole. And a study by the Medical College of Wisconsin indicates that for those who don't speak English, getting understandable health information can be difficult when it comes to prescription medication. Shamane Mills reports…”
running time 1:00
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/18/1090312/Wisconsin%20Public%20Radio%20Interview%20of%20Michael%20Bradshaw%2C%20Aug%202007.ram
The other day a reporter from Wisconsin Public Radio called Michael and did an interview with him about his research paper that was published recently. The story played on the radio and was posted on the Wisconsin Public Radio website. If you would like to listen, click on the link above.
“According to census figures, Milwaukee County has twice as many Hispanics compared to the state as a whole. And a study by the Medical College of Wisconsin indicates that for those who don't speak English, getting understandable health information can be difficult when it comes to prescription medication. Shamane Mills reports…”
running time 1:00
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/18/1090312/Wisconsin%20Public%20Radio%20Interview%20of%20Michael%20Bradshaw%2C%20Aug%202007.ram
The other day a reporter from Wisconsin Public Radio called Michael and did an interview with him about his research paper that was published recently. The story played on the radio and was posted on the Wisconsin Public Radio website. If you would like to listen, click on the link above.
05 August 2007
August is Here
This week Michael started his ambulatory medicine rotation (which doesn’t mean that he gets to go on ambulance rides, like it sounds – it’s just another outpatient internal medicine month). He was pretty sad to have to stop his dermatology rotation, but this month looks like it is going to be a good one. Michael is lucky and will often have the afternoons off on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this month, so that will be really nice. He will have lots of time to work on his application process and to spend time with the family. It was fun, on Friday he got home around 11 am and we had a great day. We took the boys swimming to the splash pool at Enderis Park. Camden has no fear of the water and loves to crawl right in towards the middle of the wading pool which is only a couple feet deep, but still too deep for him. And Kolby and Eli had a great time – I have never seen them actually swim under the water so much before at the splash pools. Eli kept jumping up in the air, landing on his bottom, and then laying back down with his face under the water. We all had a lot of fun there. Then we went to dinner because Michael got a free meal coupon for his birthday from Noodles and Company. And then we parked over by the Ronald McDonald House across from the medical school and went on a relaxing walk through the woods. Friday was a very fun play day for our family.
This week we also got several other things done. I finally had my wedding ring repaired at a jewelry store, since one of the prongs had bent a while ago. It’s nice to be able to wear that again. And I got my report made for my visiting teaching district. I have to say, I am glad to have this new church calling after being in the nursery for almost a year. On Wednesday we went for the family history enrichment group, which I messed up because I was thinking that it started later than it really did. So, we missed the rest of the group, but I did get some more family names prepared for temple work. We also went to the splash pool that day for playgroup, and the boys had fun playing with the other kids there. And Kolby and Eli both had their swimming lessons. They continue to do great – both boys are now good at doing “bobs” (dunking their whole heads under the water). It is also fun to think that Kolby will get to start a sport at the YMCA in a few months (they have to be 4 years old), and after we get back from our December-January Christmas trips Eli will be 3, so he will be old enough to join Kolby for his preschool classes at the YMCA too. That will be fun for them to go together. Well, on Thursday the boys also had their toddler art class, and I think this art activity was the most fun yet. They got to put their hands and feet in paint and paint on a big piece of paper along the fence. We stripped the kids down to their underwear so their clothes wouldn’t get painted, and most of them ended up painting their bodies too before we were done. For some reason, Kolby seems to like eating the paint – I couldn’t convince him to stop putting his paint-covered fingers in his mouth. Oh well, at least it was the non-toxic kind. (I posted pictures from the playgroup at the splash pool and the painting at art class down below).
And I can’t forget the big announcement: Michael’s research paper was officially published in the periodical, Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, on August 3rd. His article is titled, Language Barriers to Prescriptions for Patients With Limited English Proficiency: A Survey of Pharmacies, and I think it ended up being 11 pages long, including several charts that Michael made. If you would like to take a look at the article, you can see the journal online at: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/
Michael’s article is the fourth one listed on this main page for this current issue of the journal.
This week I also spent a while making a family budget in an Excel spreadsheet. I have a budget that will show the whole year, and it is linked to a separate worksheet for each month. We have made some predictions for how much money we think we will spend for things in the upcoming months, and then we can enter in information from our receipts and then compare the projected and actual expenses. At the end, I had fun setting up graphs that will show our spending for each month, and one for the rest of the year. (That made me think back to middle school when I would do a school papers and then my dad would teach me how to make a graph in Excel to go along with my paper, and I was always so proud because I thought my papers looked so cool).
Yesterday we got things done around the house and then we babysat for the Rahms in the evening. After they picked up their boys, we went shopping because Michael got some birthday money from his family. We went to Kohls and he ended up getting two nice dress shirts, two new ties, and a t-shirt. The boys were patient with us, because we ended up being there until 10 pm (which is way later than we usually ever have them out at night). On the way out, there were these cute stuffed dinosaurs on sale for $5 each and the profit from their sales went to education, so we splurged and got one for Kolby and one for Eli. They love them – Eli’s is a brachiosaurus that he named "Long Neck," and Kolby’s is a triceratops that he named "Sara" (like in his The Land Before Time movie). They slept with them last night, and haven’t stopped playing with them since (the dinosaurs even waited in the car for us while we were at church). It’s pretty cute. Well, church went well today. Camden actually fell asleep during the sacrament meeting, so it was the first time in a while that we didn’t have to leave during the entire first hour. Michael said the opening prayer, and several kids got up to share their testimonies today. Kolby liked watching the other kids, and he said that he could do that when he gets bigger. When we got home, the boys went down for naps, and Michael and I made a few changes to the page that I designed for his yearbook – so now it’s ready to submit to the school once we get back his professional portrait from the studio this week. And now Michael has fallen asleep on the couch while I’ve been writing this, so all of my boys are napping. Tonight should be fun too – we are going to the Hedgecock’s house for dinner, and they always have breakfast food for dinner on fast Sunday. Well, we hope that you have all had a good week too!
This week we also got several other things done. I finally had my wedding ring repaired at a jewelry store, since one of the prongs had bent a while ago. It’s nice to be able to wear that again. And I got my report made for my visiting teaching district. I have to say, I am glad to have this new church calling after being in the nursery for almost a year. On Wednesday we went for the family history enrichment group, which I messed up because I was thinking that it started later than it really did. So, we missed the rest of the group, but I did get some more family names prepared for temple work. We also went to the splash pool that day for playgroup, and the boys had fun playing with the other kids there. And Kolby and Eli both had their swimming lessons. They continue to do great – both boys are now good at doing “bobs” (dunking their whole heads under the water). It is also fun to think that Kolby will get to start a sport at the YMCA in a few months (they have to be 4 years old), and after we get back from our December-January Christmas trips Eli will be 3, so he will be old enough to join Kolby for his preschool classes at the YMCA too. That will be fun for them to go together. Well, on Thursday the boys also had their toddler art class, and I think this art activity was the most fun yet. They got to put their hands and feet in paint and paint on a big piece of paper along the fence. We stripped the kids down to their underwear so their clothes wouldn’t get painted, and most of them ended up painting their bodies too before we were done. For some reason, Kolby seems to like eating the paint – I couldn’t convince him to stop putting his paint-covered fingers in his mouth. Oh well, at least it was the non-toxic kind. (I posted pictures from the playgroup at the splash pool and the painting at art class down below).
And I can’t forget the big announcement: Michael’s research paper was officially published in the periodical, Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, on August 3rd. His article is titled, Language Barriers to Prescriptions for Patients With Limited English Proficiency: A Survey of Pharmacies, and I think it ended up being 11 pages long, including several charts that Michael made. If you would like to take a look at the article, you can see the journal online at: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/
Michael’s article is the fourth one listed on this main page for this current issue of the journal.
This week I also spent a while making a family budget in an Excel spreadsheet. I have a budget that will show the whole year, and it is linked to a separate worksheet for each month. We have made some predictions for how much money we think we will spend for things in the upcoming months, and then we can enter in information from our receipts and then compare the projected and actual expenses. At the end, I had fun setting up graphs that will show our spending for each month, and one for the rest of the year. (That made me think back to middle school when I would do a school papers and then my dad would teach me how to make a graph in Excel to go along with my paper, and I was always so proud because I thought my papers looked so cool).
Yesterday we got things done around the house and then we babysat for the Rahms in the evening. After they picked up their boys, we went shopping because Michael got some birthday money from his family. We went to Kohls and he ended up getting two nice dress shirts, two new ties, and a t-shirt. The boys were patient with us, because we ended up being there until 10 pm (which is way later than we usually ever have them out at night). On the way out, there were these cute stuffed dinosaurs on sale for $5 each and the profit from their sales went to education, so we splurged and got one for Kolby and one for Eli. They love them – Eli’s is a brachiosaurus that he named "Long Neck," and Kolby’s is a triceratops that he named "Sara" (like in his The Land Before Time movie). They slept with them last night, and haven’t stopped playing with them since (the dinosaurs even waited in the car for us while we were at church). It’s pretty cute. Well, church went well today. Camden actually fell asleep during the sacrament meeting, so it was the first time in a while that we didn’t have to leave during the entire first hour. Michael said the opening prayer, and several kids got up to share their testimonies today. Kolby liked watching the other kids, and he said that he could do that when he gets bigger. When we got home, the boys went down for naps, and Michael and I made a few changes to the page that I designed for his yearbook – so now it’s ready to submit to the school once we get back his professional portrait from the studio this week. And now Michael has fallen asleep on the couch while I’ve been writing this, so all of my boys are napping. Tonight should be fun too – we are going to the Hedgecock’s house for dinner, and they always have breakfast food for dinner on fast Sunday. Well, we hope that you have all had a good week too!
27 May 2007
Surgery
So I guess that it is finally my turn to write. I have been busy this last month doing surgery at a place called Waukesha Memorial Hospital. On a normal day I would get there between 6:00 and 6:30am to “round” on my patients. This includes looking at their chart and reading the notes left by others since the last time I had seen the patient, looking up labs and vitals (temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, etc.) in the computer, and then examining the patient to see how they were doing and writing a progress note. Most mornings we had a meeting with one of the doctors around 7:00am to go over random surgical topics. And then it was off to the operating room throughout the rest of the day. Most days we each helped with 2-3 surgeries. Most of the patients came in through an area called Day Surgery, so we would go over there beforehand and meet the patient and then do a pre-op history and physical exam. Then we wait for the patient to be taken back to the operating room and go to assist the nurses in getting them ready for surgery.
The surgeries could last from one to several hours, depending on what it was. I saw several laparoscopic (with a video scope) gallbladder removals; breast biopsies/lumpectomies for cancer; carotid artery surgery to open up a clogged artery; aneurysm repairs; removal of small and large intestine due to tumors/cancer; removal of a spleen, removal of a thyroid; a toe amputation; and many others. The longest surgery I was in was one called a Whipple, which is a surgery used on a person with pancreatic cancer. The area of the pancreas with tumor is removed, along with the surrounding small intestine; then the stomach, outlets from the liver, pancreas, and small intestine all have to be hooked back together. That surgery took 5 ½ hours – my legs were so tired by the end of that one. I took 5 call days during the month. Once we were done with the surgeries of the day, we did home call, where we would be called back in if the doctor needed our help. I wasn’t ever called back in, though I did end up staying late on a few of my call days before getting home. Overall, though, this month was a lot nicer that I would have expected for a surgery rotation.
As I watch these surgeries, I am amazed by the complexity of the human body, and yet how it works and functions so nicely – it has been an added testimony to me that our bodies are divine creations of our Heavenly Father. I am also continually reminded of how blessed I am to have a family that is healthy and well.
Yesterday we were able to go to the temple and do some sealings for several of Steph’s direct ancestors (including some third great-grandparents and fourth great-grandparents). I took the car in that morning for what I thought was going to be a simple oil change that turned into the back brakes having to be replaced, but at least the car is safe now. There was an accident on the freeway on the way down to the temple that put us quite behind the time we had scheduled to get there, but everything turned out fine, and we had a wonderful experience. The spirit is so strong in the temple, and there is just a feeling of peace and happiness that I feel every time I go. I love it there.
I got an email this week from Dr. Flores, who I did a summer research project with a few years ago, saying that our paper we had submitted is about ready for publication, and he included proofs of the article pages for us to review one last time before final print. The paper should be published in August, so I’ll let you know more about it then, but we were so excited to hear of the progress. I am also working on a case report right now with a pediatric dermatologist, Dr. Lyon. We are just in the rough draft stages of the report, but it looks good so far.
We have had beautiful weather here this past week and have enjoyed playing outside with the kids. Steph was able to take them to the zoo and is enjoying here year-long pass. We went to a end of the year choir barbeque at a park on Friday night to just have fun with the others. We took our grill and roasted up some hotdogs and then had fun talking and playing on the playground. Then we had some friends over for games afterwards.
Kolby continues to love school and learn new things each week. He is almost done with this semester and then will have the summer off before starting back up. He is so good with his numbers and colors and is always pointing things out to us. Steph put together a chore chart for Kolby and Eli of things they can do each day to help her in the house, and then if they do all their chores for a week, they get a special prize at the end of the week. They love helping out around the house.
We are told by Eli’s teachers that he is one of the best kids in his nursery class. He loves to play, he is nice to the other kids, and he loves to help clean up. Steph says that he is just a little fish now in his swimming class and loves to go under the water.
And Camden just got his first tooth today!! It is his front bottom left one. He has been a little fussy this week, so that would probably explain why. He sure loves playing in his jumper and he actually started crawling for the first time tonight!
Oh, and Stephanie got a new calling at church this morning. She will be a visiting teaching district coordinator, and she thinks that will be a good calling.
We hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day. I am starting trauma surgery tomorrow and so have to be there to help out, as this holiday is one of the busier for the emergency room. I’ll let you know what that is like in future posts.
The surgeries could last from one to several hours, depending on what it was. I saw several laparoscopic (with a video scope) gallbladder removals; breast biopsies/lumpectomies for cancer; carotid artery surgery to open up a clogged artery; aneurysm repairs; removal of small and large intestine due to tumors/cancer; removal of a spleen, removal of a thyroid; a toe amputation; and many others. The longest surgery I was in was one called a Whipple, which is a surgery used on a person with pancreatic cancer. The area of the pancreas with tumor is removed, along with the surrounding small intestine; then the stomach, outlets from the liver, pancreas, and small intestine all have to be hooked back together. That surgery took 5 ½ hours – my legs were so tired by the end of that one. I took 5 call days during the month. Once we were done with the surgeries of the day, we did home call, where we would be called back in if the doctor needed our help. I wasn’t ever called back in, though I did end up staying late on a few of my call days before getting home. Overall, though, this month was a lot nicer that I would have expected for a surgery rotation.
As I watch these surgeries, I am amazed by the complexity of the human body, and yet how it works and functions so nicely – it has been an added testimony to me that our bodies are divine creations of our Heavenly Father. I am also continually reminded of how blessed I am to have a family that is healthy and well.
Yesterday we were able to go to the temple and do some sealings for several of Steph’s direct ancestors (including some third great-grandparents and fourth great-grandparents). I took the car in that morning for what I thought was going to be a simple oil change that turned into the back brakes having to be replaced, but at least the car is safe now. There was an accident on the freeway on the way down to the temple that put us quite behind the time we had scheduled to get there, but everything turned out fine, and we had a wonderful experience. The spirit is so strong in the temple, and there is just a feeling of peace and happiness that I feel every time I go. I love it there.
I got an email this week from Dr. Flores, who I did a summer research project with a few years ago, saying that our paper we had submitted is about ready for publication, and he included proofs of the article pages for us to review one last time before final print. The paper should be published in August, so I’ll let you know more about it then, but we were so excited to hear of the progress. I am also working on a case report right now with a pediatric dermatologist, Dr. Lyon. We are just in the rough draft stages of the report, but it looks good so far.
We have had beautiful weather here this past week and have enjoyed playing outside with the kids. Steph was able to take them to the zoo and is enjoying here year-long pass. We went to a end of the year choir barbeque at a park on Friday night to just have fun with the others. We took our grill and roasted up some hotdogs and then had fun talking and playing on the playground. Then we had some friends over for games afterwards.
Kolby continues to love school and learn new things each week. He is almost done with this semester and then will have the summer off before starting back up. He is so good with his numbers and colors and is always pointing things out to us. Steph put together a chore chart for Kolby and Eli of things they can do each day to help her in the house, and then if they do all their chores for a week, they get a special prize at the end of the week. They love helping out around the house.
We are told by Eli’s teachers that he is one of the best kids in his nursery class. He loves to play, he is nice to the other kids, and he loves to help clean up. Steph says that he is just a little fish now in his swimming class and loves to go under the water.
And Camden just got his first tooth today!! It is his front bottom left one. He has been a little fussy this week, so that would probably explain why. He sure loves playing in his jumper and he actually started crawling for the first time tonight!
Oh, and Stephanie got a new calling at church this morning. She will be a visiting teaching district coordinator, and she thinks that will be a good calling.
We hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day. I am starting trauma surgery tomorrow and so have to be there to help out, as this holiday is one of the busier for the emergency room. I’ll let you know what that is like in future posts.
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