The You&Me Blog

"Where's My Boob": An Update

Posted Monday October 17, 2016

Merle Revel author of "Where's My Boob?" http://www.youandmemagazine.com/articles/mastectomy-wheres-my-boob has provided us with an update: "Where Is My Boob?" is now a book. It is available on amazon, along with some of her other works. https://www.amazon.com/Where-my-Boob-MERLE-REVEL-ebook/dp/B00U1LARZ6/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1476732227&sr=8-4&keywords=where+is+my+boob

On "The Big Fat Fix"

Posted Monday October 10, 2016

Seems a cardiologist, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, has released a crowdfunded documentary on diet called “The Big Fat Fix,” in which he talks about how our culture has developed a dangerous misunderstanding of dietary fat. Basically over the past 50 years or so, dietary fat has been “demonized” and blamed for a variety of health problems, yet scientific study has pretty much failed to verify that it really does cause these diseases. In fact, a diet with a good amount of fat in it may help treat or prevent some diseases, such as diabetes. With all due respect, this is not new information. A seemingly...

Puzzling

Posted Monday September 26, 2016

Some authors are more into cross promoting their work than others. Maissa Bessada ( http://www.youandmemagazine.com/articles/infection-what-could-have-happened ) is happy to tell us: “I wrote a six episode SciFi satire called The Destiny of Special Agent Ace Galaksi. http://www.acegalaksi.com “ and she’d love for you to check it out. Others, when we go looking for some other aspects of their work and lives to highlight are a little more elusive. Christine Venzon, author of http://www.youandmemagazine.com/articles/fire-ants-the-slings-and-stings... is obviously a freelance writer according to...

Some Other Websites

Posted Monday September 12, 2016

Our contributors aren’t idle when they aren’t writing for us. Here are some sites to visit to learn more about their lives and passions. Warning: You could spend a ;lot of time on these pages. Melissa Janisin has a blog. http://goodnessmadness.com/ And so does Laura Roche http://www.lauraroche.co.uk/ Sara T. Baker has a website about her project http://saratbaker.com/ Kristin George has a blog to check out as well http://strength-in-pain.tk/

Emergency Care Theme

Posted Tuesday August 30, 2016

This week we are having a theme week; focusing on emergencies. We have a new article from Danielle Currier, and will have another experience to share later this week as well. Check it out!

OurContributors: Update August 2016

Posted Tuesday August 23, 2016

An Update on some of the fantastic contributors whose stories we are featuring this week. Janel Atlas http://www.youandmemagazine.com/articles/shadow-of-a-stillborn-an-accoun... has published a book They Were Still Born, https://www.amazon.com/Janel-C-Atlas-Personal-Stillbirth/dp/B004QEY8OU, featuring personal stories about stillbirth. Dwight “Ike” Valdez, http://www.youandmemagazine.com/articles/helen-keller-was-right continues to work as an audiologist At Alliance Audiology in Concord, NH. Shaunna Privratsky, http://www.youandmemagazine.com/articles/hes-not-the-man-i-married is a writer...

Submission Queries and Email

Posted Monday August 15, 2016

A note for our esteemed query-ers. Sometimes we try to reply and we get an automated message back that your email is no good. If you have not received any reply to your question or query, you may want to consider resending under a different email address. Also, for all, if your email address does not contain your name, please consider putting your name in the subject line along with your subject ("submission query" or similar.) That way your email will be easy to find if we need to communicate with you. Thank you and thank you very much to all who have submitted queries. We really do...

Mythbusting

Posted Monday August 1, 2016

You&Me—America’s Medical Magazine: fighting Internet slackness on myth at time! Today we take on one persistently annoying myth, that the cast and crew of “The Conqueror” a bad movie made in 1956, staring Rita Hayworth and John Wayne, all died of cancer due to some unspecified “radioactive testing” in the state where the piece was filmed. Well, you’re shocked, aren’t you? “Why I know that for a fact!” you splutter doing a spit take with your coffee. Guess again, Strawy McStrawperson. Just because something gets repeated a lot doesn’t make it true. The Internet is actually pretty confused...

Wayback Machine

Posted Monday July 25, 2016

Today we are taking a look back at some of our earliest contributors (2008! We still published on paper!) and wondering what they are doing now. Mary Weeks-Ayala, http://www.youandmemagazine.com/articles/colon-cancer-death-sentence-rev... unfortunately did not live much longer after her article was originally published. She passed away December 22, 2008. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/obituary-preview.aspx?pid=121741470 We’ve probably given a shout out to Amanda Rippen (White) http://www.amandarippenwhitephotography.com/ before. But we’ll do it again, because she’s just so talented...

Enough Already

Posted Monday July 18, 2016

Here at the You&Me America’s Medical Magazine blog we love the history of medicine, and frequently post musings, factoids and other interesting tidbits from the past. But the editorial we is getting quite tired of people retroactively re-diagnosing historical figures. You know, “maybe so and so didn’t have x, they had y!” In baseball the tie goes to the runner, in foil the point goes to the fencer with right of way and in diagnoses, the diagnosis, in the absence of being able to exam the patient and often the lack of any x-rays, vital signs, lab test, MRIs. CTs and so on, has to go to the...