Guest guest Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 I think this discussion is made more amusing in that misspell has been misspelled throughout. ly, my fingers find it easier to type dietician than dietitian, perhaps due to the similarities Monika noted below. Re: Need some help - why do so many people mispell dietician :-) Think about it, colleagues... ObstetriCIAN, PediatriCIAN, CliniCIAN...dietiTIAN is the outlyer. It's an honest mistake. Those with more education than us...use the " c " . We should stop considering it to be an insult. And technically it's correct. How do you think we come across when we have such bugs up our butts (pardon the French) about one stinking letter? I had my very first TV segment last week and under my name was the word " dietiCIAN " . I didn't care!!! I certainly hope the 100,000 people watching weren't so busy debating whether or not my title was correctly spelled that they missed what I was taking the time and making the effort to say. I'm sorry, I just get so frustrated that we get so caught up in (what I personally feel is) the petty issue of a simple letter that we keep ourselves down. I've seen more posts about this than about any peer-reviewed research we could be sharing that would make all of us better at what we do. We're better than this!!! Monika ------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 I think this discussion is made more amusing in that misspell has been misspelled throughout. ly, my fingers find it easier to type dietician than dietitian, perhaps due to the similarities Monika noted below. Re: Need some help - why do so many people mispell dietician :-) Think about it, colleagues... ObstetriCIAN, PediatriCIAN, CliniCIAN...dietiTIAN is the outlyer. It's an honest mistake. Those with more education than us...use the " c " . We should stop considering it to be an insult. And technically it's correct. How do you think we come across when we have such bugs up our butts (pardon the French) about one stinking letter? I had my very first TV segment last week and under my name was the word " dietiCIAN " . I didn't care!!! I certainly hope the 100,000 people watching weren't so busy debating whether or not my title was correctly spelled that they missed what I was taking the time and making the effort to say. I'm sorry, I just get so frustrated that we get so caught up in (what I personally feel is) the petty issue of a simple letter that we keep ourselves down. I've seen more posts about this than about any peer-reviewed research we could be sharing that would make all of us better at what we do. We're better than this!!! Monika ------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Yes, funny but studies show that our brains spell check for us as we read! Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Schoneweis wrote: > I think this discussion is made more amusing in that misspell has been > misspelled throughout. > > ly, my fingers find it easier to type dietician than dietitian, > perhaps due > to the similarities Monika noted below. > > > > Re: Need some help - why do so many people mispell > dietician > :-) > > Think about it, colleagues... > > ObstetriCIAN, PediatriCIAN, CliniCIAN...dietiTIAN is the outlyer. > It's an > honest mistake. Those with more education than us...use the " c " . We > should > stop considering it to be an insult. > > And technically it's correct. > > How do you think we come across when we have such bugs up our butts > (pardon the > French) about one stinking letter? > > I had my very first TV segment last week and under my name was the > word > " dietiCIAN " . I didn't care!!! I certainly hope the 100,000 people > watching > weren't so busy debating whether or not my title was correctly > spelled that they > missed what I was taking the time and making the effort to say. > > I'm sorry, I just get so frustrated that we get so caught up in > (what I > personally feel is) the petty issue of a simple letter that we keep > ourselves > down. > > I've seen more posts about this than about any peer-reviewed > research we could > be sharing that would make all of us better at what we do. > > We're better than this!!! > > Monika > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Miss-spelling Mispelling - misspelling- how is that word spelled? - grates on my nerves like fingernails on a chalkboard - looks wrong feels wrong - odd but I do believe that we have auto spell check in our brains (except my son and husband). I think the -T- debate says something about a tendency for dietitians to care about small details - will one letter mess up the soup recipe? or calorie count? it appears that to many of us that kind of detail does count. But makes the valid point that we should pick our battles and the letter shouldn't be the detail that the public hears about - the undiagnosed malnourishment that is delaying healing on a national scale (and increasing bullying and violence, I think) and the importance of medical nutrition therapy - now there is a battle. The education on the research process has been very helpful. I want to improve my delivery and evidence trail. I was an ostrich for 15 years helping pregnant ladies and their babies in WIC with minimal interaction with any peers, doctors, or academia and I hadn't realized how revolutionary my teaching message had become - but effective. I went back to my original texts after skimming some current ones and magnesium isn't really covered either place. I learned about it during my migraine misery years. Mildred Seelig is an unsung hero. Another doctor who died without seeing her work help the masses or herself - I hadn't read this paper before - she died four days after heart surgery at age 84 - ironic that our biggest advocate for proper electrolyte balance in water died in ICU. My farm lady grandma died at 104, two-three years after a car accident left her with multiple fractures - she walked again but she was frail after the hospitalization and her dancing wasn't the exuberant waltz as at her 100th b'day party. Chronic degeneration and autoimmune disease are being written of as an expected part of aging - and research - peer reviewed - is too much a hunt for patentable with too little a look at why function is lost in the first place. Mildred Seelig should be at the top of my bibliography and why she isn't is my bad - I can't even format an email. http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/full/24/5/305Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol. 24, No. 5, 305-309 (2005) In Memoriam Mildred Seelig, M.D., MPH, MACN (1920-2005) Kay B. Franz, PhD " In addition to her papers, Mildred edited or co-edited fourbooks [2–5]. The first book she edited [2] was the Proceedingsof the 16th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nutrition.Two of these books were the Proceedings of the second [4] andfourth [5] International Symposiums on Magnesium. Mildred authoredthe book, Magnesium Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of Disease:Early Roots of Cardiovascular, Skeletal and Renal Abnormalities,which was published in 1980 [6]. Her last book, which was co-authoredwith Dr. noff, was The Magnesium Factor: Prevention,Treatment and Reversal of Cardiovascular Disease [7]. This waswritten for the general public and was published in 2003. " I would simply like to help more people to feel less pain but when I'm the lone wolf with a radical message in a conservative town - I don't know what to do. The nursing home folks are still on their megadoses - the nurse director wants me to write 'easier' chart notes that recommend increase protein or add a health shake instead of d/c 4000 IU vitamin D and 1200 mg calcium. She and her medical director looked into it and decided that 1000 mg IU is a reasonable cut off and she sent a letter to the local doctors to that effect. I didn't see the letter and I wonder what I am doing there if my recommendation's don't make it out of the building. I haven't been back yet. I don't want to sign my name to a chart with a patient on 4000 IU D without saying something about it - it's not helping over time and eventually that truth will overcome the marketing flurry. Popular press shouldn't rule our plates. I need to go talk to the individual doctors in person I think with the 3-4 best PubMed type articles that support my message and fear is what is stopping me. or that I'm honing message still. or dithering And is the monthly erythropoietin hormone injections given for anemia a backwoods thing or something that is happening regularly? Mayo clinic's page suggests it is for severe cases but a standing order? with blood draws before and after to see if the anemia is bad or good enough to warrant another hormone injection? sounds like abuse of the body as well as the budget. Darbepoetin (Aranesp) R Vajda, R.D. (Dr Batmanghelidg is another one I honor -good hydration is essential to all health. he got a bit fanatical in the end but his lesson is one of the tools in my health kit.) ________________________________ To: " rd-usa " <rd-usa > Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 12:39:22 AM Subject: Re: Re: Need some help - why do so many people mispell dietician :-).... is it because they can't spell misspell? Yes, funny but studies show that our brains spell check for us as we read! Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Schoneweis wrote: > I think this discussion is made more amusing in that misspell has been > misspelled throughout. > > ly, my fingers find it easier to type dietician than dietitian, > perhaps due > to the similarities Monika noted below. > > > > Re: Need some help - why do so many people mispell > dietician > :-) > > Think about it, colleagues... > > ObstetriCIAN, PediatriCIAN, CliniCIAN...dietiTIAN is the outlyer. > It's an > honest mistake. Those with more education than us...use the " c " . We > should > stop considering it to be an insult. > > And technically it's correct. > > How do you think we come across when we have such bugs up our butts > (pardon the > French) about one stinking letter? > > I had my very first TV segment last week and under my name was the > word > " dietiCIAN " . I didn't care!!! I certainly hope the 100,000 people > watching > weren't so busy debating whether or not my title was correctly > spelled that they > missed what I was taking the time and making the effort to say. > > I'm sorry, I just get so frustrated that we get so caught up in > (what I > personally feel is) the petty issue of a simple letter that we keep > ourselves > down. > > I've seen more posts about this than about any peer-reviewed > research we could > be sharing that would make all of us better at what we do. > > We're better than this!!! > > Monika > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Right on, ! Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Vajda wrote: > Miss-spelling Mispelling - misspelling- how is that word spelled? - > grates on my > nerves like fingernails on a chalkboard - looks wrong feels wrong - > odd but I > do believe that we have auto spell check in our brains (except my > son and > husband). > > I think the -T- debate says something about a tendency for > dietitians to care > about small details - will one letter mess up the soup recipe? or > calorie > count? it appears that to many of us that kind of detail does count. > But > makes the valid point that we should pick our battles and the letter > shouldn't > be the detail that the public hears about - the undiagnosed > malnourishment that > is delaying healing on a national scale (and increasing bullying and > violence, I > think) and the importance of medical nutrition therapy - now there > is a battle. > > The education on the research process has been very helpful. I want > to improve > my delivery and evidence trail. I was an ostrich for 15 years > helping pregnant > ladies and their babies in WIC with minimal interaction with any > peers, doctors, > or academia and I hadn't realized how revolutionary my teaching > message had > become - but effective. I went back to my original texts after > skimming some > current ones and magnesium isn't really covered either place. I > learned about it > during my migraine misery years. > > Mildred Seelig is an unsung hero. Another doctor who died without > seeing her > work help the masses or herself - I hadn't read this paper before - > she died > four days after heart surgery at age 84 - ironic that our biggest > advocate for > proper electrolyte balance in water died in ICU. My farm lady > grandma died at > 104, two-three years after a car accident left her with multiple > fractures - she > walked again but she was frail after the hospitalization and her > dancing wasn't > the exuberant waltz as at her 100th b'day party. Chronic > degeneration and > autoimmune disease are being written of as an expected part of aging > - and > research - peer reviewed - is too much a hunt for patentable with > too little a > look at why function is lost in the first place. > > Mildred Seelig should be at the top of my bibliography and why she > isn't is my > bad - I can't even format an email. > > http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/full/24/5/305Journal of the American > College of > Nutrition, Vol. 24, No. 5, 305-309 (2005) > In Memoriam Mildred Seelig, M.D., MPH, MACN (1920-2005) Kay B. > Franz, PhD > " In addition to her papers, Mildred edited or co-edited fourbooks [2 > –5]. The > first book she edited [2] was the Proceedingsof the 16th Annual > Meeting of the > American College of Nutrition.Two of these books were the > Proceedings of the > second [4] andfourth [5] International Symposiums on Magnesium. > Mildred > authoredthe book, Magnesium Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of > Disease:Early > Roots of Cardiovascular, Skeletal and Renal Abnormalities,which was > published in > 1980 [6]. Her last book, which was co-authoredwith Dr. > noff, was The > Magnesium Factor: Prevention,Treatment and Reversal of > Cardiovascular Disease > [7]. This waswritten for the general public and was published in > 2003. " > > I would simply like to help more people to feel less pain but when > I'm the lone > wolf with a radical message in a conservative town - I don't know > what to do. > The nursing home folks are still on their megadoses - the nurse > director wants > me to write 'easier' chart notes that recommend increase protein or > add a health > shake instead of d/c 4000 IU vitamin D and 1200 mg calcium. She and > her medical > director looked into it and decided that 1000 mg IU is a reasonable > cut off and > she sent a letter to the local doctors to that effect. I didn't see > the letter > and I wonder what I am doing there if my recommendation's don't make > it out of > the building. I haven't been back yet. I don't want to sign my name > to a chart > with a patient on 4000 IU D without saying something about it - it's > not helping > over time and eventually that truth will overcome the marketing > flurry. Popular > press shouldn't rule our plates. I need to go talk to the individual > doctors in > person I think with the 3-4 best PubMed type articles that support > my message > and fear is what is stopping me. or that I'm honing message still. > or dithering > > And is the monthly erythropoietin hormone injections given for > anemia a > backwoods thing or something that is happening regularly? Mayo > clinic's page > suggests it is for severe cases but a standing order? with blood > draws before > and after to see if the anemia is bad or good enough to warrant > another hormone > injection? sounds like abuse of the body as well as the budget. > Darbepoetin > (Aranesp) > R Vajda, R.D. > > > (Dr Batmanghelidg is another one I honor -good hydration is > essential to all > health. he got a bit fanatical in the end but his lesson is one of > the tools in > my health kit.) > > ________________________________ > > To: " rd-usa " <rd-usa > > Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 12:39:22 AM > Subject: Re: Re: Need some help - why do so many people > mispell > dietician :-).... is it because they can't spell misspell? > > Yes, funny but studies show that our brains spell check for us as we > read! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Schoneweis > wrote: > > > I think this discussion is made more amusing in that misspell has > been > > misspelled throughout. > > > > ly, my fingers find it easier to type dietician than dietitian, > > perhaps due > > to the similarities Monika noted below. > > > > > > > > Re: Need some help - why do so many people mispell > > dietician > > :-) > > > > Think about it, colleagues... > > > > ObstetriCIAN, PediatriCIAN, CliniCIAN...dietiTIAN is the outlyer. > > It's an > > honest mistake. Those with more education than us...use the " c " . We > > should > > stop considering it to be an insult. > > > > And technically it's correct. > > > > How do you think we come across when we have such bugs up our butts > > (pardon the > > French) about one stinking letter? > > > > I had my very first TV segment last week and under my name was the > > word > > " dietiCIAN " . I didn't care!!! I certainly hope the 100,000 people > > watching > > weren't so busy debating whether or not my title was correctly > > spelled that they > > missed what I was taking the time and making the effort to say. > > > > I'm sorry, I just get so frustrated that we get so caught up in > > (what I > > personally feel is) the petty issue of a simple letter that we keep > > ourselves > > down. > > > > I've seen more posts about this than about any peer-reviewed > > research we could > > be sharing that would make all of us better at what we do. > > > > We're better than this!!! > > > > Monika > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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