Re: Re: Need some help - why do so many people mispell dietician :-).... is it because they can't spell misspell?

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Right on, !

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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

> >

> > ------------------------------------

> >

> >