Dr. J's SOAP Notes: January 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011

More Jobs Lost Because of ObamaCare

We all know that ObamaCare is going to kill hundreds of thousands of jobs. What we didn't know was that this trend would hit President Obama's hometown of Chicago so quickly. Major Chicago pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories will be forced to cut 1,900 jobs-more than 2% of their entire workforce. This follows the 9,000 jobs they were forced to cut last September. The spokesman for the company explained that ObamaCare was the main cause. Already, the Democrats' health care law has cost them over $200 million in the past year alone. He went on to say that the layoffs were "in response to changes in the health- care industry, including U.S. health-care reform and the challenging regulatory environment." Looks like if ObamaCare isn't repealed, and fast, even the President himself won't be able to stop it from harming his own backyard

Friday, January 28, 2011

"Consider the humble paper clip. A thin piece of steel wire bent into a double-oval shape. And yet over the past century, it remains the standard method of holding loose sheets of paper together. The first paper clip was invented in 1867 by Samuel Fay. The patent was issued on April 23, 1867 and was actually for a Ticket Fastener. The modern paper clip was patented on April 27, 1899 to William D. Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut, and for more than 100 years has been fastening loose paper with few modifications"

Who is Dr. J

Background:

She is originally from Spencer, Iowa. Malea is a graduate of Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. She attended medical school at the University of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa. She graduated from her Family Practice Residency program at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa in 1998.
In her spare time, Malea trains clients on physical activity and nutrition, spends time with friends and her wonderful father, and loves to watch football. What is better than bodybuilding? “Wolverine football on Saturday and Vikings football on Sunday!” Malea also loves basketball as March Madness rounds out a wonderful basketball season. As you may have guessed, Malea is very sports oriented, having been a four-sport athlete in high school, and a three-sport athlete in college.

Why I do what I do:

Jensen approaches her medical practice with the same determination as anything else she does. “The effort to understand how to promote more active lifestyles has been of great importance to the health of this nation. Schools, workplaces, and families need to weave physical activity into the fabric of their daily lives. The key to lifetime fitness is consistency!”

What I Do Away From Work

Dr. Malea Jensen is the total package. She’s exceptionally bright. She’s remarkably attractive. She’s a doctor. She’s a bodybuilder. “I have been competing in bodybuilding since 1996,” Jensen explains. “Bodybuilding was never a whim”, Jensen says. “I have always admired men and women with muscle. Initially, it was not my ambition to get up on stage and pose, but this has been a way to extend my competitiveness. It is an ambition of mine to keep fit and look lean, with muscular detail.”

She credits her father for pushing her to “give 100 percent,” whether it was school, work, or one of the many sports at which she excelled.

Mission Trips

Why does Dr. J go on mission trips? You are probably thinking I go so I can do medical work. It’s funny, our culture has formed us from our earliest days to see our significance in terms of WHAT we do. It is old school thinking that mission work is all about giving and doing for the poor. This is true to a certain degree. Missionaries, when asked if they were successful during their mission trip, often speak of their success by what they have done, whether spiritually or materially. But really our significance as people comes not from what we do, but from WHO we are. So, to answer why I go on mission trips...it is for nothing less than for the sake of conversion...my own conversion! This conversion has to do with a change in the way that I view my own life - what I do, what I have, who I count as friends, what questions I ask myself, what issues I pay attention to, who and what I give my allegiance to. In essence, I have to leave my world where I have control and go someplace I have never been...to a place where I am poor and powerless. It is hard to do this at “home.”
Any time you enter a third world country, you will see the poor, but more importantly, you enter into the world of a deprived people and share not only their pain and struggle, but also their hope! To see this is so amazing!