We are 4 month-old and growing strong

March marks the 4^th month of the existence of http://www.EyeDrD.org/. It has been an interesting journey so far because it is a new uncharted territory for me as I am somewhat technology challenged. Blogging has been very time consuming, especially during the initial buid-up stage. It is like another full-time job without pay. Again, I am deeply grateful to a few friends for their selfless efforts in helping me to realize my goals of getting messages out.

I would like to thank your readership and contributions of a few authors. http://www.EyeDrD.org/ is still growing and strongly everyday. The site has generated more than 25,600 page-views. Alexa tracks the traffic that goes to the websites on the internet and ranks them according to the amount of visitors.  The following is the report of Alexa:

• "Eyedrd.org is ranked #839,386 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. Approximately 2% of visits to this site are referred by search engines. Almost all the site's visitors are in the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 121,828. Visitors to this site spend about 30 minutes per visit to the site and 46 seconds per pageview. Roughly 21% of visits to Eyedrd.org are bounces (one pageview only)."

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WSJ Letters to Editor regarding to "Where Have the Good Men Gone?

If a modern, successful woman wishes to know why men are such failures these days ("Where Have the Good Men Gone?," Review, Feb. 19), perhaps she should look in the mirror.

I'm a white male, heterosexual, Christian conservative Republican, Vietnam veteran, married 38 years with four kids. When I was young, we were supposed to get busy and stay busy, get part-time jobs, finish high school and, if qualified, go on to college and beyond. We were taught that it was our responsibility to take care of our families, which meant a wife and kids. All that began to change in the 1960s when women became "liberated" and were given equal access to what had been a man's domain. Like it or not, there are only so many jobs to go around. Given quotas, young men in the workplace no longer had an even playing field.

There are many other factors contributing to young men being overgrown post-pubescent losers: a lifetime of leftist, feminist indoctrination in the schools, a cheapening of the proper meaning of the male-female relationship and the suspension of the draft.

Miss Kay S. Hymowitz (I hate that phony term "Ms.") asks nothing of women, so let me do the job for her: When are women going to accept their God-given roles of being wives and mothers? Men and women are different; let's keep it that way. Feminists may not like my prescription, but then again, they don't like men from the get-go.

Andrew J. MacDonald, Fanwood, N.J.

World Press Prize on PhotoJournalism

South African photographer Jodi Bieber won the World Press Photo Award 2010 for the portrait of a young Afghan mutilated for leaving the house of her husband. The photo of Bibi Aisha, whose nose and ears were cut off by the Taliban husband, was on the cover page of Time Magazine on August 1,2010.She was abandoned after being mutilated, the young woman had been rescued by U.S. aid, then operated in the United States.

Via Mail Online: The smile that defies the Taliban: Afghan teenager whose mutilated face shocked the world unveils her new image


Via New York Times: Portrait of Pain Ignites Debate Over Afghan War

 

EyeDrD.org or I have been mentioned in the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Daily Report Blogs

February 9th, 2011: AOA Members Reach Out Online

“Speaking of reaching out, AOA members and affiliates are instrumental in connecting with patients and the public in new ways.  AOA member Tayson DeLengocky, DO, has started a website, EyeDrD.org​, to promote DOs and osteopathic medicine as well as to provide a forum for discussion of issues related to the osteopathic medical profession, such as the “MD Option” at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine as well as societal and international currents.  Since its inception in Oct. 2010, the site has generated more than 17,000 hits and is ranked in the top million websites in the world.”

 November 22nd, 2010: AOA Family Members Make News and Gain Publicity

“Osteopathic family members are making headlines in local news outlets also.  The popular physician blog KevinMD.com published commentary from AOA member Tayson DeLengocky, DO​, regarding solutions for fixing the physician shortage in Texas. Dr. DeLengocky does not believe an MD school at UNTHSC is the answer, but that expanding residency program opportunities would be a more effective path and a better use of resources.”

November 16th,2010: Great News from the AOA Family

“AOA member Tayson DeLengocky, DO, has created a blog to help spread the word about osteopathic medicine and his personal experiences as an Asian-American physician and vitreo-retinal surgeon”

May 6th, 2009: Article Advocates for Degree Preservation

“Taylor DeLengocky, DO, a member of the AOA Bureau on International Medical Education and Affairs, wrote an article for the Fort Worth (TX) Business Press supporting preservation of the osteopathic degree at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. The article, “MD Program Push at UNTHSC Sends Wrong Message,” counters several statements made by the University in justifying their exploration of an additional medical school. Rather than using its resources to create a new school, Dr. DeLengocky thinks the UNTHSC should “invest its resources in partnerships with other hospitals to create new GME sites” and “take a stand against prejudice” instead of coercing DOs to become MDs.”

March 24th, 2009: Osteopathic Family Supports DO Degree

An editorial written by Tayson DeLengocky, DO, who serves on the AOA Bureau of International Osteopathic Medical Education and Affairs, urged those in the TCOM community to “rally to defend this special osteopathic medical school, because Texas residents deserve the holistic and preventive approach to their healthcare that DOs have to offer.”

We are about 3 month-old and has reached a milestone

I would like to report that http://www.eyedrd.org/ has kept growing since the last report on the New Year day. We have posted close to 100 blog entries since the first blog was posted on October 24^th, 2010. The initiative of launching the website was stated in the yesterday’s blog entry. The website would not have come to life without the helps of a few friends. I am deeply grateful to their selfless efforts in helping me to realize my goals.

I would like to thank your readership and the contributions of a few authors. Since the New Year day, the site has generated 9,000 more page-views (total of 19,000 page-views). We have achieved a milestone set out in our last report. Eyedrd.org is ranked below 1 million at Alexa. Alexa tracks the traffic that goes to the websites on the internet and ranks them according to the amount of visitors.  EyeDrD is currently ranked #982,758 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings and the site has attained a traffic rank of 178,491 among US sites.

I hope this blog site will be able to provide a forum for discussion of a wide range of issues related to medical/osteopathic medicine, health, eye, alternative medicine, societal and international currents. The survival and the growth of the site depend on your readership and contributions. I hope that http://www.eyedrd.org/ has not failed you in its quality and contents.

Informed citizens need to look beyond traditional media sources to get the full story.Press censorship belittles readers’ intelligence.

The pillars of the American democracy are the three branches of government: Executive, Legislative and Judicial, which ensures a separation of powers and facilitates checks and balances. Freedom of the press has been perceived as a fourth branch of the American democratic system. However, this soft power that the press has enjoyed has not had any check and balance structure to ensure that all viewpoints are heard. The press bias has become more real, and has been geared more towards sensationalism instead of true and checked reporting of facts. Partiality can never be eliminated completely because we are all human and do hold our own preferences. Fortunately, technological advancements such as the internet and social media networks have given ordinary people the ability to convey their views and voices.

Let me recount my experience dealing with the local media, the Star-Telegram and the Fort Worth Business Press. The local papers have bought into the propaganda and the figures presented in the business plan for a proposed second medical school, UNTMD, at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC). The Star-Telegram endorsed the UNTMD business plan without studying the feasibility and the merits of the plan:

UNT student journal and North Texas Daily practicing censorship?

Recently, there was worldwide media coverage of China’s censorship of the award ceremony of the Nobel peace price won by Mr. Liu Xiaobo within the country. China even discouraged other countries from participating in the award ceremony by threatening repercussions if they sent representatives. Communist and dictatorial regimes try to shape public opinion by suppressing the opposing views.   They believe that by suppressing dissenting views, they can shape the public's opinion. But there are always at least two sides on any issue. For example, the debate of extending the Bush tax modifications is either considered a tax hike or as tax cut depending on who you ask. But it is important to have have the discussion so that both sides can express their views and perhaps bring more information to the debate.

The push for adding a second medical school in Fort Worth at University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) does not escape to this rule. As UNTHSC is part of  University of North Texas (UNT) system, I posted few blogs from EyeDrD.org on the Facebook of UNT system and North Texas Daily in order to present the opposing viewpoints to the necessity and the wisdom of the establishment of a second medical school.

A week later those posts were deleted and removed I was removed as a fan from the Facebook sites of UNT and North Texas Daily. I can no longer post on their walls. I wrote a letter to the editor-in-chief of North Texas Daily to inquire about the censorship on December 13, 2010 and have yet to receive a response. These actions lead to me to conclude that these sites are trying to stifle any discussion on the UNTHSC medical school.

Forbes lacks sensitivity to Salzberg's insults onto DO profession

After 6 weeks of insulting blogs posted by Dr. Salzberg on Forbes, Forbes has failed to respond to the outcry of the osteopathic community and its patients. Hundreds of letter to editor and comments, Forbes has remained silent on the issue. The least that Forbes could have done and can still do is to do a fair coverage of DOs' contributions to the healthcare of this great nation.


The following letter to editor of Forbes

Dear Editor:

I would like to bring to your attention about the 2 blogs posted by Dr. Salzberg on osteopathic medicine. The mispresentation in an insulting manner of osteopathic medicine as a profession has caused an uproar and comments on the blogs over the past few days. I do not know what motives behind the blogs against Osteopathic medicine are? is he trying to get notoriety? The two blogs have totalled 50,000 viewings and 310 comments.