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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Take a peek at some new, innovative medical equipment now at Doctor's Toy Store that has Doctors and Surgeons excited about being able to improve their patients' quality of care, and at a price well within budget: Vein Finder Infrared Sight - VS-400; Pure Sculpt Power Assisted #Liposuction; DTS Hybrid Plus Power Procedure Chair; @drstoystore. #healthcare #drstoystore, #lipo, #plasticsurgery, #PAL *SPONSORED POST*

Take a peek at some new, innovative medical equipment now at Doctor's Toy Store that has 
Doctors and Surgeons excited about being able to improve their patients' quality of care, and at a price well within budget: Vein Finder Infrared Sight - VS-400; Pure Sculpt Power Assisted #Liposuction; DTS Hybrid Plus Power Procedure Chair; @drstoystore. #healthcare #drstoystore, #lipo, #plasticsurgery, #PAL
*SPONSORED POST*






Over the past five years I've taken time every so often to share some news and insight with you from my hard-working and humorous friend, Rob Raymond, Founder and CEO of Doctor’s Toy Store in Hallandale Beach. His very successful business continues to be Florida's largest Medical Showroom, and has that title because of his team's combination of professionalism and excellent pro-active customer service, giving doctors and medical practice groups in Florida, the U.S. and around the world the kind of quality medical equipment they want at discount prices that respect their budget.

Last week, for the first time in 2019, I spent some time with Rob and his team walking around their massive 20,000 square foot, two-story showroom, and the truth is, I was even more amazed at what I found than usual. Trust me, Rob doesn't call it Doctor's Toy Store by accident.

There are some pretty amazing things there available for the savvy medical professional and government, agency, regardless of their practice specialty or focus.



As usual, as I made my way to the showroom off of I-95 in Hallandale Beach, standing guard near the front door was one of Rob's ubiquitous Doctor's Toy Store vans. Just one of the many DTS vans you can spot Monday thru Saturday on roads throughout South Florida and Central Florida making their rounds from one doctor or medical practice group office to another, delivering and picking up medical equipment and devices that help them keep their patients safe and sound.

The Vein Finder Infrared Sight - VS-400 


One of the very first new things I spotted on this visit was something that looked very much like an upscale reading map that you might want to have beside you in a reclining chair while you settle down to read that new best-seller, but it was something very different, of course.

It was, in fact, a device that help doctors and nurses find a patent's veins, literally, illuminating the veins for a higher first-attempt success rate for a procedure. 



The truth is, it could not be simpler, and is actually kind of fun. I must've used it a dozen times while I was there last week, with Mike at DTS explaining to me a few interesting things about its uses and capabilities. One fact that Mike shared that was hard for me to forget was that the cost for this technology has come down dramatically, and is now roughly about one-tenth of what a device cost when the technology first came on the market years ago.  

The Infrared Vein Finder/Revealer 400 Series, near-infrared vein finder bases on the near-infrared absorbance difference between veins and surround tissue, it projects accurate and real-time vein image on the skin of patient. The 400 Series can be used to find and evaluate the patients’ veins, help nurse to do vein puncture.
The Infrared Vein Finder / Revealer can help increasing first vein puncture attempt successful rate, increasing vein finding and puncture efficiency, increasing patients’ satisfaction and decrease medical disputes. 
The 400 Series vein finder is widely used in the following departments: pediatric, emergency, oncology, geriatric, radiology, laboratory, vascular surgery, plastic surgery, etc.
Vein visualization is a proven technology. Thousands of facilities around the world have implemented it and many have now adopted it as their standard of care.


Vein visualization (also known as vein illumination) uses Near-infrared (NIR) imaging for detecting veins. This proven technology enables accurate visualization of the veins under the skin. The two lasers work in tandem to provide a real-time image of the subcutaneous vasculature up to 10mm deep.  First, the hemoglobin in the blood absorbs the infrared light, so there is a reduced amount of light reflection from the veins.  
Then, a custom detection system uses this change in reflection to determine vein location and pattern, which it digitally projects on the surface of the skin.  Lastly, the red laser makes the vein mapping visible to the clinician. The result is a visual projection that has center line accuracy of less than the width of a human hair. And it works for all body types and skin tones.
Come get one today!



#pediatrics #emergency #oncology #geriatrics #radiology #vascular #vascularsurgeon #vascularsurgery #plasticsurgery #veins #nurse https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ZQclaHJGI/

Believe me, this device is even more fascinating when you can see your OWN veins for the first time. It's amazing!


The view from above:



Side view


Vein Finder Infrared Sight - VS-400 



More on this device at: https://www.drstoystore.com/product/infrared-vein-finder/


Pure Sculpt Power Assisted Liposuction

As Rob describes on the video below, one of the great advantages of the Pure Sculpt Power Assisted Liposuction unit is that -like the PowerX that DTS also sells at a very competitive price- the probes move left and right, i.e. rotating not reciprocating motion. 
This unique rotational motion generated by the system allows physicians to remove fatty tissue all the way around the cannula, rather than just above or below the ports. The powered hand piece speeds up traditional liposuction cases, but unlike other power-assisted devices, the hand piece is very lightweight and vibration is minimal





The system has no proprietary consumables and the cannulas are all stainless steel along with the hand piece. It is the only Power Assisted liposuction device that utilizes such exclusive, and best built cannulas. What has made the Microaire great for decades has been reintroduced in the mechanical structure and incorporated to produce the most efficient and effective rotational power assisted liposuction device on the market. Instead of a jackhammer effect, the rotational motion causes a significant decrease in trauma to fat cells and the vascular system which increases the opportunities of a successful fat transfer.

If for any reason the hand piece stops working because emergencies happen more often than not, the Pure Sculpt system comes with a manual hand piece and premium stainless steel cannula for traditional liposuction


Pure Sculpt Power Assisted Liposuction


More on this item at:
https://www.drstoystore.com/product/pure-sculpt-powered-assisted-liposuction-unit/

And of course, if you are going to offer your patients innovative and amazing technology in your office or facility that helps you give them the quality of care they want and expect, you also need a very comfortable quality chair for your patient to sit in during a procedure.
The good news is that there's nothing better on the market right now than what Rob can offer exclusively via Doctor's Toy Store, The DTS Hybrid Plus Power Procedure Chair

This is the only chair on the market now that has foot controls on both sides, and comes with finger switches on the base and on the back, and is fully programmable. 
Plus, it comes with two head rests. 




And, the DTS Hybrid Plus Power Procedure Chair has a reset function, shown above, that saves you from having to strain to contract the chair afterward.



Does your office have the most advanced chair in the industry? If not, do your competitors? 
Come by and let us demonstrate this DTS chair today for you! Seeing is believing!
#cosmetic #cosmetics #esthetics#esthetician #cosmeticlipo #lipo#liposuction #beauty #botox #fillers#medspa #plastic #plasticsurgery#plastic surgeon #drstoystore #doctor#doctoroffice #powerassitedlipo #prp#injection #skintightening https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz-ye40nHnc/


More on this item at: 
https://www.drstoystore.com/product/dts-hybrid-plus-power-procedure-chair/







My friend Rob takes his responsibilities to his medical/healthcare clients very seriously, whether they're in South Florida, Los Angeles or Charlotte, and he's always willing to make that extra phone call to get something DONE so that his clients get what they want, when they want it, at a price that fits their budget.

Because of his personal reputation for being someone who can consistently deliver what doctors need, Rob and his friendly and experienced staff constantly have people coming by the showroom who are just in from New Jersey or Brazil, The Bahamas or North Carolina. 
Or, who may've just driven over for the morning from Naples on a day off, something I've seen many times myself.

Whether it's reassuring a longtime veterinary client near Daytona Beach about a delivery or giving some practical but positive encouragement to young doctors at a brand new practice group in New Jersey starting from scratch, Rob will keep things under control and on schedule.

Those sorts of positive relationships don't happen without a serious commitment to make them work, and Rob and his dedicated staff do just that.
Rob's friendly outgoing personality, quick sense of humor and near-encyclopedic knowledge of medical equipment, old and new, is a resource in itself to his clients, who are quick to take full advantage of that knowledge.

That personality and ability of his goes a long way towards explaining how he's been able to grow and TRIPLE the size of his old showroom, and is now able to provide New and Used medical equipment to doctors and medical professionals at discount prices with conscientious, top-quality customer service that nobody can beat.
Rob’s clients know that they are his number-one priority.

Doctor's Toy Store
2512 S.W. 30th Avenue, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009
(954) 457-00751(877) 
DRS-TOYS  FAX: (954) 454-3916
http://drstoystore.com/

Twitter: @drstoystore https://twitter.com/drstoystore


*DTS sells and repairs probes
*DTS has leasing and financing programs available
*Weekend and evening hours available by appointment

BUY   SELL   TRADE   REPAIR   EXPORT

Whether approaching the north entrance to Doctor's Toy Store on S.W. 30th Avenue via Pembroke Road, I-95 Exit #19, or via Hallandale Beach Blvd., I-95 Exit #18, you can't miss the giant American flag! When you see it, drive towards it! 


Experience counts!

Doctor’s Toy Store buys, sells, trades, and exports medical equipment at discount prices. We’re proud to offer a wide variety of them for sale from the world’s leading manufacturers.

Our staff continues to sweat the small details and do the small things every day that matter to our medical clients. They remain vigilant to our clients’ desire for medical equipment and technology -and practical know-how- at discount prices.

Our 20 years of consistent performance and quality customer service for our clients in Florida, the U.S. and around the world is why doctors from all over the globe constantly beat a path to the Doctor’s Toy Store showroom.

That consistency of quality customer service AND discount prices over 20 years helps explain why Doctor’s Toy Store is now the largest medical equipment showroom in Florida, at well over 20,000 square feet.

Conveniently located next to I-95 in South Florida between Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport and Miami International Airport, our great location enables us to extend our reach, quickly and efficiently, and offer doctors around the world the same opportunity to save as those in Florida.
Whether you are using our new-and-improved website or visiting us at our showroom, see for yourself why consistent quality and discount prices make The Doctor’s Toy Store the first choice for savvy doctors looking for new & pre-owned medical equipment.

*SPONSORED POST*



Wednesday, July 17, 2019

On Thursday night, Claude Luciani & Pizza Rustica in Downtown #HollywoodFL are hosting "Ralphie's Purrfect Pizza Pawty2" fundraiser for Hollywood Community Cats 🐱. via CatPals, Inc. and HART - Hollywood Animal Rescue Team. Please come and show your support! 🐱



Claude Luciani, a friend & owner of popular in Downtown & one of the city's leading animal advocates, is hosting a fundraiser Thursday night from 6:30-9:00 pm for Hollywood Community Cats 🐱via CatPals, Inc. and HART - Hollywood Animal Rescue Team.

Your $10 raffle ticket 🎫 = a glass of beer 🍺 or a glass of wine 🍷and some samples of Claude's pizza handiwork🍕🍕 and, maybe even earn you a prize. 😉

Pizza Rustica is located at 1928 Hollywood Blvd. and parking is available around the corner on Harrison Street. Please call (954) 923-3878 for more information.

CatPals, Inc. http://www.catpals.org/

HART - Hollywood Animal Rescue Team. https://www.facebook.com/CatPals/

Claude's 'Ralphie the Cat' Facebook page is a great place to get up to speed on some of the efforts that he and others in the Hollywood/SE Broward area have made to resolve cat problems and create solutions that work, as well as lots of cat-related video hijinks:




https://www.facebook.com/PizzaRusticaHollywd/



Friendly reminder: I'm a very reasonable person as long as I have access to... pizza.

Above, one of Claude's recent creations, Hawaiian. 

I know that the whole pineapple-on-a-pizza issue is a source of great debate in some houesholds, but  you should know by now that your faithful blogger is not one to ever look down upon a pizza, pineapple or otherwise.

#pizza # diversity


Wednesday, July 10, 2019

In light of U.S. Appeals Court ruling against President Trump's use of Twitter and Blocking people, when can we expect Broward School Board to publicly say when it'll conform to the spirit and letter of the law? Don't hold your breath!


Above and below, July 13, 2010 photo by me, looking south at the Broward County Schools HQ, 600 S.E. Third Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

In 2016, quite out-of-the-blue, I received an interesting Tweet from someone I'd never met or ever heard of before, Angela Greben, a San Jose, California resident. Among other things, Angela really hates government agencies and officials who seem to not think twice about violating norms (or even laws) about public records and transparency and what the public is entitled to expect in the way of access to public information. 

Her tweet caused quite a ripple after I wrote about it and what I thought it represented.
Though I've never spoken about it before, despite all the dozens of prior blog posts I'd written here about the feckless School Board, her tweet, and actually seeing that list of Blocked people, with my name on top of it, caused me to receive lots of email from concerned people all over Broward County, South Florida and points north and west whom I'd never heard from before.
People who shared my own misgivings about the bad conduct of the scandal-plagued and mis-behaving Broward County School Board.

That is to say, the Broward School Board as a collective entity, as well as it ragtag collection of constituent members and superintendents, and their army of supporters and flacks.

For you newcomers, take a look at this post from earlier in the year:
Culture of Corruption & Incompetency by Feckless Broward School Board, General Counsel Barbara J. Myrick & Supt. Robert Runcie in a Nutshell.
re The special Grand Jury impaneled by the Florida Supreme Court via Gov. Ron DeSantis investigating feckless Broward County Schools & its School Board: 
Broward education activists & taxpayers want you to make sure that Broward Schools General Counsel Barbara J. Myrick is one of first persons grilled. 
She has a LOT to publicly account for, as does nearly every School Board member

Yes, the whole cast of charcters at Broward Schools have been a frequent and popular target of my fact-filled blog posts and fact-based Twitter barbs ever since I started the blog twelve years ago, and then, finally got a Twitter acount under the nom-de-guerre @hbbtruth

Yes, as in Hallandale Beach Blog + Truth, because that's what this blog is all about in the end. 
Revealing the truth so that the public knows what is reality and what is, you know, Fake News.

To my own eternal regret and embarrassment, I was rather late to the Twitter party, especially given my ENFP personality, who I am in the scheme of things locally in this part of southeast Broward and the sheer volume of history I know as well as the number of knowledgeable and influential people I know who know even more than I do, including about the Broward School system's history, track record, and its various roster of players over the years, who've shared what they know with me.
People like Charlotte Greenbarg, for instance.

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
- Winston Churchill

So, as to that part above about having "enemies"... For those of you who are newcomers to the blog, I've been writing fact-filled, analytical blog posts about the serial corruption, incompetency and fecklessness by the Broward School Board on a whole array of issues for the past twelve years.

And, I've also written about them with regularity as well on my popular South Florida Twitter handle, @hbbtruth, since October of 2013, often buttressing some other person's good point with facts, or, necessarily throwing some cold water on someone via cold hard facts who wants us to believe something that can't be believed by anyone who knows anything about common sense or human behavior.

Trust me, there's a good reason that so many activists, personalities, elected officials and members of the South Florida or Florida press corps that you know and trust are Following me on Twitter and reading my latest post on this blog, which can net anywhere between 15,000 and 90,000 page views a month, depending upon the subjects du jour and the time of year, with, not surprisingly, "the season," October thru April being highest readership numbers for the blog.


That means not just accepting whole what is written in South Florida newspapers or on websites or seen on TV, but of my actually going to meetings all over Broward County -and especially in Hollywood and Hallandale Beach- and meeting other concerned and curious Broward citizens and taxpayers who wonder about the same things I do: ethics, accountability, public oversight, conflicts-of-interest and power plays by certain parties and groups within the Broward education Establishment and the people who support it in the Broward business community, who make lots of money on the school system as contractors and vendors for projects needed and wasteful.

So, I have seen first-hand the incriminating reports and the damning photos and the files that have been so much in the news since 2007 surrounding the culture of corruption.

As you might imagine, that sort of consistent public questioning of elected officials and administrators and a willingness to publicly challenge people personally to substantiate and back up what they say leads to lots of things.

On the one hand, it means that many people throughout Broward who make education one of their chief concerns -regular citizens, public officials as well as many local print/TV reporters and columnists- know from personal experience that when I say something, that I not only know of what I speak, but can also personally produce the incriminating evidence, or, know the very people who can produce it so that the public finds out the truth.

That sort of effort over a dozen years also creates all sort of friction with people who are supposed to be working FOR the public, including numerous past and current elected Broward School Board members, administrators and their staffs, who do NOT like seeing the truth being publicly discussed in a logical and reasonable way.
And even worse, discussed in print where anyone can see the facts and not have to accept their own particular spin on things.

So that kind of effort is why I was on the Top Ten list of people whom the Broward School system has been BLOCKING on Twitter since 2016, as the Angela Greben tweet above makes clear.
Yes, I wear they're BLOCKING of me like a gold medal, and proudly so.


















Yesterday we all learned that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit had finally ruled in a case that has been featured dozens of times in U.S. news media over the past few years, issuing a unanimous opinion that President Trump has been violating the U.S. Constitution by blocking Twitter users who criticize or mock him.

Plaintiffs Buckwalter, Cohen, Figueroa, Gu, Neely, Papp, and Pappas (“Individual Plaintiffs”) are social media users who were blocked from accessing and interacting with the Twitter account of President Donald J. Trump because they expressed views he disliked.  The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University is an organization alleging a right to hear the speech that the Individual Plaintiffs would have expressed had they not been blocked.  The Plaintiffs sued President Trump along with certain White House officials, contending that the blocking violated the First Amendment.  The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Buchwald, J.) found that the “interactive space” in the account is a public forum and that the exclusion from that space was unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.  We agree, and, accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the District Court.

that he engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by utilizing Twitter’s “blocking” function to limit certain users’ access to his social media account, which is otherwise open to the public at large, because he disagrees with their speech.  We hold that he engaged in such discrimination and, consequently, affirm the judgment below

The ruling leaves open lots of other interesting questions, like whether this will also apply to other federal, state and local elected officials, governments or agencies?

Read the court's opinion for yourself:







So in thinking about all of this yesterday, I knew that someone needed to ask a reasonable question to someone at the Broward School Board about its past history of Blocking concerned Residents like me on Twitter, given that South Florida's news media has not exactly jumped on this sort of story to the extent that I and many other civic activists believe they should have.

So, I thought of whom the most reasonable person was on the School Board whom I could ask.
That was an easy call.

It certainly isn't the feckless, foul-mouthed and Runcie-supporter who represents Hollywood and Hallandale Beach, Ann Murray, long a target of public criticism here on my blog and on my Twitter handle DOZENS of times when she has repeatedly and publicly engaged in misdirection and misrepresented both herself and her long track record of inaction, inadequacy and logrolling. 

Because of the demographics of this part of Broward, our area should have an outstanding person on the School Board representing us. Someone who is known for their savviness, public demeanor, scrupulous ethics, their reliable, hardworking nature, and their willingness to admit when they are wrong and adjust their thinking to new facts and new realities.
None of which are qualities that have ever been associated with Ann Murray.
We could do SO MUCH better than Ann Murray, who was narrowly re-elected last November.


Given what I wrote about her last Friday on the blog and had earlier tweeted about her, it clearly wasn't going to be Dr. Roslind Osgood, now was it?

Mystery solved at Broward School Board! The Doctor did it! New York Times revealed that Broward County School Board member Rosalind Osgood used her African-American college sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, as a conduit to mobilize supporters of Supt. Robert W. Runcie at BCSB meetings earlier this year debating Runcie's future



In the end, I decided I'd use Twitter to ask School Board member Lori Alhadeff, someone who actually led the charge in March to make Supt. Runcie publicly accountable, to his one of his bosses, even though many of the School Board members defer to him so much on policy issues and decisions at meetings that you can well be forgiven for thinking that they work for him, not the other way around.
But not her.

What Lori Alhdaeff wants doesn't seem like too much to ask for: she wants the truth, positive results and to end the reign of the faceless School bureaucrats who seemingly can never be held to account publicly, no matter how bad things get and have already gotten.
That's something and someone worth supporting, especially under the horrific and unique circumstances that led her to running for the School Board last year.
Her pain is real and omnipresent.




I'll keep you advised on what I hear about this, since we all know that unless they are pushed or shoved, there are far too many members of the South Florida press corps who simply are NOT going to see this issue for what it truly is.
A sign that for many people in government in South Florida, i.e the Broward School Board and the Supt. Runcie, there are rules for some people and special rules for special people.
And they think they are special people.

No, the law has to apply to everyone if it is going to be both respected and followed.
No special rules for special people.
Period.