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Help your patients—and staff—enjoy a safe Thanksgiving

From properly cooking your turkey to offering vegetarian options, as well as limiting stress and slicing mishaps, you can offer a cornucopia of ideas for enjoying the holiday.
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Physicians, administrators and their staff all share the stress of the holiday season—on the job as well as at home.

Sharing tips and information on lowering the pressure, eating healthy and having a good time can benefit everyone—and make your health care organization look good.

This Thanksgiving, offer your community these holiday safety tidbits:

Talking turkey

This handy infographic from the American Safety Council offers advice on handling and cooking your Thanksgiving turkey safely, using the acronym TURKEY, beginning with:

T: Thaw turkey at a safe temperature—40 degrees Fahrenheit or below.

U: Use extra caution when frying a turkey, and oil-free fryers if possible.

R: Remember to clean all surfaces regularly.

And so on.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers a more detailed page of Thanksgiving food preparation and safety tips, with links that answer dozens of questions and issues—everything from, “Is pink turkey meat safe?” to types of thermometers and a link to the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline, staffed with food safety specialists on Thanksgiving Day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time.

By the way, pink turkey may indeed be safe, according to a link to the USDA website:

The color of cooked poultry is not always a sure sign of its safety. Only by using a food thermometer can one accurately determine that poultry has reached a safe minimum internal temperature of 165 °F throughout the product. Turkey can remain pink even after cooking to a safe minimum internal temperature of 165° F. The meat of smoked turkey is always pink.

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For the diabetic

Turkey isn’t the only item on the Thanksgiving Day menu, of course, and if family members are diabetic, cooks may be looking for foods that won’t interfere with their blood sugar levels.

The Diabetic Living Online website shares a host of side-dish recipes that many can enjoy, including:

· Butternut squash and carrot soup

  • Cranberry cucumber salad
  • Pumpkin mashed potatoes
  • Scalloped potatoes and ham
  • Carrot-mushroom stuffing

Hungry yet?

If vegetarian dishes are in demand, the Food & Wine website shares lots of tasty meatless recipes. The wild mushroom lasagna dish looks yummy.

Other safety considerations

There’s more to Thanksgiving safety than food handling, though. The holiday season is known for a spike in drunken-driving incidents. The Guardian Interlock website has statistics on drinking and driving, offering this:

Blackout Wednesday, which occurs the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, is one of the biggest drinking days of the year . Most businesses are closed on Thanksgiving, college students are home for the long weekend, and there are high numbers of people on the road as they travel to spend the holiday with family members. The combination of these factors makes Blackout Wednesday one of the deadliest days of the year. Traffic deaths around Thanksgiving weekend, including Blackout Wednesday and Black Friday, account for more than 400 traffic deaths each year.

Finally, you could avoid unnecessary visits to the emergency room over the Thanksgiving weekend with this list of “Top 7 reasons for Thanksgiving Day emergency-department visits” from the Clinical Advisor website. The list includes:

  • Knife injuries. Even before carving the turkey, food preparation involves a lot of knife work and accounts for one of the top reasons patients visit the ED on Thanksgiving.
  • Food poisoning. When cooking meat, there’s always a risk of bacterial infection. The [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] recommends that all turkeys be completely thawed and cooked at a minimum of 325 degrees Fahrenheit. It is suggested that stuffing be cooked outside the turkey to reduce the risk of foodborne illness.
  • Burns. Between simmering the cranberry sauce and baking pumpkin pie, there is plenty of increased risk for burns. Encourage patients to keep an ABC-rated fire extinguisher close by.

Readers, how are you spreading the word about Thanksgiving safety and holiday season health tips to your internal and external communities?

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