When AI Meets the Transgender Community
Matthew FeeneyCredit: Os KeyesAnyone who has been paying attention to politics in the last year or so will know that across the country there have been an increasing number of public policy fights surrounding the transgender community. Perhaps the most notable are debates on rules governing who should be able to compete in women ’s and girl’s sporting events or access gender‐segregated bathrooms. Others include debates on “Don’t Say ‘Gay’ ” bills. What is less often discussed is how recognition technology fueled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) will affect members of the transgender community. As this te...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
ADHD – I Forgot that I Was Dating Somebody?
Can you be so forgetful that you’d forget that you were dating somebody? For a few groggy moments, I was convinced that I had.As I dealt with forgotten bills, paperwork unearthed from the Jurassic era, and various and sundry things I had meant to get to sometime around last September, I wondered if maybe, perhaps possibly, I was forgetful.Oh, everybody forgets things! It’s perfectly normal. For example, my mother routinely forgets my name. After bringing me into this world many long and hoary decades ago, you’d think she’d have gotten the hang of it by now, but there she goes again, calling me by na...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - May 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Goodreads Source Type: blogs
Coping with Dementia Care Burnout
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You watch your once mentally sharp loved one decline before your eyes. Their uncontrollable behaviors, mood swings, outbursts, confusion, and memory loss are heartbreaking. The worry that a single lapse in supervision may result in your loved one wandering off, falling down or having some other accident is overwhelming. Caring for a senior with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or another type of dementia involves significant physical, mental, emotional, and financial investments. Family caregivers often struggle to balance dementia care while working, nurturing relationships with their immediate...
Source: Minding Our Elders - May 4, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Learning from This War
BY KIM BELLARD
There’s an old military adage that generals are always fighting the last war. It’s not that they haven’t learned any lessons, it’s more than they learned the wrong lessons. I fear we’re doing that with the COVID pandemic.
The next big health crisis may not come from another COVID variant; it may not be caused by coronavirus at all. Even if we learn lessons from this pandemic, those may not be lessons that will apply to the next big health crisis.
What started me thinking about this is a C4ISRNET interview with Mike Brown, the Director of the Defense Innovati...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health C4ISRNET health crisis Pandemic Source Type: blogs
How to Get Over Feelings That Prevent You from Visiting Someone in Assisted Living or a Nursing Home
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People cite numerous reasons for why they hate visiting nursing homes. Some can’t stand funky smells, others find the sight of disengaged, listless seniors depressing, and most feel guilty over the fact that they’d rather spend time anywhere else. The truth is that most of us experience some level of discomfort over the thought of visiting a skilled nursing facility. This aversion is very similar to the widespread dislike of hospitals. These are places where people go when they are very ill and require a high level of care. For families who have loved ones living in nursing homes, this di...
Source: Minding Our Elders - April 26, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Hemostasis on Contact: Interview with Joe Landolina, CEO of Cresilon
Cresilon, a New York-based medtech company, specializes in developing hemostatic technology. Its co-founder and CEO, Joe Landolina, created a plant-based hemostatic gel that can stop bleeding very rapidly when applied to a wound. Landolin developed the gel when he was just seventeen, and has spent the years since building the company to bring it and similar technologies to market.
At present, Cresilon’s technology is sold under the name Vetigel for use by veterinarians for bleeds that occur during surgery or dental work, or those caused by trauma. However, the company has recently submitted the technology to the F...
Source: Medgadget - April 12, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dentistry Emergency Medicine Exclusive Military Medicine Surgery cresilon hemostasis vetigel Source Type: blogs
From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare
Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. These new ‘colleagues’ will definitely make a difference in every field of medicine. Here’s our overview to understand robotics in healthcare better so that everyone can prepare for the appearance of mechanic helpers in medical facilities.
Metallic allies for the benefit of the vulnerable
While there are concerns for machines replacing people in the workforce, we believe there are adv...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Robotics digital health Healthcare Hospital medical nanotechnology Surgery pharmacies future of hospital blood telemedicine social companion social companion robot telemedical medical rob Source Type: blogs
From Organ Designers To Telesurgery VR Planners: Healthcare Jobs in 2040
In this study, the researchers employed the VR prototype for surgical planning using a standard VR setup in two real cases of patients with liver tumours who were scheduled for surgery at a University Hospital for Visceral Surgery. Surgeons used the VR prototype before the surgery to plan the procedure in addition to their regular planning process. They used semi-structured interviews before and after the surgery to explore the benefits and pitfalls of VR surgical planning.
Within 20-30 years, AR/VR operation planners will help surgeons in the preparation for very complex surgical interventions. While the medical pr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 31, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast E-Patients Future of Medicine Medical Education Science Fiction digital health healthcare jobs future jobs Source Type: blogs
101 Life Goes on Quotes For When You Need Comfort and Motivation
From time to time life is tough. Difficult. Even painful.
And in today’s post I’d like to share timeless thoughts that can bring some comfort and motivation during such trying times.
This is 101 powerful life goes on quotes.
Wisdom from the past thousands of years that can help you find your way back to your path and remind you that life goes on even when times are hard.
If you want even more motivation and positive thoughts then check out this post with quotes on better days ahead and this one filled with don’t settle quotes.
Inspirational Life Goes On Quotes
“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - March 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
116 You Got This Quotes to Give You a Big Burst of Motivation Right Now
Some days you're motivated and ready to go as soon as you jump out of bed.
But on other days you feel a lack of confidence, you're unmotivated or just simply have gotten your day started on the wrong foot in some way.
What can you do then?
Well, one thing that can help is a big burst of energy and motivation in the form of timeless advice and inspiration. So in this post I'd like to share 116 of the best and most powerful you got this quotes to give you the boost you need right now.
And if you want even more inspirational quotes to remind you that you got this then check out this post with quotes on knowing your true wort...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - March 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Work-life balance is not an accident
I describe work-life balance not as a see-saw with one side going up while the other goes down, but more like a wobble board with imbalance possibilities in infinite directions. Now that I’m in my fifties with grown kids, I feel compelled to share what I think I did right — and on what IRead more …Work-life balance is not an accident originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 17, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/tammy-euliano" rel="tag" > Tammy Euliano, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Next-Generation Simulation Learning: Interview with James Archetto, VP of Gaumard Scientific
Gaumard Scientific, a Florida-based patient simulator company, has developed an advanced multidisciplinary patient simulator – the HAL S5301. Given the strain placed on healthcare systems by the pandemic, training with a robot may let more clinicians focus on patients rather than medical students, and help to reduce the risk of viral transmission posed to healthcare staff and patients.
However, there are a host of other benefits. This next-generation adult male simulator introduces robotics, AI-powered speech, and leading-edge simulated physiology and anatomy to medical education. The robot can understand what med...
Source: Medgadget - February 23, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Education Exclusive Source Type: blogs
The sleet that rained like chatting lizards
I asked a “plot generator” website to come up with a story based on a couple of dozen words I input. This is what it came up with:
The sleet that rained like chatting lizards
Matt Trescothik was thinking about Jenny Slaughden again. Jenny was a kind juggler with dirty lips and ugly arms. Matt walked over to the window and reflected on his picturesque surroundings. He had always hated damp Wivenhoe with its energetic, excited estuaries. It was a place that encouraged his tendency to feel puzzled.
Then he saw something in the distance, or rather someone. It was the a kind figure of Jenny Slaughden. Matt gulped. ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 14, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Fiction Source Type: blogs
The Book of Ten Sayings 4
The fourth timeless truth in the Book of Ten Sayings is one that our impatient and fearful age needs to meditate on. The fourth saying:This too shall pass. The traditional story is that an ancient Persian king once ordered his wise men to invent a saying that would be true and applicable to every time and in every season, a saying that would comfort him in times of sorrow and temper him in times of joy, a saying upon which he could meditate profitably regardless of his situation, or what he faced, or how he felt. The saying they brought him was, "This too shall pass." Sometimes quoted as, "This, ...
Source: The Virtual Salt - February 9, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
How physicians can play the hand they ’re dealt [PODCAST]
“Anyone can win at poker when dealt a royal flush. But what can you do when the cards you are dealt don ’t appear winning at all? My answer: Make the best of what you have. Recently I learned of a colleague who sustained a broken back in an accident. He continues to work, wearing aRead more …How physicians can play the hand they’re dealt [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 31, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Practice Management Source Type: blogs
