Sunday Sermonette: Ridiculous boasting
Chapter 8 is absurd. It gives Solomon a vast empire, including numerous tributary kingdoms, a marriage to the daughter of the Pharaoh, and a tribute from Hiram of 50 metric tons of gold. The reality is that Israel at this time was a minor domain consisting of a few villages. There really isn ' t any more to be said about this, it ' s complete bullshit.8 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of theLord and his own palace,2 Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram[a] had given him, and settled Israelites in them.3 Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.4 He also built...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 8, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.
Kelly Conklin, Chief Clinical Officer at PerfectServe
Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched v...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions athenahealth Bright.md Caregility Cedar Chris Baird Chris Sullivan Emily Goetz Florian Otto Grace Nam Healthcare Staffing Healthcare Workforce Iman Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: I wish Chronicles would be over but we have a long way to go
I warned you that Chronicles is the most boring book of the Bible. Ch. 7 is consistent with 1 Kings 8 and 9 in that Solomon performs a sacrifice, and has a second vision of God, but the descriptions are quite different. The fire doesn ' t come down from heaven to consume the sacrifice in Kings, and the description of the sacrifice and festival here is more extensive. The words God speaks to Solomon in the vision are different here and in 1 Kings 9, although the general idea is similar. Other than that, I got nothin ' to say. 7 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 4, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
7 tips to survive night float
My friend texted me the other day that she was thinking of quitting her training program. Some schedule changes earlier in the year led to her being scheduled for back-to-back month-long night float rotations. She was in the middle of her second straight month of nights and was feeling tired, depressed, and burned out. Now,
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7 tips to survive night float originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 31, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alexandra Ruan, MD Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Residency Source Type: blogs
How the Right Technology can Simplify a Healthcare Worker ’s Life
The following is a guest article by Marcus Mossberger, Future of Work Strategist at Infor.
If the wrong technology can make a healthcare worker’s life miserable, the right technology can do the opposite. Find out how the right technology can improve retention during the “Great Resignation.”
Virtually every study on healthcare worker burnout and turnover cites technology as one of the leading culprits. For example, KLAS Research released a report on clinician turnover that found that nurses are more likely than other clinicians to leave their jobs, heavily influenced by their struggles with electronic health record ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Burn Out EHR Electronic Health Record Great Resignation Healthcare ERP Infor KLAS Research Marcus Mossberger Staffing Shorta Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 26th 2022
This article on senolytic therapies to selectively remove senescent cells in old tissues is in part a matter of Unity Biotechnology talking up their position. The company suffered from first mover disadvantage in bringing senolytic drugs into clinical development. The field has made progress very rapidly over the last decade, and startups founded even just a couple of years after Unity's launch benefited from greater knowledge and a selection of better technologies to work with. Still, one can be talking up one's position and also be right. The accumulation of senescent cells is profoundly harmful, a significant contributi...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 25, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: More house beautiful
Chapter four continues with the description of the Temple. Some of this is lifted from 1 Kings 7, notably the " sea, " (including the fact that pi=3) but it ' s followed by other material. Whether the Chronicler created this pastiche himself, or was copying from some earlier patchwork, is unknowable. Note that he skipped over Ch. 6, in which Solomon builds his own palace which for your information was far larger and grander than the Temple of Yahweh. I also can ' t say why all these details matter, since by the time this was written the First Temple had been destroyed about 200 years earlier. 4 He made a br...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 25, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Change Of Heart: " For The Children "
Last night, I archived everything on the blog except " Why Pediatrics " . More and more, it ' s become a question rather than a statement of purpose. In the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic, where the entire US system shifted on its axis to shut down community Pediatrics services and " feed " children ' s hospitals (to free up resources for sick adults), the situation for those of us practicing inpatient Pediatrics (as " Pediatric Hospitalists " ) really went to hell. You could not find/beg a job in the community setting during the pandemic. Actually, jumping through the ABP ' s hoops to do a...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - December 24, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Forms of Lowered Calorie Intake Treat Even Late Stage Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease for near all patients. It results from excess visceral fat tissue, with some evidence suggesting that the specific issue is excess fat in the pancreas. Low calorie diets produce a reversal of symptoms, perhaps in large part due to loss of visceral fat. Here researchers show that intermittent fasting, another approach to reducing calorie intake, also helps to reduce the symptoms suffered by patients and the dependency on medication.
One might conclude that most type 2 diabetics are choosing to remain type 2 diabetics by refraining from lowered calorie intake and consequent weigh...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 20, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Xerox machine
2 Chronicles 2 is the same story as 1 Kings 5. There are some slight differences in language, which simply suggests that the chronicler was working from a different manuscript than the one that became canonized. (The title of this post is intended to be ironic because the point is, there weren ' t any copying machines, only human scribes whose copying was imprecise, whether accidentally or on purpose.) As usual, the numbers are ridiculous. The Tanakh seems to multiply everything by 10, approximately.2 [a]Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of theLord and a royal palace for himself.2 He conscripted ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 18, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
More about Nam
I don ' t believe that a principal motivation for warmaking by U.S. political leaders was the influence of weapons manufacturers. Eisenhower literally warned the country about that in his farewell address. (For those who don ' t remember, he coined the phrase " military industrial complex. " ) Initially, U.S. politicians, including Eisenhower and Johnson, sincerely believed that they were combating a communist threat to the U.S. national interest. Many people thought this was nonsensical, but they were in a minority. The United States propped up brutal dictators all over the world in fear that their countries would otherwi...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 17, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Medical Alerts That Make Sense From MedAware
Alert fatigue, often cited as a source of burn-out in the medical professions, is a symptom of bad design. Dr. Gidi Stein, CEO and Co-founder at MedAware, explains in this video why there are so many alerts and why so many are worthless. MedAware has led to a 90% reduction in alerts among sites using the system, and 40% of the alerts MedAware generate lead to a change in the physician’s action.
Traditional alert systems reflect an abstract risk, not necessarily the reality. The alert might be based on an adverse reaction experience by a small number of patients, but if you know the characteristics of a particular pat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Clinical Decision Support EHR Alerts EMR Alerts Gidi Stein Healthcare Alert Fatigue Healthcare Alerts Healthcare IT Video Interviews Israel Heal Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: More selective plagiarism
2 Chronicles 1 borrows selectively from 1 Kings 3. Specifically, Solomon ' s vision at Gibeon appears in both. However, in the Book of Kings, before he makes the sacrifice at Gibeon, he " takes " Pharaoh ' s daughter. Then, in Kings, after the vision, we get the story of Solomon proposing to split the baby in half, which was claimed by two " harlots. " Here, instead, we have Solomon gathering up a lot of horses and other expensive stuff. I can only speculate about the reason for these omissions, although as I have said before the Chronicler seems to want to clean up David and Solomon ' s act. Solomon ' s 700 wives and 300 ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 14, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
History Cautions Against Loosening Fed Policy Too Late
Alan ReynoldsIn October I wrote, “CPI Less Rent Was Zero for 3 Months; CPI Rent Is Wrong.”Nobody appeared to find that interesting.Now, CPI less rent has shown zero inflation for5 months.How long can zero remain uninteresting?Some prices went up over the past five months and others went down, but the weightedaverage increase for everything in the average consumer ’s shopping basket was nil once we properly exclude disingenuous and outdated estimates of shelter inflation.The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and Chairman Powell have acknowledged that Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys of rent and owner ‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Fusion Schmusion
No doubt you have already encountered themassive hype by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of their claim that they have successfully extracted more energy from a fusion reaction than they put into it. I ' m not sure what technical level I should pitch this at -- I really don ' t know how much people in general understand about it. So I ' ll start with the basics. Please don ' t feel insulted if you already know this. You do probably know that Einstein mass and energy to be equivalent, that is they are convertible one into the other and are manifestations of the same underlying reality. You certainl...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 12, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
