Wednesday Bible Study: QAnon
Psalms 81 and 82 are pretty standard fare. 81 is written for a specific observance, and it reminds the Israelites that they are God ' s chosen people and to be faithful. 82 calls on God to punish the wicked and reward the righteous -- as if he wouldn ' t do it unless we asked. Psalm 83, however, is getting a whole lot of attention right now, from people who probably don ' t read this blog and who you probably are barely aware of. It describes a broad alliance against Israel, bent on its destruction, and calls on God to exterminate them, referring to the massacres of the Midianites in Numbers 31, and the massacre of th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 20, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A doctor ’ s journey: from student to healer, facing a mentor ’ s illness
I had a teacher in my third year of med school. His name was Dr. T. He taught us pediatrics. At that time, he was the head of the department of pediatrics in the busiest teaching hospital in our city, where I was working. Every day, hundreds of children from far-flung areas are referred to
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A doctor’s journey: from student to healer, facing a mentor’s illness originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 20, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dr. Damane Zehra Tags: Conditions Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
The 12 Best Be Kind to Yourself Quotes (and Helpful Tips on Self-Love)
When you fall or stumble then the default for many is to be hard on yourself.
To push yourself forward again. Or to not make the same mistake in the future.
Being tough on oneself is a common strategy in many situations but I have over the years found that being kind to yourself works even better.
Why?
Well, for one, I find it makes it easier to get back on the right track and move forward (being hard on yourself can lead to feeling disappointed and discouraged from even trying again).
And in today’s post I want to share 12 of my favorite be kind to yourself quotes plus my own thoughts and tips related to each of these ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - March 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Self Esteem Source Type: blogs
The Kids Are Definitely Not All Right: An Empirical Study Establishing a Statistically Significant Negative Relationship Between Receiving Accommodations in Law School and Passing the Bar Exam
Scott DeVito (Jacksonville University), The Kids Are Definitely Not All Right: An Empirical Study Establishing a Statistically Significant Negative Relationship Between Receiving Accommodations in Law School and Passing the Bar Exam, 102 Or. L. Rev. (2023): Many factors can influence... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 20, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Research Byte: Predicting Achievement From WISC-V Composites: Do Cognitive-Achievement Relations Vary Based on General Intelligence?
Predicting Achievement From WISC-V Composites: Do Cognitive-Achievement Relations Vary Based on General Intelligence? Jacqueline M. Caemmerer, Stephanie Ruth Young, Danika Maddocks, Natalie R. Charamut,and Eunice Blemahdoo,Abstract In order to make appropriate educational recommendations, psychologists must understand how cognitive test scores influence specific academic outcomes for students of different ability levels. We used data from the WISC-V and WIAT-III (N = 181) to examine which WISC-V Index scores predicted children ' s specific and broad academic skills and if cognitive-achievement relations varied by gene...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - March 19, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
The Latest AI Craze: Ambient Scribing
By MATTHEW HOLT
Okay, I can’t do it any longer. As much as I tried to resist, it is time to write about ambient scribing. But I’m going to do it in a slightly odd way
If you have met me, you know that I have a strange English-American accent, and I speak in a garbled manner. Yet I’m using the inbuilt voice recognition that Google supplies to write this story now.
Side note: I dictated this whole thing on my phone while watching my kids water polo game, which has a fair amount of background noise. And I think you’ll be modestly amused about how terrible the original transcript was. But then...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Matthew Holt abridge AI Ambient Scribing Anthropic clinical care Coding Google Microsoft Nabla Nuance OpenAI Suki Source Type: blogs
ECG Quiz, Focusing Mainly on Rhythm
Here is the transcript of the video: Now we will have an ECG, focusing mainly on the rhythm analysis. That is what we are going to see. Clinical history is currently not available, let us see, what we can make out from the ECG.
If you have a look at this ECG, sometimes, in this region, you may pass off it as just a low normal heart rate with nothing else. But careful analysis in this region will easily tell you that, this is one P wave with a fairly normal PR interval. But you have another P wave here, which is not conducted. So, for two P waves, you have one QRS. You might be tempted to think that this is 2:1 AV block. Th...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 18, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
poem
Broken HomeDivorce is Wednesday nights at Villas For pizza and all you can drink cokesAsking Dad for another quarterTo stick in the table side jukeboxSo I can listen toFunkytownAnd Another One Bites the DustIt ’s drawing pictures of your new stepmomWith horns coming out of her headAnd flames for hair It ’s getting in big trouble forCracking an egg on the skullOf your toddler half brother.It ’s calling Dad collect on his birthdayBecause Mom didn ’t get a child support check. Divorce is figuring out ridesTo weeknight baseball practice. It ’s hearing the phrase “broken home”And realizin...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - March 18, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Goodness!
The essential, first-order or pure concept of " public goods " is whatever we benefit from that is " non-excludable " and " non-rivalrous. " That means you can use it without paying for it, and if you use it, it ' s still there for others. An example, at least for the time being, is the oxygen in the air. Back in the good old paleolithic, there was a lot more of that. Basically, the land and the water and the plants and animals were there for the taking, and there was usually plenty so rivalry was uncommon. Of course, this only worked within your own tribe -- sometimes people of different tribes tried exclusion and rivalry...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 14, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
History Lesson
Psalm 78 is, I believe, the third longest psalm. It ' s also one of three so-called " long history " psalms. It basically recounts events from Exodus and Numbers, in chronologically confused order, and then skips ahead to touch on the establishment of the reign of David. The listing of the plagues of Egypt does not exactly correspond to the canonical version of Exodus we have today -- there are no caterpillars or frost in Exodus. This may just be a fanciful addition, or it may be that it draws on a lost version of the story. Once again, keep in mind that there were no printing presses and any document would have existed in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 13, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
CentralReach Announces Acquisition of SILAS, a Rapidly Growing, New Jersey-Based Provider of SEL and Behavior Solutions for PreK-12 Students in Any Type of Classroom
SILAS Adds Social, Emotional, Executive Functioning, and Vocational Curricula Delivered via an Interactive, Animated App, Extending the Reach of CentralReach’s Market-Leading Education Platform
CentralReach, the leading provider of Autism and IDD software, today announced the acquisition of SILAS – a social and emotional learning (SEL) and behavior solution for PreK-12 general, special, and transition vocational education programs. The SILAS software will be incorporated into CentralReach’s suite of education solutions, which currently includes ABLLS-R|AFLS digital assessments, IEP management and student rosterin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 12, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Alexander Fertig Bright Beginnings CentralReach Chris Dudick Chris Sullens Dr. George McCloskey Ettie Luban Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A SILAS Source Type: blogs
The ‘Barbie Speech’ – How Much Has Really Changed For Women in America?
By MIKE MAGEE
In our world where up is down, and black is white, there is a left and a right – it’s the middle we appear to be missing. Does it exist, or was it make believe all along?
Into this existential despair enters Britt Cagle Grant, the 47-year old Federal Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The Stanford Law graduate, blessed by the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo, and former clerk of Hon. Brett Kavanaugh, was nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 2018.
Now six years later, her words in rejecting DeSantis’s “Stop Woke Act” (otherwise kno...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Barbie De Santis feminism Mike Magee Terry Sciaivo Source Type: blogs
The Correlation Between Education and Life Expectancy
It is comparatively easy to find correlations in human epidemiological data, but much harder to determine causation. A web of correlations exist between socioeconomic status, education, intelligence, and life expectancy. We can even draw in environmental factors such as degree of exposure to particulate air pollution, which tends to correlate with the wealth of individuals living in a given area. In the matter of education, the effect size is small but the correlation is robust in large data sets. Why this is the case remains a topic for discussion.
To measure the pace of aging, the researchers applied an algorith...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 11, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
“ Exercise ” – what does it do for people living with persistent pain?
No, I’m not going to assemble a bunch of papers and point out the effect sizes of exercise on pain and disability! In fact, I’m not even going to point to much research in this post. I want to pose some questions and put some thoughts out for discussion.
See, the people I’ve seen over the years who live with pain have, by and large, not been great ‘exercisers’ before their pain came on, and many haven’t really changed their lifestyle a heap since their pain either. In fact, there is research showing that people with chronic pain don’t change the overall quantity of their activit...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 10, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Psychology Resilience Science in practice Health Research Source Type: blogs
The Dark Web?
Norton Utilities is a good product, but they relentlessly try to upsell you. The latest trick is to tell me that data brokers trying to sell my data, and I should pay them to expunge it. The data in question consists of my name, address and telephone number -- actually two numbers, both of which are more than twelve years old. Finally, it includes my purported relatives, which consist of my dead mother, a guy who lives across the street to whom I am unrelated, and three people I never heard of. When I was a youth, and actually until about 15 years ago, the Post Office used to deliver a book to every household in town,...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 10, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
