The people we can be
A lot of the lyrics to my songs come out ad lib when I have a go at recording a first-pass demo of a new tune. I usually then edit them into shape as the song evolves. But, sometimes they have a bit more of a story, and although the basics just emerge as I’m putting it together, they do get more craft occasionally. My latest conflates a couple of encounters Mrs Sciencebase and I have had with Paris over the years. The most recent encounter was from a high altitude, a few years ago we were flying back at night from a trip to Croatia and could see Paris from the airliner. The Eiffel Tower was illuminated and looked lik...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
The people we can be – a song
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A lot of the lyrics to my songs come out ad lib when I have a go at recording a first-pass demo of a new tune. I usually then edit them into shape as the song evolves. But, sometimes they have a bit more of a story, and although the basics just emerge as I’m putting it together, they do get more craft occasionally. My latest conflates a couple of encounters Mrs Sciencebase and I have had with Paris over the years. The most recent encounter was from a high altitude, a few years ago we were flying back at night from a trip to Croatia and could see Paris from the airliner. The Eiffel Tow...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
A song of courtship, love, memories, and a life together
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A lot of the lyrics to my songs come out ad lib when I have a go at recording a first-pass demo of a new tune. I usually then edit them into shape as the song evolves. But, sometimes they have a bit more of a story, and although the basics just emerge as I’m putting it together, they do get more craft occasionally. My latest conflates a couple of encounters Mrs Sciencebase and I have had with Paris over the years. The most recent encounter was from a high altitude, a few years ago we were flying back at night from a trip to Croatia and could see Paris from the airliner. The Eiffel Tow...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Could smartphones and ride-sharing apps solve transportation in healthcare?
Patients living in rural, suburban or urban areas with poor infrastructure often don’t have the proper means to get to the doctor’s appointment on time. In extreme cases, they have to wait even for emergency situations so much that they can call an ambulance and receive care in a hospital.
Ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft offer non-emergency medical transportation services, while start-ups, such as Circulation or Ride Health also promise to deal with the issue. Could smartphones and networked services solve transportation in healthcare?
Why is getting to the doctor such a hassle?
Wherever they...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Health Insurance Healthcare Design Telemedicine & Smartphones Hospital patient startup transportation uber lyft ride-hailing medical transportation NEMT Circulation Kaizen Helth Veyo Ambulnz RoundTrip Source Type: blogs
Relative risk perception and public investment
Motor vehicles are not quite in the top 10 causes of death in the U.S.The way the CDC categorizes causes of death, unintentional injuries are number 3, about 173,000 deaths per year, and motor vehicle-related injuries constitute about 1/3 of those. If you were to extract those 40,000+ motor vehicle deaths they would probably be at about #11. (This data is from 2019, and for 2020 Covid has undoubtedly bumped up cause number 9, " influenza and pneumonia, from 9 to 3 making unintentional injuries number 4, but we can hope this is temporary.) However, unlike the other leading causes of death, which disproportionatel...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 21, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Finding the Beauty in Chaos
A new beginning that looks an awful lot like the old one.When I set out to explore fractal art, I face a confusing array of controls& parameters. It has taken me years to develop the eye to select the best cropping, the most flattering palette, and the most interesting settings, then present them in a pleasing manner. Without this discipline, the fractal is an utter mess with no focus. By making a few poorly chosen decisions, the same mathematical location and the same color palette can appear completely different —and far less appealing.Of course, anybody with the time and desire to learn the software can produce pl...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - September 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Family Goodreads Journaling Visualizing Writing Source Type: blogs
Policies, Techies, VCS: Musings From a Futurist
By IAN MORRISON
I should’ve been in Paris last week on vacation with my wife, instead I listened in to the Policies Techies VCS: What’s Next For Healthcare conference (I’ll explain why later). Matthew Holt and Jessica DaMassa did a magnificent job of assembling the Who’s Who of digital health tech to wax lyrical about what the new kids on the block were up to, where it is all headed, and what it will mean for the system. (Full disclosure Matthew and Jess are friends of mine, I hired Matthew from Stanford almost 30 years ago to join the Institute For The Future (IFTF) and have watched proudly as he ha...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Futurists Ian Morrison Policies Techies VCs Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Sing that thing
1 Samuel 2 is very long. It isn ' t clear why the monks didn ' t split it in half because the first part, Hannah ' s prayer, is really unrelated to the rest of it. The text doesn ' t say that this is sung rather than spoken, but one suspects it is intended as a song. These songs are commonly put in the mouths of women. Miriam organized an all female song and dance party after the exodus, and we see women singing and dancing on other occasions. We don ' t know the provenance of this poem or song -- nor really of any of the material so far. But it does seem anachronistic in referring to a king, since there had never been an ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 8, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Cancer
I sometimes like to open my posts with a joke. But not this time. There isn ' t a joke for this.Mrs. Dalai has cancer.How ' s that for a kick in the ass? I am neither vain nor arrogant enough to think that I could write the ultimate treatise on dealing with a loved one ' s cancer. There are any number of engaging stories out there on Caring Bridge and the like. You don ' t want to read a tear-jerker anyway, nor do you want to endure every last boring and/or gory detail. Mrs. Dalai would be very upset with me if I shared all that. Hell, she ' s probably going to be upset with me for writing this at all. She is a very p...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - September 4, 2021 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Having a Bad Day? Here Are 21 Things You Can Do to Turn It Around
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Some days are great, better than you would have expected when you rolled out of the bed in the morning.
Quite a few days are just good and OK days.
And then we have the other ones. The days that just wind up being bad.
What do you do then? I used to let them drag me down and I often wound up having not just one but a couple of bad days because of whatever happened.
Nowadays I do things a bit differently. And this week I'd like to s...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - August 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Let The Children Play: Research On The Importance Of Play, Digested
By Emma Young
As children head back to school, teachers and parents will of course be concerned about kids catching up on their education after the Covid-19 lockdowns. But, as many psychologists have pointed out, they need to catch up on play, too. So what does the research tell us about the need for and the importance of play?
First: why do kids need to play?
Well, of course, it’s fun — and as we all know, having fun is critical for kids’ psychological wellbeing. But there are also all kinds of documented developmental benefits. For example, play helps children learn how to interact successfully with o...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Coronavirus Developmental Educational Feature Source Type: blogs
FBI Assessments: The Wake Up Call Edition
Patrick G. EddingtonEvery time one of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests I file with the FBI subsequently nets a result indicating potential or actual surveillance or other kinds of actions targeting an American domestic civil society organization, it obligates me to notify the affected group to see how they want to proceed. A few groups have, in the past, asked Cato not to go public with our findings; most others have been willing to let us do so.And then there ’sConcerned Women of America (CWA), which has responded in exactly the way every group should when they discover they ’ve been in th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 27, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick G. Eddington Source Type: blogs
The Trump Administration Actually Thought Imported Cars Were a “National Security” Threat (and the Courts Would’ve Let ‘Em Get Away With It)
Inu Manak andScott LincicomeDo you drive an imported car or one made here by a foreign‐owned company? If so, you may be a serious threat to national security –if a long‐awaited report from the Trump administration is to be believed.No, really.Last week, the Department of Commerce finally released itsreport on U.S. imports of automobiles and certain automotive parts, as part of the Trump administration ’s 2018investigation pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. While the report was submitted to the president on February 17, 2019, it was not published in the Federal Register, as the la...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak, Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
The stigma of being a woman in pain
Women, it is often thought, must be much tougher than men when it comes to dealing with pain – after all, don’t women have babies without anaesthetic? Don’t men faint at the sight of a needle?
Ummmm, not quite so fast. Now before I begin, in this post I’m referring to cis-gender females, and in the experiments, participants were selected on the basis that they believed that negative gender discrimination was a thing. And as I write this post, I want to be clear that sometimes we have to begin with a very simplified model before research can be conducted on a much more messy cohort – and th...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 20, 2021 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Coping strategies News Pain Pain conditions Research Science in practice female stigmatism women Source Type: blogs
Should I Say Adios to Dexcom G7, Hello Abbott Freestyle Libre 2? Maybe.
ConclusionIn the end, I ' m getting sick of Dexcom and its product. I feel as if the company ' s initial focus on patients has declined, and the company now takes its patients for granted as it pushes for events to drive its share price up, and while its retail model has made getting the product to consumers vastly easier, but its basic product has not improved much. The new G7 model will make some modest changes, along with reducing the number of SKU ' s needed for the company to commercialize the product, which is less of a patient benefit and more about making distribution to retail pharmacies easier for the company. Th...
Source: Scott's Web Log - June 7, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Abbott CGM CGMS continuous glucose monitor Dexcom Freestyle Libre Source Type: blogs
