Looking Back At COVID-19 From 2030
We have already analysed how COVID-19 would have taken place in a digital health utopia, if all the digital tools had already been in place when this pandemic hit us. (Spoiler: it would’ve been much, much better). When weighing the possible outcomes of COVID-19, we drew three scenarios on how life will, can, and should change after the pandemic. This time we put on our VR headsets, fast forward to 2030 and have a look at what we have gained and what we lost to the virus.
There are certain points in our history we all remember. Whoever lived, knew exactly what he was doing the moment JFK got shot. When the twin towers ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 13, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Artificial Intelligence Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Policy Science Fiction Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality digital technology Source Type: blogs
" Strike Two " : A Pediatrician's " Dance " with Alan Levine/Ballad Health - And WHY We Need Federal Medical Whistle-blower Protection For ALL Healthcare " Workers " NOW
This is the story of how government failed me as a Pediatrician - for the second time. The saddest thing of all is that there is a " Strike Three " . Nobody cares about Pediatrics - or Pediatricians. They haven ' t for a very long time. This is a long post. Don ' t whine about it. Read it. CARE that somebody trying to stand up for your children lived it - and not for the first time.Twenty-two years ago, the morally-bankrupt executives of my now fiscally-bankrupt hometown hospital (in Asheboro, North Carolina) railroaded me out of town . . . after I intervened in a nursery case being...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 12, 2020 Category: American Health Tags: Alan Levine Ballad Health Cooperative Agreement COPA ETSU Medical Whistle-blower Pediatric Hospitalist Ralph Northam Randolph Hospital Tennessee Department of Health Virginia Department of Health Source Type: blogs
10 Ways to Develop Resilience In Sobriety
Sobriety is a concept that is sometimes misunderstood, and once misunderstood, the approach towards sobriety can be wrongly applied. For some recovering addicts, sobriety translates to a phase of misery, rather than as a time to improve oneself physically and mentally. Despite having been to rehab, such persons might still find themselves withdrawing from their emotions. They become ‘resilient’ and barely receptive to people and things around them.
They would engage in social interactions, but their outward appearance is mostly a façade, within, their feelings are mostly bottled up. While such behaviors could be in...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured health and fitness psychology self education self-improvement addiction self improvement Sobriety Source Type: blogs
Want to Stem the Rising Mental Health Crisis? Look Beyond the Usual Suspects for Help
As the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects spread, concerns about mental health impacts continue to grow. For example, we worry for health and human services professionals whose duties involve higher risk for trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress. Reports of global increases in family violence also suggest that there will be many violence victims and witnesses in need of mental health support. Add to this the potential effects of social isolation, health-related anxiety, and that these mental health problems may persist and worsen long after society goes back to “normal.”
And this is all happening as the Uni...
Source: World of Psychology - May 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lynsay Ayer, Ph.D. & Clare Stevens, M.P.H. Tags: Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Stress Suicide coronavirus COVID-19 Depression pandemic Task sharing Source Type: blogs
Love at First Sound: On Audiobooks and Marriage
Have you noticed how good relationship skills tend to apply across the board? Spouses who communicate well in their marriage probably also relate well to other people. As for those whose interactions with their partners are troubled, they may be experiencing similar difficulties when interacting with family members, friends, coworkers, and others.
For example, spouses who don’t yet know another way to deal with concerns may silently stew and let resentment build, instead of respectfully discussing issues positively, may behave similarly with coworkers. Failure to relate constructively results in a loss of trust and...
Source: World of Psychology - May 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marcia Naomi Berger, MSW, LCSW Tags: Books Communication Industrial and Workplace Personal Relationships coworking Vulnerability Source Type: blogs
After COVID-19, What Next? A Recovery Blueprint for Health System Leaders
By JAMES GARDNER
Is the beginning of the end in sight? Perhaps. After much stress and strain, many experts believe we’re seeing early signs of a COVID-19 plateau in some states and cities. Everything could change tomorrow, but healthcare leaders should be preparing now to reopen their shuttered operating rooms and get back to business.
When restrictions loosen, lost days and weeks could have dire implications for health systems already weakened by months of deferred and canceled elective procedures. These surgeries — joint replacements, tumor biopsies, gallbladder removals, and cosmetic procedure...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy health system James Gardner Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: Physicians in Shackles
By ANISH KOKA, MD
A number of politically tinged narratives have
divided physicians during the pandemic. It would be unfortunate if politics
obscured the major problem brought into stark relief by the pandemic: a system
that marginalizes physicians and strips them of agency.
In practices big and small, hospital-employed
or private practice, nursing homes or hospitals, there are serious issues
raising their heads for doctors and their patients.
No masks for you
When I walked into my office Thursday, March 12th, I assembled the office staff for the first time to talk about COVID. The prior weekend had been awa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Medical Practice Physicians Anish Koka medical autonomy Pandemic Source Type: blogs
Daily Reminders
I normally review my quarterly goals each morning, which is a good habit for staying focused on them throughout the quarter. One new habit I’ve started is to also review a daily reminders list. This is a list of good practices that I want to refresh in my mind each morning, so I can remember to practice them.
The reminders list is good for habits that are difficult to anchor to just one time of day. This can include mindsets, frames, values, and practices that I may want to embody throughout the day. The list is very flexible though, so I can also use it to remind myself of positive habits and their benefits.
M...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Values Source Type: blogs
Simple Ways to Make Your Home into Your Sanctuary
Suddenly, because of the pandemic, our homes have become one-stop shops. It’s where we work, teach our kids, and attend religious services. It’s where we sleep, eat, and relax (in theory).
Besides taking walks and running urgent errands, most of us are staying in. So, it’s helpful to make our homes into a place we actually want to be.
Currently, our homes need to “replace a lot of the ‘feel-good’ emotions we had in going out,” said Victoria Vajgrt, a professional home organizer in San Francisco. For example, she said, the yoga studio helped us to relax, while romantic restaurants helped us to reconnect to our...
Source: World of Psychology - April 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Stress coronavirus COVID-19 work from home Source Type: blogs
All 65 Stature Lessons Complete
Yesterday I finished creating and publishing all of the lessons for the co-creative Stature character sculpting deep dive.
The full course is 16 hours and 20 minutes of audio, with the average lesson being 15 minutes. I wanted to keep the lessons for this course very focused and tight.
There’s also a 138-page workbook to accompany the audio lessons, including a one-page summary for each lesson and exercises to apply each lesson. That’s complete as well.
Additionally we have full text transcripts published for most of the lessons now, and the remainder will be done within the next several days.
And n...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Lifestyle Productivity Values Source Type: blogs
The COVID Pandemic: WHO Dunnit?
By ANISH KOKA, MD
COVID is here. A little strand of RNA that
used to live in bats has a new host. And
that strand is clearly not the flu. New
York is overrun, with more than half of the nation’s new cases per day, and
refrigerated 18-wheelers parked outside hospitals serve as makeshift
morgues. Detroit, New Orleans, Miami,
and Philadelphia await an inevitable surge of their own with bated breath. America’s health care workers are scrambling
to hold the line against a deluge of sick patients arriving hourly at a rate
that’s hard to fathom.
I pause here to attest to the heroic r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zoya Khan Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka coronavirus Pandemic Sars-CoV-2 WHO World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
A Minimal Molecule API
ConclusionMolecule is a minimal interface for objects and data structures possessing molecule-like behavior. With only a handful of methods to worry about, toolkits based onMolecule are easy to learn and use. Exposing only a core of irreducible methods enables conflict-free extensions, application-specific enhancements, and many performance optimizations. (Source: Depth-First)
Source: Depth-First - April 7, 2020 Category: Chemistry Authors: Richard L. Apodaca Source Type: blogs
Tease your brain with these eight fun riddles
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Q: My first thought after congratulating myself on being so clever about something?
A: “How can I have been so dumb about that for so long!”
Q: Who is harder to forgive than anyone, for truly dumb behaviour?
A: Oneself
Q: How can you tell that a man is sure he is respected, even revered, by his peers?
A: When expressing himself, he always uses “We”, “You”, & “They” — rarely “I”!
Q: Why did the café customer drop his sugar into the ashtray?
A: Because earlier at breakfast he had spread butter on his trousers.
Q: What is the surest way to avoid hurting people’s feelings?
A: Never s...
Source: SharpBrains - April 2, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Keith Perreur-Lloyd Tags: Brain Teasers Education & Lifelong Learning brain-teaser riddles tease your brain Source Type: blogs
STERRAD Sterilizers Triple Lifetime of N95 Masks
STERRAD sterilizers, made by Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), an Irvine, California firm, are a common sight in hospitals around the world. They’re used to reprocess surgical tools and other equipment, but now the same devices can be immediately utilized to turn single-use N95 masks into reusable devices.
ASP has just qualified a new reprocessing protocol that can add two extra uses to common N95 masks, tripling their useful lifetime. Already installed STERRAD systems can be easily implemented to process the masks, and ASP claims that a single STERRAD setup can reprocess 480 masks per day.
“We are...
Source: Medgadget - March 30, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Public Health Source Type: blogs
Against the “Noble Lie” – COVID-19 Edition
Alex NowrastehThe main political conflict in recent years is between experts or elites and non ‐experts. For lack of a better word, the non ‐experts are called populists. Their complaints have been specific: Elites and experts are arrogant, they have different values, they condescend in annoying ways, they ignore the sometimes legitimate concerns of populists, among others. Experts say that they should be listened to because they’ re more knowledgeable. We see it in debates on every issue from climate change to trade, immigration, and everything in between.The COVID-19 pandemic exposes another criticism of...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 25, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
