Advocating for health and humanity: a physician ’ s call to action amidst conflict
The unfolding events in Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank present a complex and deeply concerning situation. The entire area is smaller than the state of Vermont. My experiences in the West Bank, supported by a U.S. Scholar Fulbright award, have given me firsthand insight into the disruptions faced by individuals in these regions. The
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Advocating for health and humanity: a physician’s call to action amidst conflict originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Therese Zink, MD, MPH Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs
My Light, My Sky – AI artwork for a song
I realise there’s a lot of ongoing debate regarding generative AI tools, especially those that have putatively been trained on copyright material without permission from the creators. It’s generally impossible to know what work has been used as source data for the likes of Dall-E, ChatGPT, and MidJourney etc, unless you work in their back office, presumably. However, I do know that some of my copyright material, books, potentially website content, photos, and perhaps even some of my music, will have been used to train various AIs over the last few years.
AI-generated artwork with sullen sky, mountains, a centra...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Music Source Type: blogs
Za ’atar
I’m excited about this season’s Za’atar, because its almost entirely from foraged or home-grown spices.
We picked the sumac along a dirt road in Northern New Hampshire in late June. It was the most luscious, oil-packed, fragrant sumac I’ve ever encountered. (Read about how to find and dry sumac here.)
The oregano and thyme hailed from Pennsylvania and New York City, grown in sis Rosemary and friend Paula’s container gardens, as well as my own window box in the mountains. I dried the sumac by laying them it for a couple of weeks on a cooling rack atop a baking sheet, and the other herbs...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 16, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized food gifts handmade holiday gift homemade gifts spices Sumac Xmas gift za'atar Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Music lesson
Psalms 4 through 6 include instructions that give us little hints about the music. (The attribution to David is certainly fanciful, these were composed long after his death assuming he even existed.) The RSV translates some of the Hebrew terms which are not translated in the KJV, perhaps because back in 1611 they didn ' t have enough information. The term in Chapter 4 is " neginoth, " which is believed to refer to all stringed instruments. Some people have tried to assign it to a specific instrument, but the current consensus is that it is generic for strings. They probably didn ' t have bowed instruments, and perhaps not ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 12, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
From “ reverse ” to “ self ” leadership: a journey of survival and thriving
It’s the early 1980s. My homeland Iran is torn apart between a bloody revolution and a looming war. The militia of the Islamic regime raids houses overnight and arrests politically active people. We hear rumors that they’re tortured and pressured to rat out friends and family. Young people disappear one by one, and some of
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From “reverse” to “self” leadership: a journey of survival and thriving originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Parastoo Jangouk, MD Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Spotlighting SEPA for National STEM Day
The NIGMS Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program provides opportunities for pre-K-12 students from underserved communities to access STEM educational resources. SEPA grants support innovative, research-based, science education programs, furthering NIGMS’ mission to ensure a strong and diverse biomedical research workforce. SEPA projects generate resources that are mapped to state and national teaching standards for STEM and are rigorously evaluated for effectiveness; most are also available at no cost. These resources include mobile laboratories, interactive health exhibits in museums and science centers, edu...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: STEM Education Research Roundup SEPA Training Source Type: blogs
PhaseV Raises $15 Million to Push the Boundaries of ML for Clinical Trial Optimization
Clinical Trial Platform Uncovers Hidden Signals and Optimizes Next Steps for More Adaptive, Successful, and Efficient Clinical Trials
PhaseV, a pioneer in causal machine learning (ML) technology that optimizes clinical trial design and analysis, announced today that it has raised $15 million in funding, led by Viola Ventures and Exor Ventures, including participation from LionBird and a group of prominent angel investors.
A recent Deloitte study estimates the average cost of developing a single new drug at $2.3 billion in 2022, with an average 7.1-year deployment time. Moreover, the vast majority of drug candidates do...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Deloitte Dr. Brad Carlin Dr. Dan Goldstaub Dr. David Perry Dr. Howard Trachtman Dr. Marcia Levenstein Dr. Miriam Kidron Dr. Murray B. Urowitz Dr. Raviv Pryluk Dr. Sofia Vilar Elad Berkman Exor Vent Source Type: blogs
Antisemitism is at a historic high not just in other countries, but right here in America
October 7, much like Pearl Harbor or September 11, 2001, is a day that will forever be etched in infamy for Israel and Jews worldwide. Not since the Holocaust have so many Jewish people been killed in a single day. This was not a random act; it was a meticulously planned and incentivized scheme aimed
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Antisemitism is at a historic high not just in other countries, but right here in America originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Joshua D. Lenchus, DO Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Yes, people really believe this
Tom Sullivan at Digby ' s blog excerpts and discusses an interview by Chauncy DeVegawith Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute. If you want to read the entire interview, Sullivan gives a link, or you may be satisfied just with his discussion.What you don ' t get a strong sense of from the post, however, is some of the specific content of white Christian nationalism. As we ' ve been reading the Bible, we know that it ' s riddled with contradictions, manifest nonsense, and theology that is inconsistent with what fundamentalist Christians claim to believe. You may have heard that Speaker of the House Mike Joh...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Let's get it over with
I ' m going to post the last three chapters of Job today because we really need to move on. In chapters 40 and 41, God rants about creatures called respectively behemoth and leviathan. No-one is sure what these are supposed to be. The NIV footnote actually suggests that behemoth is a hippopotamus, and the footnote to chapter 41 suggests that leviathan is a crocodile. Neither of these solutions would seem to justify the vast powers God attributes to these creatures, but anyway, theirs existence is supposed to demonstrate the greatness of God. So Job says " Okay, I ' m just shit, " which is the answer God wants to hear, wher...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 5, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Gaza ’ s medical crisis
On October 11th, cardiopulmonary resuscitation was performed on the lifeless body of paramedic Hatem Awad as he was rushed through an ambulance bay in Gaza. Awad and his colleagues from the Palestinian Red Crescent had just been given the green light to head into eastern Gaza to assist victims of airstrikes, not knowing they would
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Gaza’s medical crisis originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tammy Abughnaim, MD and Emily Hacker, MPH Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
From immigrant to pediatrician: a midlife transformation
I was born in Tehran, Iran. I immigrated to the U.S., specifically Houston, Texas, at the age of 10. I completed my undergraduate degree, medical school, and pediatric training, all in Texas. I consider myself a Houstonian. I am a board-certified pediatrician. Additionally, I am an entrepreneur, co-founder, and managing partner at ABC Pediatric Clinic
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From immigrant to pediatrician: a midlife transformation originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sogol Pahlavan, MD Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
The Djokovic saga: Vaccination policies revisited
No matter your politics or judgment on the COVID-19 vaccine, we can agree that the visuals of the world’s number one tennis player being detained and treated like a criminal when he went to the Australian Open last year were unsettling, and the Australian government should have better handled his case. To recap, Mr. Djokovic
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The Djokovic saga: Vaccination policies revisited originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dinesh Arab, MD Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
“Doomscrolling” – Call the doctor!
by MIKE MAGEE
Exactly 1 year ago, mental health experts alerted the medical world to their version of an assessment scale for yet another new condition – “doomscrolling.”
As defined in the article, “Constant exposure to negative news on social media and news feeds could take the form of ‘doomscrolling’ which is commonly defined as a habit of scrolling through social media and news feeds where users obsessively seek for depressing and negative information.”
No one can deny a range of legitimate concerns. Faced with continued background noise from the pandemic, add global warming, renegade AI, and...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice Democracy Doomscrolling Nurses Physicians Source Type: blogs
Faculty and Student Perceptions of Unauthorized Collaborations
In this study, it was clear students do recognize the need for individual accountability and that their individual competence will be assessed, but they also recognize that they are encouraged to work with each other and that throughout their careers they will be working with colleagues in the clinical settings and for the rest of their lives. That gets at some of the tension, and we create some of that tension in the curriculum because we foster students working together in small groups and we embrace them supporting each other and helping each other learn. Then that comes up against the individual demonstration of compet...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 24, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast faculty learning environment medical students RIME Source Type: blogs
