Why Education Should Be a Lifelong Process
Many of us consider the end of our formal schooling to be the end of our education. We leave school, begin our professional careers, and shift our focus away from learning.
But growth is a lifelong process, not limited to formal education. Our wisdom accumulates indirectly through life experience.
The development of our wisdom can be expedited and expanded by concomitant gains in knowledge. We can make more of what we know, and better understand our experiences.
If we wish to truly make the most of ourselves and maximize our potential, we should view learning as a lifelong process. It doesn’t matter whether that...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Cameron Sewick Tags: featured motivation philosophy self education self-improvement success growth Source Type: blogs
Before 7am
I love the morning magical time. It’s my favorite time of day – before dawn when most of the city is still snug in bed.
This morning I hopped out of bed at 4:45am, feeling happy to start another adventurous day. By 7am this morning, I had done the following:
Ran 5 miles / 8 kilometersDid 12,000 stepsListened to 4 hours of The Art of Possibility audiobook (100 minutes x 2.5 speed)Did 15 minutes of yoga with a little meditation at the endMade a green smoothie (1 banana, 6 mandarin oranges, spinach, celery, blueberries, maca, dehydrated barley grass juice, chia seeds, hemp seeds, water)Mopped the kitchen floor (...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs
Be Yourself, Nurses; Everyone Else Is Taken
Owning and stepping into your own genius as a nurse is important; and genius is, of course, relative for all nurses. At times, we can lose heart and feel that we just can ' t become the person or professional we thought we could be; however, seeking our own individual path is paramount when it comes to creating a career that feels tailor-made just for us, and not just a path someone else said was the best one to follow. Whether you feel like an impostor or your career has grown stale, there ' s nothing you can be other than yourself; and if you ' re trying terribly hard to be just like someone else (or do what others ...
Source: Digital Doorway - May 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers nurse nurse career nurses nursing nursing careers 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
COVID: Supplements, the Immune System, and Preventative Care
In the midst of a viral pandemic, with orders to “shelter at home” in effect, parents may be wondering what else can be done to protect the health of their families. Unprecedented circumstances often lead to feelings of a loss of control, which can sometimes generate a sense of fear, and even sadness.
Minimizing unnecessary travel and condensing trips to the grocery store or pharmacy is a vital part of slowing the spread of illness, however, there are also ways to take care of yourself and your children that can improve the function of the innate immune system, lessen stress, and increase the chances of staying safe an...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 13, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Air Quality COVID COVID-19 Immunity Vitamins & Supplements Zinc Source Type: blogs
poem
Lost at SeaTrapped in this houseI can feel lost at sea,Capsized from my couchBy a sudden mid-Atlantic tempest.The hours are equatorial doldrumsIn which I pace and ponder and nothing gets done.There is a scurvy resurgent that even oranges can ’t sate.The mind reels and the bones too easily break.Does the wave even see the shore?Is it worried about what ’s coming?Or is this just me seeing a waveFrom a porthole in my homeUnfurling itself in rhythmic driftBefore it falls over in a splash of foam?The wave is the one that swimsWhile I am the flailing white froth:I should have seen the rocks before the cliffs.4/11/20 (Source: Buckeye Surgeon)
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - April 10, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Comparing Military Spending and COVID-19 Related Medical Costs
Christopher A. PrebleAs the United States struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak, it has revivedthe perennial guns versus butter debate. Or, in this case, guns versus medical equipment. Might some of the money spent on the U.S. military have been better spent on more useful things closer to home? Might a few million additional N ‑95 masks have protected more Americans than a few additional M1 Abrams tanks? Might the money spent on even a single F ‑35 fighter plane have saved more lives — in April and May of 2020, at least — if it had been used to buy a few thousand more ventilators?Such q...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 7, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
‘Sophie’s Choice’ in the time of coronavirus: Deciding who gets the ventilator
Three otherwise healthy patients go to the emergency department with severe acute respiratory failure. Only one ventilator, required to sustain life until the worst of the coronavirus infection has passed, is available. Who gets the vent?
That’s what “A Framework for Rationing Ventilators and Critical Care Beds During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” a Viewpoint just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), addresses. Douglas White, MD, MAS, Endowed Chair for Ethics in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 6, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care Author: Lewis syndicated Source Type: blogs
Our Liberties Have Value Too
Ryan BourneWhen thinking through the wisdom of COVID-19 lockdowns and orders, commentators often compare the value of lives saved against some loss of economic output (GDP) to determine whether the measure was cost ‐effective. But this is an apples vs. oranges comparison.The value of a statistical life is some calculation of what the average U.S. citizen is willing to pay for a reduction in their probability of dying. Suppose I ’m willing to pay $20,000 to avoid a 0.2 percent chance of death. The value of a statistical life for me is thus $20,000/0.2 percent = $10 million per statistical life sav...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
If you have only two embryos, should you transfer both of them ? or should you transfer one and freeze the other one?
This is a common quandary for patients with a poor ovarian response !If you have 2 top-quality blastocysts, what should your strategy be ? Should you transfer one and freeze the other ? Or transfer both together?If you put both together, you increase your chance of getting pregnant in that cycle - but this is an unfair comparison - after all, you shouldn't compare apples to oranges !You should compare transferring two embryos at one time , with transferring one embryo at a time in two consecutive cycles.And the pregnancy rate with transferring a single embryo in two consecutive cycles - a sequential single embryo transfer ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - February 7, 2020 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Bullet List
Too much going on for one post today.1. Sock puppet?We have a reader who is obsessed with his false conclusion that the commenter Don Quixote is actually my sock puppet. I ask you please to stop wasting your time and mine with this delusion. We do know each other, but we have seen each other once in the past 15 years or so. I live in Connecticut and he lives in the midwest, more than 1,000 miles away. Whatever I have to say, I am more than happy to say in my own name, and I do. BTW I am not known as Michael.2. Mad KingYour Intertubes are all aflutter with speculation and discussion about the neurodegenerative disease many ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 3, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Monk fruit –More than a healthy sweetener?
Because I wanted a benign and healthy way for followers of the Wheat Belly lifestyle to recreate dishes such as chocolate chip cookies, cheesecake, and pies with none of the health problems of grains or sugars, I helped Wheat-Free Market develop its Virtue Sweetener product.
Yes, you could do without such sweeteners. But I learned long ago when I introduced Wheat Belly concepts to patients in my cardiology practice that having options while entertaining friends, during holidays, and pleasing kids was important for staying on course on this lifestyle. Before I understood how to use such natural sweeteners, patients would ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open blood sugar diabetes Dr. Davis Inflammation insulin low-carb monk fruit natural sweeteners undoctored virtue sweetener Weight Loss wheat Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Why single embryo transfers are a better option
Many IVF patients want us to put as many embryos back as possible , because they want to get pregnant as quickly as possible, and they know that the more the embryos they transfer, the better their chances of conceiving. This is why some clinics will routinely put back three or four embryos at a time.I actually think this is irresponsible , because it increases the risk of a multiple pregnancy. Some of these patients end up with premature labors, which means their babies spend months languishing in a NICU, and maybe handicapped because of the prematurity. Even worse, the doctor does a selective fetal reduction to "tre...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - December 3, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine
There ’s a dream I’ve had repeatedly in my life, including quite recently. In this dream, I am driving down a long, remote West Texas road at high speed, with no other cars around me. I’m going fast, in that way you hurtle forward on a desert highway when the perspective tricks you into picking what feels like leisurely pace until you look down and you’re doing ninety miles per hour. The sun is setting, the sky exploding in reds and oranges and a deepening purple.Suddenly, without warning or drama, the wheel comes off in my hand. I ’m holding it, gripped with panic, as the car continues down the road. I hit the b...
Source: Schuyler's Monster: The Blog - November 24, 2019 Category: Disability Authors: Rob Source Type: blogs
