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Vaccines and Their Critics - Practicing Medicine - The New Atlantis
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Vaccines and Their Critics. This year we witnessed a lot of contentious debate in newspapers and on television shows about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Recently, for example, the actor and anti-vaccine activist Jim Carrey. Spoke out against a new law in California that eliminates personal-belief exemptions from mandatory vaccination. Carrey tweeted. In a 2014 post on this blog, I told the story of a child in the hospital who nearly died from whooping cough. I pointed out t...
Olfactory Adjustments - Practicing Medicine - The New Atlantis
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014. The Emergency Department had called the surgical team to see a patient who had a deep abscess. An abscess initially develops with some kind of break in the skin: an insect bite or a cut. And these infections are usually caused by specific bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus. If the abscess goes untreated, the infection, despite being walled off, can still spread. Some of these bacteria infect and consume flesh and produce gas as they disseminate. On entering his room, the smel...
How the ED (Emergency Department) Works - Practicing Medicine - The New Atlantis
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Thursday, June 5, 2014. How the ED (Emergency Department) Works. Ambulance image via Shutterstock. Faking an illness for some type of secondary gain, like getting out of school or criminal prosecution). During one of my shifts, a patient presented to the ED with severe back pain. He could not sit still, and cried out every few seconds. He squirmed on the stretcher, moving his legs up and down, tearing sheets off the bed and clenching his hands to his chest while grimacing. Watching someone in...And there...
Becoming Cynical, Part 2 - Practicing Medicine - The New Atlantis
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Becoming Cynical, Part 2. Anyone but the patient. The innocence of children is inviolable and, as such, one cannot help but feel an unrelenting sympathy for them. Smoking leads to lung cancer. A poor diet leads to diabetes or heart disease. Taking medications regularly for Crohn’s Disease. When we know who the guilty party is, how can we behave impartially? The enervation of seeing patient after patient in a similarly preventable situation on the adult floors eases one into cynic...
Practicing Medicine Turns One - Practicing Medicine - The New Atlantis
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Monday, March 23, 2015. Practicing Medicine Turns One. What is so humorous about human suffering and pain. Why do we become. To human forms of suffering. What is the process by which we die. And is it dignified. How should we view the place of the mentally ill in our society. I have also made other, perhaps less broad and less grand, attempts at explicating the practice of medicine. My first post. And the horrors that trauma patients face. The kidney-failure patient also faces difficulties. Over the next...
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Medical education Archives - BioSylvania
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A Christian student explores biology and medicine. Tag Archives: Medical education. Don’t Waste Your Worry: Medical School Admissions. January 14, 2015. It appears that even if you are attempting Lewis Thomas’s regimen of Transcendental Metaworry, you may not be able to find good material for your gloomy forebodings in medical school admissions, at least not the degree often expected. My brother sent me an article. 8220;Start studying for the MCAT very early.”. Mr Newport’s advice, I think, is good...
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A Christian student explores biology and medicine. Tag Archives: Lewis Thomas. Don’t Waste Your Worry: Medical School Admissions. January 14, 2015. It appears that even if you are attempting Lewis Thomas’s regimen of Transcendental Metaworry, you may not be able to find good material for your gloomy forebodings in medical school admissions, at least not the degree often expected. My brother sent me an article. 8220;Start studying for the MCAT very early.”. Mr Newport’s advice, I think, is good....On the ...
The Dog Situation | Craic & Banter
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Musing on philosophy, healthcare and womanhood. June 28, 2015. Sometimes you just reach your limit. You’ve re-worked it. You’ve ‘offered it up’. You’ve choraled all manner of assistance. You’ve outsourced. You’ve tried to look on the bright side. You’ve spent many a moment wondering, “is my life meant to come to this? It’s no exaggeration to say this has been our journey in recent months with our beloved pooch, Billy. As a family, it has become. We are very sad to say that we need to find him a new home.
Diversity of Life Archives - BioSylvania
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A Christian student explores biology and medicine. Tag Archives: Diversity of Life. Wendell Berry’s Life Is a Miracle. February 22, 2015. Wendell Berry is a writer from Kentucky whose years have ripened on a farm where he writes his poetry, novels, and essays. Though I know little of Mr. Berry besides the fingerprints he leaves on his books, I appreciate and trust his good craftsmanship, warm sense of local community, and apparent Christian faith. After finishing a fine novel of his,. Life Is a Miracle.
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A Christian student explores biology and medicine. All posts by Ben Watt. Walking in the Laurel Highlands. August 5, 2016. Last month, on the cool Saturday morning before July 4th, my brother. Here are a few pictures we took, accompanied by quotes from Thoreau’s essay “Walking”:. We hug the earth how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate ourselves a little more. We might climb a tree, at least. Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no mo...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015. In the first five pages of The Marvelous Clouds. John Durham Peters says that media are. 8220;devices of information”. 8220;agencies of order”. 8220;constitutive parts of . our ecological and economic systems”. 8220;vessels and environments”. 8220;containers of possibility that anchor our existence”. 8220;vehicles that carry and communicate meaning”. 8220;the means by which meaning is communicated”. 8220;infrastructures of data and control”. The second is that he actually has.
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algorithms and responsibility - Text Patterns - The New Atlantis
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. One of my fairly regular subthemes here is the increasing power of algorithms over our daily lives and what Ted Striphas has called “the black box of algorithmic culture”. So I am naturally interested in this interview with Cynthia Dwork. On algorithms and bias — more specifically, on the widespread, erroneous, and quite poisonous notion that if decisions are being made by algorithms they can’t be biased. (See also theses 54 through 56 here. 8212; Dwork simply punts: “This...
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learning attention - Text Patterns - The New Atlantis
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Here at Baylor's Honors Program, we offer first year seminars. That are meant to introduce our students to the challenges and benefits of honors-level work. I'm going to be teaching one of those next year, and here are some of the possibilities I've been considering:. 1) The Two Cultures:. CP Snow wrote fifty years ago that the sciences and the humanities were drawing farther and farther apart, and that this severance socially dangerous. Was he right? 4) Poetry as Theology:.
James Hughes, the Enlightenment, and the radiant future - Futurisms - The New Atlantis
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Sunday, June 13, 2010. James Hughes, the Enlightenment, and the radiant future. Continuing coverage of the 2010 H Summit. James Hughes had the morning talk after Patrick Hopkins. He basically did a rapidfire ten-minute version of a mini-essay he published earlier this year on transhumanism's inheritance of Enlightenment problems. Hughes calls particular attention to the Marquis de Condorcet. Who "wrote one of the most remarkably utopian essays in the history of the Enlightenment, which proposed that reas...
Killer Robots, the Free Market, and the Need for Law - Futurisms - The New Atlantis
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Killer Robots, the Free Market, and the Need for Law. Continuing coverage of the UN’s 2015 conference on killer robots. See all posts in this series here. Gariepy, as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, wrote, “To the people against killer robots: we support you. Clearpath Robotics believes that the development of killer robots is unwise, unethical, and should be banned on an international scale.”. Ryan Gariepy’s presentation. 8221; phenomenon that characterizes complex sy...
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Occasional sermons and reflections by a Christian layperson. Sunday, September 4, 2016. Our Greatest Labor is Love; Our Greatest Tool is Presence. Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. ― Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. 1Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked,. Nor lingered in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seats of the scornful! 2Their delight is in the law of the Lord,.
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Thinking About Student Migration Flows. January 28, 2016. How do we imagine population decline? Maybe Youngstown or, at the other end of the geographic spectrum, western Kansas? June 24, 2014. This map gives a sense of how human capital stocks (the change in the share of the population with at least a BA in 2000 and 2010) change along with population in the largest US cities. The time period is 2000-2010. April 7, 2014. Capturing the Scale of Decline. February 25, 2014. Counties from these maps (more on ...
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A blog about my journey of using and implementing David Allen's productivity tools from "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity". Monday, 20 April 2015. It's been a long time since I last posted on my blog and I hope that I will be able to get back to posting regularly from now on. It has been a very busy and exciting 22 months for me. I gave birth to a little girl at the end of 2013 and my world was turned upsidedown in the nicest possible way! Tuesday, 2 July 2013. Sunday, 23 June 2013.
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Monday, August 10, 2015. A Tour of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). I have a rendezvous with Death. At some disputed barricade,. When Spring comes back with rustling shade. And apple-blossoms fill the air—. I have a rendezvous with Death. When Spring brings back blue days and fair. It may be he shall take my hand. And lead me into his dark land. And close my eyes and quench my breath—. It may be I shall pass him still. I have a rendezvous with Death. On some scarred slope of battered hill,. Each room is fi...
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Proud to be a practicing Muslim!
Proud to be a practicing Muslim! Wednesday, September 23, 2015. ISNA Statement on the Inclusion of Women in Masjids. Women treatment in the Masajid is a very critical issue, and requires an open discussion. Recently ISNA, the largest Muslim organization, weighed in on this subject, and I like to share it with everyone. ISNA Statement on the Inclusion of Women in Masjids. In the name of Allah Most Compassionate Most Merciful. We, the undersigned Muslim scholars, leaders, organizations and concerned Muslim...
Practicing Presence - Live From The Moment - Overcoming Life's Challenges
Radical Transformation Through The Simplicity Of Practicing Presence. The Point of Power Is In the Present Moment. What Working With Me Looks Like. Practicing Presence With Brett Koorstad. It’s Truth Time. All the best stuff is in the Present Moment. People know this intellectually. We do. In fact, practicing presence and mindfulness have taken on this sort of this trendy, new-agey, current hot topic-ness. But that aside, Practicing Presence became the. Life of Your Dreams. My name is Brett Koorstad, and...
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Love the quick profit, the annual raise,. Vacation with pay. Want more. Of everything ready-made. Be afraid. To know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Wendell Berry, EXCERPT: Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front. Why Justice is a Community Matter. Lucky for me, my typers still work. My typers never get sick. So what does justice look like for them when it comes to the wrongs they have done? We'll keep score and see how I did. So without further ado (because who...
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Practicing the Power of Now in your life.
Practicing the Power of Now in your life. Practicing the "Power of Now" in your life is my blog to help people practice the power of now. My posts will discuss how to apply the Power of Now in your life. I am here to point you toward the achievement of inner peace and "enjoying the road" toward your dreams professionally and personally. Sunday, June 12, 2005. Why do we hold on so tight to the way we perceive things "have to be"? Why can't we be happy or at least at peace with the way things are right now?
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