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POPSWe Must Be On Guard For Extremism "When dealing with soldiers far from their homes and families and subject to the greatest imaginable stress, the Army needs to be on the watch for the predatory inroads of any form of political or religious extremism -- whether it be the jihadism to which Hasan was drawn or the Christian identity nonsense that inspired Timothy McVeigh."
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POPSHarvard study: Computers don't save hospitals money More; Himmelstein said that only a handful of hospitals and clinics realized even modest savings and increased efficiency -- and those hospitals custom-built their systems after computer system architects conducted months of earch. He pointed to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Latter Day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City and Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis as facilities with some success in deploying efficient e-health systems. That's because they were intuitive and aimed at clinicians, not administrators. Programmers of the successful systems told Himmelstein that they didn't write manuals or offer training. "If you need a manual, then the system doesn't work. If you need training, the system doesn't work," he said.
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POPSFort Hood Shooting: CCTV Shows Hasan Before Killings CCTV footage of US soldier hours before shooting rampage shopping at convenience store, wearing what appear to be traditional Muslim robes and a prayer cap. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/?bcpid=4464161001&bctid=48673103001
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POPSThe ‘Costs’ of Medical Care by Thomas Sowell NRO
countries where the medical training may not be the best. In short, reducing doctors’ income is not reducing the cost of medical care, it is refusing to pay those costs. Like other ways of refusing to pay costs, it has consequences. Any one of us can reduce medical costs by refusing to pay them. In our own lives, we recognize the consequences. But when someone with a gift for rhetoric tells us that the government can reduce the costs without consequences, we are ready to believe in such political miracles. There are some ways in which the real costs of medical care can be reduced, but the people who are leading the charge for a government takeover of medical care are not the least bit interested in actually reducing those costs, as distinguished from shifting the costs around or just refusing to pay them. The high costs of “defensive medicine” " expensive tests, medications, and procedures required to protect doctors and hospitals from ruinous lawsuits, rather than
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POPSEnd the Use of Live Pigs for Training at Baystate Medical Center The study Dying to Learn: Exposing the Supply of Dogs and Cats to Higher Education also found that both medical and veterinary students can learn just as well through alternative teaching methods that can include hands on training at shelters for vet students and simulators for medical students. Dying to Learn site: http://www.dyingtolearn.org/cruella.html
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POPSHealth Bills In Congress Won't Fix Doctor Shortage Add More Residents? 'Dead on Arrival' Almost everyone agrees on how to build up the supply of primary care physicians: create more residency positions at teaching hospitals for family doctors and internists to complete their training and significantly increase how much primary care doctors get paid by Medicare and other insurers. But there’s resistance to these steps because of their costs. A proposal backed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and the teaching hospital lobby to add 15,000 Medicare-funded medical residency positions -- a 15 percent increase that would favor more primary care training -- was considered dead on arrival because of its $10 billion price tag over a decade. Proponents said it was a small price to pay, in legislation that could run as high as $1 trillion, to ensure that patients have access to doctors. Instead, the House and Senate overhaul bills would redistribute about 1,000 unfilled residency positions . . .
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POPSOhio's Execution Round One Ever wonder what it would be like to be executed and have it botched? Ohio has 88 counties, 88 elected District Attorneys, several hundred elected common pleas judges who can preside over death penalty cases, 88 elected coroners, hundreds of police departments. None of the elected criminal justice officials in Ohio's 88 counties have to have any specific training to run or be elected to office. Do you think there could possibly be equal justice for either the accused, the victims, or friend and relatives of either party?
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POPSAt the end, offering comfort, not a cure More: A third of Medicare spending goes to patients with chronic illness in their last two years of life…Does calling on one more team of specialists at the end of a long and final hospital stay reduce this spending, or add another cost to already bloated medical bills? Dr. O’Mahony and other palliative care specialists often talk about wanting to curb the excesses of the medical machine, about their disillusionment over seeing patients whose bodies and spirits had been broken by the treatment they had hoped would cure them. But their intention, in a year observing their intimate daily interactions with patients, was not to limit people’s choices or speed them toward death…They argue that a frank acknowledgment of the inevitability of death allows patients to concentrate on improving the quality of their lives, rather than lengthening them, to put their affairs in order and to say goodbye before it is too late.
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POPSDaniel Hannan Warns Us About Universal Health Care 4. If your young doctor wants to be anything more than an internist or family practitioner, then the additional residency years or fellowship years begin. Again, almost no pay and no sleep. This means that the surgeon diving into your abdomen, or heart, or brain is someone who is (a) in the top two percent of our academic population and who (b) sacrificed up to 12 years of his/her life plus tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for the privilege of making that cut " and doing it right, so that you don’t bleed out or die of an infection, and so that you have a minimal scar and maximum comfort. If medicine is no longer remunerative, there is no incentive for good people to make these kinds of sacrifices. I’ll remind you that, in the former Soviet Union, medicine was a very devalued profession. It was harder work than most other jobs and, because it was essentially uncompensated, no one wanted to do it. Let’s talk about the doctors under Obama Care bookworm room
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POPSEmpowering Women "Women's empowerment is vital to sustainable development and the realization of human rights for all."
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POPSExercise in a Pill Previous work with genetically engineered mice in the Evans lab had revealed that permanently activating a genetic switch known as PPAR delta turned mice into indefatigable marathon runners. In addition to their super-endurance, the altered mice were resistant to weight gain, even when fed a high-fat diet that caused obesity in ordinary mice. On top of their lean and mean physique, their response to insulin improved, lowering levels of circulating glucose.
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POPSHow to fix the health care system Health care system based on greed, negligence and bureaucracy of medical-industrial complex and food industry is essential part of that complex. Manipulations with health in order to sustain money-making business leading us to the dead end only, where we sailing under full steam if not there already - position of that point I cannot determine for sure now. It is clear only that that vector has to be turned completely in opposite direction. There is no other choice.
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POPSLive Cats Used in College Medical Training The school could easily adopt better, more humane training methods, a PETA spokeswoman said. Most universities use human-like manikins instead of animals to practice life-saving procedures, PETA Research Associate Ian Smith said. PETA studied medical training methods at hundreds of universities, Smith said, and TTUHSC is the only one he is aware of that still uses cats, he said.
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POPSMuslims: 'We do that on first dates' At Al-Jazeera, they don't believe these interrogation memos are for real. Muslims look at them and say: THIS IS ALL THEY'RE DOING? We do that for practice. We do that to our friends. But the New York Times is populated with people who can't believe they live in a country where people would put a caterpillar in a terrorist's cell.
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POPS Spoiler Alerts! "24" Other questions emerged on the medical front. Jack Bauer is having memory lapses and soon enough will be hallucinating as the weaponized Mad Cow he inhaled eats his brain (Maybe as a cure he could inhale a weaponized Mad Horse?). Yet next week the FBI has him running around brandishing a gun and battling baddies. Golly, I hope Jack doesn't hallucinate himself into taking out half the FBI. This will all come together in a rollicking finale in late May. My Bold Prediction for a blockbuster finish - Jack's brain will be saved for next season by the timely intervention of Dr. House, called down from New Jersey (and away from his 8 PM Monday night time slot) just to treat Jack in the final episode. That is what we call entertainment synergy! And it might be the ony thing that could rekindle my interest in "House". Nahhh...
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POPSThe time bomb of RAPE of young African females. The birth canal of very young females is not developed enough to allow natural child birth. In conflict areas where the aid of proper medical facilities are none existent or too dangerous then obstetric fistula may result. The death of the child is often what saves the mother's life as it then contracts in size. Despite this, she faces expulsion from society for many reason but mainly the odour. The only solution is surgical repair. The operation itself is not difficult.. On TV I've seen a previous sufferer preform the operation under supervision yet she'd not completed primary school! When the bastards rape, they pick the youngest with a sequel like I've outlined above. Our Western media do not link the rapes with the eventual outcome. Why?
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