Are other specialties becoming de-skilled? Tony James - a geriatrician colleague of mine from my time in Bridgend - puts
Are other specialties becoming de-skilled? Tony James - a geriatrician colleague of mine from my time in Bridgend - puts the question. A generation of Doctors unable to look after their patients?: Dr Anthony James is a Consultant Physician at Princess of Wales Hospital. There have been many changes...
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Denying patients NHS treatment based on lifestyle factors is not conducive to a good doctor-patient relationship. In response
Denying patients NHS treatment based on lifestyle factors is not conducive to a good doctor-patient relationship. In response to the Hertfordshire Valley CCG’s decision to restrict
access to routine surgery until morbidly obese patients have lost
weight, or smokers have given up, as discussed...
Source: rcgp.org.uk
Reducing patient mortality, length of stay and readmissions through machine learning-based sepsis prediction in the emergency
Reducing patient mortality, length of stay and readmissions through machine learning-based sepsis prediction in the emergency department, intensive care unit and hospital floor units. Sepsis management is a challenge for hospitals nationwide, as severe sepsis carries high mortality rates and costs...
Source: bmj.com
The Red Roads to Timbuktu : Image of the Day: Iron-rich laterite give the roads to this remote city in central Mali a distinctive
The Red Roads to Timbuktu : Image of the Day: Iron-rich laterite give the roads to this remote city in central Mali a distinctive color.
Source: nasa.gov
Neutron stars collide, solve major astronomical mysteries: Produces light and gravitational waves, confirms collisions produce
Neutron stars collide, solve major astronomical mysteries: Produces light and gravitational waves, confirms collisions produce fast gamma ray bursts, heavy elements.
Source: arstechnica.com
Using 'cooperative perception' between intelligent vehicles to reduce risks | KurzweilAI This is taking the Internet of
Using 'cooperative perception' between intelligent vehicles to reduce risks | KurzweilAI This is taking the Internet of Things idea to its automated driving conclusion. If all vehicles on the road have all the facts then they could optimise the routes and risks. We should try hard to democratise this...
Source: kurzweilai.net
Eldercare - an open source project for clinical measurement scales and summaries / links to guidelines in geriatric medicine.
Eldercare - an open source project for clinical measurement scales and summaries / links to guidelines in geriatric medicine. I have been working on this with colleagues at Royal Cornwall Hospital as an educational tool that can run on any mobile device and (when it is wrapped into an Android or iOS...
Source: github.com
Three-Quarters of All Honey On Earth Has Pesticides In It - Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge:
Three-Quarters of All Honey On Earth Has Pesticides In It - Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: About three quarters of all honey worldwide is contaminated with pesticides known to harm bees, according to a new study. Though the pesticide levels were below the limit deemed safe...
Source: slashdot.org
Fjord fiesta: the Norwegian farmhouse ales festival 2017: In Hornindal, in beautiful remotest Western Norway, if you tried
Fjord fiesta: the Norwegian farmhouse ales festival 2017: In Hornindal, in beautiful remotest Western Norway, if you tried to explain to the locals the fuss being made about cloudy New England IPAs, they would laugh, or look bemused. There are around a hu…
Source: zythophile.co.uk
Break down the barriers stopping overseas GPs working in the UK, demands RCGP
Break down the barriers stopping overseas GPs working in the UK, demands RCGP
Source: rcgp.org.uk
Physician Groups Respond to Las Vegas Shooting: By the Editors The sale and ownership of semiautomatic and automatic weapons
Physician Groups Respond to Las Vegas Shooting: By the Editors
The sale and ownership of semiautomatic and automatic weapons should be banned, the American College of Physicians said in response to the mass casualty … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
Text messages incredibly useful in general practice - but we recognise potential limitations
Text messages incredibly useful in general practice - but we recognise potential limitations
Source: rcgp.org.uk
From research to practice: results of 7300 mortality retrospective case record reviews in four acute hospitals in the North-East
From research to practice: results of 7300 mortality retrospective case record reviews in four acute hospitals in the North-East of England. Reviews using clinicians within trusts produce lower estimates of preventable deaths than published results using external clinicians. More research is needed...
Source: bmj.com
NICE right to advise against antibiotics for most ear infections
NICE right to advise against antibiotics for most ear infections
Source: rcgp.org.uk
What newsroom execs around the world think should be the next big areas of focus for their companies: Worry is universal
What newsroom execs around the world think should be the next big areas of focus for their companies: Worry is universal — but a quarter of publishers surveyed said their revenues are going up, not down.
Source: niemanlab.org
Short-duration podcasts as a supplementary learning tool: perceptions of medical students and impact on assessment performance:
Short-duration podcasts as a supplementary learning tool: perceptions of medical students and impact on assessment performance: Use of podcasts has several advantages in medical education. Podcasts can be of different types based on their length: short (1–5 min), moderate (6–15 min) and long (>15 min)...
Source: biomedcentral.com
The bilingual brain calculates differently depending on the language used: How do multilingual people solve arithmetical
The bilingual brain calculates differently depending on the language used: How do multilingual people solve arithmetical tasks presented to them in different languages? The question will gain in importance in the future, as an increasingly globalized job market and accelerated migration will mean that...
Source: eurekalert.org
Equifax Had 'Admin' as Login and Password in Argentina - Slashdot: Reader wired_parrot writes: The credit report provider
Equifax Had 'Admin' as Login and Password in Argentina - Slashdot: Reader wired_parrot writes: The credit report provider Equifax has been accused of a fresh data security breach, this time affecting its Argentine operations. The breach was revealed after security researchers discovered that an online...
Source: slashdot.org
Are publishers making money on Facebook? “Not really,” a new report finds: For years publishers have held onto the hope
Are publishers making money on Facebook? “Not really,” a new report finds: For years publishers have held onto the hope that all their investments in Facebook will, at some point, pay dividends when it comes to revenue. But a new report from WAN-IFRA suggests that, for most publishers, that's still...
Source: niemanlab.org
Social media helps students learn scientific argumentation better, study says: Adults often bemoan the amount of time young
Social media helps students learn scientific argumentation better, study says: Adults often bemoan the amount of time young people spend staring at a screen and browsing social media. But social media can not only be a way to teach students elements of the scientific process, those who took part in a...
Source: phys.org
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