MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'analogies'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:53 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4747722&cid=t_170041_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2011%2F04%2F22%2Fim-a-plumber-despite-just-wanting-to-be-an-emr-blogger%2F About a month ago, the market finally fell enough for my wife and I to buy our first house. It’s pretty exciting to finally be able to do it since we pretty much tried to buy a house every year since we moved to Las Vegas 6 years ago. Thankfully, we never did until now (although that’s another story). After purchasing the home, I found myself spending a fair amount of time having to repair a number of things around the house. One day I pretty much spent all day being a plumber as I (and a nice friend) replaced the garbage disposal, fixed a leaking sink, replaced the mechanism (whatever it’s called) in the toilet. Turns out that none of these things are really all that difficult. Although, it definitely had the initial learning curve for me to realize that it’s prett... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4747722 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:57:58 +0100 4747722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4142822&cid=t_170041_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F07%2Fjudges-are-like%2F This week I have been trying to catch up on some tasks that have been on my list since early in the semester.  One has been to post some of my recent papers on SSRN.  To this end, I have just put up Color Commentators of the Bench, which may be of interest to certain Situationist readers.  The abstract appears below: Featuring prominently in the last four sets of Supreme Court confirmation hearings, the judge-as-umpire analogy has become the dominant frame for understanding the role of the Justice and may also now act as a significant constraint on judicial behavior. Strong criticisms from legal academics and journalists attacking the realism of the analogy have had little destabilizing effect. This Essay argues that the best hope for shifting the public conception of the work of a Just... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4142822 Sun, 07 Nov 2010 04:01:15 +0100 4142822 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1856732&cid=t_170041_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F413421820%2F James Zull is a professor of Biology. He is also Director Emeritus of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. These roles most assuredly coalesced in his 2002 book, The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning. This is a book for both teachers and parents (because parents are also teachers!) Written with the earnestness of first-person experience and reflection, and a lifetime of expertise in biology, Zull makes a well-rounded case for his ideas. He offers those ideas for your perusal, providing much supporting evidence, but he doesn’t try to ram them into your psyche. Rather, he practices what he preaches by engaging you with stories, informing you with fact, and ... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1856732 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:53:40 +0100 1856732 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1645939&cid=t_170041_88_f&fid=34857&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscalpelorsword.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fon-tailoring-explanation-to-patient.html I recently treated an unfortunate young lady who suffered from the dual diagnoses of pulmonary emboli and cocaine addiction. Her last PE had almost killed her, but her social situation and drug addiction made compliance with a complicated medical plan difficult, so she seemed like a good candidate for a Greenfield Filter.When describing the apparatus itself, I used my favorite instrument - the analogy:"It works like the steel wool in a crack pipe," I said."It keeps the lumps from getting to your lungs." (Source: Scalpel or Sword?) Scalpel or Sword? blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1645939 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:39:00 +0100 1645939 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1237774&cid=t_170041_133_f&fid=35084&url=http%3A%2F%2Fballastexistenz.autistics.org%2F%3Fp%3D496 I was just having a conversation about a difference I’ve observed between various autistic people. I want to note, before I describe it, that it’s not some kind of cut and dried division, nor is it scientific. It’s just an observation I’ve made. It’s not even a matter of “types of autism” necessarily, because a person can function in both ways at different times in their life, or bits of both at once. But I notice that some of my friends and family are primarily one way, and some are primarily another. And be aware that when I’m talking about abilities, below, I’m talking about surface-level stuff. I’m not talking about the deeper neurological/cognitive sorts of abilities, which might be both stable and very much similar in all gr... Ballastexistenz blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1237774 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:39:57 +0100 1237774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487654&cid=t_170041_133_f&fid=35092&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autistics.org%2Fdemonized%2F%3Fp%3D10 This is from a letter signed, Michael A. Chernoff, for Alexander, Houston, Texas. …(but what price do you put on a child whose life has been destroyed by a known poison that was given to them?). This is what I call, “American’s Silent Holocaust.” It has happened and continues to this day to happen, but there are selfish individuals and organizations that are more concerned about their reputations and money,then ever doing the “right thing.” … So I plead that every person that has a child, or grand-child, or knows someone they care for and love with this horrible disorder, become ANGRY…become so vocal to your congressional representative’s, find the right lawyers (because that’s how we fight for our rights in a democracy),make it a... Autism Demonized blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487654 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:45:00 +0100 487654