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 'bus driver'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:42 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4086269&cid=t_148383_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedical-ethics-and-the-amish-bus-driver-rule%2F2010.10.20 Rachel Maddow, in a discussion related to the provision of abortion services, once proposed that we (society) should invoke the Amish Bus Driver Rule (ABDR) whenever medical professionals invoke their personal convictions in refusing to provide legal medical services. The ABDR goes like this: If you’re Amish, and therefore have religious convictions against internal combustion engines, then you have disqualified yourself for employment as a bus driver. (Presumably Ms. Maddow would not apply the ABDR to everyone, since it would disqualify, for instance, Al Gore from utilizing horseless carriages and other fossil-fueled contrivances.) The ABDR would do far more than merely render it okay for doctors to perform abortions and other ethically controversial (but legal) medical services. The... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4086269 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:00:58 +0100 4086269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2320462&cid=t_148383_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F-swwFitJTAE%2F This is one of the slides I created recently for my talks, and it seems to be getting the point across. Your answer? The follow-up question: is your job and life more similar to the constant problem-solving and mental challenge of the cab driver, or to the routine or the bus driver? Pascale wrote an excellent article on this, check it out: Brain Plasticity - How learning changes your brain. Have a good Good Friday/ Passover/ holiday/ weekend! brain, Brain Plasticity, bus driver, cab driver, hippocampus, Learning, mental challenge, problem solving (Source: SharpBrains) SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2320462 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:51:06 +0100 2320462 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1809834&cid=t_148383_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Fe7nf17uBF6I%2F A school bus driver in West Ashley (SC) is accused of striking an 11-year-old autistic boy who was getting on the bus, today’s Post and Courier reports. The alleged incident occurred on September 11. According to a police report, a school employee saw the child hit the child with his hands “after the child was being uncooperative while getting on the bus.” The driver has been suspended without pay. From the Post and Courier: The officer wrote in his report that he interviewed the child and did not observe any signs of abuse. He also spoke with the child’s teacher, who said she had not observed any signs of abuse or abnormal behavior, the report said. “It should be noted that (the child) suffers from autism,” the officer wrote. The boy’s family decl... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1809834 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:00:56 +0100 1809834 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1349655&cid=t_148383_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F263834049%2F A few days ago I asked does your child know that he or she is autistic?—-and now, after Wednesday’s World Autism Day and April being Autism Awareness Month, here’s another question in the same vein: Does your autistic child know that Wednesday was World Autism Day and that this whole month is Autism Awareness Month? I don’t like to speak on behalf of Charlie but have a few thoughts on this particular topic. First, no, he’s not particularly aware that Wednesday or this month are focused on him or, rather, on what he “has.” Charlie hardly needs to be aware of autism. When I think about all the news reports, special features, talk shows, general media onslaught of stories about autism that have been circulating, I suspect that most would not hold his ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1349655 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:09:25 +0100 1349655 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1152488&cid=t_148383_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F15%2Flobotomies-for-all%2F How could the entire modern medical profession get behind and approve of a procedure for over 30 years that involved sticking an ice pick through your upper eye sockets, into your brain, and rotating it? Amazingly, it did, from the 1930s until the 1960s. Marketed as a “cure all” for psychosis, depression, or any other troublesome behavior, it’s no wonder it worked: His operation severed the frontal lobe from the thalamus, the repository of emotions and the site where Freeman believed mental illness originated. Ouch. It’s the same story we’ve heard before — doctors wanting to do something, because they believe any kind of action is better than no action at all. We see that is not always the case. A few patients and their families claimed lobotomy ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1152488 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:05:58 +0100 1152488 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=894230&cid=t_148383_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F160550382%2F On our way home from a September swim in the ocean, we stopped at a rest stop on the Garden State Parkway to refuel (and re-soda). As Jim paid the cashier and Charlie checked out the chip selection just in case he could get something else (on top of a burger and fries meal heavy-on-the-ketchup and with a side of rice from his dad’s plate), I looked at a local paper and the words “bus-driver concerns shouted out to me in a front-page article in the Home News Tribune. I only had time to read the first two paragraphs: In one case, a 4-year-old student at Franklin Park Elementary School was left stranded on a school bus last Friday for five hours because the now-fired driver failed to sweep the vehicle to make sure no children remained. In another, a substitute bus driver resigned ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=894230 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:43:39 +0100 894230