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 'colin'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:03:29 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5174751&cid=t_138441_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FFullosseousflapsDentalBlog%2F%7E3%2FZtfv2zmyyjY%2F Scooter Libby Jen rubin explains why in this excellent piece on Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, Vice President Cheney and his Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby. The extent of the dishonesty is quite stunning. In a Cabinet meeting on October 7, 2003, the White House press corps bombarded President George W. Bush with questions about who the leaker was. Bush said he didn’t know, but there would be an investigation to get to the bottom of it. Powell, who had been told by Armitage just days earlier that Armitage was the leaker, sat there next to the president, stone silent. Not very loyal or honest, was it? Moreover, the notion that Armitage’s slip was somehow inadvertent is belied by Bob Woodward’s taped interview in which Armitage repeatedly mentions Joe Wilson’s wife, evidently doing hi... FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5174751 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:28:41 +0100 5174751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4615080&cid=t_138441_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FOdE0M9UYEOc%2F By Christopher PrebleThis morning at the Skeptics, I blogged about a series of questions raised by the ongoing military operations against Libya. But I left room for one big question: Is the Weinberger/Powell Doctrine dead? Actually, it isn't a question. It's a statement: the doctrine that sought to prevent the United States from engaging in risky and counterproductive missions that had nothing to do with protecting U.S. vital interests (e.g. Lebanon 1983; Somalia, 1991; and Kosovo, 1999) is dead. Shovel dirt on it. To review, the doctrine was first coined by Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, in a speech at the National Press Club in 1984. Weinberger was aided by a rising military officer, Colin Powell, who later adapted the concepts for his own purposes as National ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4615080 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:00:55 +0100 4615080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3938327&cid=t_138441_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fphysician-burnout-doctors-and-patients-deserve-better%2F2010.09.06 A new patient recently said he was referred to me after his last doctor had left medicine. His old doctor always looked unhappy and burned out, he noted. Burnout affects more than half of doctors, according to researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Beyond mere job dissatisfaction, these doctors are emotionally exhausted to the point where they lose focus. They tend to be more depressed — perhaps one reason why doctors have a higher suicide rate than the general population. While burnout can happen in any profession, the performance of stressed-out doctors can hurt someone else: Patients. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at KevinMD.com* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3938327 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:00:14 +0100 3938327 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3891647&cid=t_138441_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fwar-injuries-iraq-afghanistan-advance-civilian-trauma-care%2F Innovations being tried by the military are advancing care for wounded soldiers and being implemented to improve care for civilians. Military surgeons and physicians Drs. Colin Meghoo, Raymond Fang, Dallas Hack, and David Blake comment on the advances. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3891647 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:32:06 +0100 3891647 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3440901&cid=t_138441_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Froi-studies-will-drive-greater-ehr-adoption Many providers have noted in various surveys and many speakers at conferences have said the federal incentives will not drive EHR adoption because there is no business case to implement EHRs. Now is the time for health-system pioneers of EHRs to analyze their data and highlight where EHRs have contributed to increases in patient safety and quality of care and decreases in cost. Third-party entities need to validate the results. Then, the results need to be broadcast as widely as possible. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3440901 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:49:31 +0100 3440901 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3420668&cid=t_138441_131_f&fid=34995&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgnxp%2F%7E3%2FSPKY6grDnPM%2F John Hawks has an excellent post rebutting some misinformation and confusion on the part of Colin Blakemore, an Oxford neurobiologist. Blakemore asserts that: * There was a sharp spike in cranial capacity ~200,000 years ago, on the order of 30% * And, that the large brain was not deleterious despite its large caloric footprint (25% of our calories service the brain) because the “environment of early humans was so clement and rich in resources” Hawks refutes the first by simply reposting the chart the above (x axis = years before present, y axis = cranial capacity). It’s rather straightforward, I don’t know the paleoanthropology with any great depth, but the gradual rise in hominin cranial capacity has always been a “mystery” waiting to be solved (see Gro... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3420668 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:38:08 +0100 3420668 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3395096&cid=t_138441_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fforget-me-not-put-me-online%2F Photo albums? So last year. A book? We’d rather read our Nook. If you missed the e-memo: Bound is out, digital is in. When you upgrade from paper to PDF, it’s time to toss your old journal. Thanks to new online diary services, you can use the Internet to unleash your inner Bridget Jones. Here are three of our fave places to soul-search on the World Wide Web: Penzu – Like the bound journals of yore, Penzu is a simple, straight-up diary platform. Its pages look like lined paper, and you can add digital photos through Flickr. You choose whether to keep your profile and journal private, or share entries with friends. (free) Cozi – This family journal blows your pen and paper off the table. It’s designed to be a collaborative journal, calendar, and communication service f... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3395096 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:41:37 +0100 3395096 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3386923&cid=t_138441_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F21%2Fthe-neuro-situation-of-moral-and-economic-decisions%2F From ThirteenWNET: To Steven Quartz & Colin Camerer the brain is a huge number-cruncher, assigning a numeric value to everything from a loaf of bread to our most deeply held moral “values.” In that sense, moral decisions are also economic ones. Using a brain scanner (fMRI), they want to catch the brain in the act—to see what it’s doing at exactly the moment a tough moral decision gets made. Their research is pioneering a new branch of neuroscience — neuroeconomics. * * * * * * To review a sample of related Situationist posts, see “The Legal Brain,” “Read My Brain – From Science Friday,” “The Situation of Neuroeconomics and Situationist Economics,” and “The Interior Situational Reaction to Inequality.” (Source: The... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3386923 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:01:46 +0100 3386923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3378418&cid=t_138441_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2Fe-cards-you-wont-be-embarrassed-to-send%2F Someecards gave us a tickle on Monday, so we thought we’d bring ‘em back for a dose of St. Paddy’s Day whimsy. all images from someecards.com Post from: BlissTree (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3378418 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:35:57 +0100 3378418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3212316&cid=t_138441_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fqd8-53IOb_4%2F By Sallie JamesHouse Agriculture Committee Chairman Colin Peterson (D, Sugarbeet Farmers) announced yesterday [$] that he would begin hearings on the 2012 Farm Bill this spring. I’m still recovering from the traumatizing 2008 Farm Bill fight, so I heard this news with some trepidation. But wait! Put those red pens away, folks, because Chairman Peterson plans to keep on spending on agricultural programs. Heaven forbid that agriculture should take any of those “cuts” we’ve been hearing so much about : House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., said… he is determined to write a bipartisan bill that is within the funding baseline that exists in 2012. The funding baseline is the amount of money that the Congressional Budget Office determines wo... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3212316 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:56:12 +0100 3212316 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3200426&cid=t_138441_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0dPQYKhI0_4%2F By Christopher PrebleLast week, Iraq’s independent electoral commission disqualified 511 candidates — most of them Sunnis — from running in the parliamentary elections scheduled for March. Today’s Washington Post reports that Vice President Joe Biden is hurrying off to Baghdad to try to convince the Iraqis to change their minds. U.S. troop withdrawals were supposed to accelerate after the elections were held and a new government seated. But the elections have already been postponed at least once, and the administration is worried that the obvious bias against Sunnis could stoke sectarian tensions. “U.S. officials are in a precarious position,” the Post story explains: They are stuck between the government they created and bolstered — a coalitio... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3200426 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:06:52 +0100 3200426 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2576593&cid=t_138441_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D1871 Now back to the Ed Biz, for a moment.  An article in Times Higher Education last week caused something of a stir. V-cs’ candid views slip out online. 2 July 2009 By Zöe Corbyn Prematurely released paper reveals fears of staff revolution and desire to cash in, writes Zöe Corbyn The article refers to a paper that appeared on the web site of the journal Higher Education Quarterly. It is Perspectives of UK Vice-Chancellors on Leading Universities in a Knowledge-Based Economy by Lynn Bosetti, University of Calgary, and Keith Walker, University of Saskatchewan. The paper quotes ten different university vice-chancellors (presidents) of UK universities. Some of the comments caused quite a stir when they were quoted anonymously in an article in Times Higher Education. But the... DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2576593 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:01:42 +0100 2576593 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441182&cid=t_138441_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTmMK2HmK3b4%2F With just one sentence, Tom Sowell thoroughly demolishes Colin Powell’s statist assertion that the American people want higher taxes: Just days after Colin Powell informed us that the American people were willing to pay higher taxes in order to get government services– and that Republicans therefore needed to stop their opposition to taxes– California voters resoundingly defeated a bill to raise taxes in order to pay for the many government services in that liberal state. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441182 Wed, 27 May 2009 12:48:44 +0100 2441182 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405042&cid=t_138441_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FeOWIO4B9lUg%2F Fred Kaplan and the New York Times say that the decision to replace General David McKiernan with Lt. General Stan McChrystal as the principle US commander in Afghanistan is another step in the COINification of the Pentagon under Robert Gates. They say we’ve replaced a conventional warfare guy with an unconventional warfare guy. That’s too simple. McChrystal is known for his mastery of the sharp or kinetic end of the counterinsurgency mission. The command he headed from 2003 to 2008 – Joint Special Operations Command — is essentially the operational component of Special Operations Command, which has really become a fifth service. JSOC organizes special operations missions in war zones.  According to many officers, JSOC has also become enraptured with direct a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405042 Wed, 13 May 2009 12:40:20 +0100 2405042 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1723772&cid=t_138441_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F22%2Fthe-situation-of-neuroeconomics-and-situationist-economics%2F In July, The Economist had a nice article on the burgeoning field of neuroeconomics, titled “Do Economists Need Brains.” We’ve excerpted a few chunks from that article below. * * * In the late 1990s a generation of academic economists had their eyes opened by Mr LeDoux’s and other accounts of how studies of the brain using recently developed techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed that different bits of the old grey matter are associated with different sorts of emotional and decision-making activity. The amygdalas are an example. Neuroscientists have shown that these almond-shaped clusters of neurons deep inside the medial temporal lobes play a key role in the formation of emotional responses such as fear. These new neuroeconomists saw that it might ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1723772 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:48:33 +0100 1723772 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1563830&cid=t_138441_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F2008%2F07%2F02%2Fbarack-obama-watch-colin-powell-to-endorse-obama%2F Former Bush Administration Secretary of State Colin Powell and Senator Barack Obama The buzz the past few days since it was released that Barack Obama had met with former Bush Administration Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell, has been that an endorsement of Obama for President was imminent. Robert Novak, the conservative pundit has written and was interviewed on Fox News repeating the mantra of an Obama endorsement by Powell. Jim Geraghty, too, writes that it is almost a done deal and that it matters. I’ll be stunned if Colin Powell does not endorse Barack Obama. (Today brings word that they met June 18.) Right now, Powell’s going to be largely, if not primarily, remembered as the man who sold the Iraq war at the United Nations. When Pow... FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1563830 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:22:48 +0100 1563830 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=954025&cid=t_138441_129_f&fid=34885&url=http%3A%2F%2Fterriblepalsy.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F16%2Fdid-i-say-that%2F Interesting story going around on the feeds that Colin Farrell has admitted that his son has Angelman Syndrome, apparently a rare form of congenital CP. Apparently, this is his dark secret. You know how the drill goes - yada yada yada . . . press sucks . . . yada yada yada . . . stereotypes . . . yada yada yada . . . positives not negatives . . . yada yada yada . . . miracle or pity . . . blah blah blah. To be honest, the skeptical side of me says of course it has to be a rare form of CP because a cele-brit-ies’ kid can’t have the regular everyday spastic form of CP that everyone else’s kids have (please forward all complaints to idon’tcare@yahoomail.com). I did say that is the skeptical side of me. The other side of me ignores the skeptic and thinks Colin is just a... Terrible Palsy blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=954025 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:34:11 +0100 954025 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=875012&cid=t_138441_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F157024080%2F4_lines_that_lock_out_entrepre.html If you capitalize on what makes the human brain tick, it shouldn't surprise you that these four lines lock out entrepreneurs that today’s workplaces need most. Do you catch yourself caught behind locked doors? 1. There’s not enough time.... Brain based response … You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. To organize time for an entrepreneurial project is to draw daily from your logical mathematical intelligence. Successful entrepreneurs train their brains to stretch time ... and so can you. 2. I’m afraid nobody will support me.... Brain based response … They likely won’t … at least in the beginning. Instead... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=875012 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:29:51 +0100 875012