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 'cruel'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:04 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4911486&cid=t_444830_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fsurgeon-shames-people-into-having-bariatric-surgery%2F2011.06.07 Say you’re a bariatric surgeon. You’d think Americans would be beating a path to your door. After all, this is the land of Instant Gratification! Who wants to just eat less for the better part of a year to lose 50 lbs when one can be cut open and have one’s gastrointestinal anatomy rearranged — resulting in the necessity of eating less, but why quibble — to lose that same 50 lbs (or more)? Changing lifestyles is boring; surgery is exciting! Funny how it turns out that in order for the surgery to succeed long-term, patients have to commit to lifestyle changes anyway. In fact, before any reputable bariatric surgeon will operate, patients have to demonstrate their dietary commitment by actually losing some weight on their own, prior to surgery. What I don’t understand is why peopl... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4911486 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:00:28 +0100 4911486 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4605874&cid=t_444830_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F17%2Fpessimism-vs-optimism%2F Imagine you divided everyone in the world into two psychological groups. You put all the optimists on one side and all the pessimists on the other (let’s leave the realists aside for now). Amongst the optimists the conversation would all be about fantastic plans for the future and how things can only get better. Meanwhile the pessimists are having what might seem to the optimists like a depressing discussion. Far from working out how to make their dreams come true, they’re worrying about all the things that might go wrong. They’re worried that even the things they have will be taken away from them by some cruel twist of fate. To the optimists, the pessimists seem too down on everything, always just a little too keen to pour cold water on any exciting plans. To the pessimi... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4605874 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:34:58 +0100 4605874 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3767049&cid=t_444830_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fcharo-wants-to-end-bullfighting-daily-do-gooder%2F Charo is now the spokesperson for PETA’s anti-bullfighting campaign. She has been against the cruel sport for years — she even has an anti-bullfighting song. Bulls are either starved or drugged before a fight, and sometimes they even have their horns sawed off. Charo is encouraging advocates to write a letter to José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s Prime Minister. photo: WENN.com Post from: BlissTree Charo Wants to End Bullfighting: Daily Do-Gooder (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3767049 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:30:58 +0100 3767049 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3573669&cid=t_444830_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FtLAseO5-J04%2F By Ilya ShapiroAs Wally points out in his Supreme Court/Kagan roundup, the Court did further damage to principled constitutional interpretation in citing foreign law as support for its holding that life-without-parole (LWOP) sentences are unconstitutional as applied to juveniles committing non-homicide crimes.  As I blogged when we filed a brief in the case, Graham v. Florida, “Cato takes no position on the wisdom of these types of sentences, but when evaluating their constitutionality the Court should only consider American law.” That is, regardless of the criminological or moral merits of juvenile LWOP sentences, the Court ought not consider non-binding provisions of international human rights treaties, other countries’ laws, or customary international law in its a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3573669 Mon, 17 May 2010 20:31:00 +0100 3573669 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1625775&cid=t_444830_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F336670219%2Fcan_satire_mask_the_new_yorker.html  My friend, Jim Walton’s blog on the shocking New Yorker magazine cover, questioned if any women or African Americans shared in the editorial decision to accept  this offensive cover. Good question Jim, and thanks for raising it. I hadn’t thought of that aspect.  Would the results have been more intelligent had the roundtable welcomed opposing views to this violent image’s impact? Sadly, today I cancelled my own subscription to the New Yorker, because I am shocked to see the Obamas portrayed as terrorists in such a cruel jest. I’d fully expected a few heads to roll or at least a public apology. When neither occurred I stopped my subscription, and suspect many others did the same.My deeper problem with this demeaning cover, however, is how we use words... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1625775 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:28:07 +0100 1625775 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1443057&cid=t_444830_151_f&fid=35823&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FAddictionInbox%2F%7E3%2F290415254%2Flethal-injections.html Bloggers Unite for Human RightsI offer the following post as a participant in "Unite For Human Rights," a campaign co-sponsored by BlogCatalog and Amnesty International USA.----------------Last month, in Baze v. Rees, the U.S Supreme Court dashed the hopes of human rights activists and ruled 7-2 that lethal injection in Kentucky does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment as defined by the constitution. In a narrowly technical ruling, the Court found that this method of execution under death penalty statutes was legal so long as there was no "substantial risk" of pain that could be alleviated by participating health professionals.In response to the court decision, Amnesty International USA released a public statement decrying the government's "preoccupation with lethal injection," cal... Addiction Inbox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1443057 Wed, 14 May 2008 20:05:00 +0100 1443057