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 'davies'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:59:11 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159033&cid=t_143991_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D4541%26utm_source%3Drss%26utm_medium%3Drss%26utm_campaign%3Dfreedom-of-information-reveals-some-unusual-testimonials-for-the-university-of-westminster-when-will-professor-geoffrey-petts-do-something-about-it Jump to follow-up Universities, like most businesses, cite glowing testimonials from grateful students, I doubt whether universities are any more honest than anyone else in their choice of what to publish. When I asked to see any letters that had been sent to the university, I was sent only one and extracts from it appear in the last post on Westminster. More dangerous nonsense from the University of Westminster: when will Professor Geoffrey Petts do something about it? But I knew (don’t ask how) that there had been more than that, and a slightly widened FOIA request produced some interesting results (though I’m aware of other letters that were not supplied -not good). As always, the information came with the caveat "Copyright in our response to your request belongs to ... DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159033 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:50:30 +0100 5159033 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3757939&cid=t_143991_109_f&fid=38951&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F07%2Fcarlat-on-nprs-fresh-air.html For those who are interested in topics dwelt on in this blog and in my book Unhinged, please check out my interview on the NPR show Fresh Air, which was aired on Tuesday July 13, and is available on the NPR website here. Give it a listen. Hopefully I was fairly articulate, although it's hard to know when you are sitting alone in a studio with a giant microphone staring you in the face and an engineer cheering you on behind a window in the control room!I found the host, Dave Davies (who was filling in for Terry Gross), extremely informed and I am perpetually impressed by the quality of programming on NPR. Today I was on another NPR show called Radio Boston, hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti (listen to it here) and again was amazed at the production quality and the intelligence of the questioning... The Carlat Psychiatry Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3757939 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:49:00 +0100 3757939 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1868491&cid=t_143991_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fdavies-award-winners.html I just got the word from HIMSS about the 2008 Davies Award winners. Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine, is the only organizational winner this year.Palm Beach (Fla.) Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oklahoma Arthritis Center, Edmond, Okla., and Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia won HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Awards of Excellence.For the first time, HIMSS added a Davies Community Health Award this year. Four organizations took home those honors: The Columbia Basin Health Association in Othello, Wash.; the White River Rural Health Center, Augusta, Ark.; the New York Children's Health Project, supported by the Children's Health Fund; and the Community Health Access Network in Newmarket, N.H.HIMSS previously announced that the Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority in Cherokee, N.C., and the ... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1868491 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:38:00 +0100 1868491 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1738932&cid=t_143991_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fdavies-public-health-winners.html I've just gotten the news that the Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority in Cherokee, N.C., and the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services have won the 2008 Nicholas E. Davies Public Health Awards of Excellence.The Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority, part of the Indian Health Service, does not have its own Web site, but I did find one presentation that might shed some light on the IT work being done there. For info on the Davies Awards, click here.On an unrelated topic, check out the op-ed piece in Tuesday's Christian Science Monitor by Sue Blevins of the Institute for Health Freedom, where she calls for Congress to scrap HIPAA and pass a new health privacy law. (Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog) Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1738932 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:55:00 +0100 1738932 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1253182&cid=t_143991_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fpre-himss-scuttlebutt.html ORLANDO, Fla.—Congress, are you listening? Steroids have hit health IT. National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Robert Kolodner, M.D., admitted to me this morning that he’s juicing. He even showed me the pills, surreptitiously hidden in the inside pocket of his suit jacket.Yeah, so what if he had a prescription, and he was using the ’roids to cure his laryngitis before he has to deliver a keynote address Wednesday morning to thousands of HIMSS conference attendees? If other media can hype steroid use in baseball, why can’t I do it in health IT?One person I mentioned this to today said he would support the use of performance-enhancing substances for anyone promoting greater adoption of health IT. So I guess the consensus is to take the Bud Selig approach and look the ... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1253182 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:16:00 +0100 1253182 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=830152&cid=t_143991_87_f&fid=36069&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrankiespeakingfrankly.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Ffollowing-on-from-my-previous-post.html Following on from my previous post about the lack of time, let me remind myself of this beautiful poem, which really needs no commentary:"LEISURE"What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long as sheep or cows.No time to see, when woods we pass,Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty's glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.No time to wait till her mouth canEnrich that smile her eyes began.A poor life this if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare.By Wm. Henry Davies.Here's a photo I took of one of my favourite places, St Ives, Cornwall.What I will say is, that if you read the above poem and just... Frankie Speaking Frankly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=830152 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:24:00 +0100 830152