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 'decency'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:32:11 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3545440&cid=t_229411_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhen-grief-turns-into-rage%2F2010.05.08 Twice in the last few months I have encountered grief as rage. Both were in the setting of the cardiac arrest of individuals who were already very ill. One was aged, with severe, end-stage heart disease. One was of middle age, but with metastatic cancer and on hospice. In one instance, family members became angry because we did not leave the body in the ER for eight hours so that everyone could come and pay their respects. (Which I always thought was the purpose of a funeral home.)  In another, a family was angry because we did not allow everyone back into the room during the resuscitation of their cancer-stricken loved one — a resuscitation the family insisted upon, and which required rescinding hospice status. From observing their demeanor, their presence would have caused to... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3545440 Sat, 08 May 2010 14:00:15 +0100 3545440 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3456669&cid=t_229411_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FnkONjUE--qc%2F By Timothy B. LeeI’m saddened to hear of the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens. Whatever you might say about his jurisprudence in other areas, one place where Justice Stevens really shined was in his defense of high-tech freedom. Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion in some of the most important high-tech cases of the last four decades. In other cases, he wrote important (and in some cases prescient) dissents. Through it all, he was a consistent voice for freedom of expression and the freedom to innovate. His accomplishments include: Free speech: Justice Stevens wrote the majority decision in ACLU v. Reno, the decision that struck down the infamous Communications Decency Act and clearly established that the First Amendment applies to the Internet. In the 13 years since t... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3456669 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:57:19 +0100 3456669 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3306827&cid=t_229411_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FH3xEAo5Exig%2F By Jim HarperGoogle executives who had nothing to do with the creation, uploading, review, or display of a video have been criminally convicted in Italy for its brief appearance on a Google site. The video, which showed Italian children taunting an autistic schoolmate, was promptly taken down after Italian authorities notified Google. The company assisted the authorities in locating the girl who uploaded it, according to Google’s account. (Her subsequent conviction makes it safe to assume that Google was cooperating with a criminal investigation as required by Italian law.) But four Google employees were charged with criminal defamation and failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. That can’t happen here—unless we let it happen here. This is a good time to revi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3306827 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:40:58 +0100 3306827 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2240990&cid=t_229411_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D6325 Half-naked means 50% your body is exposed and unclothed. Apparently some undergraduates aren’t comfortable with the bare shoulders of young ladies exposed and are making noise Photographs of students in strapless evening dresses, posted on the Mahasiswakini website, riled several parties, including Padang Terap member of parliament Nasir Zakaria. Mr Nasir had raised the issue in Parliament on Thursday claiming that ‘it was morally wrong to hold such a function in the university’s premises’. Nur Fadhilah, in her reply to the Feb 24 blog posting by Mahasiswakini.com, said that while the students had modelled decent clothes, the organisers had failed to stop Chinese foreign exchange students dressing in sexy outfits. I’m sorry to say that this IMHO is far from ... Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2240990 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2240990