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 'grammar'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:08:29 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3316253&cid=t_101178_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2F4TFYX3y6UOo%2F Anyone can learn online More than 100 Free Places to Learn Online – and Counting People in recovery from alcoholism, addiction, codependency, gambling and sex addiction often find they have a ‘need to learn’. Or they find they have missed learning some basic stuff about life and how to live. This list of free online education may help some people. 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Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3316253 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:55:12 +0100 3316253 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2828477&cid=t_101178_165_f&fid=37959&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthskills.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F24%2Fnational-punctuation-day-september-24%2F If you are not sure how to use a comma, apostrophe, semi colon, dash – today is the day to celebrate and learn.  Today is National Punctuation Day – for more information go here Do NOT go here to learn HOW – go here to learn how NOT and close your eyes when looking below (Source: HealthSkills Weblog) HealthSkills Weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2828477 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:17:30 +0100 2828477 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796353&cid=t_101178_86_f&fid=36090&url=http%3A%2F%2Forgmonkey.net%2F%3Fp%3D752 i was just introduced to the term virtuous circle. it means, according to dictionary.com, “a beneficial cycle of events or incidents, each having a positive effect on the next.”  how nice is that! (Source: Organization Monkey) Organization Monkey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796353 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:20:20 +0100 2796353 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441312&cid=t_101178_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fdiversity-in-medicine.html From its earliest days, NHS BLOG DOCTOR has railed against the dumbing down of health care in the NHS. The process has been so well handled by the government PR spinmeisters that nowadays it is politically incorrect to say that a health care professional who has not been to university may have neither the training nor the intellectual capacity to do the same job as a doctor. How dare you even suggest that?The process continues.It is now recognised that it is intellectual discrimination to insist that only qualified doctors should be allowed to apply for jobs as doctors. It is essential to get people from a broader intellectual base into medicine. From 1st August 2010 the computerised MTAS system, which matches applicants for junior hospital doctor jobs, will be using the new Mandelson-Hewi... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441312 Sun, 24 May 2009 10:15:00 +0100 2441312 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416853&cid=t_101178_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Ftake-letter-angela.html A brief interlude of pleasure presented purely to amuse Dr Crippen, Scribbler, Dearieme and and any other grammar pedants who may be reading.Thanks, as so often, to the Amateur Transplants and also to the Junior Doctor at NHS247 (Source: NHS Blog Doctor) NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416853 Sun, 17 May 2009 12:50:00 +0100 2416853 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2234138&cid=t_101178_86_f&fid=36090&url=http%3A%2F%2Forgmonkey.net%2F%3Fp%3D529 To celebrate National Grammar Day I will be perusing the Web site, http://nationalgrammarday.com/, in order to look at their Top 10 Grammar Tips. It is the morning as I post this, but for those already looking forward to Happy Hour may appreciate their recipe for the Grammartini: How to Mix a Perfect Grammartini Pour two-and-a-half ounces of gin, a half-ounce of dry vermouth and several ice cubes into a martini shaker. Shake. (The shaker—not your body or your dog’s paw.) Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with an olive. If you must, use a lemon twist instead. The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar likes olives, however. When life hands us lemons, we make lemonade. (Source: Organization Monkey) Organization Monkey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2234138 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:18:39 +0100 2234138 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2053396&cid=t_101178_86_f&fid=36090&url=http%3A%2F%2Forgmonkey.net%2F%3Fp%3D429 the grammar doctor has not checked in lately on this blog. to make up for lost time, check out a blog called “celebrity english.” it is a fun site that uses statements made by celebrities during interviews and on their own websites to determine if they are speaking english correctly. the site could be snarky but it isn’t; it’s lighthearted and informative. enjoy! (Source: Organization Monkey) Organization Monkey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2053396 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:37:14 +0100 2053396 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1955305&cid=t_101178_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F4Ii0Nlq7dHY%2F Autism myths abound and Kev is collecting, and dissecting, them at this new site. One myth that especailly irks me is the notion that autistic kids are “in their own world” and “withdrawn into themselves” and, generally, “out of it.” My son Charlie is thoroughly engaged in and attuned to the goings-on of the world all around him. He may not look like he is, and he often does no respond in the usual ways that people are accustomed, to indicate social awareness. Due to his limited language, people tend to assume, or too quickly assume, that he does not understand what is said to him. But never underestimate how carefully someone, and someone who doesn’t have the “usual,” “expected” responses, might be tuning in. It’s app... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1955305 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:21:28 +0100 1955305 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1933484&cid=t_101178_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F05%2Fmoral-grammar-and-intuitive-jurisprudence-abstract%2F John Mikhail’s recently posted his forthcoming chapter, “Moral Grammar and Intuitive Jurisprudence: A Formal Model of Unconscious Moral and Legal Knowledge” (forthcoming in The Psychology of Learning and Motiation: Moral Cognition and Decision Making (D. Medin, L. Skitka, C. W. Bauman, D. Bartels, eds., 2009) on SSRN.  Here’s the abstract. * * * Could a computer be programmed to make moral judgments about cases of intentional harm and unreasonable risk that match those judgments people already make intuitively? If the human moral sense is an unconscious computational mechanism of some sort, as many cognitive scientists have suggested, then the answer should be yes. So too if the search for reflective equilibrium is a sound enterprise, since achieving this state of... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1933484 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:01:45 +0100 1933484 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1852484&cid=t_101178_85_f&fid=34705&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatdoctor.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fstandard-schmandard.html Okey dokey, readers, you now have the opportunity to solve a wittle-bitty disagreement in our home.Yesterday, Son was bowling and said "I knocked down 5 pens!""Pins," I said."Pens," he replied, looking at me like I'm stupid.I turned to Husband and said, "You are teaching him that 'i' is pronounced 'e'. He gets this from your saying 'melk' instead of 'milk.'"Husband countered that it is 'standard English'. Yeah, I wondered too.Apparently, when he was traveling in Europe last week, everyone he met commented that he was so easy to understand because he used "Standard English."Standard schmandard. You don't pronounce milk 'melk' or pins 'pens'.Thoughts? (Source: Fat Doctor) Fat Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1852484 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:00:00 +0100 1852484 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1709857&cid=t_101178_86_f&fid=36090&url=http%3A%2F%2Forgmonkey.net%2F%3Fp%3D314 (Source: Organization Monkey) Organization Monkey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1709857 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:17:09 +0100 1709857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1696512&cid=t_101178_151_f&fid=36896&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsuboxonetalkzone.com%2F2008%2F08%2F12%2Fwats-dis%2F Sometimes I get comments that seem a bit ‘out there’– Maybe you all can help me out.  Does this message seem ‘legit’ to you?  Yes, of course I know people talk this way… but do people write this way as well?  Y’all chek dis shit OUT! whats up man, i have been taking sub’s 4 about 6 months now….the reson that i have been on thim for so long is cuz i was really off bad when i was useing…it was like 3-4 o.c. 80s a day …so my doc told me i really need to stay on the sub’s for like a year or so ,and i really love being off the shit … but….i really need xanax not to get fucked up. just to calm me down (idc if u know what i’m talking about but i fill on edge all the time ,and cant sleep) i was going to ask my doc. for mybe like a 1mg do... Suboxone Talk Zone blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1696512 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:40:59 +0100 1696512 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1472766&cid=t_101178_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F27%2Fmoral-cognitions-abstract%2F In light of the previous post on Moral Psychology, we decided to provide the abstract to John Mikhail’s paper, “Aspects of the Theory of Moral Cognition: Investigating Intuitive Knowledge of the Prohibition of Intentional Battery and the Principle of Double Effect” (May 2002), which is available on SSRN. * * * Where do our moral intuitions come from? Are they innate? Does the brain contain a module specialized for moral judgment? Does the human genetic program contain instructions for the acquisition of a sense of justice or moral sense? Questions like these have been asked in one form or another for centuries. In this paper we take them up again, with the aim of clarifying them and developing a specific proposal for how they can be empirically investigated. The paper pr... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1472766 Wed, 28 May 2008 00:57:12 +0100 1472766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1470181&cid=t_101178_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F27%2Fmoral-psychology-primer%2F Dan Jones has a terrific article in the April issue of Prospect, titled “The Emerging Moral Psychology.” We’ve included some excerpts from the article below. * * * Long thought to be a topic of enquiry within the humanities, the nature of human morality is increasingly being scrutinised by the natural sciences. This shift is now beginning to provide impressive intellectual returns on investment. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, economists, primatologists and anthropologists, all borrowing liberally from each others’ insights, are putting together a novel picture of morality—a trend that University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt has described as the “new synthesis in moral psychology.” The picture emerging shows the moral sense to be the prod... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1470181 Tue, 27 May 2008 14:41:35 +0100 1470181 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1389076&cid=t_101178_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F274899706%2F Mega-autism-organization Autism Speaks has launched yet another fund-raising event. It’s called Eat, Shop, Give: If you’re in Montgomery County, Maryland, you can purchase a special Eat, Shop, Give (ESG) key tag for $50.00 and get discounts at certain businesses from the 21st through the 27th of April. “Eat, Shop, Give” is a sort of telegraphic phrase—a much shortened version of what could be said—-and as such recalls Charlie’s speech. He rarely uses connecting words like “and” or the definite article, “the.” (For those who want to know, this is called asyndeton.) We work on him adding these but when Charlie speaks spontaneously, he likes to get right to the point. (Though no commas—as in the title of this movie, Eat D... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1389076 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:25:14 +0100 1389076 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1369773&cid=t_101178_86_f&fid=36090&url=http%3A%2F%2Forgmonkey.net%2F%3Fp%3D209 file under, “i wish i’d thought of this.” thanks, melissa! (Source: Organization Monkey) Organization Monkey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1369773 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:48:22 +0100 1369773 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1177956&cid=t_101178_86_f&fid=36090&url=http%3A%2F%2Forgmonkey.net%2F%3Fp%3D181 i had understood the word decimate to mean “to select by lot and kill every tenth person of” until fairly recently, when i’ve heard it used to describe a situation in which everyone has been killed or everything has been destroyed.  when i first heard that “the city had been decimated,” i thought to myself, “well, that’s not so bad. only one tenth of it has been destroyed.” but then it occurred to me that the reporter was actually saying that the whole city had been destroyed.  wow, those are two totally different things, one-tenth and ten-tenths!  so i looked it up in the dictionary, and you know what?  it means both! 1. to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague. 2. to select by lot and ... Organization Monkey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1177956 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:58:44 +0100 1177956 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1090724&cid=t_101178_86_f&fid=36090&url=http%3A%2F%2Forgmonkey.net%2F%3Fp%3D164 i’ve noticed that the word interesting is beginning to increasingly creep into the conversations i have with my friends. “that article on metadata is interesting,” or “her new hairstyle is interesting.” when i hear someone else say it i usually ask, “what is it about x that you find interesting?” because without qualification the word is kind of a meaningless space filler. it doesn’t really tell you what the person really thinks. it reminds me of the undergrads i would lead in photography critiques, in which they would try to get away with describing someone’s photo with, “i like it.” i’m challenging myself to eliminate the word interesting from my vocabulary for one day, just to see for myself how much i use it and if... Organization Monkey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1090724 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:56:10 +0100 1090724 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=851869&cid=t_101178_86_f&fid=36090&url=http%3A%2F%2Forgmonkey.net%2F%3Fp%3D136 “a couple apples,” or “a couple of apples,” which is the correct one? after some sniffing around i find that both are acceptable. a thread at linguist-list has a useful discussion on this very topic. the free dictionary has this usage note: Although the phrase a couple of has been well established in English since before the Renaissance, modern critics have sometimes maintained that a couple of is too inexact to be appropriate in formal writing. But the inexactitude of a couple of may serve a useful purpose, suggesting that the writer is indifferent to the precise number of items involved. Thus the sentence She lives only a couple of miles away implies not only that the distance is short but that its exact measure is unimportant. This usage should be considered unob... Organization Monkey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=851869 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:42:38 +0100 851869 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=473745&cid=t_101178_114_f&fid=34646&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthcarebloglaw.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fone-space-or-two.html For years I've thought I was right on this one -- but finally -- proof. Should you use one space or two spaces after a sentence? Adams Drafting has the answer in this post, "One Space or Two?".I can't tell you how many legal secretaries I've tried to convince to stop hitting the space bar twice. I use full margin justification for my legal contracts and documents and adding two spaces after a sentence can leave too much white space between sentences. I remember taking typing in high school and being taught the two space bar rule after each sentence -- but that was on a manual typewriter.For this and other great posts on contract drafting be sure to check out Adams Drafting, a great lawyer niche blog on contract drafting. I've been a regular RSS reader for a number of months.Thanks to Alain... Health Care Law Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=473745 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:16:00 +0100 473745