Technology And Home-Based Healthcare
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Eric Dishman, a behavioral scientist who works at Intel, discusses how technology can impact home-based healthcare. From TEDMED 2009:
*This blog post was originally published at KevinMD.com*
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What Inspires True Behavioral Change?
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Vic Strecher, founder and head of the Center for Health Communications Research at University of Michigan, gave a TEDMED talk last year about what motivates people to change their self-abusing behavior. His unique experience with his daughter’s heart condition provides a background for how he approaches the topic of personal choice:
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
The “Magic” Of The Placebo Effect
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Magician Eric Mead shows us a magic trick and talks about the placebo effect at TEDMED 2009:
*This blog post was originally published at KevinMD.com*
Inside A Haitian Medical Clinic
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Small Miracles In Haiti
Seven days ago, at a mission in the north of Haiti, I watched a nurse remove oxygen from a premature baby boy in order to give it to a woman in labor. The heartbeat of the baby who was about to be delivered had dropped dangerously low and there was only one working oxygen machine.
Perhaps the cord was wrapped around the baby’s neck or there was some other problem. A Caesarian section — which can quickly and safely deliver a baby who is in trouble — was not an option. The public hospital was at least an hour’s drive away over bumpy roads.
These kinds of cruel triage decisions are commonplace in Haiti and existed long before the earthquake struck on January 12th. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere has never had an effective public health system. Thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) — by some counts more than 10,000 — are trying to plug holes in the ship. What’s really needed is a new ship. Read more »
Why Denying Science Is Dangerous
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I came across a TED video of Michael Specter’s talk about the dangers confronting us as the war against science progresses. Here’s TED’s description of the video:
Vaccine-autism claims, “frankenfood” bans, the herbal cure craze — they all point to the public’s growing fear (and, often, outright denial) of science and reason, says Michael Specter. He warns the trend spells disaster for human progress.
Read more about The Danger of Science Denial, posted with vodpod.
*This blog post was originally published at Phil Baumann*
