Yearly Archives: 2004

Finding the Cure

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Health care emulates life

I called Dr. Hammami with the news of the final diagnosis and asked why it had been missed by all the doctors the patient saw before arriving at his hospital. He thought for a moment before he answered. ”It’s difficult for a doctor to say, ‘I don’t know,”’ he said. ”The patient doesn’t want to hear it, and the doctor doesn’t want to say it. But in medicine you can’t know everything; you just have to know how to get the answer. I was certain the eosinophils would get us there.”
The rest of life is similar. We don’t know everything and finding solutions to personal, work or social challenges requires a willingness to put in some work and a willingness to look beyond, to step outside of the current framing of a situation.
Via DB’s Medical Rants.

Save $, Stay Healthy

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Just ignore the antibacterial cleaning products:

A study by Dr. Elaine Larson at the Columbia School of Nursing called into question the usefulness of antibacterial products for the home. In New York, 224 households, each with at least one preschooler, were randomly assigned to two groups. One group used antibacterial cleaning, laundry and hand-washing products. The other used ordinary products.
For 48 weeks, the groups were monitored for seven symptoms of colds, flu and food poisoning – and found to be essentially the same. According to Dr. Gerba’s research, an active adult touches an average of 300 surfaces every 30 minutes. You cannot win at this. You will become obsessive-compulsive. Just wash your hands with soap and water a few times a day, and leave it at that.
Yep, wash your hands and refrigerate spoilable food.

Upgrades

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I just spent 5 minutes upgrading my browser, Firefox, and email client, Thunderbird to their new releases and am enjoying some noticeable Firefox speed improvements and some improved management features in Thunderbird.
If you use these programs upgrade now! You will be happy.
If you do not use them, especally those of you stuck in MS IE world, give them a try now! You will be happier.
Update: The folks at Catallarchy also seem to like the latest version of Firefox.