Wednesday, December 26, 2018

What Does Carl Sagan's Observation About The Effects of Medicine Really Mean?

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I started reading Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World based on what I heard about it on Twitter.  Of course I was very famil...
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Sunday, December 16, 2018

Morning Report

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I don't know if they still call it that or not - but back in the day when I was an intern Morning Report was a meeting of all of t...
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Sunday, December 9, 2018

What Isn't Available In Multimillion Dollar EHRs? Decision Support from 1994

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Physician Decision Support Software from the 20th Century I used to teach a class in medical informatics. My emphasis was not mista...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Exploits on the Internet

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I received the above at my work email address last week..... I have always been unimpressed with the idea of computer hackers fo...
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Monday, November 12, 2018

Unsane - It Sure Is

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I watch TV while working out - usually Amazon , Netflix , or HBO .  It is all on the Amazon Fire interface.  Today I saw Unsane adver...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

The NEJM "Addiction As Learning And Not Disease" Article - Clinical Realities

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I had anticipated posting a piece on the biological realities that were minimized in this review but I am currently waiting for a g...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Computational Aspects of the Human Brain

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As part of my lectures on the neurobiology of addiction - I digress briefly to discuss the computational aspects of the brain.  A lot of...