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- Harvard: Computers in Hospitals Do Not Reduce Administrative or Overall CostsMy Notes The researchers concluded that the immense cost of installing and running hospital IT systems is greater than any expected cost savings. Much of the software being written for use in clinics is aimed at administrators, not doctors, nurses and lab workers. Additionally, as currently implemented, hospital computing might modestly improve process measures of quality but does not reduce administrative or overall costs.Harvard researchers recently released the study Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study, which examined computerization’s cost and quality impacts at 4,000 hospitals in the U.S...
- Psychiatrist, Drug ThyselfMy Notes Effects of paroxetine on emotional functioning and treatment awareness: a 4-week randomized placebo-controlled study in healthy cliniciansPsychiatrists give their patients all kinds of drugs, but in most cases, they do so without ever taking any themselves. Some French psychiatrists found an excuse to try out some drugs in the name of science, a...
- Risk-Taking Teens Have More Mature BrainsMy Notes We often hear that teens are irresponsible because their brains are immature. But, contradicting that idea, teen turmoil is completely absent in more than 100 cultures around the worldEditor's note: The orignal online version of this story was previously posted. We often hear that teens are irresponsible because their brains are immature. But, contradicting that idea, teen turmoil is com...
- Doctors in Social Media Shouldn't Be AnonymousSource: 33 ChartsMy Notes The doctor with a voice who’s uncomfortable with transparency. They post and comment under the cozy blanket of putative anonymity. But it’s bad policy. Here’s why doctors need to be outed in social media:I see it from time to time. The doctor with a voice who’s uncomfortable with transparency. They post and comment under the cozy blanket of putative anonymity. But it’s bad policy. Here’s why doct...
- Evidence in Medicine: Correlation and CausationSource: Science-Based MedicineMy Notes Now this will be in my link book. Done with no further information needed about this topic, ready, end of storyThere are two general approaches to subverting science-based medicine (SBM): anti-science and pseudoscience. Anti-scientific approaches are any that seek to undermine science as the determinant of the standard...
- Do blind people hallucinate on LSD?Source: Mind HacksMy Notes Blind people can hallucinate on LSD, although this seems largely to be the case in blind people who had several years of sight to begin with, but who later lost their vision.I've just found a remarkable 1963 study [pdf] from the Archives of Opthalmology in which 24 blind participants took LSD to see if they could experience visual hallucinations. It turns out, they can, although...
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