The Arts, Sciences and Medicine

NFkB ~ The Myopic Salesman

2013-05-21T16:38:00.000-04:00

I came across this story in which several people got hurt. All of them belonged to disparate families and in different regions. The calamity wrought upon each community was immeasurable. Several squads

ALCHEMY and EPIDEMIOLOGY

2013-05-14T23:19:00.000-04:00

"Alchemy is the art of manipulating life, and consciousness in matter, to help it evolve, or to solve problems of inner disharmonies" ~Jean Dubuis  The other, hot and

HACKED

2013-05-09T09:32:00.002-04:00

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." ~ Bob Marley Listening to music, the only thought that comes to mind is the raw emotions of peace and tranquility. Of course it depends

Degrees of Freedom

2013-05-02T12:23:00.000-04:00

“Why are Docs afraid of the

(In Search of...) VARIABLES

2013-04-21T09:35:00.000-04:00

In Search of Understanding Variables

miRNA and CANCER

2013-04-10T09:24:00.000-04:00

So there we were

MORTALITY PARADOX

2013-04-02T11:20:00.002-04:00

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,  Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,  To the last syllable of recorded time;  And all our yesterdays have lighted fools  The way to dusty death. Out, out,

I THINK

2013-03-29T14:48:00.001-04:00

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PSEUDOSCIENCE

2013-03-21T16:31:00.001-04:00

"A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth."  -- G. Goebbles “Yep son, we have met the enemy and he is us!” ~ Pogo Science is fairly simple and straight-forward, at least that is what I am told.

EMR #2 ~ Solutions?

2013-03-13T22:09:00.001-04:00

"Simplicity is the ultimate Sophistication." ~ Leonardo Da Vinci Sophistication or Success? Sophistication unlike success arises out of need, while success is borne of a difficulty. The vagrant causal

I AM A BRAIN WATSON,

2013-03-07T18:19:00.000-05:00

“I am a brain Watson, the rest of me is a mere appendix.” ~Sherlock Holmes And there in lies a story… Some time a ago, I was licking my wounds after being chastised by a kind old lady, who without

Breast Cancer in Younger Women

2013-03-01T10:15:00.001-05:00

The JAMA article suggested that there was significant increase in the number of breast cancer cases between 1976 at 1.53 to 2.8 per 100,000 in the 18-34 year old female population. And to boot the cancers

The NEW Value Chain in Medicine

2013-02-24T06:56:00.000-05:00

( A thinking person's landscape of the current DSS (Decision Support System) in Medicine! ) Diseases are wrapped in the human shell. The upstream is the collective whips and scorns of time; the

HIPAA Law

2013-02-17T08:56:00.003-05:00

HIPAA H: Health ~ Yours and Mine I: Insurance (Information) ~ Yours and Mine P: Portability ~ Take the health insurance and information everywhere from anywhere A: Accountability ~ For Physicians’

Signal to Noise Ratio

2013-02-09T22:53:00.000-05:00

Imagine as it were, that you were facing the choice between leaping into a chasm with a glint of water below or hoping the root of the sapling was going to keep you hanging and the only thing that was

RANDOMNESS (and Life)

2013-02-05T16:38:00.001-05:00

Stochastic Resonance Stochastic = Random Resonance = Excited state of stability. The beach is a perfect place to unwind your thoughts and let the warmth of the sun bathe the concepts that are trying

HER2neu and the PI3K/AKT pathway

2013-01-30T15:28:00.000-05:00

Simplifying the Comprehension Chasm “We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a

The PATIENT (and the Swarm)

2013-01-27T10:35:00.001-05:00

A society as fragmented as ours that takes the daily push and pull of the verbal and digital swarm, lives on the edge of its sanity. There is a shyness mixed with fear. A fractured thought that

YORICK'S SKULL

2013-01-22T10:59:00.000-05:00

"Alas poor Yorick, I

OPEN ACCESS

2013-01-16T15:37:00.000-05:00

O P E N Access Medicine as Science lives in the shadows of vulnerability. The granite conformity that exists if peeled would reveal the distortions and countless contrary opinions. Each layer has been imbued with the color of discord. The problem that discord does not reach the lighted hallways. The medical venue is rich in its diversity in spite of the outward

OWNERS into OWNED~>The Physicians

2013-01-12T21:39:00.000-05:00

It is the comfort away from the difficulty. It is the ease away from the decisions. It is the many-imagined virtues over the many-imagined vices. The doctors are moving away in droves from being owners

A Fragile Society

2013-01-08T13:20:00.004-05:00

Stochastics... the end of reality and maybe the beginning of the end. Read on... The human element as some evolved intellectuals refer to themselves is composed of a fair number of basic elements,

KIDNAPPING MEDICINE

2013-01-03T10:36:00.000-05:00

"When sages commend excess, desire is sick!" I came across an erudite article from a very polished source the other day. His premise was that too much information could expose physicians to a higher chance

Happy New Year

2012-12-31T12:38:00.001-05:00

I opened the door today and there in front was a package. It is after Christmas and today is New year’s Eve to boot. But there it was tied up nicely in a red bow. It felt light, very light. I

SGR and Physicians

2012-12-29T13:54:00.002-05:00

The beast within grows. Its white fangs and long curled talons seem like a caricature in a sci-fi movie, than real life. But there it is, the Gryphon, baring its teeth encrusted beak and its hawkish