AI can do sentiment analysis on text, and when they read doctors' chart notes, they saw a lot of burnout. When doctors do notes, especially when they know that patients can read them, they often become very terse and use a lot of abbreviations and jargon, contrary to what they are told. Their main priority is not to communicate with patients, but to get the work done, and make sure that it captures all the necessary components to justify the E/M code for billing. Sorry that it sounds like burnout. Maybe it is.
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Air-gapping isn't guaranteed to be safe anymore. The vulnerability is in the hidden apps on USB drives that get inserted.
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What kind of childhood increases the likelihood of winning the Nobel Prize? Clearly there are factors that cannot be discounted. Having a wealthy businessman father really improves your odds.
Ugh. A robotic finger might do your next rectal exam. But at least a human doctor wears clean gloves. Will it work to cover a robotic finger with something similar, or will it have to be uncovered to preserve sensitivity? Then you really have to depend on good sterilization.
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Seattle Children's Hospital is among the nation's top child genital mutilation centers. Remember when we used to condemn genital mutilation when other primitive cultures did it? Can't wait for this national insanity to pass. No wonder many people don't trust the medical establishment anymore. How did they buy into this crap?
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Portland in the news. Politico highlights how "proudly liberal Portland" is throwing out its governance.
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There's a lot of press about Comet Tsuchinshan, but not much about Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) which looks to be way brighter. And it'll be later this month, around Halloween.
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New report just dropped. The homeless population is definitely on the rise. Due largely to the Biden-Harris policies.
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Lars Larson nails it on the fraud generated by the motor-voter law in Oregon. The public had no idea until a Chicago activist group discovered the problem. Now more illegality has been discovered. But we really don't know how pervasive the problem is.
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