from the Wall Street Journal by Dr. Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and author of “The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care and How to Fix It.” Public-health officials ruined many lives by insisting that workers with natural immunity to Covid-19 be ...
Consultative Medicine — An Emerging Sub- Specialty for Patients with Complex Conditions Linda N. Geng, M.D., Ph.D., Abraham Verghese, M.D., and Jon C. Tilburt, M.D. NEJM Dec 23 2021 Patients with unusual, perplexing, or complex symptoms and conditions are not well served by the fast-paced U.S. health care system. An ...
Amit Sood: Summarizing the whole of well-being research, it is simply this: you want to tell your genes and immune system, “I’m having a good time on this planet.” This type of positive outlook which can be learned tells your genes to switch from inflammatory to anti-inflammatory actions and boosts ...
Variants vary, but how much? Since SARS-CoV-2 was first sequenced at the beginning of 2020 dozens of strains have been identified. And five have been designated “variants of concern” by the World Health Organisation (who). The latest of these is Omicron, which was given its name in November last year. ...
When we’re not in a pandemic, Canadian hospitals are at perpetual risk of being overrun. In fact, they often are overrun – particularly during cold and flu season – when patients on gurneys are relegated to hallways and storage closets, and when wait times in emergency rooms can balloon to ...
As director of DARPA in the 1970’s, George H. Heilmeier developed a set of questions that he expected every proposal for a new research program to answer. No exceptions. He referred to them as the “Heilmeier Catechism” and are now the basis of how DARPA (Defense Advance Research Projects Activity) ...
The Eglinton subway has been under construction for the last 6 or 7 years. We have watched it from our kitchen window. Now there are two giant white monoliths at each of the Avenue Rd subway stops. Each monolith likely cost $10M to $20M to build. Possibly more. This puzzles ...
What is an impact player? as defined by Liz Wiseman in her book Impact Players: Individuals at any level of an organization who are doing work of exception value and having an extraordinarly high impact. Impact players have a mode of thinking that leads to high value contribution and high ...
Just spoke to a highly intelligent psychologist who told me that he is fit and healthy and does not need the COVID vaccine. Then I told him that I could predict if he will die of COVID by examining his genome. It seems that those who get very sick and ...
We got a call from one of our corporate clients. An employee's wife had received her COVID vaccine ( both shots) in January 2021. She is a healthcare worker. Her two year old son got the sniffles. She was concerned. She took her son for his COVID test. She also ...