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///////////////////sasialit=Seriously though, I haven't made much headway with In Hanuman's Hand--life
intervened but I was also waylaid by a little gem called "Tilled Earth," a
collection of short stories, and 'micro-stories' by Nepali writer Manjushree
Thapa. If you're the type of person who sits in airports or on park
benches people-watching, thinking, "I wonder what her story is..." or "I
wonder why he looks so serious....", Thapa takes you inside the head of
those strangers, or lets you walk (invisibly) along side of her on a hike so
you can eavesdrop, or gives you a seat next to him on a bus. It's a quiet
collection...nothing dramatic or melodramatic but intense nonetheless. The
stories are grounded [no pun intended] in contemporary Nepal but tell of
European flings and the 'US immigrant experience' (but not in an angst-y
way). The micro-stories are amazing...less than 200 words, sometimes, or
even 100. In a couple of instances I was left holding my breath (e.g, The
Newly Appointed Chemistry Professor"). Other stories are just poignant
(e.g., The Eldest Son Thinks of Home).
Nothing mythical, inaccurate or inauthentic about Tilled Earth.
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//////////////////mrcla=The results of this study -- that men who regularly work out with weights and have high muscle strength can reduce their risk of cancer by 30-40 percent -- should provide major motivation for any of you still on the fence about adding strength training to your exercise routine.
One of the primary reasons exercise works to lower your cancer risk is because it drives your insulin levels down. Controlling insulin levels is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your cancer risks.
It’s also been suggested that apoptosis (programmed cell death) is triggered by exercise, causing cancer cells to die.
It is becoming increasingly clear that a well-rounded exercise program is an important component of staying healthy. When I say “well rounded” I mean a program that includes the four primary types of exercise, as explained in my Principles of Exercise video:
1. Aerobic
2. Interval
3. Strength
4. Core
Unfortunately, many public health guidelines are still focusing only on the aerobic component, and merely focusing on aerobic activity will most definitely lead to imbalances that will cause other parts of your body to not be healthy. You really need a well balanced exercise regimen.
It’s important to vary your exercise routine as otherwise your muscles simply get used to the same activity. They require a level of muscle confusion if they are to continue to improve and grow stronger. Further, each type of exercise has very different and very specific impacts on your body, and you’ll want to take advantage of all of them.
This topic is truly very near and dear to my heart, as I went to medical school in large part because I wanted to use exercise as a therapeutic tool to help people get healthier. I strongly believe that without fitness, it is virtually impossible to achieve optimal health.
///////////////////////Human zoo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An ad for a "Peoples Show" (Völkerschau) in Stuttgart (Germany), 1928
For other uses, see Human zoo (disambiguation).
Human zoos (also called "ethnological expositions" or "Negro Villages") were 19th and 20th century public exhibits of human beings, usually in a "natural" or "primitive" state. The displays often emphasized the cultural differences between Europeans of Western Civilization and non-European peoples. Ethnographic zoos were often predicated on unilinealism, scientific racism, and a version of Social Darwinism. A number of them placed indigenous people (particularly Africans) in a continuum somewhere between the great apes and human beings of European descent. For this reason, ethnographic zoos have since been criticized as highly degrading and racist.
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//////////////////Fifty years ago nearly one in ten people belonged to a party, now numbers have declined to 1 in 88, yet political parties still have a huge role in administering power in our democracy. It is that anomaly which constitutional exper
///////////////////Slumming' was the name given to the thousands of white middle class voyeurs crossing boundaries of race, class and sexual orientation to trip into the worlds of the poor on their doorstep.
///////////////////ANTHROPOZOOLOGICAL EXHIBITION
//////////////////IMPLIED INFERIORITY
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/////////////////UK’s largest hospital for children opens in Manchester
Zosia Kmietowicz
1 London
The first 100% of the full text of this article appears below.
The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital opened this week to become the United Kingdom’s largest hospital for children on a single site. The development, which took five years to complete, is part of a £500m (590m; $820m) private finance initiative scheme commissioned by Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It will take over the work of five hospitals in the area, delivering care to an expected 35 000 patients a year. The hospital specialises in renal transplants, metabolic care, and complex spinal care and will offer transfer from hospitals throughout the UK.
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2401
//////////////////rrors in clinical reasoning: causes and remedial strategies
Ian A Scott, associate professor of medicine
1 Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Ipswich Road, Brisbane, Australia 4102
Correspondence to: I A Scott ian_scott@health.qld.gov.au
Everyone makes mistakes, but greater awareness of the causes would help clinicians to avoid many of them, as Ian Scott explains
The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.
Most errors in clinical reasoning are not due to incompetence or inadequate knowledge but to frailty of human thinking under conditions of complexity, uncertainty, and pressure of time. To minimise such cognitive error we need to understand its prevalence and causes. In this article I discuss why errors occur and describe strategies that may help avoid them.
The first step to optimal care is making the correct diagnosis, which is missed or delayed in between 5% and 14% of acute hospital admissions.1 2 Autopsy studies confirm diagnostic error rates of 10-20%,3 4 with autopsy disclosing previously undiagnosed problems in up to 25% of cases.3 Even if the diagnosis is correct, up to 45% of patients with acute or chronic medical conditions do not receive recommended evidence based care,5 while between 20% and 30% of administered investigations and drugs are potentially unnecessary.6 Clinicians are sometimes less willing to adopt new beneficial interventions than . . . [Full text of this article]
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