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...theme of childhood, Gopnik’s essays also include anecdotes on other aspects of a New Yorker’s life, such as the widespread trend of seeing therapists. Gopnik has a lightly irreverent take on the whole matter—he writes about how his doctor frequently fell asleep during sessions, prompting him to make up stories and name drop great literary figures in an effort to keep the shrink’s attention...
...elderly often land in the hospital because they've forgotten to take medication. Microsoft and Intel are developing a wristwatch that prompts the wearer to take his pills. The doctor types into his computer instructions on when medication should be taken, and the information is transmitted to the patient's computer, which downloads it to the watch. Around the appointed hour, when the senior is near the location where the pills are stored, a sensor tracking the senior's movements alerts the watch, which signals that it's medicine time. The watch, which should be available in two years...
...sends an alert when the cane hasn't been used for several days, a tip-off that its user may be unable to move around. The company is also looking at sensors that in the next couple of years might be placed in canes or shoes to inform a doctor about the minute changes in a senior's stride that may be an early indication of neurological problems such as Parkinson...
...would might be considered a great rap artist if he weren’t responsible for Fergie. On “Compton,” and to a lesser extent on the Public Enemy-jacking “Remedy,” Game transcends his obsessions with the Good Doctor and label politics and creates an organic, vivid Compton soundscape. Alas, next comes Scott Storch. He produces the same “Still D.R.E.”-derived track three or four times on the album. The result—exemplified on “Let’s Ride?...
...good sense of timing is the primary mark of a good doctor. How long can the fever stay this high before we hospitalize? Should we use a few more days of antibiotics? When do you tell the woman in labor to come in to the hospital? Tell the aging man it's time for his knee replacement? The family it's time for a hospice? Scarcely any time is spent on questions like these in a medical education and if I were to say, "ok, I'll fix that" I don't know where I would begin, how I would...