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...Australia Council for the Arts, but his most powerful argument in its defence is his own writing. From The Island in the Mind's 17th century Frenchman, who invents Terra Incognita as an opera, to The Day We Had Hitler Home's Audrey McNeil, who, with her hand-held camera, invents Europe as a movie, Hall's novels comprise what he calls "a seven-part metaphorical history of Australia." His next, to be set in the Brisbane his family discovered on emigrating from England when Hall was 12, is, like the nation, a work in progress. "No country lives with...
Another innovation at the VA was a bar-code system, as in the supermarket, for prescriptions--a system used in fewer than 5% of private hospitals. With a hand-held laser reader, a nurse scans the bar code on a patient's wristband, then the one on the bottle of pills. If the pills don't match the prescription the doctor typed into the computer, the laptop alerts the nurse. The Institute of Medicine estimates that 1.5 million patients are harmed each year by medication errors, but computer records and bar-code scanners have virtually eliminated those problems...
...believes the device is ready for production and is waiting for the stars to align.“It will depend on getting the right group of people together who are motivated to make that happen and not simply interested in money,” Lieber writes.Lieber envisions a hand-held device for use at home or at doctors’ offices.“There is great advantage to getting answers about disease when you want it and not going through the painful procedure of having blood drawn and then waiting days to weeks for an answer...
...Though the rescue effort was taking longer than anyone had expected, as workers resorted to low-powered explosives to break rock that had proved impervious to hand-held tools, it seemed by the morning of May 8 that Webb and Russell's freedom was imminent, perhaps a matter of hours away. In trying to predict how the miners' ordeal may affect them, medically, in the months and years ahead, it might pay to take little notice of the levity they showed in the midst of it. Sandy McFarlane, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Adelaide, suggests that...
...athletes are expected to run the 26.2 mile race today. Every year medical personnel receive upwards of 800 runners who require attention; when temperatures spike, that number can exceed 1,700, according to an assistant commissioner of the state Department of Public Health, Nancy Ridley. Organizers will use hand-held scanners to record the name, age, gender, and medical status of every injured athlete. The information will then be available to event organizers and local hospitals. Family and friends will be able to inquire about a runner’s status at a kiosk near the finish line. The main...