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When, for instance, does a urinary-tract infection become a pyelonephritis (an infection involving the kidneys and ureters)? There's no clear-cut answer. A computer might remind the doctor that the hospital stands to make many thousands more if he simply clicks on pyelonephritis, the more serious condition. Or consider that nearly every patient who has a big hip or knee operation will run a fever for a while afterward. No one really knows why. But if a computer picks up the temperature elevation, it could prompt doctors to record a "fever of unknown origin" - a diagnosis that often...
...When they've exhausted themselves, speak slowly and calmly about the bigger picture It's key to remind folks, as New York Times columnist David Brooks put it, to focus their attention on the ravenous "tiger ... lunging at your neck" - i.e., the tanking world economy - instead of the "dust bunnies under the bed," the AIG bonuses. Geithner employed this tactic Tuesday: "AIG highlights very broad failures of our financial system," Geithner told the House panel Tuesday. "Our regulatory system was not equipped to prevent the buildup of dangerous levels of risks. Compensation practice rewarded short-term profits over long-term...
...family, friends, teachers, neighbors, Best-Buy employees—with arresting honesty. Vicki Donald, Grayson’s mother, is an avid pro-life Catholic who teaches high school Calculus. She is overweight and in her food-diary she writes, “I ask You to remind me when I crave a snack such as a ‘3 Musketeers’ to remember You on The Cross & how You had nothing to eat or drink.” She cooks frozen baked ziti for her family three times a week and hates her husband. Grayson?...
...just happened to see a whole bunch of them stuck to the desktop of his computer.” “I mean, that’s not that weird,” I heard in response, “I use them all the time to remind myself to finish my homework and stuff.” “Yea but do you use them to remind yourself to schedule a ‘luncheon’ with someone from the A.D.? Or to have dinner with a Delphic member? These weren’t just...
...have to continually remind students about the elementary levels of safety,” Nelson said, adding above all, to “use common sense...