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...really serious about being viral, it would find a way to transmit through Facebook, Twitter or Myspace. But being that it's not a sentient being and has actually done some serious harm (death, panic, a drop in bacon sales), maybe a more appropriate way to joke about the topic is via an online game that has spread across the Internet with pandemic-like speed over the past few days...
...than 87 million hits on our website. I think we were number 17 on YouTube over the weekend with over a million views and we're tweeting. I think that's it - I always get that term wrong. I think there is, every few seconds, a tweet on this topic. It's clear that, if you can give people something to do, something real to do that could help improve their health and reduce their risk, that's very empowering during a difficult situation. (See pictures as the swine flu hits Mexico...
Computerizing Everything It's a complex topic that boils down to this: If we who do the medicine thought more computers would save us money, we'd buy them ourselves. In fact, sometimes we do. But the federal mandate to computerize and centrally connect the entire country's medical records has little chance of saving money for anyone except the lucky insiders who sell the computers, software and support. Aside from their costs to us, electronic records are time-consuming - a constant distraction from patient care. They also put doctors on a slippery ethical slope; it's pretty easy...
...Drawing on history, mythology, and a dizzying array of artistic work—everything from Beckett to The Books and Bruno Schulz—Videt has constructed a deep meditation on the bridges people build to one another. It’s a big topic; in the first act, one character teaches a class called “Widely Applied Physics.” When you go to see this show—which you definitely need to do—think of it as Widely Applied Theater...
...History 1452 lectures on the Vietnam War and the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency, Throntveit filled the board with detailed outlines from end to end. Though Throntveit breezed through the dense material effortlessly, he refrains from deeming himself an expert on the topic...