2023 Florida is home to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants, and many work in the kinds of businesses that would be impacted by the law, known as SB 1718. Many of those affected are also members of mixed-status... continue reading

posted by newtboy 11 months 3 weeks ago • 98 views • 7:32

An apparent case of mistaken identity in Galveston landed a man in jail for days in May after police thought the innocent patient leaving the hospital was an escaped prison inmate. There were no escapees. ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 3 weeks ago • 144 views • 2:36

It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading

posted by SFOGuy 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,836 views • 2:12

Meet two of the first catastrophic spinal cord injury patients in the world able to take steps on their own following epidural stimulation and rehab. Researchers at the University of Louisville are making... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 20 views • 3:01

YouTube: It’s clearly, provably better for patients to have Medicaid coverage than to be uninsured, despite what critics of the program claim. Recently, bills in the Senate and the House of Representatives... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 503 views • 7:51

Uhoh YouTube: Prescription drugs are pretty awesome. They improve lives all the time. But it is possible to take too many. Over time, as patients are prescribed more an more ongoing medications, it's... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 80 views • 6:59

YouTube: You probably know where to pump the cheapest gas and how to get price comparisons online in seconds for headphones and cars. But how would you find the best deal on an M.R.I. or a knee replacement?... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 weeks ago • 82 views • 6:09

Doctors in Brazil are using the fish skin to treat burn patients. The treatment, which is part of a clinical trial, is said to reduce healing time by several days.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 501 views • 3:34

The stream of consciousness refers to the passage of many thousands of images and ideas through our minds every day, very few of which we manage to arrest and examine in any detail. Accurate self-knowledge... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 112 views • 7:54

YouTube: Three times in the last two weeks, people — a patient, a colleague and my wife — told me stories about how out of control the price of EpiPens were. Monday, my New York Times colleagues recounted... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 724 views • 7:02

From YT: Congrats to Bruce, our latest recruit to pass his Initiation Test into the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy. We decided to share this part of his Initiation Test to encourage... continue reading

posted by iaui 7 years 10 months ago • 699 views • 5:26

YouTube description: Making some shelves to fit in a closet we use as a pantry http://woodgears.ca/kitchen/pantry_shelves.html The wood breaking and smashing - not the sort of thing I would normally... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,060 views • 6:06

YouTube: Opioid Abuse - Opioid drugs can be powerfully effective treatments for those in pain, but they can also be extremely dangerous. This episode explores how opioids can lead to dependence and addiction,... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 weeks ago • 149 views • 6:10

The fascinating video above tells the story of MIT Professor Ioannis Yannas, who was recently inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame alongside such luminaries as the Wright brothers and Steve... continue reading

posted by enoch 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,844 views • 16:57

YouTube: Guns are one of those topics that really divide Americans. It’s hard to have a calm, evidence-based discussion. But one area where we really need to be able to do that is in the pediatrician’s... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month 1 week ago • 97 views • 5:33

Via Open Culture: Not long ago we posted the only known recording of Sigmund Freud’s voice. Today we present rare home movies of the founder of modern psychology, captured during the last decade of his life. ... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 6 months ago • 133 views • 2:03

(youtube) Our presenter demonstrates the falsehood of Hollywood sound effects foley artists, with regard to the verisimilitude of sword-drawing noise, with a joke at the end for those patient enough to... continue reading

posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 11 months 1 week ago • 14,994 views • 3:43

Neuropsychologist Brian Butterworth describes patients who have lost their capacity to use words, but not numbers; or numbers but not words, always with the interesting twist that numbers spelled out,... continue reading

posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 4 months ago • 1,185 views • 6:43