Bhisma - Slashdot User

Comment Re:anti-fat stigma (Score 1) 446

by Bhisma on Sunday May 26, 2013 @05:14PM (#43828853) Attached to: Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients

CBT can work wonders. What is somewhat hilarious(sad) about threads like this is that all the negativity and blaming are almost the polar opposite to a proper CBT program to help someone with an obesity problem. I could see a person in the middle of CBT for obesity reading this thread and eliminating months of progress from all the attacks they would take personally.

Comment Proctored Tests? (Score 1) 241

by Bhisma on Sunday June 03, 2012 @02:00PM (#40202245) Attached to: Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier

Wouldn't this entire problem be solved with proctored tests? The idea of an all online course feels great, but if you want to confirm someone's understanding you need a trusted proctor system.

What US Health Care Needs 584

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 21, 2010 @02:15AM from the velluvial-matrix dept.

Medical doctor and writer Atul Gawande gave the commencement address recently at Stanford's School of Medicine. In it he lays out very precisely and in a nonpartisan way what is wrong with the institution of medical care in the US — why it is both so expensive and so ineffective at delivering quality care uniformly across the board. "Half a century ago, medicine was neither costly nor effective. Since then, however, science has... enumerated and identified... more than 13,600 diagnoses — 13,600 different ways our bodies can fail. And for each one we've discovered beneficial remedies... But those remedies now include more than six thousand drugs and four thousand medical and surgical procedures. Our job in medicine is to make sure that all of this capability is deployed, town by town, in the right way at the right time, without harm or waste of resources, for every person alive. And we're struggling. There is no industry in the world with 13,600 different service lines to deliver. ... And then there is the frightening federal debt we will face. By 2025, we will owe more money than our economy produces. One side says war spending is the problem, the other says it's the economic bailout plan. But take both away and you've made almost no difference. Our deficit problem — far and away — is the soaring and seemingly unstoppable cost of health care. ... Like politics, all medicine is local. Medicine requires the successful function of systems — of people and of technologies. Among our most profound difficulties is making them work together. If I want to give my patients the best care possible, not only must I do a good job, but a whole collection of diverse components must somehow mesh effectively. ... This will take science. It will take art. It will take innovation. It will take ambition. And it will take humility. But the fantastic thing is: This is what you get to do."

Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project 687

Posted by samzenpus on Saturday January 16, 2010 @05:37PM from the duck-and-cover dept.

garg0yle writes "Police in San Diego were called to investigate an 11-year-old's science project, consisting of 'a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics,' after the vice-principal came to the conclusion that it was a bomb. Charges aren't being laid against the youth, but it's being recommended that he and his family 'get counseling.' Apparently, the student violated school policies — I'm assuming these are policies against having any kind of independent thought?"

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