Read This First 1. RADULA, 2. Climate Brink, 3. Medical Evacuation, ↕4. Mosquito Borne, 5. Crime Scene vs Disaster Scene, 6. Medical Stockpiles, 7. Climate Insurance, 8. Save the World, 9. Medical Anthropology, 10. Funding + Health, ↕C. Communications.
-1. [THEME MUSIC, but played real slow Cartoon] Episode 9: How Our Perceptions of Risk — and Killer Snails — Affect Our Health (Podcast). When Bill Gates set out his list of the world’s deadliest animals, he put the mighty mosquito on top, saying it accounts for 725,000 human deaths each year. Way down at the bottom of the list, after snakes, crocodiles, even elephants, is probably the world’s scariest animal: the shark. But despite all their lore and the fear that surrounds them, sharks killed just six people last year. That makes sharks 70,000 times less deadly than the mosquito and 1,000 times less than an animal you’d probably never guess would even make this list: killer snails. These are certain types of freshwater snails that carry a deadly disease called schistosomiasis. In this episode of Signal we explore the shark and the snail of medicine. How do our perceptions of risk, and our outsized — or undersized — fears affect our health [Meme, Sign, Art]. This Invasive Giant Snail Is Spreading in Florida – and Bringing Nasty Parasites with it. What Is a New Zealand Mud Snail. 4.2↓.
-2. Humans on the Verge of Causing Earth's Fastest Climate Change in 50m Years. A new study published in Nature Communications looks at changes in solar activity and carbon dioxide levels over the past 420 million years. The authors found that on our current path, by mid century humans will be causing the fastest climate change in approximately 50 million years, and if we burn all available fossil fuels, we'll cause the fastest change in the entire 420 million year record. ← Is the Biodisaster. The parademic is →, Christy Clark’s Bravado Distracts from B.C.’s Ugly Climate Truth, Q&A: 'Climate Change Is the Greatest Public Health Threat We Have', Exxon and Shell Join Ivanka Trump to Defend Paris Climate Accord, Trump Advisers to Meet Tuesday to Discuss Paris Climate Agreement, EPA Chief Calls for an 'Exit' to Paris Climate Agreement, Louisiana's Governor Declares State of Emergency over Disappearing Coastline. The Secret Massacre of Millions of Seahorses. 20 Climate Change Myths Debunked, Educators on a Hot Topic: Global Warming 101. California May Lose Popular Surfing Spots to Rising Seas. In a Play with a Climate Change Theme, There’s a Fight to the Death — over Water. 7↓.
-2.1. How Climate Change Will Impact Homeowners Insurance. As heat, tornadoes and storms continue to break records, will the extreme weather eventually break my home insurance policy. Probably not, but as the years go on, when it comes to your homeowners insurance coverage, there will be changes. You may end up factoring in climate change before you buy a home. As weather records rise, so will your premiums. Creative discounts may offset some of those higher premiums. Eliminating coverage is unlikely to happen. Perils of Climate Change Could Swamp Coastal Real Estate (2016). Homeowners are slowly growing wary of buying property in the areas most at risk, setting up a potential economic time bomb in an industry that is struggling to adapt. Catalyzing a Key Business Sector - the Insurance Industry - on Climate Change, How the Insurance Industry Sees Climate Change (2014), How the Insurance Industry Is Dealing with Climate Change (2013). #Document The Potential Impact of Climate Change on Insurance Regulation (2008), Climate Change and the Insurance Industry: the Cost of Increased Risk and the Impetus for Action (1997). Some like it Hot: The Impact of Climate Change on Housing Markets. When Rising Seas Transform Risk into Certainty. These Coastal Homeowners Are Facing a Nightmare Scenario. The EPA used to provide related information What Climate Change Means for Texas but suspect that this has been stopped. In fact this and other reports will likely disappear from the EPA site. Hopefully these will be saved at other locations on the web. This hiding of information is unfortunately still common place when there is an impact on economy, pride or policy 4.1↓. Home Financing Will Be the Tipping Point for Climate Change Policy.
-2.2. I Talked to Alex Jones Fans about Climate Change and Vaccines. Their Views May Surprise You. Meet the “Infowarriors” who quote Žižek and want Trump to protect the earth. Is Alex Jones Faking [Photo]. 170409-10.1↓.
-3. Feds Practice Ebola Evacuations Despite past Trump Criticism. Donald Trump railed against President Obama's decision to bring patients with Ebola to the US for treatment in 2014 [Tweet, Cartoon, Cartoon, Meme]. Now that Trump is president, his administration is preparing for similar, and possibly larger scale, evacuations. The State Department and Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday they led an unprecedented interagency drill last week to test their preparedness to deal with a new outbreak of Ebola or another deadly, highly infectious disease. In the drill, 11 simulated patients were flown in specially designed biocontainment containers on a pair of 747s and three smaller Gulfstream jets from Sierra Leone to Dulles International Airport. Unable to find details about the exercise but hopefully one of the areas was the 9 Potential Barriers to Critical Decision Making. See 6↓ about the issue of where to store high maintenance, high expertise, high expense medical equipment and facilities.
↕4. Add another mosquito borne disease. Could Yellow Fever Rise Again. Many people might not have heard of the Aedes aegypti mosquito until this past year, when the mosquito, and the disease it can carry – Zika – began to make headlines. But more than 220 years ago, this same breed of mosquito was spreading a different and deadly epidemic in Philadelphia and just like Zika, this epidemic is seeing a modern resurgence, with Brazil at its epicenter. PAHO: More Cases in Brazil Lead to Another Big Jump in Chikungunya.
-4.1. They’re Just Hiding: Experts Say Puerto Rico May Be Underreporting Zika Affected Births. he number of babies born in Puerto Rico with microcephaly and other birth defects caused by the Zika virus appears to be unexpectedly low — so low that experts are beginning to question whether the actual count is being significantly under reported by authorities on the island. ¶ As Zika surged across the Americas last year, US health authorities warned that Puerto Rico was facing a perfect storm — and braced for a large number of pregnancies affected by the virus. But, to date, Puerto Rico has reported only 16 cases of congenital defects associated with Zika, even though more than 3,300 pregnant women are known to have contracted the virus and several times that number are believed to have been infected. “Puerto Rico’s not escaping this. They’re just hiding”, one former US official said of the situation. The individual, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said months ago it was clear “dozens and dozens” of babies in Puerto Rico bore the hallmarks of Zika damage (About 1 in 10 U.S. Pregnant Women with Confirmed Zika Infection Had a Fetus or Baby with Birth Defects in 2016). But territorial health officials declined to label most of them cases of Zika congenital syndrome 2.1↑. ¶ Though this does indicate difference in how cases are counted, and that inquiries were not answered, this articlehas a feel of court of public opinion and trial by media. This article is reporting what was said, not investigating alternative explanations as indicated by the quote, I think that one has to be intrigued in terms of the differences. This does not necessarily mean that there is nefarious intent, though the implied accusation in credible. Hopefully this will be made clear soon. ¶ This is an example of why one should always speak to legitimate media (other forms of media may not report what was said but what they want to be said. Even to state that the answer is not known and we will let everyone know when we know is better than silence. By saying nothing rumor begins because people ask “why the secrecy if there is nothing to hide”. The problem remains that if media and rumor don’t share the contradicting information, or makes corrections, it seems like something is being covered up. This happened with SARS (China) Ten Years Later, SARS Still Haunts Survivors and Health Care Workers, MERS (Saudi Arabia) Saudi Silence on Deadly MERS Virus Outbreak Frustrates World Health Expertsain , Muddled about MERS. Here's a Quick Guide, Cholera (Cuba) Cuba Gov. Silent on Cholera Outbreak. ¶ Other explanations of why the numbers are low 1) there is something about the environment in Puerto Rico that is lowering cases of micro cephalic babies, though not the other sequella; 2) Avoiding admitting that the case definition used was a mistake 3) that under the current health care funding environment revealing a public health problem could jeopardize the already decreasing funds being received for public health Income Inequality and Determinants of Health in the US 10↓. ¶ Like any invisible threat one discovers it is much larger after it is discovered and explored. Zika Virus Can Trigger Epilepsy. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2017/04/high-level-heart-defects-found-zika-affected-babiesdrsltHigh Level of Heart Defects Found in Zika Affected Babies. Contraception, Safe Abortion, and the Zika Response. Zika in Africa – the Invisible Epidemic. It’s Going to Hit the Poorest People: Zika Outbreak Feared on the Texas Border 170409-4.1↓.
-Quote: We couldn’t afford to grind worms into our meat. Hamburger costs a dollar and a half a pound, and night crawlers six dollars. – Ray Kroc, when asked if McDonald’s added earthworms to its hamburger meat, despite the fact that McDonald’s had already made several statements and provided evidence that this rumor was not true. This also obfuscates when there is real food adulteration, sometimes to the point they will ignore a story as being a rumor, or makes people more ready to belief fake fast food news or over react to a true story. The Craziest Fast Food Urban Legends, Worm Meat Used in McDonald’s Hamburgers, Why West Africans Keep Hunting and Eating Bush Meat Despite Ebola Concerns [Photo, Poster, Meme]. Germ in Raw Milk, Poultry Now Tops Food Poisoning List, Government Data Proves Raw Milk Safe.
-4.2. Zika Mosquito Is Spreading Worldwide but WHO Wants to Stop It. Mosquitoes beware. WHO is preparing a global vector control plan to track the movements of disease spreading organisms worldwide. The idea is to prevent outbreaks of disease instead of simply reacting to new ones. Pathogens are a form of invasive species, and are oft time carried by invasive species. The most prevalent of pathogen vectors are humans, 1↑. The Menace of Mosquitoes in the U.S. Is Set to Get Worse. Will Climate Change Help Ticks and Mosquitoes Spread Disease.
-5. Policing and Public Health – Strategies for Collaboration. Policing and public health have largely been perceived by clinicians, researchers, and policy makers as 2 entirely separate approaches to reducing violence. This long standing tradition, reinforced by the different languages of criminal justice systems (deterrence, culpability, victimhood, and offending) and public health systems (injury, risk factors, and epidemiology), has perhaps contributed to limited collaboration between local law enforcement agencies and public health to prevent violence. It has also probably limited collaboration between criminologists and population health researchers relative to other cross discipline areas such as road traffic safety, prisoner health, and prevention of substance abuse. Have not addressed this specific issue in a long time, though the issue of security is a frequent one in parademic, especially when facilities, people and logistics need to be protected from those who will not respect medical neutrality, US: Marines Seize Hospital Hiding Iraqi Soldiers (2003), Iraq: In Mosul Battle, ISIS Used Hospital Base 6.1↓. This ties to the threat to the medical field as a soft target(Search). ¶ Coordination between medical investigation and police investigation is also required in the case of a biolab accident, bio attacks, negligence, intentional exposure of others when one is infectious, hazmat spills (or intentional dumping) or when the situation is not clear, are other situations when security and protection is needed. In parademic this was called the Crime Scene/Disaster Scene (DS/CS) Conflict. This is when the different needs of each need to be satisfied at the same time, despite that the actions of one can compromise the investigation of the other. Investigation includes triage of determining who needs what medical care, who can be delayed for medical care, and those that cannot be helped in the current situation.
-6. The issue of having stocks of supplies, rotating stock out for use to keep the supply fresh, what needs to be stockpiled, and where to locate or transport supplies is a medical and parademic planning issue. Stockpiling Ventilators for Influenza Pandemics. In preparing for influenza pandemics, public health agencies stockpile critical medical resources. Determining appropriate quantities and locations for such resources can be challenging, given the considerable uncertainty in the timing and severity of future pandemics. We introduce a method for optimizing stockpiles of mechanical ventilators, which are critical for treating hospitalized influenza patients in respiratory failure. As a case study, we consider the US state of Texas during mild, moderate, and severe pandemics. Optimal allocations prioritize local over central storage, even though the latter can be deployed adaptively, on the basis of real time needs. This prioritization stems from high geographic correlations and the slightly lower treatment success assumed for centrally stockpiled ventilators. See 3↑ for related issue of what to do if people need to be medically evacuated to specialized care or biocontainment, with low density expertise. ¶ Have not addressed this issue for some time but when evaluating military support for a pandemic we concluded that even if all military assets were used it was insufficient for a nationwide pandemic. Our solution was to develop robust Area commands with the authority to direct assets supported by mobile task forces that could send a resource to where it would be or was needed. Forexample a strike team of heavy equipment could dig wide trenches before morgues overflow. ¶ There is also the issue of inadvertently rewarding those who don’t prepare, such as getting flu vaccinations, by having to send more resources to them at the cost of those who may not have as large of a need because they did prepare and took preventative measures. This Dramatic Graph Shows How the Pro-Vaccine Movement Can Win.
-6.1. Then there is the logistics problem of maintaining equipment, transporting, and then operating in environments or conditions it was not designed for. Humanitarian Robotics, Murphy's Law and What to Do about it. Like any technology used in humanitarian settings, robotics solutions can break down when you need them the most. A few months ago, for example, my team and I at WeRobotics were in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest with a relatively expensive cargo drone that could hardly fly without become dangerously unstable. Murphy's Technology Laws [Blueprint, CGI]. ¶ One example of planning errors that I frequently encountered in Humanitarian Aid planning is considering the fact that power (both senses) may not always be available, either because it was not there in the first place or was destroyed in the disaster, ICRC Activities on Behalf of Iraqi Civilians 2000-2001, Section III Humanitarian Aid (2001), The Struggle for Iraq: Medical Care; Chaos and War Leave Iraq's Hospitals in Ruins (2004), Iraq: Health Care System on Verge of Collapse (2006), Weakened Iraqi Medical System on Verge of Collapse (2008), Iraqi Children Endure a Crippled Healthcare System (2014), 5↑.
-7. Bill Nye Is Back and Trying to Save the World in New Netflix Series [Ad, Trailer]. Formatted as a half hour, single topic, science themed talk show, the 13-episode first season — debuting Friday, April 21, on the streaming service — devotes episodes to Nye’s favorite subjects (climate change (Video), GMOs, vaccinations, alternative medicine (Video) - all of which are parademic and biodisaster related). Bill Nye Answers Science Questions from Twitter (Video), Bill Nye Saves the World Brings Us an Updated, Unapologetically Political Science Guy. Bill Nye Says Climate Change Deniers Have a Bad Case of Cognitive Dissonances24 2 et al↑. [Meme]. Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things.
-8. This is not strictly a biodisaster but a combined geo/biodisaster. However there is definite impact on the biosphere – at least dinosaurs would agree [Cartoon, Cartoon] – and to varying degrees a dread on the human psyche [Cartoon, Strip] that can influence behavior. Hazardous Asteroid Effects Ranked from Least to Most Destructive. If an asteroid struck Earth, which of its effects – scorching heat, flying debris, towering tsunamis – would claim the most lives. A new study has the answer: violent winds and shock waves are the most dangerous effects produced by Earth impacting asteroids. The biodisaster would be in the aftermath, while parademic may be a moot ∩ Can You Still Have Hope When Life Seems Hopeless [Quote, Photo]. Asteroid Misses Earth Narrowly, by Cosmic Standards ← is the factual science though phrased is a slightly scary way that creates a sense of dread. This is the narrative that build off of dread, and then build up the fear → Will the Asteroids Destroy Kansas City. Guess.
-A. This is the same parademic/myth making (SLA(Search)) process: Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever in Zaire, 1976 begins the dread Gone Viral: Top 9 Scariest Pandemic Movies provides the narratives, then fanned to moral panic and thoughtless fear (Ebolaphobia(Search)) by the same news source Fox News Ebola Fear Mongering So Ridiculous PBS Science Correspondent Calls Them out (Video) (2014), which ironically also published To Stop Ebola, Let's End Another Virus: Fear. Germs on the Big Screen: 11 Infectious Movies (2011). News of a disease outbreak or possible pandemic may readily conjure up Hollywood fantasies of horrible disease symptoms, government crackdowns and mass death. The very notion of infection, or viruses and bacteria invisibly taking over the human body, creates a sense of both uncertainty and helplessness that can lend itself to thoughts of doomsday. Movies have not hesitated to play outthose worst-case scenarios time and again. Terrible historical diseases such as the bubonic plague make repeat appearances, as do more modern threats such as "Super flu" and Ebola. Disease seemingly goes hand in hand with many of our worst nightmares in movies, including vampires and zombies — and experts have pointed out how such fictional scenarios can shape public perceptions of real life microbes. Fortunately, moviegoers can still get their big screen thrills armed with real world knowledge from many sources on the Internet and television, not to mention print — and that's perhaps the best vaccination against the contagion of fear. Going Viral: Pandemics in Fiction and Fact (2013), and after Ebola was Viral: When Epidemics Hit Cinema (2014). How Filmmakers Distill Science for the Big Screen.
-8.1. As an aside the individual at Fox News, Bill O'Reilly Hypes Ebola Fears: President Obama Should Order An Immigration Quarantine [Meme], Friday Fox Follies – The Ebola Edition, who was most closely identified with Ebolaphobia, has lost his position at Fox News. This apparently was not due to fake news or election manipulation, Right Wing Fear Mongering Is Far More Contagious than Ebola, ¿Remember Ebola? Apparently the Election and Fox News Cured it [Cartoon, Cartoon ], but Bill O'reilly out at Fox News after Sexual Harassment neAllegations [Cartoon]. More precisely he was costing Fox News revenue Bill O'Reilly Sexual Allegations Spur Advertiser Exodus. Time for Bill O’Reilly to Make Amends for His Panicked Ebola Commentary, [Screen Save, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon]. ¶ There are also speculations about How the Ebola Crisis Helped Launch Donald Trump's Political Career. The style of rhetoric and themes of Trump and O’Reilly are certainly similar [Cartoon]. ldinst HYPERLINK "http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/04/post-truthiness-0" Bill O’Reilly’s Political Legacy includes biopolitics and parademic [Cartoon]. ¶ There is also apparent paradox Fox News' Shepard Smith Destroys Ebola Fear Mongering in 4 Minutes. However the explanation for this allowing of conflict of views from the same corporate media is not balanced journalism, or responsible journalism. It is prudent business practice to avoid both legal accusation and loss of revenue in conditions of uncertainty (not what is right but which opinion will prevail) by representing both sides. Why Does the American Media Get Big Stories Wrong. Bill O’Reilly Tearfully Packs up Framed Up Skirt Photos from Desk. ¶ Imagine what would have happened if This One Small Language Tweak Could Change Our Views of Refugees during Ebola.
-8.2. #Book. Lessons for Canada from Hunt for Lost Jungle City, is a book review of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story [Cover]. It is also an example of fact contributing to and being influenced by mythical narratives that are based on fact, but not all the fact. These range from the many legends of lost cities, curse of the mummy, lost tribes, the romance of treasure hunting, that European diseases wiped out Native Populations. The last myth based on fact was in reality a syndemic of novel diseases, invasive species and technology. These were introduced to populations that were already teetering from drought, ecological damage, politics, warfare, famine. Many of these were self inflicted by native populations, making them unable to sustain themselves and repopulate, collaborate, in resistence to European encroachment. Theauthor of the review point was that continued expansion of people into disease reservoirs, and other irresponsible behaviors related to the biosphere, could possibly lead to devastating disease outbreaks that can depopulate the current populations. #Book Beyond Germs, Native Depopulation in North America.
-9. Parademic is not the same a Medical Anthropology, though there is overlap between the two. Parademic is more the Anthropology of Disaster, specifically biodisaster. Teaching Medical Anthropology. In the decade since becoming a full time professor, medical anthropology has been one of my core courses. I have taught it seven times. Although the basic structure of the course remains similar, emphases have shifted over time. Perhaps I can best highlight the evolution of the course through a discussion of readings I use. ¶ Starting from the beginning, my history of medical anthropology remains the same, focusing on when medicine was subsumed into broad anthropological categories of magic and witchcraft. Lately I have used a short excerpt of an ethnography The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events. More recent students may be disappointed that I do not delve further into non-Western medical systems in focus more on biomedical technologies and practices as anthropological objects. ¶ In addressing questions of medical pluralism I have used The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. It is accessible and students respond well to it, but it is anthropologically reductive and the clash of cultures is presented with such broad strokes that it may serve to reenforce rather than challenge students’ long held stereotypes about non-western cultures. On the other hand, because it works so well to ensnare student interest, I have had trouble abandoning it completely and have come back to it in the past. This year, I chose On Immunity. If The Spirit Catches You presents a clash centered on competing explanatory models and conflict over belief, this personal non-fiction essay explores the world of vaccination fears without the exoticization. It is popular and accessible but also anthropological in a similar vein while also confronting students on “our” own “strange” beliefs. ¶ With a brief detour through culture bound syndromes that end with examining the DSM-5 itself as culture bound. The next section of the course proceeds historically through the discipline’s history as anthropologists tentatively moved towards analyzing biomedicine through explanatory models and the role of illness narratives and illness experience. I have used ethnographies and memoirs such as Stranger In the Village of the Sick. This year, I decided to experiment with Stitches, a graphic novel that illuminates a classic biopsychosocial account of illness in which the illness experience is inseparable from emotional states, social environment and dysfunctional family dynamics. ¶ From the individual suffering involved in illness narratives, the course then proceeds to address issues of social suffering and structural violence. When I started teaching I used Aids and Accusation. I am using Fresh Fruits, Broken Bodies this year. Given that this course attracts a lot of medical students who have never taken an anthropology course before, often with limited ideas of what the discipline is about and who subsequently express to me bewilderment at what a seemingly strange class it is compared to the other health related social science courses they may take, the idea of using an ethnography by an MD/PhD is appealing and helps to bridge the course’s student divide. Furthermore, as a US citizen who has spent almost two decades in Canada but now feeling alienated by the new political reality south of the border, the choice was also shaped by the thought of having students read about the everyday lives and realities of one of the primary villains of Trump’s campaign rhetoric. ¶ The final part of the course focuses on the anthropology of biomedicine. I have students dive into journal articles – each handling different topics from organ transplantation to genetics to new reproductive technologies and so on.
-10. What Country Spends the Most (and Least) on Health Care per Person. A new report looks at data from 184 countries. And raises the question: Does more spending lead to better health outcomes. Per capita, U.S. spends far more than other countries with similar life expectancy. The higher cost of health care, drugs and health insurance in the US has long been an issue,4.1↑. ¶ Trump Fires Surgeon General is perhaps a way to save spending on health care. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Didn't Get Enough Time to Do What He Wanted. Treating Gun Violence as an Epidemic Could Help Us Stanch It.
-10.1. Then there are unintended consequences of measures that are intended to increase health security. Trump's Immigration Crackdown Has Serious Public Health Implications, Fear of Deportation May Be Affecting Immigrants’ Willingness to Seek out Health Care which creates the conditions where an outbreak can be hidden for a long time before discovery, usually because it has grown so large it breaks the liminal perception thresh hold. Catastrophic Threat: CDC Chief Fears a Deadly Superbug’s Spread. ¶ This possibility is exaggerated as it would include avoiding vaccination, possibly with unwitting support of government policies, that are incoherent and inconsistent, or lacking, Morning Consult: Despite Campaign Rhetoric, Trump Mostly Silent on Vaccine Policy, For Doctors, a Clamp down on Visas Could Have an Uneven Effect in the U.S., Federal Biomedical Science Policy under Donald Trump, Nearly 100 Days in, The Cruel Sham That Is Right to Try Raises its Ugly Head at the Federal Level Again, Trump to Hold a White House Science Fair, Extending an Obama Tradition. The last one may be interesting to watch to see what happens. It may never happen, or could become a pseudoscience faire.
↕C. Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) Corner [Logo]. Newsletter Archive. How Will People Judge Your Emergency Messages C.2↓. Before taking any recommendations, people want detailed explanations, strong reasons, and second opinions from people they trust. During an emergency, audiences judge messages much quicker. People must decide who to listen to, what to believe, and how to act without much time to weigh other options. It’s up to us, as communicators, to help people receive and correctly interpret our messages and accept our advice. Audiences will consider your messages based on: Speed of communication, Factual content, Trust and credibility. Understanding how audiences evaluate information in an emergency can help you adapt your messages to better meet audience needs. Ideally, you want to promote action and encourage people to adopt behaviors that will protect themselves and their communities. Germs in the Workplace: Communicating Health Information for Wellness.
-C.1. Science March on Washington, Billed as Historic, Plagued by Organizational Turmoil. March for Science Is a Movement That Looks Far Beyond Trump, Ripoff T Shirts Take a Bite out of March for Science Fund Raising [Logo], Earth Day and the March for Science, Who’s Going to the March for Science, March Participants Interested in Both Promoting, Defending Science. Why I’m Not Marching for Science, Why Memphis Has Two Marches for Science, Science Is Already Political. So Scientists Might as Well March. The March for Science on Earth Day, Explained. Thousands Join March for Science Rallies over 'Alternative Facts', March for Science: Rallies Worldwide to Protest Against Political Interference [Map], The March for Science Has Spread From Pole to Pole. I Have Always Marched for Science. The March for Science Was a Delightfully Nerdy Celebration of Discontent. Personally I don’t believe that this will sway Trumpism from its decided course. So far polls, protests, townhall meetings, opinion pieces, photos that indicate that most are not in favor of Trumpism decisions have had no impact on its trends. Of more concern than funding is if in an attempt to keep a supportive base that Trumpism will start catering to more pseudoscience, junk science, creationism, roll back on special needs, climate denial, and revision of history in education [Cartoon]. ¶ One of the Trends is that the image of Trump has become an icon to rally against, where Trump’s Earth Day Message Calls for Protecting the Economy and Environment is met with derision Donald Trump’s Earth Day Statement Is Shameful, [Sign, Sign, Sign]. 170409C.2, 170402-7.1***, -10, 170226-3.2, 170212-T.2, 170129-T.1.2↓. ¶ Government: There Is More To Science Than Government Funded Jobs. Scientists Are Running for Office Because They 'Want Reality to Be Fact Based'. Wonder if there will be another argument about size Science March Attendance Vs Trump Inauguration Attendance Compared; Its Big.
-C.2. I Was Confident in My Patient’s End of Life Care. Then My Senior Doctor Overruled me. I was sure he was near death and that escalating medical interventions would both be futile and not match his wishes. I described to my co residents and the attending physician — my supervisor — the patient’s condition, my view of what was happening, and the conversation I had with his wife the night before. But after the attending examined the patient and reviewed his vital signs, he told me to start more aggressive interventions: more medication to support the man’s blood pressure, a catheter in an artery to track his blood pressure, and high doses of steroids. When the man’s wife returned to the hospital an hour later, she was dismayed. Hadn’t she clearly explained what she wanted for her husband. She did not want us to pursue any of these interventions, as I had believed but had been unable to make my attending understand. She asked that we withdraw all care, and her husband died later that morning. This issue of communicating to those in authority due to seniority, authority, expertise, position has been addressed before. ¶ Unsure if this next one is parademic or not, but giving comfort to the dying would be an expected behavior during a biodisaster Oregon Man Dies 'Peacefully' after Told Trump Was Impeached.
-C.2. Navigating Vaccine Hesitancy: What Can the Physician Do. Why are some parents concerned about vaccines. Learn what physicians can do to help parents understand the importance of vaccines for their children. In an attempt to depolarize the anti-vaxxers versus provaxxers movements, the acceptable term to use is now vaccine hesitancy. Within the spectrum of opinion, parental attitudes toward childhood vaccinations can be divided into five categories. These are: Unquestioning acceptors (30 to 40 percent), Cautious acceptors (25 to 35 percent), The hesitant (20 to 30 percent), Late or selective vaccinators (2 to 27 percent), Refusers (less than 2 percent): These parents may have concerns about safety, religious beliefs, or mistrust of the medical system and may ultimately refuse all vaccinations for their children. Though it is important to understand the worldview of the person one is trying to communicate with this still seems to advocate presenting cold hard fact as the best communication method C↑. Vaccine Preventable Diseases Resurfaces: Threat to Humankind. What Makes a Physician Become an Antivaxer, Part 2. Why It’s a Bad Idea to Space out Your Child’s Vaccination Shots.
-C.3. ∩ A characteristic of parademic is the introduction of new words and changes in meaning. From 'F Bomb' to 'Photobomb,' How the Dictionary Keeps up with English. For a new word to enter the dictionary, it must meet three criteria: widespread use, sustained use and meaningful use. [Photo].
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