Matthew DiPaola MD

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Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:06:43 -0400

designtumblelog: What you don’t know about A can kill you! More...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:40:52 -0400

designtumblelog:

What you don’t know about A can kill you! More at 11.

www.phdcomics.com

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Recovery from a patient's perspective

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:28:00 -0400

Recovery from a patient's perspective:

Having a catastrophic illness (the term gives me a slight thrill) is an interesting experience if it doesn’t see you off, albeit one you wouldn’t wish for. You learn a lot: about yourself, about your friends, family and colleagues, what matters and doesn’t. But mainly you learn about the grind of illness and recovery. If you’re the sort of person who has only ever had to deal with colds and cuts, food poisoning and the odd virus that sends you to bed for a week of groggy dozing, what strikes you most is the glacial pace of recuperation. You drift through weeks of seemingly changeless days, with only tiny incremental improvements. I had a bad few months with tonsillitis and glandular fever in the 90s, but it was nothing compared with this. A cancer survivor warned me that recovery does not run in a straight line. I now think of it like a stockmarket chart after a crash: the line of health rises from the trough in painfully slow, uneven jags, it plateaus and slips back. Look at the weeks and you despair; only a graph of the year shows a positive picture.

This article came up on my tumblr radar. It turned out to be a great read. It’s about a man who developed a rare brain abscess and his struggle to recover after surgery. Interesting that he uses the stock market analogy. I often tell my patients the same thing. Sometimes recovery is 2 steps forward, one step back (or slower). I encourage a lot of my patients to keep a journal of their symptoms over the course of a few months- whether recovering from surgery or doing physical therapy for the first time. Often recovery is occurring but at too slow a pace to keep up with our modern fast paced expectations.

taitran: 50 years of Space Exploration in 1 picture

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:25:19 -0400

taitran:

50 years of Space Exploration in 1 picture

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:54:45 -0400

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard:

The 20th Century was a horrible litany of absurd experiments and atrocities committed by intellectuals, or by elite groupings that claimed a higher knowledge. Simple folk usually have enough common sense to avoid the worst errors. Sometimes they need to take very stern action to stop intellectuals leading us to ruin.

The root error of the modern academy is to pretend (and perhaps believe, which is even less forgiveable), that economics is a science and answers to Newtonian laws.

In any case, Newton was wrong. He neglected the fourth dimension of time, as Einstein called it, and that is exactly what the new classical school of economics has done by failing to take into account the intertemporal effects of debt – now 360pc of GDP across the OECD bloc, if properly counted.

There has been a cosy self-delusion that rising debt is largely benign because it is merely money that society owes to itself. This is a bad error of judgement, one that the intuitive man in the street can see through immediately.

Debt draws forward prosperity, which leads to powerful overhang effects that are not properly incorporated into Fed models. That is the key reason why Ben Bernanke’s Fed was caught flat-footed when the crisis hit, and kept misjudging it until the events started to spin out of control.

Economics should never be treated as a science. Its claims are not falsifiable, which is why economists can disagree so violently among themselves: a rarer spectacle in science, where disputes are usually resolved one way or another by hard data.

It is a branch of anthropology and psychology, a moral discipline if you like

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Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:57:59 -0400

Insert your representative here….

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:19:26 -0400

Insert your representative here….

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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:36:52 -0400

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Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:05:55 -0400

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/health/2010/02/25/natpkg.100.year.old.doctor.cnn

Kicked out of office? Go straight to Wall Street

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:02:48 -0400

Kicked out of office? Go straight to Wall Street:

Wall Street has dramatically expanded its influence on Capitol Hill over the past year, using a lobbying army that includes nearly 1,500 former federal employees and 73 former members of Congress who have been deployed during debate on financial reform legislation….

Of the 73 lawmakers-turned-lobbyists touting Wall Street’s interests, 17 served on congressional banking committees during their time in office, including former House Financial Services Committee Chairman Michael Oxley (R-Ohio), a co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:37:50 -0400

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Fri, 21 May 2010 14:27:41 -0400

taitran: Moments Count this post as one of those...

Fri, 21 May 2010 14:14:32 -0400

taitran:

Moments

Count this post as one of those “distractions.” Take it seriously at your own peril.

Thomas Sowell

Wed, 19 May 2010 21:20:39 -0400

Thomas Sowell:

Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy – quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody’s rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can’t tell the water where to go.

cincinnatiartgrrl: Art sign at the American Sign Museum —...

Wed, 19 May 2010 13:46:26 -0400

cincinnatiartgrrl:

Art sign at the American Sign Museum — Cincinnati.

spacerules: 4-d: IIS & Atlantis passing the sun. by...

Wed, 19 May 2010 13:43:57 -0400

spacerules:

4-d:

IIS & Atlantis passing the sun.

by Thierry Legault.

Space Rules

"Politicians are like diapers. They both should be changed regularly,"

Tue, 18 May 2010 21:26:22 -0400

““Politicians are like diapers. They both should be changed regularly,””

- Marc Coleman 41, a Philadelphia primary voter.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not..."

Tue, 18 May 2010 20:31:33 -0400

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

- Upton Sinclair

I never played lacrosse but I love watching the game. Except I...

Mon, 17 May 2010 20:37:50 -0400

I never played lacrosse but I love watching the game. Except I think I need to get an extra large bottle of Tums before the game from now on. Seems like every game I catch has a heart attack finish. Saturday Cornell beats Loyola in triple OT. Last night Army upsets Syracuse in double OT. Phew.

Anyway, Go Red.

iPhone Deconstruction

Mon, 17 May 2010 08:28:02 -0400

iPhone Deconstruction: