Thursday, July 23, 2015

Sleep disordered breathing Catch-22: sleeping with post-operative nasal obstruction and an unreliable oral airway

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How would a cetacean live with a blocked blowhole?  The question was asked in a 1986 newspaper column ... A--Whales and dolphins breathe...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Counterfeit bicycle components and my defective "Shimano" pedals

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Today the NYT reported on a flood of “counterfeit” bike parts out of China . The parentheses are there because the article mixes up true cou...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

How to donate used bikes (and why that may beat selling them)

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In the Twin Cities we have a number of places that accept bike donations, fix them up, and sell them. They use the money to fund community a...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Tools: emulating (Rally) Agile work using Appigo ToDo.app and ToDo Cloud

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My circumstances have changed. I may have more to say on that later; even in the sort term it is probably a change for the better. But of co...
Sunday, July 05, 2015

Why don't we have better medical textbook descriptions of disease?

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I have a problem with the way medicine describes diseases. It’s not a new problem - it’s bugged me since about my third year of medical scho...

The American Heart Associations "911" heart attack campaign is not evidence based

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My friend Jim Levin died a couple of years ago; he had an MI running for a plane. Shortly after his death I visited the American Hearth Asso...
Friday, July 03, 2015

Perspective - 20 year family reunion probabilities

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For at least two good reasons I’ve been doing a bit of planning. More on those reasons later, but first a digression to answer a relevant qu...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

Apple TV's PBS station has great shows, but an awful user experience

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Anthro prof  John Hawks , one of my favorite bloggers, is hosting a sure-to-be-good PBS series called First Peoples . You can stream the (u...

Automating medical error: misadventures in medication reconciliation

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I recently enjoyed a nasal surgery procedure. More on that in a later post, this one is about a medical error that followed the surgery. It’...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Story of our times - What happened to screen door latches?

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This is the only screen door latch design sold in our local hardware stores:   The t-shaped metal bar in the center has two prongs that j...

Crime and the enterprise

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What do Seagrams , YouTube , Uber , Elon Musk’s PayPal , 1930’s McKesson , Jobs Rip. Mix. Burn , and Las Vegas have in common? Many very su...

Fixing the iPad: Family share and iBooks

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It’s a geek consensus - the iPad is on its last legs. Mostly this is because it’s nuts to have both a single-user iPhone 6 and a single-use...

Reorganizations - did Petronius Arbiter really say that in AD 27? No.

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John Halamka is unhappy with the direction of federal health computing initiatives . He’s not alone, just about everyone outside of Madison ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Medical research is hard - two NYT articles on Losartan for Marfan syndrome.

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In 2013 the NYT’s Gina Kolata was optimistic about using Losartan, an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB), to treat Marfan’s syndrome  … ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Paul Theroux's 1976 visit to Santa Ana, El Salvador - repeat on 2015 Google Street View

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Paul Theroux ’s The Old Patagonian Express was published in 1979. Today it’s as much historical document as travel guide. Part of that hist...