Thursday, August 27, 2015

Pectus Excavatum complications - beware neck strike during barbell Clean

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I am deformed … Current Management of Pectus Excavatum  [jf: depressed sternum associated upper chest] Pectus excavatum (PE) is one of t...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Mountain biking: A good sport for heavy kids?

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I help out with a High School mountain biking team; it’s a team #1 rode with last year. ( He might be first special needs student to compete...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Amazon reviews show a Shimano SPD pedal has a safety defect. Do Amazon and Shimano have a duty to report under US law?

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I’ve sent two sets of Amazon purchased SPD pedals to Shimano for warranty replacement in the past month. I’d used each set for 2-3 months wh...
Monday, August 17, 2015

And now for something somewhat different

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A somewhat wise traveler walks a path in deep desert. He comes across a turtle that has fallen on its back. Having some wisdom he carries t...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

2015 vs. 1910 - which era has more future shock?

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Remember Alvin Toffler ’s Future Shock (helps to be old)? Wikipedia, via this : "Toffler argues that society is undergoing an enorm...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Donald Trump is a sign of a healthy democracy. Really.

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I’m a liberal of Hume an descent, and I’m a fan of Donald Trump. No, not because Trump is humiliating the GOP, though he is. Of course I en...
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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