NO, the last factor has been shown to have no effect whatsoever on the vast majority of body processes, including most specifically the immune system, which is a molecular based processing system which has NO conscious component.
Stop it with the tail of the cancer therapy argument and realize that NICE denies care to those that could benefit from it greatly. They shouldn't even exist let alone be making decisions for me and mine.
Patients should decide when they can AND then with their doctors, what treatments to have. Everyone else needs to stay the f*** out of the decision nexus.
Criticism of NICE -- Namely that it denies valid treatment to patients that desire it for reasons of government budgets. If you pay attention to the UK papers, every week is another outrage from that agency.
Additionally, since all such systems are socialistic, prices are not set by market mechanisms but by bureaucrats, and the resulting inability to calculate future profits is a big detriment to the creation of new treatments and new devices.
Computers double their price performance every 18 months. Medicine is on a 15 year doubling schedule. There's no question what the cause of the difference between the two. Fascist FDA, Socialist Medicare/Medicaid, and [mostly] useless NIH.
Having universal gov't health care doesn't stop the wealthy from buying more health care than anyone else; it provides health care for the 30% or so of Americans who have none. *** Yes -- it does stop you and me *and* the wealthy from getting extra care in-country. See canada,Uk. You then have to jump borders, and only the wealthy can do that.
NO. THE PEOPLE HAVE THIS RIGHT. The militia aspect of the 2nd Am is a subordinate inclusive clause, whose presence or absence does not change a RIGHT of the PEOPLE.
What f'ing deregulation? YOU DO NOT HAVE A FREE MARKET IN HEALTHCARE. YOU HAVE the MOST regulated market short of universal useless healthcare.
Understand this -- there's no moore law associated with healthcare. NOthing has f'ing changed in 20 years since I first practiced in any significant way.
Cancer survival is measured in 5-year survival patterns and the approval process for a treatment runs up 15 years. Thank you FDA regs. Give me a break. You have no understanding whatsoever of economics in general and healthcare in particular.
This is the end of the road of the inflation that started with Medicaid and Medicare in the 60's.
It's the Republicans (fascists though they are) that are right in macroeconomic theory and its the Democrats (socialists) that are in fact, operating in ideological mantra that spending is somehow going to work. It didn't work for Austria, didn't work for us in 1930's, didn't work in 1974 and won't work now.
Cancer survival not linked to a positive attitude, study finds Print version: page 14
Some cancer patients seek out support groups and psychotherapy with the notion that improving their emotional states will extend their lives, says University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine psychologist James C. Coyne, PhD.
However, in a study in the journal Cancer, (Vol. 110, No. 11) Coyne and colleagues reported that emotional well-being in no way predicted survival among patients with head and neck cancer.
"If people want to go to a support group there are lots of advantages to it, such as a sense of belonging, but survival isn't one of them," says Coyne.
In the large-scale study conducted over nine years, Coyne and colleagues used baseline quality-of-life questionnaires to assess the well-being of 1,093 cancer patients. All participants were involved in clinical trials, which ensured uniformity of treatment and ruled out substantial health disparities in the sample. During the study, 646 patients died, and the research team found no relationship between their emotional well-being and cancer progression and death.
Though his findings strongly contradict the notion that a positive attitude is related to survival, the idea of "fighting" cancer is deeply rooted in our culture, says Coyne.
"It's the American way, that you can do it, you can fight it," he adds.
Based on the study results, Coyne believes it's important to not blame cancer patients who don't adopt an aggressively positive spirit.
"We want to recognize thatthere are lots of individual differences in coping with cancer," he says. "People have to do what's comfortable with them, but they have to do it without the burden of thinking they've got to have the right attitudeto survive."
I AM A DOCTOR. 11 years medical informatics. 16 in medicine in general, 6 years medical devices.
And you need an attitude check, if for no other reason than your experience is insufficient to the matter at hand.
(1) The patient record IS owned by the patient (and the hospital/provider)
(2) All 50 states mandate access to the record by the patient
(3)Hospital records are routinely lost and routinely we do not enter crucial data because of liability reasons. A fact-on-the-ground, if you will. Never mind it is actually counter-productive and the best documents are the best defense, with the majority of docs actually winning the lawsuits.
(4) Larry Weed's arguments on patient's owning and understanding their record have never been refuted (You might know him differently, as he invented the SOAP note)
(5)Many patients have a better and more intimate understanding of their condition (and the tests they underwent) than you give them credit for. You might want to learn to properly listen to your patients and credit them for being more than stupid cattle.
(6) And your MedRec SHOULD be more secret than your FBI file. As a man suffering from condition that routinely cripples him once a year, if that info was known to Tom Dick or Harry Employer I would unemployable even though I only lose a day or two of work a year, they would freak. Just think of the HIV stigma that AIDS *testing* brings to the fore. Never mind I have had to have 3 of those tests for various reasons, NONE having to do with exposure.
Yep. That's the piece of software that did it. I was trying to remember and for the life of me I couldn't. But yes, Lotus did that in the early 90's....
WRONG. My right to travel is not under the governments sway and the fact is they don't own the roads, I THE TAXPAYER, does. So get off your fascist high horse and get ready for watching the lead fly.
They try to pull any of this bullshit in my hometown and I swear by all I hold holy there will be hell to pay.
The problem is the tests are nonsensical, arbitrary and a waste of time. They carry no predictive value and like the vast majority of certs, licenses, etc, are a means of eliminating the dangerous competition that would actually clear the market of the morons.
Anybody here thinks a medical license is anything about guaranteeing medical safety as opposed to preventing the competent from practicing has another thing coming.... The same is true here in comp sci...
I categorically refuse to sit for tests. If the fact that I built a $100 million fully operating architecture for a healthcare org is not qualification enough or my several hundred thousand lines of fully operating easily maintained code isn't enough of a qualification, YOU (as in employer) are a waste of my time.
It takes one to five verbal questions to eliminate any prospective candidate and they are trivial and left as an excersize to the reader. By the way, the correct answer to the fifth question is "I don't know. I would ask my betters or see what I could dig up on Google.".
QUICKLY LEARN CARS is the correct answer. Narrow domain expertise almost always means inability to think.
Geez, you would think the human race would have learned that answer by now....
You have to learn to think for the long run, which means hiring the flexible and learning to invest in them. Again. As we used to do... when this was a truly great nation and a productive one... before rent-seeking behaviors destroyed it...
That's because, dear sir, like humans of yesteryear, you can think but can't memorize. The regurgitate on demand schools of today have created the dogmatic programmer. Back when the Earth was cooling (and yes Olivia, I worked with punched cards and paper tape) we were taught how to solve problems and carry that knowledge from problem to problem.
I couldn't pass a C# test for beans, but I have written my own utilities to fix things I hate in WinXP and even have my own desktop manager so it is like Linux with all the trimmings.
Recently someone asked me in an interview why I should be hired even though I had no Microsoft certifications. I laughed, got up, and never looked back. Word to the wise: If they care about certs, they are clueless about what takes real I.T. skills. Run, do not walk, to a competent employer.
It's obvious to an 8-yr old that the searches are f'ing unreasonable. If SCOTUS said a statute making breathing a crime is OK would you accept that as "reasonable". Your own mind is to be the authority. Use it.
Secondly, the Constitution is to be read in the light of freedom. If crossing an imaginary line in a location I am forced into (e.g. customs Port-of-Entry chokepoints) is now the definition of agreeing to be searched, we are in full fascism and it's time to break out the major weaponry and start watering the Tree of Liberty. Remember, the excersize of a right (to Travel) doesn't abridge my other rights (e.g. 4th of being secure in person and papers).
And if I jack-boot-thugged you at a Port-of-Entry you would be screaming about rights as well. Understand that the current situation is becoming intolerable.
Yes. This is one big problem. SCOTUS thought there were exceptions to Rights. Of course there aren't any in reality. The proper reading of Rights is that they are to be ABSOLUTE prohibitions upon government activity. WE are in this mess precisely because of this rights-are-relative bullshit.
But THEY aren't doing a necessary job. What's worse it's not about finding terrorists but controlling US. They are jack-boot thugs and jack-boot thugs in training with the stench of the death camp about them. The fact that people don't understand this is utterly amazing to me. Agreeing with them as opposed to properly ostracizing them and I dare say, when we should be one step away from shooting them, is utterly selling the future security of US citizens from their own criminal government. The transaction costs associated with this security theatre (as in joke security) go into the tens of billions of dollars for having found a handful of terrorists to date of any significance.
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NO, the last factor has been shown to have no effect whatsoever on the vast majority of body processes, including most specifically the immune system, which is a molecular based processing system which has NO conscious component.
NO and NO!
Stop it with the tail of the cancer therapy argument and realize that NICE denies care to those that could benefit from it greatly. They shouldn't even exist let alone be making decisions for me and mine.
Patients should decide when they can AND then with their doctors, what treatments to have. Everyone else needs to stay the f*** out of the decision nexus.
Criticism of NICE -- Namely that it denies valid treatment to patients that desire it for reasons of government budgets. If you pay attention to the UK papers, every week is another outrage from that agency.
So, tell me again people, why are we for this?
Additionally, since all such systems are socialistic, prices are not set by market mechanisms but by bureaucrats, and the resulting inability to calculate future profits is a big detriment to the creation of new treatments and new devices.
Computers double their price performance every 18 months. Medicine is on a 15 year doubling schedule. There's no question what the cause of the difference between the two. Fascist FDA, Socialist Medicare/Medicaid, and [mostly] useless NIH.
Having universal gov't health care doesn't stop the wealthy from buying more health care than anyone else; it provides health care for the 30% or so of Americans who have none.
***
Yes -- it does stop you and me *and* the wealthy from getting extra care in-country. See canada,Uk. You then have to jump borders, and only the wealthy can do that.
It's alarming that many CS grads COULD NOT pass such a simple test....
No. Obama is just a socialist criminal, as Bush was a fascist one. Both are anti-constitutional and both should be hanged for treason
NO. THE PEOPLE HAVE THIS RIGHT. The militia aspect of the 2nd Am is a subordinate inclusive clause, whose presence or absence does not change a RIGHT of the PEOPLE.
It's not about defending the country.
It's about making sure the tools to overthrow a tyrannical government stay in the hands of the People.
What f'ing deregulation? YOU DO NOT HAVE A FREE MARKET IN HEALTHCARE. YOU HAVE the MOST regulated market short of universal useless healthcare.
Understand this -- there's no moore law associated with healthcare. NOthing has f'ing changed in 20 years since I first practiced in any significant way.
Cancer survival is measured in 5-year survival patterns and the approval process for a treatment runs up 15 years. Thank you FDA regs. Give me a break. You have no understanding whatsoever of economics in general and healthcare in particular.
This is the end of the road of the inflation that started with Medicaid and Medicare in the 60's.
You have it exactly backwards.
It's the Republicans (fascists though they are) that are right in macroeconomic theory and its the Democrats (socialists) that are in fact, operating in ideological mantra that spending is somehow going to work. It didn't work for Austria, didn't work for us in 1930's, didn't work in 1974 and won't work now.
Cancer survival not linked to a positive attitude, study finds
Print version: page 14
Some cancer patients seek out support groups and psychotherapy with the notion that improving their emotional states will extend their lives, says University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine psychologist James C. Coyne, PhD.
However, in a study in the journal Cancer, (Vol. 110, No. 11) Coyne and colleagues reported that emotional well-being in no way predicted survival among patients with head and neck cancer.
"If people want to go to a support group there are lots of advantages to it, such as a sense of belonging, but survival isn't one of them," says Coyne.
In the large-scale study conducted over nine years, Coyne and colleagues used baseline quality-of-life questionnaires to assess the well-being of 1,093 cancer patients. All participants were involved in clinical trials, which ensured uniformity of treatment and ruled out substantial health disparities in the sample. During the study, 646 patients died, and the research team found no relationship between their emotional well-being and cancer progression and death.
Though his findings strongly contradict the notion that a positive attitude is related to survival, the idea of "fighting" cancer is deeply rooted in our culture, says Coyne.
"It's the American way, that you can do it, you can fight it," he adds.
Based on the study results, Coyne believes it's important to not blame cancer patients who don't adopt an aggressively positive spirit.
"We want to recognize thatthere are lots of individual differences in coping with cancer," he says. "People have to do what's comfortable with them, but they have to do it without the burden of thinking they've got to have the right attitudeto survive."
I AM A DOCTOR. 11 years medical informatics. 16 in medicine in general, 6 years medical devices.
And you need an attitude check, if for no other reason than your experience is insufficient to the matter at hand.
(1) The patient record IS owned by the patient (and the hospital/provider)
(2) All 50 states mandate access to the record by the patient
(3)Hospital records are routinely lost and routinely we do not enter crucial data because of liability reasons. A fact-on-the-ground, if you will. Never mind it is actually counter-productive and the best documents are the best defense, with the majority of docs actually winning the lawsuits.
(4) Larry Weed's arguments on patient's owning and understanding their record have never been refuted (You might know him differently, as he invented the SOAP note)
(5)Many patients have a better and more intimate understanding of their condition (and the tests they underwent) than you give them credit for. You might want to learn to properly listen to your patients and credit them for being more than stupid cattle.
(6) And your MedRec SHOULD be more secret than your FBI file. As a man suffering from condition that routinely cripples him once a year, if that info was known to Tom Dick or Harry Employer I would unemployable even though I only lose a day or two of work a year, they would freak. Just think of the HIV stigma that AIDS *testing* brings to the fore. Never mind I have had to have 3 of those tests for various reasons, NONE having to do with exposure.
Yep. That's the piece of software that did it. I was trying to remember and for the life of me I couldn't. But yes, Lotus did that in the early 90's....
Not entirely correct. The observable universe is a sphere approximately 46 billion light-years in radius
You can't possibly be that stupid? Maybe you are...
WRONG. My right to travel is not under the governments sway and the fact is they don't own the roads, I THE TAXPAYER, does. So get off your fascist high horse and get ready for watching the lead fly.
They try to pull any of this bullshit in my hometown and I swear by all I hold holy there will be hell to pay.
The problem is the tests are nonsensical, arbitrary and a waste of time. They carry no predictive value and like the vast majority of certs, licenses, etc, are a means of eliminating the dangerous competition that would actually clear the market of the morons.
Anybody here thinks a medical license is anything about guaranteeing medical safety as opposed to preventing the competent from practicing has another thing coming.... The same is true here in comp sci...
I categorically refuse to sit for tests. If the fact that I built a $100 million fully operating architecture for a healthcare org is not qualification enough or my several hundred thousand lines of fully operating easily maintained code isn't enough of a qualification, YOU (as in employer) are a waste of my time.
It takes one to five verbal questions to eliminate any prospective candidate and they are trivial and left as an excersize to the reader. By the way, the correct answer to the fifth question is "I don't know. I would ask my betters or see what I could dig up on Google.".
QUICKLY LEARN CARS is the correct answer. Narrow domain expertise almost always means inability to think.
Geez, you would think the human race would have learned that answer by now....
You have to learn to think for the long run, which means hiring the flexible and learning to invest in them. Again. As we used to do... when this was a truly great nation and a productive one... before rent-seeking behaviors destroyed it...
That's because, dear sir, like humans of yesteryear, you can think but can't memorize. The regurgitate on demand schools of today have created the dogmatic programmer. Back when the Earth was cooling (and yes Olivia, I worked with punched cards and paper tape) we were taught how to solve problems and carry that knowledge from problem to problem.
I couldn't pass a C# test for beans, but I have written my own utilities to fix things I hate in WinXP and even have my own desktop manager so it is like Linux with all the trimmings.
Recently someone asked me in an interview why I should be hired even though I had no Microsoft certifications. I laughed, got up, and never looked back. Word to the wise: If they care about certs, they are clueless about what takes real I.T. skills. Run, do not walk, to a competent employer.
I did goto Vegas and like a loyal Trekkie I went to the show. It was great.
It's obvious to an 8-yr old that the searches are f'ing unreasonable. If SCOTUS said a statute making breathing a crime is OK would you accept that as "reasonable". Your own mind is to be the authority. Use it.
Secondly, the Constitution is to be read in the light of freedom. If crossing an imaginary line in a location I am forced into (e.g. customs Port-of-Entry chokepoints) is now the definition of agreeing to be searched, we are in full fascism and it's time to break out the major weaponry and start watering the Tree of Liberty. Remember, the excersize of a right (to Travel) doesn't abridge my other rights (e.g. 4th of being secure in person and papers).
And if I jack-boot-thugged you at a Port-of-Entry you would be screaming about rights as well. Understand that the current situation is becoming intolerable.
Yes. This is one big problem. SCOTUS thought there were exceptions to Rights. Of course there aren't any in reality. The proper reading of Rights is that they are to be ABSOLUTE prohibitions upon government activity. WE are in this mess precisely because of this rights-are-relative bullshit.
But THEY aren't doing a necessary job. What's worse it's not about finding terrorists but controlling US. They are jack-boot thugs and jack-boot thugs in training with the stench of the death camp about them. The fact that people don't understand this is utterly amazing to me. Agreeing with them as opposed to properly ostracizing them and I dare say, when we should be one step away from shooting them, is utterly selling the future security of US citizens from their own criminal government. The transaction costs associated with this security theatre (as in joke security) go into the tens of billions of dollars for having found a handful of terrorists to date of any significance.