Humanities in Medicine has now become a necessity. A defining feature of Doctors is to be empathetic and professional. Professionalism is particularly hard to teach or train and even measure. A bit of humanities in the curriculum can definitely help.
Once upon a time, it was possible to install Corel Photopaint on Mandrake 9.x and it was fantastic. Only Apple Macs ruled the designer world roost and this was a rebellion in its on right.
The problem with the present method is that each paper is scrutinized before publication only by a very small select cohort of experts. And once this decision is taken, its 'published and stays published for ever' (in most cases, discounting the outright fraudulent ones that are retracted)'.
I am a professor of pharmacology and we do critical appraisal of scientific papers in our department all the time for symposiums. You won't know what kind of mistakes my undergrads pick up in journal clubs, of papers published in prestigious journals.
By enough eyeballs, I do mean qualified eyeballs. Not just eyeballs.
A vote which is both unequal - some people have more money to vote with, after all - and by definition corrupt - every single dollar vote you cast has a direct financial impact on you, after all. It's a fine tool for managing logistics, but completely unfit for making decisions that have long-term effects.
Thank you for highlighting this. Voting with money isn't a saint like everybody seems to think. No to sound too condescending, but again, yours was a much needed post.
You just had to crawl out of the woodwork to advice us on what our priorities should be, didn't you?
Please educate yourself and please restrain yourself next time India launches a Mars Mission or an ICBM Dev. Programme and remember that:
We need to balance our development. If you can't understand the advantages for India to have a credible deterrence vide ICBMs, you probably should shut up, pretty please.
Isn't this what they said when US troops were about to enter Baghdad? That the revolutionary guards are so elite and will fight for every street that US army will get bogged down for months fighting a savage urban guerilla warfare with no clear victory in sight?
Well, before the saliva spit by those vocalising that view could dry up in the wind, the US army was smoking out bedazzled Saddam from a pit.
Hi there, I also have around 6 keys that I need to carry. However, I do a bit of strategic placing. Its all a matter of getting into a rut... create a habit.
When I leave home, I pull out my car key... and after opening the car, I leave my house keys in them and reaching my office, i retrieve my office keys bunch (which has my cabinet keys) and reach my room.
I have a motorcycle parked at the Office that I use in the noon to get around for lunch, shopping, etc. Its keys are on my Office table. SO at lunch I grab them alone and return them to their resting spot on return. In the evening, when am returning home, I leave my office keys in the car and get the house keys.
Just as there is the Proprietary vs OS struggle in Software Engg., there is now a parallel in the field of scientific publishing.
Open Access Journals [http://www.doaj.org/] are all about free scientific information instead of billions charged by these greedy ba$tard$.
An article costs approx 10$ at publishers like elsevier/merck, which can, like, feed a whole family in my country for a full week!
And the most outrageous part is that sometimes that article would be the result from research funded by my taxmoney and my government while elsevier just earns off it for (virtually) nothing!
French and Portuguese efforts were also minimally based in religious motives,
You obviously don't know about GOA and the Portuguese conversion of native hindus by force to Catholism and the violent Inquisition held there.
Hundreds of Temples were demolished by forcing the natives to first convert and then demolish the temples by their own hands.
The Portuguese were worst on the Indian Sub-Continent in terms of religious persecution.
Till day, the effects of Portuguese religious voilence can still be felt and seen at the remains of demolished temples and a battered population bearing foreign surnames in Goa.
When it comes to religious wars, Christianity has no better record than rabid Islamism. In fact both of them believe in exclusivity of truth in their religions and therefore are bound to treat other religionists as sub-humans not worthy of life.
Storming of The Golden Temple had nothing to do with Sikhism per se. A Pakistan funded and armed Seperatist group had holed up inside the temple with full confidence that they would be safe there.
However, Indira Gandhi was a woman with Balls who had just dismembered Pakistan and won't take Shit. She ordered the Army into the Temple and clean it up from vermin. What happened is history. Sikhs took unkindly to the Army wearing boots and marching into their most holy place, riots happened.
But over all, Hindus and Sikhs enjoy better relationships than say, Irish Catholics and Protestants. Hindus look upon Sikhs as guardians of the 'Dharmic religions' against Islam. Read history of Sikhs and their persecution at the hands of Aurangazeb and other Mughals before you can shoot your sorry ass off. You just have a tiny bit of information about some Golden Temple entry and think you know a lot.
Secondly, Deepa Mehta is different story. She took advantage of the plight of Widows to make a film and make money. Different groups protested against this expoitation in different ways, some more emotional and passionate than others. What Mehta did was to capture poverty and poverty driven prostitution on film to gain fame at the expense of the filmed widows. Her story was meant to shock and thus gain her a few awards, not for any creativity or talent, but merely by playing to western imagery of India and Hindus as pagans with no civilization waiting for the White Man to come and teach them. And so did it work, that jackasses like yourself now know about her a bit and thus try to passoff yourself as well read or informed, while you know nothing more than a few names.
One of the characters of Hinduism is assimilation of anything that comes in contact with it. Buddha who stood against Hinduism was made a part of Hinduism and converted into a god. Thus Buddhism in India declined, not Hindus decapitating Buddhists, but simply by absorbing 'renegrade' Buddhist ideas into the mother religion.
Non-cooperation is not just fasting. Civil Disobedience is when you use NON-VIOLENT means to stand up for your rights and fasting is just one small weapon in a whole arsenal.
Now, its easy to retaliate violence with violence. THe Idea of fasting is to appeal to higher morals, which makes us Humans, Humane. Even at the cost to one's life. But to make the person who's policies you oppose to think.
Gandhi made it absolutely clear that Ahimsa not only means rejection of PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, but ALSO mental voilence by the means of threats, blackmail too.
There, now can your petty mind comprehend the idea?
Ghandis mass civil protests were a threat of violence, pure and simple,
First, its Gandhi, not Ghandi.
And second, Moron, it was not PURE threat of Violence, nor was it any 'Simple'.
Gandhi follwed a system called 'Civil Disobedience', theorised by one of the finest Americans, Henry David Thoreau published in 1849, combined with the Indic Philosophical Idea of AHIMSA or Non-Violence.
Jainism, one of the old religions of India which predates any Semetic religion, has at its very core, the concept of Ahimsa. Jains even sweep the floor before they place their feet to MINIMIZE the number of lives that they must destroy. Jainism and Vaishnavism gave Gandhi the inspiration of combining Ahimsa with Civil Disobedience.
During the Dandi Salt March, thousands and thousands of Indians marched to the Sea to make salt which was heavily taxed by the British Raj. Many Thousands were brutally hit by Baton weilding British Police and not a single Indian even actively resisted that violence.
They Took the whole fury upon their bodies and the result was a sea of wounded men, bloodied, but at the end of the day, won the Moral Battle.
That was a great victory.
Gandhi made it absolutely clear that Ahimsa not only means rejection of PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, but mental voilence by the means of threats, blackmail too.
If you don't know what Gandhi and his methods meant, you probably should read a bit before you try to look clever.
What a crap for a story! US$ 10 is about 450 Ruppees.
If thats a village with a road you can drive a Rover on, I bet the villagers whould have trashed that Salesman for trying to humiliate them.
Of course in a Nation of a billion humans, many stuff happen.. like mothers selling off their newborn babies, indentured workers and such, but believe me, you can't manage to get a rush with 10$!!.. if you are talking about distribution of 10,000 saries, 10,000 kilograms of Rice - One Kilogram for each member of a family, I would believe that in certain parts of India, you can get a stampede... But NOT with 450 Rupees!!
You just don't know Indian villagers! Mad desperate rush for 450 rupees is indeed a disguisting story, only its disguist factor is about its falsehood.
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Humanities in Medicine has now become a necessity.
A defining feature of Doctors is to be empathetic and professional.
Professionalism is particularly hard to teach or train and even measure.
A bit of humanities in the curriculum can definitely help.
Once upon a time, it was possible to install Corel Photopaint on Mandrake 9.x and it was fantastic.
Only Apple Macs ruled the designer world roost and this was a rebellion in its on right.
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The problem with the present method is that each paper is scrutinized before publication only by a very small select cohort of experts. And once this decision is taken, its 'published and stays published for ever' (in most cases, discounting the outright fraudulent ones that are retracted)'.
I am a professor of pharmacology and we do critical appraisal of scientific papers in our department all the time for symposiums. You won't know what kind of mistakes my undergrads pick up in journal clubs, of papers published in prestigious journals.
By enough eyeballs, I do mean qualified eyeballs. Not just eyeballs.
Reminds me of Eric Raymond's 'Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow' law.
So basically they want to introduce a Slashdot for scientists..
Prepare for a brand new style of flame-wars!
A vote which is both unequal - some people have more money to vote with, after all - and by definition corrupt - every single dollar vote you cast has a direct financial impact on you, after all. It's a fine tool for managing logistics, but completely unfit for making decisions that have long-term effects.
Thank you for highlighting this. Voting with money isn't a saint like everybody seems to think. No to sound too condescending, but again, yours was a much needed post.
>Any country that is cowed by Pakistan is nothing to worry about.
That is United States of America.
$hit Cowed. E.g. Pakistanis had Osama as their honoured Guest and US can't even call that bluff.
You just had to crawl out of the woodwork to advice us on what our priorities should be, didn't you?
Please educate yourself and please restrain yourself next time India launches a Mars Mission or an ICBM Dev. Programme and remember that:
We need to balance our development. If you can't understand the advantages for India to have a credible deterrence vide ICBMs, you probably should shut up, pretty please.
Isn't this what they said when US troops were about to enter Baghdad?
That the revolutionary guards are so elite and will fight for every street that US army will get bogged down for months fighting a savage urban guerilla warfare with no clear victory in sight?
Well, before the saliva spit by those vocalising that view could dry up in the wind, the US army was smoking out bedazzled Saddam from a pit.
Oh Gosh! I am shamed by these 8 year olds that I will have to dust off all my data and prepare manuscripts to send in for publishing!
Hi there, I also have around 6 keys that I need to carry.
However, I do a bit of strategic placing.
Its all a matter of getting into a rut... create a habit.
When I leave home, I pull out my car key...
and after opening the car, I leave my house keys in them and reaching my office, i retrieve my office keys bunch (which has my cabinet keys) and reach my room.
I have a motorcycle parked at the Office that I use in the noon to get around for lunch, shopping, etc. Its keys are on my Office table. SO at lunch I grab them alone and return them to their resting spot on return. In the evening, when am returning home, I leave my office keys in the car and get the house keys.
Hope this helps.
Isn't it cute that the Fanboi's use 'Mom', 'Aunt' and 'Grandma' to defend the indefensible?!
I mean, Moms-Aunts-Grandmas brigade is out there demanding closed, easy to use gadgets and so has Steve given us the veritable iPad?
Please don't taint Pharmacology with the ignominy of Pharmaceutical dishonesty. THey are different domains!
Just as there is the Proprietary vs OS struggle in Software Engg., there is now a parallel in the field of scientific publishing.
Open Access Journals [http://www.doaj.org/] are all about free scientific information instead of billions charged by these greedy ba$tard$.
An article costs approx 10$ at publishers like elsevier/merck, which can, like, feed a whole family in my country for a full week!
And the most outrageous part is that sometimes that article would be the result from research funded by my taxmoney and my government while elsevier just earns off it for (virtually) nothing!
Die M$, Die Elsevier, Die Die
Jai Ho Open Source!
Are you saying you are inspired by Asok from Dilbert Strip????
I thought the article was about getting laid, seriously.
Isn't Mac Fanboism all about trying to attract girls with shiny gizmos?
(ohho.. my karma is going right down for this!)
You obviously don't know about GOA and the Portuguese conversion of native hindus by force to Catholism and the violent Inquisition held there.
Hundreds of Temples were demolished by forcing the natives to first convert and then demolish the temples by their own hands.
The Portuguese were worst on the Indian Sub-Continent in terms of religious persecution.
Till day, the effects of Portuguese religious voilence can still be felt and seen at the remains of demolished temples and a battered population bearing foreign surnames in Goa.
When it comes to religious wars, Christianity has no better record than rabid Islamism. In fact both of them believe in exclusivity of truth in their religions and therefore are bound to treat other religionists as sub-humans not worthy of life.
Bemopolis. Ignorance seems to be your forte.
Storming of The Golden Temple had nothing to do with Sikhism per se. A Pakistan funded and armed Seperatist group had holed up inside the temple with full confidence that they would be safe there.
However, Indira Gandhi was a woman with Balls who had just dismembered Pakistan and won't take Shit. She ordered the Army into the Temple and clean it up from vermin. What happened is history. Sikhs took unkindly to the Army wearing boots and marching into their most holy place, riots happened.
But over all, Hindus and Sikhs enjoy better relationships than say, Irish Catholics and Protestants. Hindus look upon Sikhs as guardians of the 'Dharmic religions' against Islam. Read history of Sikhs and their persecution at the hands of Aurangazeb and other Mughals before you can shoot your sorry ass off. You just have a tiny bit of information about some Golden Temple entry and think you know a lot.
Secondly, Deepa Mehta is different story. She took advantage of the plight of Widows to make a film and make money. Different groups protested against this expoitation in different ways, some more emotional and passionate than others. What Mehta did was to capture poverty and poverty driven prostitution on film to gain fame at the expense of the filmed widows. Her story was meant to shock and thus gain her a few awards, not for any creativity or talent, but merely by playing to western imagery of India and Hindus as pagans with no civilization waiting for the White Man to come and teach them. And so did it work, that jackasses like yourself now know about her a bit and thus try to passoff yourself as well read or informed, while you know nothing more than a few names.
One of the characters of Hinduism is assimilation of anything that comes in contact with it. Buddha who stood against Hinduism was made a part of Hinduism and converted into a god. Thus Buddhism in India declined, not Hindus decapitating Buddhists, but simply by absorbing 'renegrade' Buddhist ideas into the mother religion.
The next version of Bittorrent is going to be repacked utorrent.
Non-cooperation is not just fasting.
Civil Disobedience is when you use NON-VIOLENT means to stand up for your rights and fasting is just one small weapon in a whole arsenal.
Now, its easy to retaliate violence with violence. THe Idea of fasting is to appeal to higher morals, which makes us Humans, Humane.
Even at the cost to one's life.
But to make the person who's policies you oppose to think.
Again. Read. Before. Writing.
Gandhi made it absolutely clear that Ahimsa not only means rejection of PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, but ALSO mental voilence by the means of threats, blackmail too.
There, now can your petty mind comprehend the idea?
Phew.
Ghandis mass civil protests were a threat of violence, pure and simple, First, its Gandhi, not Ghandi. And second, Moron, it was not PURE threat of Violence, nor was it any 'Simple'. Gandhi follwed a system called 'Civil Disobedience', theorised by one of the finest Americans, Henry David Thoreau published in 1849, combined with the Indic Philosophical Idea of AHIMSA or Non-Violence. Jainism, one of the old religions of India which predates any Semetic religion, has at its very core, the concept of Ahimsa. Jains even sweep the floor before they place their feet to MINIMIZE the number of lives that they must destroy. Jainism and Vaishnavism gave Gandhi the inspiration of combining Ahimsa with Civil Disobedience. During the Dandi Salt March, thousands and thousands of Indians marched to the Sea to make salt which was heavily taxed by the British Raj. Many Thousands were brutally hit by Baton weilding British Police and not a single Indian even actively resisted that violence. They Took the whole fury upon their bodies and the result was a sea of wounded men, bloodied, but at the end of the day, won the Moral Battle. That was a great victory. Gandhi made it absolutely clear that Ahimsa not only means rejection of PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, but mental voilence by the means of threats, blackmail too. If you don't know what Gandhi and his methods meant, you probably should read a bit before you try to look clever.
blackberry
What a crap for a story!
US$ 10 is about 450 Ruppees.
If thats a village with a road you can drive a Rover on, I bet the villagers whould have trashed that Salesman for trying to humiliate them.
Of course in a Nation of a billion humans, many stuff happen.. like mothers selling off their newborn babies, indentured workers and such, but believe me, you can't manage to get a rush with 10$!!.. if you are talking about distribution of 10,000 saries, 10,000 kilograms of Rice - One Kilogram for each member of a family, I would believe that in certain parts of India, you can get a stampede... But NOT with 450 Rupees!!
You just don't know Indian villagers!
Mad desperate rush for 450 rupees is indeed a disguisting story, only its disguist factor is about its falsehood.