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		<title>How algorithm driven medicine can affect patient care</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How algorithm driven medicine can affect patient care From the KevinMD article of  Mon Jan 30, 2012 &#160; Whenever someone is scheduled for an operation, the assigned nurse is required to fill out a “pre-op checklist” to ensure that all safety and quality metrics are being adhered to. Before the patient is allowed to be wheeled into the OR we make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8241&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How A Parent&#8217;s Education Can Affect The Mental Health Of Their Offspring</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How A Parent&#8217;s Education Can Affect The Mental Health Of Their Offspring From the 29 January 2012 article at ScienceNews Today New research sheds light on cycle of low socioeconomic status and depression Could depression in adulthood be tied to a parent&#8217;s level of education? A new study led by AmÃ©lie Quesnel-VallÃ©e, a medical sociologist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8245&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rights Of People With Disabilities Are Not Being Promoted, Study Finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rights Of People With Disabilities Are Not Being Promoted, Study Finds From the press release of Queen&#8217;s University (January 25, 2012 Historic legal rulings did not protect the rights of persons with disabilities, while legal rulings concerned with race or gender provided much more protection of individual rights and freedoms according to the Canadian Charter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8247&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Finds Religion Helps Us Gain Self-Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Although I am not sure if there really is a cause/effect here, it is an interesting study. Perhaps self control is related to a cluster of factors, and religion is one? Study Finds Religion Helps Us Gain Self-Control From the Medical News Today article of Wed Jan 25, 2012 Excerpt Thinking about religion gives people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8251&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complementary and alternative medicine need more randomized trials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the KeviMD column of Wed Feb 1, 2012 11:00   Since I dedicated an entire issue of JAMA on Nov. 11, 1998 to the theme of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in an effort to move CAM into the mainstream, I keep hoping that some of the numerous CAM offerings will make it out of the realm of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8238&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Wrong With a Welfare Nation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on January 31, 2012 by mikethemadbiologist At The Atlantic, a post by Alex Tabarrok, “The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State“, has been making its way around the bloggysphere, in part due to the big shout out to science, as embodied by this figure: Tabarrok: We like to think of ourselves as an innovation nation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8230&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MSN Careers &#8211; Tense times: Overcoming workplace incivility &#8211; Career Advice Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tense times: Overcoming workplace incivility via MSN Careers &#8211; Tense times: Overcoming workplace incivility &#8211; Career Advice Article Excerpt some tips: Take rudeness for what it&#8217;s worth. Being on the receiving end of an unnecessarily sharp barb or inconsiderate brush-off can ruin your day. Why let it? Constructive criticism merits reflection; rudeness does not. So, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=7936&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workstation &#8211; Building a Bridge to a Lonely Colleague &#8211; NYTimes.com and Related Article about Lonliness in General</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loneliness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workstation &#8211; Building a Bridge to a Lonely Colleague &#8211; NYTimes.com From the 28 January article IT’S lonely at the top, or so it is said. But in fact it doesn’t matter where a person is in the office hierarchy — employees at all levels become lonely, even when other workers are all around them&#8230;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8202&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Bad Habits &#8211; NIH News in Health, January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking Bad Habits &#8211; NIH News in Health, January 2012 From the article If you know something’s bad for you, why can’t you just stop? About 70% of smokers say they would like to quit. Drug and alcohol abusers struggle to give up addictions that hurt their bodies and tear apart families and friendships. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8204&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elsevier&#8217;s Publishing Model Might be About to Go Up in Smoke &#8211; Forbes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsevier&#8217;s Publishing Model Might be About to Go Up in Smoke &#8211; Forbes  From the 28 January 2012 article Academic publishing is a very good game indeed if you can manage to get into it. As the publisher the work is created at the expense of others, for free to you. There are no advances, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8208&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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