The Medgadget web site [http://www.medgadget.com/2014/03/wheelchairhandles-make-pushing-wheelchairs-easier-more-comfy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Medgadget+%28Medgadget%29] points out that "Wheelchairs don’t seem to change much over the years, and fresh designs that do come out tend to…
Kind of a cheesy video for what looks like remarkable technology from 3DSystems. More at dezeen [http://www.dezeen.com/2014/03/05/3d-printed-exoskeleton-helps-paralysed-users-walk/] .…
It's been unsettling, to say the least, to watch tensions mount as events unfold in Ukraine. And listening to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the NewsHour last night [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/gen-dempsey-ukraine-military-sex-abuse-budget-cuts/] did little to calm me. In this exchange he…
Robert Frost published Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening on this day in 1923. That's a good reason to stop for a minute and celebrate the work (and give thanks that it's no longer snowy here). The Writers Almanac [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?…
Sherwin Nuland, recently deceased, masterfully traces the history of medicine, the turn of medicine from art to science, and the need of physicians to turn back to care. He spells out what that [photo of a group of doctors peering at their monitors instead of their patient](http://mikeschultz.ghost.…
Here's something to give me a little push. As much as I admire the reminder that you can always do more, I wish our culture supported this kind of support for non-athletic endeavors, too. Wouldn't it be nice to see an ad set in Toastmaster clubs…
Ancient Music [http://izquotes.com/quote/375053] Not quite the graphic rendering I hoped for (somewhere I have a worn copy of an editorial cartoon I've carried around since I lived in Cleveland), but perfect for yet another cold snowy day on the east coast. Representative Poetry [http:…
At re/code, Ed Park makes a simple observation about What Health Care Can Learn from Amazon [http://recode.net/2014/02/26/what-health-care-can-learn-from-amazon/]. For Ed, the central issue is "consumer experience" and this paragraph captures his argument well. > The health care industry has been behind the…