Mount Sinai Hospital in New York is pioneering emergency room treatment strategies for geriatric patients. It has joined other medical centers in creating a geriatric E.R. to improve the quality of care and outcomes. According to the New York Times, patients over 65 account for almost 20% of emergency room visits and that number will grow as the population gets older. Read more here.
Tags: aging, gerontology, hospitalists, palliativecare
Grammy winning bass player Esperanza Spalding shares her thoughts in the Wall Street Journal about how to make jazz more accessible to mainstream music audiences.
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Shirley Wang writes in today’s Wall Street Journa
l that “scientists studying a four herb combination discovered some 1,800 years ago by Chinese herbalists have found that the substance enhances the effectiveness of chemotherapy in patients with colon cancer.
Tags: cancer, chinesemedicine, herbs
About interpersonal neurobiology- how the brain constantly rewires itself based on daily life, for example, what we pay the most attention to defines us.
Read the recent NYT article here.
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Yin Gate
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work; human creation is never perfect.
- Charles Mingus
Tags: creativity, innovation, mingus, quotes
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
- Charles Mingus
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