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Winter viruses Open
View article: The Phrase “Plays a Role” Should Not Appear in the Medical Literature
The Phrase “Plays a Role” Should Not Appear in the Medical Literature Open
View article: Hubris and Humility
Hubris and Humility Open
A hare challenges a tortoise to a race.How can he lose?He's certainly faster than a plodding turtle.At the start, the hare launches himself forward, sprinting so far ahead that he decides to rest a bit and perhaps take a little snooze.The …
View article: Setback
Setback Open
Consider the Book of Job in the Old Testament.Satan points out to God that it's easy for prosperous people to "keep the faith" since they are comfortable in their lives.What would happen if everything they had were taken away?Would they st…
View article: Exhaustion
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View article: Hesitancy
Hesitancy Open
That adage is an adaptation of a line from JosephAddison's 1712 play Cato: a Tragedy, in which Roman senator Cato the Younger's daughter Marcia exclaims, "The woman who deliberates is lost." 1 Success comes from action; those who delay may…
View article: Emergence
Emergence Open
And I, what fountain of fore am I among This leaping combustion of spring? My spirit is tossed About like a shadow buffeted in the throngOf flames, a shadow that's gone astray, and is lost.
View article: Annus Horribilis
Annus Horribilis Open
In her Christmas speech of that year, Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth referred to 1992 as her annus horribilis.Members of the Royal Family suffered through separations and divorces, a suicide, and relentless gossipmongering in the media.Th…
View article: Anxiety
Anxiety Open
Every health care worker, especially those in hospitals, would identify with the lyrics sung by David Bowie and the rock group Queen in their 1981 song "Under Pressure."Months of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic have increased pressure o…
View article: Quarantine
Quarantine Open
When musician Stephen Stills wrote these lyrics in 1966, he was no doubt unaware of coronaviruses, but the words are appropriate for the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic late in 2019; it really wasn't clear what was happening.It's just a…
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Pandemic Open
View article: Art Saves Lives
Art Saves Lives Open
Wait.What?Physicians save lives.Medical research saves lives.Pharmaceuticals save lives.Advanced technology saves lives.How does art save lives?While school districts across the United States decrease or eliminate classes in art and music …
View article: “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast”
“Music has charms to soothe the savage breast” Open
Love Field Airport in Dallas features live music in the junction of its three wings.On one occasion, as a guitarist was playing, a toddler standing with her mother in front of the stage began to bounce in time to the music.A little over a …
View article: Decision-making
Decision-making Open
View article: Reflections on Mortality
Reflections on Mortality Open
Randy Pausch was diagnosed with a terminal illness in 2007, he had already agreed to participate in the university's "Journeys" series.For these lectures, professors were asked to consider their own mortality
View article: Alcohol and society in the arts
Alcohol and society in the arts Open
View article: Media Literacy
Media Literacy Open
The purpose of advertising is to create brand recognition and to persuade people to purchase a particular product.If consumers regard a product supplied by two producers as equal in every aspect, the consumers will buy the product with the…
View article: Eaters of Opium
Eaters of Opium Open
Opioid misuse has become a national epidemic, but the use of opium and its derivatives to relieve pain or to induce feelings of euphoria has a long history.Ancient Sumerians cultivated the poppy as early as 3400 BCE and referred to it as t…
View article: The <i>undead</i> in culture and science
The <i>undead</i> in culture and science Open
The undead have a significant role in mythology, religion, folklore, and literature. In the 1800s, the word zombie was used to describe reanimated corpses in the Caribbean who often worked on plantations doing long, arduous f…
View article: The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl Open
Overly aggressive farming practices coupled with drought provided a "perfect storm" that created the devastating effects of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.Increased immigration to the Midwest led to intense cultivation of the grasslands that h…
View article: Cultural Responses to the Dust Bowl
Cultural Responses to the Dust Bowl Open
The Dust Bowl was an ecological disaster that brought misery and misfortune to the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada between 1930 and 1940.Coupled with the financial ruin of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl was respons…
View article: The Plague at Ashdod
The Plague at Ashdod Open
View article: Interprofessional nursing education: a pilot study in the medical intensive care unit and internal medicine outpatient clinics
Interprofessional nursing education: a pilot study in the medical intensive care unit and internal medicine outpatient clinics Open
Background: Healthcare requires frequent interactions among nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals. Healthcare students frequently have little or no interaction with other disciplines during their education. Methods: The nu…