Red and processed meat consumption was significantly associated with colorectal cancer risk in patients who had a common gene mutation, researchers found.
- Note that, if replicated, the findings suggest selected individuals at higher risk of colorectal cancer based on genomic profiling could be targeted for screening, diet modification, and other prevention strategies.
He let himself down on the couch across from my desk with a wince, belying the back pain that brought him here. He looks around at my office, which is not only a place he didn’t expect to be, but not what he expects a doctor’s office to look like. First there’s the sofa he is sitting on, which is where my patients spend most of their time during their visits. Then there is my guitar just behind me. He and his wife comment on how their daughter would love the fact that I have a guitar, as she is into acoustic guitar music. Then there’s me, wearing jeans and an un-tucked button-up shirt, sitting back in my chair and chatting like an ordinary person. He seems intrigued.
via A new tagline for direct primary care.
You know you are old when you have children old enough to be your doctor. I had my annual wellness visit this past week. My vitals were taken by a young woman in her twenties. She was a medical tech student called in to help with the patient load. My next encounter was with a third year medical student from the nearby medical school. This student was approximately 25 years old and looked like he didn’t need to shave. Finally my PCP came in the room and I was receiving care from an older and wiser MD. If my doctor is 35 years old I’d be surprised.
No, not old yet. My kid is still in medical school.
Madagascar faces a bubonic plague epidemic unless it slows the spread of the disease, experts have warned.
Madagascar had 256 plague cases and 60 deaths last year, the world’s highest recorded number.
Why is so much software so bad? There are lots of reasons. Writing good software is hard to begin with.* Big, custom projects are unique by definition, so they are sold as promises, not as finished products. Every vendor promises the same thing, so the one who promises to do it at the lowest cost often wins; when the project turns out late, bad, and over budget, too many executives have too much invested in its success to admit defeat. Consulting firms, which bill by the hour, make money by staffing projects with lots of people at relatively low cost, which is absolutely the wrong way to develop software; the productivity differentials in software are so vast that you can often get ten times as much output (of quality software) for less than twice the price, while a bad developer will do more harm than good to a project.
By James Kwak
Ezra Klein, one of the biggest supporters of Obamacare the statute, has already called the launch of Obamacare a “disaster,” and it looks like things are now getting worse: as people are actually able to buy insurance, the data being passed to health insurers are riddled with errors (something Klein anticipated), in effect requiring applications to be verified over the phone. Bad software is one of my bloggingsidelights, so I wanted to find out who built this particular example, and I found Farhad Manjoo’s WSJ column, which fingered CGI, a big old IT consulting firm (meaning that they do big, custom, software development projects, mainly for big companies). (See here for more on CGI.)
CGI was a distant competitor of my old company. I don’t recall facing them head-to-head in any deals (although my memory could be failing me), but they claimed…
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Retirement looks a lot like work today. Studies, surveys and individual behaviors indicate that the next wave of retirees will be reporting for work longer than they or their employers may have planned.
via Is Business Prepared for A Three-Generation Workforce? | Disruptive Demographics | Big Think.
My most basic belief about management is that it’s people flailing around and hoping that something lucky happens that makes them look as if they did a great job. And most of my experiences affirm that view.
via Scott Adams – Harvard Business Review.
The interview. Yeah, it’s good.
Their findings build on last year’s discovery of the brain\’s own network of plumbing pipes – known as the glymphatic system – which carry waste material out of the brain.
via BBC News – Sleep ‘cleans’ the brain of toxins.
I sleep late a lot on weekends. The Boss complains, thinks I sleep too much. Now I can say my glymphatic system is working overtime. And your brain needs a good cleaning…
Drucker …explained in his 1968 book, The Age of Discontinuity, that education creates higher expectations without any guarantee of higher productive capacity. People want more pay; they want a career; and they want “knowledge work.” But there is no guarantee that the job market will continue to need or pay well for what they have to offer.
Were such a situation to unfold, Drucker warned, it would result in “an unemployed and unemployable intellectual proletariat the like of which the world has never seen.”
Are we there yet?
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