Robodoc: Ethics of AI in Medicine

What do we do when the doctor of the future may not be human? In order to assess the full effect of trying to replace human caregivers with AI machines, we must investigate the types of ethics that these machines would work under—implicit, explicit, and full. The type of AI that movies present us with are fully ethical AI; they have a sense of self. The possible implementation of AI in medicine forces us to confront not just new technology, but also the definition of consciousness and free will, so I advise that for now we just stick to implicit and explicitly ethical agents in medicine

Syncretic Diabetes Management in Mexico: Towards Equitable Health Outcomes

Starting in 2000, Mexico’s healthcare system has undergone a huge redesign. This specifically increases access treatment for diabetes, which is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases in Mexico. Modernization of the health system has had unequal effects on diabetes treatment in the north versus the south of Mexico, as the more urbanized north has a larger access to treatment centers and hospitals. In the south, many patients don’t have access to biomedicine and rely on traditional medicines to treat diabetes. These traditional medicines do have efficacy in lowering blood glucose, along with addressing other symptoms of diabetes. Additionally, southern Mexican culture may prefer the use of traditional cures, as they address a wider swath of physical and spiritual symptoms than biomedicine. However, traditional plant-based cures also contain more inactive ingredients which can accumulate in the body and cause liver damage, whereas pharmaceuticals contain a purified form of the active anti-diabetic molecule. As Mexico expands its revamped medical system into the country’s south, a syncretic approach to medical treatment could improve health outcomes, incorporating traditional medical beliefs with more potent biomedicine in order to manage diabetes holistically

Writing in/on the Borderlands : (basic) writers and the writing center.

Using Gloria Anzuldula\u27s text Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and Bruce Homer and Min-Zhan Lu\u27s 2000 article, Expectations, Interpretations and Contributions of Basic Writing as conceptual framework, I conducted my dissertation on the effects of mandatory writing center consultations on basic writers enrolled in the class Introduction to College Writing, at a private, liberal-arts college in south-central Kentucky. This dissertation is divided into five chapters. In Chapter I, I discuss the distancing of basic writers from writing center and composition scholarship and the need to revisit this relationship. In Chapter Two, I discuss the methodological and theoretical framework of the dissertation and my use of the quasi-experimental framework that incorporates both qualitative and quantitative data in addition to numbers, student narratives, and the various voices of myself, student writers, and writing consultants. In Chapter III, I outline how students used the writing center as a thirdspace in which to discuss their own borderland writings and the increased connection the students in the experimental section felt to the college community; in addition, I also discuss pass rates and class attendance. In Chapter IV, I outline the improvement in retention rates for the students required to visit the writing center and the increased amount of drafts students produced in the class. Finally, in Chapter V, I conclude the dissertation and offer places where future research may go, in addition to my own shortcomings as a researcher and further implications of my work

The Breakfast table.

Inspired by William Butler Years and his theory that A poet...never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table… from A General Introduction for My Work this poetic thesis examines everyday occurrences in an often conversational tone. Devoid of overly descriptive of heavy language, it is an intentional deviation from the typical poetic dogma. These poems cover such events as death, cemeteries, the end and beginning of various relationships, coffee cups, and old houses. The common strand is not necessarily in theme but comes instead from voice and style. The power of this poetry is intended to come from the way in which things are said, not the words used to say them. Additionally, the reader should gain an almost immediate understanding of the work than need poetic interpretive skills to gain access to meaning

Living in a paradox--women's experiences of body and life-world after meningioma surgery

Aims.  The aims of the study were to describe how persons who have undergone benign meningioma surgery experience their body and life-world and to illuminate the meaning of the illness, operation and recovery. Background.  Meningioma, which is often benign, is the most commonly diagnosed brain tumour. Studies have shown that persons with meningioma tend to be more psychologically affected than persons with other brain tumours. To our knowledge, no previous studies have focused on the life-world or body experience of these persons. Method.  Narrative interviews with seven women conducted over a 6-month period (2008–2009) were analyzed using a phenomenological hermeneutical method. Findings.  Four themes were identified: In between double threats: the tumour and operation: the participants seemed to perceive a paradox in the sense that the tumour was both benign and threatening and the surgery both curing and risky; the wound as an open gate: the wound is visibly healed, but perceived as unhealed; the suffering body overflows life: the participants were prevented from regaining their body, feeling fragile and oversensitive to impressions; and the need to be embraced by attention: taking the participants’ needs seriously facilitated understanding of the diagnosis. Conclusion.  The participants in this study described emotional distress when recovering from meningioma surgery. It is essential for nurses to be aware of the various meanings people ascribe to events that disrupt their lives and the transition process in connection with meningioma treatment

Storylines of family medicine V:ways of thinking-honing the therapeutic self

Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine, as interpreted by individual family physicians and medical educators in the USA and elsewhere around the world. In 'V: ways of thinking-honing the therapeutic self', authors present the following sections: 'Reflective practice in action', 'The doctor as drug-Balint groups', 'Cultivating compassion', 'Towards a humanistic approach to doctoring', 'Intimacy in family medicine', 'The many faces of suffering', 'Transcending suffering' and 'The power of listening to stories.' May readers feel a deeper sense of their own therapeutic agency by reflecting on these essays.</p

Expressions 1986

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Discharge Coefficients of Oblique Weirs

Oblique weirs are those weirs placed at an angle with respect to the channel centerline. They can be used in canal applications where more discharge is needed, but there is limited freeboard. The discharge coefficients were determined for 54 different weirs by measuring total head for various flows over each weir. These weirs included sharp, half round and quarter-round-crested weirs. There were 18 weirs for each crest shape with three weir heights for each angle tested. The oblique angles tested were 10°, 15°, 25°, 45°, 60°, and 90° with respect to the channel centerline, with the nominal weir heights being 4, 8, and 12 inches. The half-round-crested weirs were the most efficient, followed by the quarter-round-crested weirs and the sharp-crested weirs were the least efficient. By decreasing the oblique angle, the weir length became longer and the weir would be more efficient than the normal weir