brad | Shared With: Everyone - May 05 2008 | medicine, geriatrics, hospice
Great article on bringing some of the lessons of hospice into the larger senior community.
Quoted: “Slow medicine,” which encourages less aggressive care at the end of life, is increasingly available in nursing homes.
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Kendal begins by asking newcomers whether they want to be resuscitated or go to the hospital and under what circumstances. “They give me an amazingly puzzled look, like ‘Why wouldn’t I?’ “ said Brenda Jordan, Kendal’s second nurse practitioner.She replies with CPR survival statistics: A 2002 study, published in the journal Heart, found that fewer than 2 percent of people in their 80s and 90s who had been resuscitated for cardiac arrest at home lived for one month.
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - 29 days ago | funny, politics
Nice web widget on Kottke's website.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - brad | Shared With: Everyone - 29 days ago | open source, photography, canon, powershot, chdk, firmware, hdr
Redotted from Mike.
ShareViewed: 9 Times - brad | Shared With: Everyone - 30 days ago | sound, free, paia
More free sounds: huge DB
Quoted: Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - 30 days ago | music, free, paia
Nice
ShareViewed: 1 Time - brad | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 02 2008 | CAD
Cadence ICFB layout "for dummies". Thanks NCSU! (... and WWW)!
ShareViewed: 1 Time - brad | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 02 2008 | flying, airplanes, flight
Without a doubt, the weirdest homebuilt I've ever seen. Fabric-covered lifting wing designed & flown by one of the leading aerodynamicists at Northrup Grumman.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - brad | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 01 2008 | binoculars
Quoted: Amazon.com: Celestron SkyMaster Giant 15x70 Binoculars w/Tripod Adapter
ShareViewed: 1 Time - brad | Shared With: Everyone - May 28 2008 | apple, software, computers
Great Gods.
Quoted: Apple’s share of the $1,000-plus retail market was less than 18% in January 2006 according to NPD. By September 2007, it had grown to more than 57%. And in the first quarter of 2008 it hit a record 66%.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - brad | Shared With: Everyone - May 26 2008 | stocks
Kevin D'Angelo at NASDAQ 05/16/2008 opening bell ceremony (he's the good looking guy in back with the suit that fits). Portofino / UCSD home-boy made good!
ShareViewed: 1 Time - brad | Shared With: Everyone - May 19 2008 | books, business
The follow-on book to 'Innovator's Dilemma'. One of those rare situations where a business-methods book spawns progeny that adds real value to the original concept.
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