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 "As one physician blogger responded to the Sprague case, "What is the moral of the story? Order an expensive test and save yourself the trouble."
The other reason physicians commonly offer for ordering so many unnecessary imaging tests is that patients demand them. Patients with back pain ask for MRIs because a friend got one, or because they read about MRIs in a story about a new surgical technique for back pain, or because a radiology clinic was advertising MRIs."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "In Brazil, there is a popular proverb: "women for procreation, goats for necessity, young boys for fun and a melon for ecstasy." A blogger named monkeymask has posted about his melon mishap. Although the cantaloupe was at first too cold for his purposes, he microwaved it to bring it to a warmer temperature. He only realized that the insides were scalding when his privates sank into molten fruit magma.
The conflating of fruit appreciation with carnality began in the forest. Bonobos, sharing 98 percent of our DNA, are humankind's closest living primate relative."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
 "All it would take is one blogger to break the silence.
What we do understand is that the structure of the economy and its professions is imperialistic, meaning that it seeks to conquer new territory and use its power to hold on to what it has. It follows that the members of the establishment act with great vigor to minimize any nontraditional intrusion into medical practice. It's a conspiracy, but not a legal one! No secret meetings or pacts! Physicians and pharmaceutical executives are not evil people. Their desire to make money is neither unusual nor criminal in a capitalistic society."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
 "Bahraini blogger "Chan'ad Bahraini" explains how Bahraini bloggers have "broken the government's news monopoly"; Hong Kong's Yan
Sham-Shackleton, aka Clutter, discusses blogging for Chinese human rights and free speech; Iran's Arash Sigarchi, who did prison time for his blogging, reflects on the importance of blogs in Iran as an outlet for nongovernment-approved speech; and American Jay Rosen points out that even in the United States, blogs are a revolutionary new way for writers to circumvent various powerful "gatekeepers."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "To show how indoctrinated the public is with mistaken information about vitamin C as cancer therapy, an online blogger writes of Katie's struggle with cancer. "Katie's only hope is that the chemotherapy she has received thus far is adequate to save her. However, without high dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation, her odds have dropped even more, because intravenous vitamin C is useless for treating cancer. Studies from the 1970's and 1980's show that it does no better than placebo, and there is certainly no evidence that it will kill the cancer or 'strengthen her immune system'."- Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) |
| "The first stone was laid as a spontaneous gesture from Peter Griffin, a blogger who, within hours of the disaster, invited two World-changing contributors to blog at SEA-EAT. So began the blog—three people working in real time with real people.
Shortly after the initial impact, people began to respond, transmitting their heartfelt reactions into the most immediate and receptive outlet that they could access —the Internet. Text messages from journalists and volunteers doing relief work promptly found their way onto SEA-EAT and other Weblogs." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Chinese blogger and high-tech investor Mao Xianghui cofounded China's first blog, setting off an explosion in the use of blogs for expressing sentiments that, in other media, would likely be censored by the government. But for most of us, the challenge is less a matter of being forbidden to speak than of learning how to advance the dialogue in a meaningful way. But rest assured, resources abound, and with a little hard work, anyone can help put good ideas into the "blogosphere" and help others find new answers and ways of making change." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "As one physician blogger responded to the Sprague case, "What is the moral of the story? Order an expensive test and save yourself the trouble."
The other reason physicians commonly offer for ordering so many unnecessary imaging tests is that patients demand them. Patients with back pain ask for MRIs because a friend got one, or because they read about MRIs in a story about a new surgical technique for back pain, or because a radiology clinic was advertising MRIs."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
| "He is the coeditor of the Weblog BoingBoing.net; a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, and the New York Times, among other publications; and the former director of European affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit civil-liberties group that defends freedom in technology, where he advocated on copyright and related rights in venues ranging from universities to the United Nations. Co-founder of the open-source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, he presently serves on numerous boards including Technorati's." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
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