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Monday, March 19, 2012

Beautiful and Human Friendly Dolphin Fish

Beautiful and Human Friendly
Dolphin Fish
Dolphins are most intellectual
and have human friendly
playing attitude among other
animals.You can view different photos of dolphins in this post.


Amazing Dolphin


Beautiful Dolphin


Dolphin above Sea


Dolphin Couple


Dolphin Diving


Dolphin Fish


Dolphin Picture


Dolphin Playing


Dolphin Under Water


Dolphin Wallpaper


Friendly Dolphin


Jumping Dolphin


Sweet Dolphin

Eiffel Tower


Eiffel Tower Picture - Eiffel Tower during the day.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris is a
986 foot tall iron structure that
is next to the Seine River. It is
the most famous French
landmark and is used as a
symbol of France.


Eiffel Tower Picture - Eiffel Tower at night.

The Eiffel Tower at the time of
its construction in 1889 was the
tallest structure in the world
and remained so until 1930.


Eiffel Tower Picture - Eiffel Tower at ground level.

Named after its designer,
engineer Gustave Eiffel, it is a
world famous tourist
destination with over 5.5
million visitors per year.

GIANT STINGRAY


February 24, 2009-- Fishers and scientists announced this week
the catch, and release, of what
is likely the world's largest
known freshwater giant stingray .

The giant stingray, weighing
an estimated 550 to 990 pounds
(250 to 450 kilograms) was
reeled in on January 28, 2009,
as part of a National
Geographic expedition in Thailand.

The stingray's body measured
6.6 feet (2 meters) wide by 6.9
feet (2.1) meters long. The tail
was missing. If it had been
there, the ray's total length
would have been between 14.8 and 16.4 feet (4.5 and 5
meters), estimated University
of Nevada Biologist Zeb Hogan.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

The Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Internet Age



Introduction

The advent of the “information technology age” has led to a rapid change in the doctor‐ patient dynamic. Before the Internet became host to a plethora of medical information and advice, the doctor‐patient relationship was
confined primarily to office consultations. In that setting, doctors advised patients on the best course of medical action, and the patients weighed their options before proceeding. Now, the modern patient has the ability to access extensive information on nearly every medical condition. Today, the patient arrives armed with information about potential diagnoses and courses of treatment. This inversion of roles presents a number of ramifications for the routine practice of medicine. Patients are in a position to lobby their doctors about treatment, and treat medical advice with skepticism and concern.[1] However, despite the fact that access to a wealth of online resources has the potential to alter the doctor‐patient dynamic, it has not necessarily replaced healthcare providers as the essential medium of care.[2] The full scope of this new doctor‐patient relationship involves access to information, the quality of the information accessed, and how that information is interpreted by patients.

Use of the Internet for Medical Research

In a study published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research in 2003, 85% of American physicians surveyed indicated that a patient had researched medical information online and brought that information to a visit.[3] This high percentage is mitigated by the fact that the same physicians reported that less than one‐fifth of their patients had come to an appointment with Internet research.[4] This suggests that only a small number of patients were presenting research found online to their physicians. In that same year, however, a poll published in the Journal of Patient Education and Counseling reported that 80% of American adults who used the Internet had researched health information, and the share of adult Internet users searching for medical information had been rapidly increasing since the proliferation of the Internet.[5] At the beginning of the decade, a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in 2002 indicated that patients who had accessed medical information on the Internet were better educated and had a higher socioeconomic status. [6] Yet by the end of the decade, a study published in the Journal of Health Communication in 2008 noted that while sociodemographic factors contributed to some of the variance in whether or not a physician was contacted after turning to the Internet for research, Internet research was positively linked to physician visits, even when sociodemographic factors were controlled.[7] Regardless, it is clear that Americans are increasingly turning to the internet to fill gaps in their own knowledge about medical
conditions.

Effects of Online Research

The early evidence of this shift
in patient‐centered information
resulted in a number of theories on how the change would affect the doctor‐patient relationship. The multitude of medical information online allowed for potential positive effects for the patient; the access to knowledge had the potential to democratize the healthcare process. Patients would theoretically have the ability to play a larger role in medical decision‐making, while the clinician would serve as an informed guide.[8] This drive to the Internet for information may have been fueled by an already strained doctor‐patient relationship. As the time doctors spent with their patients declined, the power of the Internet grew, and patients began to use the Internet out of frustration.[9] The benefits of the Internet do not end with access to information, as support groups
for individual disease have grown in popularity, and a number of studies suggest that patients who participate in these groups “gained satisfaction” with their medical experience.

Child Dyslalia: Mispronunciation



When children have dyslalia that speech defect but do not affect the central system of language, including some things to keep in mind is, for example, that are common to two or three years, during periods which the child is in full organization of their language.

To be able to recognize and not
confuse them with something more serious, you need to know how we are and what are its features:

The dyslalias by alteration in the learning process occur due to natural imitation of what it receives from its environment (dealing with the infantile language by adults) and reinforces their learning the wrong way. In addition, emotional trauma can be a powerful psychological trigger, like delays in mental development (mental handicap).

The functional or anatomical dyslalias are caused by an abnormality of the apparatus of phonation or vocal. They are
presented as cleft lip, bone defects of the mandible, lingual frenulum, cleft palate, etc.

The functional dyslalias are those due to respiratory failure. Usually occur among children who have been operated on for adenoids, but retain the bad habit of breathing through the mouth. The child in these conditions, in order to make the process of respiration, disrupts the balance made up of oral pressure between the tongue and lips is exerted on the teeth. This system breaks down and moves erratically, spoiling the pronunciation of the phonemes.

The mildest of all are the simple dyslalias or evolution. In this case we must be patient and wait a little, for they have no particular cause. May result from self-paced development of the child and does not require more effort on overcoming them.

Finally, a slight hearing deficit motivates dyslalias audiogenic, and because the child perceives the sounds with some distortion can not play the right way.

RULES FOR BEING HUMAN


RULES FOR BEING HUMAN

1. You will recieve a body– You
may like it or hate it but it will
be yours
for the entire period of this
time around.

2. You will Learn lessons– You
are enrolled in a full-time
informal school
called Life. Each day in this
school you will have the
opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the
lessons or think them
irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only
lessons.– Growth is a process
of trial and
error: Experimentation. The
“failed” experiments are as
much a part of the process as the experiment that
ultimately “works”.

4. A Lesson is repeated until
learned.– A lesson will be
presented to you
in various forms until you
have learned it. When you
have learned it, you can then go on to the next
lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not
end.–There is no part of life
that does not
contain its lessons. If you are
alive, there are lessons to be
learned.

6. (I love this one,) “There” is
no better than “here” — When
your “there”
has become a “here” you will
simply obtain another “there”
that will again look better than “here”.

7. Others are merely mirrors of
you.– You can not love or hate
something
about another person unless it
reflects something you love or
hate about yourself.

8. What you make of life is up
to you.– You have all the tools
and
resources you need. What you
do with them is up to you. The
choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside
you.–The answers to Life’s
questions lie inside
you. All you need to do is look,
listen and trust.

10. You will forget all this.