health

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Things You Can Now Do If You Take Your Multivitamins

My good internet friend sent me a link to this story and, like all news stories on the internet, I briefly scanned it, barely digested what it was about, and started making jokes about it in my head.

The story seems to be about a study that has found there’s a correlation between taking multivitamins, feeling a sense of invulnerability, and doing risky and/or stupid things. Continue reading

Well, Miley Cyrus, You Make An Excellent Point

Fat? We live in such a technological firestorm that anytime a celebrity is photographed nearly instantaneous commentary arises on anything from the hairstyle they’ve chosen, their wardrobe, and even their physical features, via any number of sources. Within moments it’s mentioned on a blog, on Twitter, on Facebook, via text message and possibly with corresponding video. It’s now as easy as hitting “submit” to glimpse someone’s image and make a judgment all in seconds.

Well, one millennial used that very technology to fight back…and good for her.

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Researchers Say Zombies Are Bad For Your Health

Any Sci-fi fan or Systems Administrator will tell you: Zombies are bad for business. This holds true whether your managing a theme park, a mission critical webserver, or especially the ecology of the human body. Zombie processes on a webserver are ones that are supposed to terminate but instead they hang around eating up resources and wasting processor time. The same is true in the human body. “Zombie cells” are no longer able to divide like normal cells. Instead they hang around releasing toxins and presumably making one crave human flesh and to start talking with a lisp. I may have made up that last part. Continue reading

Seeing Healthcare from the Other Side

Recently, I had the eye-opening experience of being in pain and entering the emergency room as a patient.  I didn’t inform the triage nurse, nor my assigned nurse that I was a fellow RN, as I have found that there can be a negative reaction.  Sometimes, they can feel threatened and that you are judging how well they are doing their job.  Other times, they can view you as being a pushy know-it-all.  Knowing that these reactions exist, I have taken the approach of pretending that I’m your average patient. Continue reading