Working from home in medicine during coronavirus: What equipment do you need to get started and what can you do to help from home?

Systematic reviews: what do you need to know to get started?

Jtag/ Boundary Scan – What Can It Do for You and What Do You Have to Do?

1 Testing in an Integrated Circuitry Since the existence of integrated circuitries, there has been the necessity to check their functions. In the case of digital circuitries, a test is quite simple: all possible test vectors are applied in succession, and then the circuitries’ reactions at the outputs (actual value) are compared to the expected patterns (nominal value). If there are no differen...

What you can do to help your uninsured patients.

According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates, 45.7 million people in the United States are uninsured. This exceeds the number enrolled in Medicare (44.8 million) and approaches the number enrolled in Medicaid (58.7 million). After a combined total of 23 years in private practice, we decided to do something to help the growing number of uninsured patients in our own community. In 2004 we...

Do you do what you say or do you do what you say others do?

We design a donations vs. own money choice experiment comparing three different treatments. In two of the treatments the pay-offs are hypothetical. In the first of these, a short cheap talk script was used, and subjects were required to state their own preferences in this scenario. In the second, subjects were asked to state how they believed an average student would respond to the choices. In ...

Health Literacy: What Do You Need to Do?

Years ago, two patients taught me the importance of communicating clearly. One was a middle-aged woman I’d been taking care of in the intensive care unit (ICU). I asked a consultant to see her, and while we were in the room with the patient, the consultant said, “I think she’s doing much better. We can move her from the ICU to the floor.” After the consultant left the room, my patient asked a q...