I’ve been playing around with a beta build of Firefox's 3.6 browser for some time, and while it’s been completely stable, its new tab behaviour has annoyed me. via Fixing Firefox 3.6’s tab blunder: Blogs – Null Pointer – ZDNet Australia . It’s the one think I don’t like about the newest Firefox release (3.6), opening a link from a tab puts it right next to the one you were reading, rather than off the right end like it used to (which I liked…).  Here’s a fix.

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Fixing Firefox 3.6’s tab blunder: Blogs – Null Pointer – ZDNet Australia

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign on Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care. The union, NU'91, is calling the campaign “I Draw The Line Here,” with an advert that features a young woman covering her face with crossed hands.

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians' salaries. Primary care doctors were offered an average base salary of $173,000 in 2009 compared to an average base salary of $189,000 offered to certified nurse anesthetists, or CRNAs, according to the latest numbers from Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a physician recruiting and consulting firm.

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Specialist nurses paid higher salaries than family doctors – Mar. 11, 2010

Much of the ongoing health care reform debate has focused on unnecessary health care expenses—specifically, medical bills that rack up without demonstrably improving peoples' health. According to Peter Orszag, the director of the federal Office of Management and Budget, about $700 billion, or 5 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, is wasted on unnecessary care, such as extra costs related to medical errors, defensive medicine, and just plain fraud

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Are most emergency room visits really unnecessary? – By Zachary F. Meisel and Jesse M. Pines – Slate Magazine

Emergency Medicine News : February 2010 – Volume 32 – Issue 2 – p 5, 24, 25, 26 Residents training in large urban centers typically see more than 200 patients a day. They have access to all subspecialty care, typically available 24 hours a day. Residents have around-the-clock access to angioplasty, interventional radiology, hand surgeons, neurosurgeons, and plastic surgeons

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We’re Failing Our Residents: Training ED Docs for the Real W… : Emergency Medicine News

Troops alone don’t work, what war-torn Afghanistan and Pakistan urgently need is capacity building and development, Islamabad said prior to the start of an i … In a half-an-hour interview in Beijing, Khan discussed Pakistan’s experience eight years after joining the anti-terror mission, commented on the US strategy u…

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Pakistan wants int’l input to fight terrorism

Freelancers Union continues to work to increase more eligible industries. … That’s the Enterprising Thought feature presented by Jim Lehrer on PBS News Hour tonight….That’s the Enterprising Belief feature presented by Jim Lehrer on PBS News Hour tonight.

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Freelancers Union Could Provide Insurance Coverage for Self-Employed

First, don’t do this: In what is being billed as “rationalism's Kool-Aid moment”, a mass “overdose” is being planned next week in protest at the marketing of homoeopathic medicines. More than 300 people who style themselves as “homoeopathy sceptics” will each swallow an entire bottle of homoeopathic pills in protest at the continued marketing of homoeopathic medicines by Boots, the high street chemist chain

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Homoeopathy sceptics plan mass ‘overdose’ – Health News, Health & Families – The Independent

Kevin, MD continues his takeover of the media, with another very good editorial in USA Today : Doctors ignore Internet at their own peril By Kevin Pho Raise your hand if you've ever left a physician's office without fully understanding what the doctor just told you. According to The New England Journal of Medicine, half of patients admit to not understanding what their doctor told them during an office visit. As a primary care physician, being unable to clearly communicate with patients is frustrating

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Oh, good.  Everything’s under control.  The Scientologists are there . Amid the mass of aid agencies piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of Scientology “volunteer ministers”, claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems….

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Scientologists ‘heal’ Haiti quake victims using touch

We left the Mythbuster confronted by the evil Dr. Fish the urologist in the Saint -We Never Change Anything in Years hospital. The Mythbuster doesn't lose a step in dealing with a threatening urologist armed with a 100 french cathether.

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EM Blog – EM-Blog – Our Mythbuster Confronts Dr. Fish by Joseph Leibman, MD

Hmmmm: Emergency spine immobilization may do more harm than good, study says January 11, 2010 | 3:57 pm When emergency responders reach a gunshot or stabbing victim, they try to immobilize the spine to reduce the danger of paralysis upon movement of the victim. That effort, however, can have a fatal toll. A study published in the Journal of Trauma has found that, among these types of trauma victims, those whose spines are held still are twice as likely to die as those whose spines aren’t immobilized

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Spinal Immoblilzation a risk factor for death?

Hollywood’s love-affair with ghostwriting dates back to the early 1990s when Stephen Spielberg gave a group of interns six hours to re-write a lackluster romantic c … The possibilities of getting unknowns to do all the actual work and for everyone else to take the credit was tantalizing….With over 200-300 screenplays to write each year, the team must work at a frenetic pace. ..

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Writer to Fix – the bible

But because women customers may well want more time, it will end up costing more than the $300 per hour that female sex-trade workers charge at her brothel. … have a good work ethic; must be service oriented; have a willingness to please; have a positive attitude….

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外汇交易-Nevada gives ‘green light’ to its first m

Except, of course, that it did… A patient comes in with the entirely understandable complaint of “I have a fishbone lodged in my throat”. Came straight from dinner to the ED. When I ask a stupid question I’m given a stupid answer: “It feels like…a fishbone…”

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The Foreign Body that Didn’t Exist

Congrats! FORT WORTH — Some of the most seriously injured and ill patients will no longer have to be flown to Dallas or Lubbock for treatment now that John Peter Smith Hospital has been granted approval to become a Level 1 trauma center, allowing it to provide the highest level of emergency care. The American College of Surgeons recently granted accreditation for the upgrade to Tarrant County’s taxpayer-supported public hospital from its current status of Level 2. Tarrant County had been the largest urban county in Texas without a Level 1 trauma center.

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John Peter Smith gets ACS accreditation as a Level 1 Trauma Center

The Godfather of the Medblog Grand Rounds series hosts this week: Grand Rounds Volume 6, Number 15 Welcome to Grand Rounds, the weekly collection of the best in medical blogging, featuring works from physicians, nurses, researchers, students, patients and healthcare professionals. It’s a new year and I’m very happy to be involved again in organizing this “carnival of the caregivers.” Many thanks to Dr.

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Dr. Nick hosts Grand Rounds

Via ER Stories , a reminder of the flow chart every EM resident is taught… Nicely done… HT: MovinMeat Related posts: Musings of a Dinosaur: Resident Work Hour Restrictions: My Solution Musings of a Dinosaur: Resident Work Hour Restrictions: My Solution… The Swann Dr

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Vaginal Bleeding Algorithm for the ED

My ED is like most others: there’s a plan for where computers go, and they get installed on the desks correctly.  Unfortunately, there’s not a plan for all the wires, power strips, etc that are associated with these installations. The wires, cables, power strips, etc, just wind up on the floor.  They collect dust and then the area doesn’t get swept, let alone mopped (we’ve had dust bunny races under the counters).  (I don’t blame housekeeping: they don’t want the blame for pulling out any wires, so they avoid them). After griping about them for a year, and knowing I had a stretch of nights (which occasionally have some slack moments) I finally did something about it: tie-wraps and little sticky wall attachments for same

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What’s the most productive thing I’ve done at work recently?

Everybody here keeps bankers hours – except us – so it’s nigh to impossible to handle things before or after work….Yesterday I worked through lunch. We had two people out and I volunteered to take the last lunch (between 2 and 3) … It sort of made up for the mental interruption in the day that I normal enjoy with my lunch hour….I just really need someone in my life to take care of all the details of things for me so that I can be at work every minute I can and make as much money as I can t o pay for all these details.

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wednesday (wish I could come up with some interesting titles, sorry!)