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Dennis OConnor

Doctors on the Frontlines of the Coronavirus Fight - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • Yui had always counted herself lucky to be among a family of doctors. Now the family is facing the greatest challenge of their lives as they wrestle with the dilemma of caring for their patients even though this risks exposing their loved one
  • Will her family survive the crisis intact?
  • Doctors across America are facing similar predicaments, made all the more acute by the government’s failure to protect them—to warn the public, to provide tests, and to supply enough protective equipment.
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  • When it comes to us being doctors, I worry about [family members] Stephanie and Alex and Jennifer and Pam—about their health, and about the eventual burnout due to everything that’s going on,”
  • As a primary-care physician, she’s the first point of contact with the medical system for many patients.
  • Pam recommended a hospital visit to be tested. “It was already too late for me and my family,” Pamela told me—she had been potentially exposed. Her patient got tested on March 12, and is still waiting for results. “My patient’s test was sent from Baltimore to a lab in Utah, then due to a reagent shortage [a substance needed to process the tests] sent from Utah to Arizona, Arizona back to a lab in North Carolina,” she said.
  • This is a mirror of the dysfunction and delays surrounding the country’s testing crisis, a major factor hamstringing the fight against the virus.
  • Meanwhile, she started feeling sick on Tuesday, and took the test herself. Self-quarantined at home, she thinks it’s only a matter of time, if she does have the virus, before she infects her two children—totally isolating from them would be all but impossible.
  • As a health-care provider, if I test positive, it has big implications for my office, my staff, and all the patients,”
  • Emergency-room doctors, he noted, are among those most at risk.
  • Her emergency room has been seeing more and more patients who have symptoms
  • She wears protective equipment but knows that the hospital could run out.
  • It’s not lost on Koo and her family that medical professionals worldwide have been dying fighting the coronavirus.
  • the main dilemma they’re grappling with is not so much getting sick themselves but spreading the virus to their families, their patients, and the public.
  • his might be the greatest fear of doctors across the country—that they’ll move from being part of the solution to part of the problem.
  • should. It weighs heavily on people.”Yui, for her part, told me she’d never let her fears over the virus stop her from doing her job.
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    Dr. Michael Kurisu D.O.: Another article capturing the dialogue that i hear from a lot of my colleagues and others. We have doctors as well In my family : -My sister is Neuro ICU and director of stroke at Tri city hospital in Oceanside -Her husband is ER doc -My little sister is the PhD in sociology. (She specializes in education programs for the incarcerated and has interest on health access for prisons - which is a frightful place during this pandemic)
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    We are in a war against this virus. First responders are the first line of defense. There is a lack of supplies and central leadership. However, there is no shortagage of courage. When you meet a first responder, say, "Thank you for your service."
Dennis OConnor

Michael Merzenich: Growing evidence of brain plasticity | TED Talk - 0 views

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    "Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain's incredible power: its ability to actively re-wire itself. He's researching ways to harness the brain's plasticity to enhance our skills and recover lost function. This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page."
Dennis OConnor

Norman Doidge: The Brain That Changes Itself - Full documentary - YouTube - 0 views

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    "The Brain That Changes Itself - Full documentary" Norman Doidge, FRCPC, is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author of The Brain that Changes Itself and The Brain's Way of Healing.
Dennis OConnor

Memory enhancement in healthy older adults using a brain plasticity-based training prog... - 1 views

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    Henry W. Mahncke*†, Bonnie B. Connor*, Jed Appelman*, Omar N. Ahsanuddin*, Joseph L. Hardy*, Richard A. Wood*,Nicholas M. Joyce*, Tania Boniske*, Sharona M. Atkins*, and Michael M. Merzenich*†‡*Posit Science Corporation, 225 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94104; and‡Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, 513 ParnassusAvenue, Box 0472, Room HSE-836, San Francisco, CA 94143Contributed by Michael M. Merzenich, June 27, 2006
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