209 years ago today two inspiring heroes were born, February 12, 1809. Just a moment of gratitude.
Spectacular contributions, incalculable positive influence, both bedazzle exponentially the more studied,…..Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin.
Request: A) recent social media review useful for providers, B) poem, C) happy article.
- Lu et al want to bring order to social media’s dominance so we can use it successfully with patients and families,….promote healthy dialogue, education, feedback. Sovereign force it is, peculiar admixture of diversion/speed/facts/fiction/seduction, yet social media is not without historical precedent. Don’t be misled that 2020-21 dynamics are unlike anything post-Gutenberg.
One example – 18th C Scotland, more on that later.
Lu et al write “…..harness social media”…..? Not likely. Develop innovative communication tools for inclusion, discussion, passion, diffusion of reason-ing with providers, pregnant women and children? Perhaps maybe.
- Did I find this poem with a few clicks on social media?,……it’s relevant to Lu et al’s manuscript, it’s insightful, and rife with unconventional punctuation.
Did not.
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To be an admiring Bog!
Emily Dickinson, 1861
- Last – no nutriment is more scrutinized than coffee. Happily, java always comes through for us. Stevens et al brew up more support for trimethylxanthine addiction,……less heart failure.
Joe Kaempf, MD
District 8 SONPM Oregon Representative
Portland, OR
Volume 13, Number 5