I've been using an 11" M1 iPad Pro to read research for years now. But are the newer iPads a better value? What about eInk displays? I share some thoughts and brief reviews in this post.
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Conference Sessions in Motion
My LinkedIn feed has been filling me with green-eyed envy because so many of my connections attended the International Back and Neck Pain Forum this week in Davos, Switzerland.
The organizers got creative and held multiple parallel sessions of presentations while hiking trails in the Swiss Alps! From what I can tell, there were varied levels of difficulty and distance, and many ended at a restaurant or other scenic site.
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Ordinal decades and axis anchoring
Something about this tweet about decreases in muscle strength for aging women felt off. Surely accelerated muscle decline couldn’t occur that early, could it?
Or could a classic mistake in chart design lead to an error while misinterpreting the data and communicating the results?
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PredicTER is an open source tool that allows you to estimate the time it will take to conduct a systematic review based on various criteria.
Time requirements for conducting a systematic review
I’ve always wondered what it would take to conduct a systematic review, and while watching these videos thought it might be an interesting experiment to conduct a small one on my own, just to learn the process and see what it’s like to use some of the tools.
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4 Tips for Improving Telehealth Patient-Clinician Communication
Hirschtritt & Kelly (2024) detail four tips to help providers gain their patients’ trust and improve the telemedicine experience.
Read MoreHow I Got Fancy Footnotes Working Using Bigfoot.js on SquareSpace
I respect a good footnote because I value referencing the original material.These fancy footnotes on PainScience.com and Wait But Why are helpful because they don’t pull you away from the narrative. So I just had to have similar footnotes on my SquareSpace blog. Despite many setbacks, here’s how I got them working using Bigfoot.js.
Read MoreAutism Spectrum Disorder - Research Paper
This quarter I'm in a pediatrics class. I chose autism spectrum disorder for our written research project. Autism is controversial, especially with respects to the alternative medicine therapies. Many chiropractors, nutritionists, and medical doctors make fantastic claims about what can treat autism. I have been curious to know more about the research behind these claims and was glad to finally have a legitimate excuse to really read the journal articles more deeply. I wrote it pretty quickly (so it isn't as polished as I'd like) and I had to limit it to 4-5 pages even though there are many more topics I wanted to discuss. Here's the final paper in blog form.
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