...tagged ‘diagnosis’

Self-defined

Posted on Monday, February 1, 02010 under abstract & thinking, informology, meta & methods, work & business.

I remember when I worked at my previous job, and working with folks with progressive disorders, incurable deterioration of body systems that would get worse and worse for the rest of their lives. And I remember what one of the biggest issues was around research. Here you’re probably thinking that this is a no-brainer. Find a cure, right? But in reality, no. In reality, the biggest priority of most of our research was not directly about a cure, rather it was about accurate diagnosis. And while practically this starts to make sense when one considers that (like if you’ve ever watched House) you can’t start treatment until you know what the problem is called, from a patient (or as we called them, client) perspective, diagnosis [...]

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a bit of a sulk

Posted on Monday, August 16, 02004 under critters, food & drink.

Apparently blue is a bit of a brooder. He’s healthy — at least as far as my diagnosis abilities can derive from his otherwise active behavior — but the poor little fish seems a little too morose and stressed to eat. That’s too bad. According to a handful of Google searches, he’s just pouting about his recent move, and he should pick up in a few days. In other — much more important news — Karin and I are doing dinner out tonight. For some reason I seem to remember that about, well, uh, exactly a year ago, we had this really big party. Inivted a whole bunch of friends and relatives. I seem to recall that Karin wore a really nice dress, we were [...]

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