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Moral Choices for Today’s Physician

In this essay, Don Berwick considers moral choices physicians face personally, organizationally, and globally and exhorts them to understand that the health of humanity depends on their speaking out against the social injustice of overpricing drugs and services, mass incarceration, and the lack of environmental responsibility.




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Physician-Parents Whose Children Have Rare Diseases

In this essay, a critical care pediatric hospitalist finds herself on the other side of the office table advocating for the specific medical care needed to address her son’s rare skeletal dysplasia and her search for a pediatric specialist with whom to travel on this quest.




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A Medical Student Shares Her Struggle With Depression

In this essay, a young medical student describes her struggle with depression and how the experience of vulnerability has bred a deep compassion for her patients and peers.




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Mentoring in the #MeToo Era

In this narrative essay, the author wonders what effect the #metoo phenomenon will have on mentoring between male mentors and junior female trainees and faculty and recalls male mentors who were supportive of her and other women colleagues’ professional development in a plea for diversity and inclusion among leaders in medicine that supports the entire academic medical community.




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How to Mentor Millennials

In this narrative medical essay, the authors present 3 scenarios exemplifying the collision between mentoring expectations among millennials and older generation faculty and proposes strategies to bridge generational divides and engage the next generation of physicians.




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Advice for Starting Medical School

In this narrative medical essay, an internist offers three basic lessons not taught in medical school that he learned about practicing medicine based on his experiences from a patient with whom he has built a trusting relationship over the years.




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Grief After Suicide

In this narrative medicine essay, the author mourns the suicide of young adult of a friend and relives his brother’s suicide 30 years earlier in a stream of consciousness montage of grief and advice to succor for those left behind.




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Friendships Across Cultural Barriers—We Are All the Same

In this narrative medicine essay, a family practitioner tells the story of how her relationship with an old-order Mennonite woman whose newborn son she examined and took to the hospital for cardiac surgery one Christmas day turns to friendship and a relationship with her broader community when the woman stays with her during her newborn daughter’s cardiac surgery.




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Full Circle: How Medicine Enabled Avoidance and Acceptance

In this narrative medicine essay, a psychiatrist used her residency to avoid grieving the loss of her brother to suicide but through participation in a grief support group during training she began to thaw enough to remember her brother, watch videos of ephemeral moments like celebrating his fourth birthday, an act that allowed her to see him and her family again.




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Systole and Diastole: A Metaphor for Living

In this narrative medicine essay, a physician finds in the motion of diastole, the process of letting go and filling up, an apt metaphor for how to handle the burnout, anxiety, and depression of medical training.




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Reflections on Women in Leadership—Holding up Half

In this narrative medicine essay, a medical school dean talks about the reticence most women feel when considering leadership roles and urges women to work out of their comfort zones, seize diverse opportunities, and step into leadership roles.




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The Sound of Silence—When There Are No Words

In this narrative medicine essay, a surgeon and palliative care physician describes the isolating silence that she felt her after the slaying of her father in Egypt when she was 18 years old and how that lingering silence has come to guide her when sitting with patients, when there are no words.




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You Did Not Teach Me What You Thought You Did

In this narrative medicine essay, a clinical educator uses her experiences enduring the aftermath of treatment for acute myeloid leukemia to reflect on the difference between physician-teachers and patients’ experience of illness and to locate meaning in what she can offer her colleagues and trainees despite persistent disability.




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Educational Uses for RSS Feeds

RSS feeds provide a convenient method for teachers and administrators to send important information to parents and students.

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Everything You Need to Know About YouTube RSS Feeds

YouTube is also a site filled with video content which can be extracted via RSS. You might be keen to share YouTube RSS feeds of your own content or you might want to get RSS feeds of things that interest you. Whatever your reasoning, you’re going to need to know a little bit about YouTube RSS feeds in order to get started.

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6 Months After Google Reader Shut Down

6 months ago this day Google Reader shut down and the voices of millions of blog posts were suddenly silenced. Although there was a huge outcry before Google reader disappeared, on the actual day it went away it seemed to pass many users by without a word.

Part of the reason was that by this time a few groups had come out with alternative apps for the service so it was easy to miss but also many tweets and blog posts had been written venting their frustration. But 6 months on and the picture has changed a lot. The internet (at least for nerds) looks very different than it did before.

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How to Track RSS Feeds

For starters, it is important to understand that you do not need a service for RSS. Your RSS feed already exists without a third party service. The only thing a third party service would do for you is try to help keep track of subscribers. But even without that service, people can still subscribe to your feed.

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5 Free RSS Readers

In this list, we will be talking about 5 free RSS Reader apps for Windows 8. RSS feeds have quickly become the growing trend, by keeping you updated about the latest posts on various websites. Fetch the RSS feeds of a news website in an RSS Reader app.

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10 RSS Readers for Macs

Most people use the internet for obtaining information and keeping up-to-date with things. Internet information is delivered in different forms such as forum discussion, blogs and news. A great way of getting the latest information from your favorite websites or channels is through the use of RSS feed readers. With it, you can get automatic updates from channels and websites that are important to you. Below are a few of the best the best RSS feed readers for Mac.

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How the Feed Changed the World

The feed now dominates online content consumption, from the news we read on our mobile devices to the social networks we check constantly throughout the day, as well as the ads that integrate onto those platforms.

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Facebook Paper Launch

Facebook on Thursday officially unveiled Paper, a new app created by Facebook Creative Labs, though it did so without any sort of big press event around the new application, which includes tons of content, including your news feed, news articles, photos and more. In other words, it s much more robust than a simple RSS feed replacement to compete with FlipBoard, as earlier rumors suggested it might be.

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Zapier Integrates RSS an Tumbler

How Can I Connect RSS with Tumblr?

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Partial or Full RSS Feeds?

It seems the opinions are mixed on partial versus full RSS feeds. Full feeds give the recipients complete access to what a blogger has published, with the convenience of never having to visit the actual blog. This can be a problem for the blogger, especially if they were hoping to gain more page views from their RSS feed.

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Twitter Buys Patents From IBM

IBMs the biggest patent holder of all time, and when it comes to defending them, it tries to work things out amicably. That is exactly what is happened with Twitter, after the social giant today announced it has bought 900 patents from Big Blue and entered into a cross-licensing agreement to limit the threat of future lawsuits.

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SquareSpace Adds Stats for RSS Feeds

We provide further context about your audience with a breakdown of where your subscribers are coming from. People who manually add your feed to an RSS reader will be classified as Individuals, people who use popular feed clients such as Feedly or Google Feedfetcher will be labeled as such.

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Crowd Sourcing and Social Media

It seems that our society is growing ever more dependent on social media; more and more people are joining social networking giants such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and more such websites and applications are springing up to meet the rising demand for them. As society and culture continue this turn towards technology, so do the operations of society, especially through crowdsourcing. A powerful tool, crowdsourcing does much good, but has also caused a number of problems. In such a situation, one must ask: do the benefits of crowdsourcing really outweigh the risks

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Unread RSS Reader

Unread is a RSS reader that understands that, keeps things simple, and provides you with a ton of gestures so you can get around the app quickly.

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Submit Your RSS Feeds

Huge list of sites to Submit your RSS Feeds




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Zapier

Zapier sets you free by making it easy to connect apps like Email and RSS so your data can be where you want it, when you want it.




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Increase Your Web Traffic with RSS

There are all kinds of ways to get more traffic to your blog or website, but one that often gets overlook is the use of real simple syndication feeds.

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Facebook Testing Highlights

According to TechCrunch, three tabs reside within the People section, including Highlights, which displays your friends birthdays and important life events.

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Social Media Making You Stupid

Social media, we all know, can make you unproductive. If you’re indiscreet or offensive, it can complicate your relationships. But can it also make you downright dumb?

That is what a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface suggests. How can spending more time on Facebook or Twitter end up making us stupider?

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Social Media You are Doing it Wrong

The mistakes that make crazy are avoidable. Sometimes, people do not realize it is wrong. Other times, people do not think it is a quick fix.

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RSS to Create a Photo Tweet

IFTT Recipe  for an RSS Feed to create a tweet with photo.

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Clean Up RSS Feeds

Nothing motivates me to clean up like having to move. When I move house, which I do more often than I like, I see it as a time to purge junk and scrub the new place from corner to corner before moving in any of my stuff. And that is how I feel about RSS feed readers right now.

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8 Creative Ways To Use RSS Feeds

If you have a blog created with WordPress, TypePad, or Blogger, you can use Blog2Print to create a book directly from your blogs RSS feed. The book can include photos, comments, and be printed in black and white or color.

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Facing RSS Feed Clutter

Many RSS users complain of information overload with too many RSS feeds cluttering their inbox. Fortunately, a number of RSS organization tools can tame even the wildest of feed collections.

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Full Text RSS Feeds

In the business world, you cannot fight and ignore the data away, as the interaction of data and how you analyze it is the primary driver for your business in gaining competitive business strategies.

Most successful companies have built their businesses around the use of data, and even if you have the techniques and the manpower skill set that will analyze your data trends, it does you no good as it eats up your production time.

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Tips for Setting Up a Web Store

Setting up a retail outlet on the web is not an easy process. There is plenty you need to be aware of when it comes to launching an online store, from the initial site design, to the often-overlooked extras that will have customers knocking down your virtual door.

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20 Experts on Finding Engaging Content

In order to engage your followers, we all know you need to share interesting content with them regularly. Of course, there are plenty of tools that help you schedule and share content, such as Buffer, Hootsuite, and SproutSocial. But what about finding content your audience will love?

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How to Use RSS Feeds to Download Torrents

There is a lot of content available on BitTorrent these days. Normally you would go to a torrent site, look for the torrent you want to download, download the torrent file and then add it to your torrent client for download.

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Optimize Your Social Presence With These App-on-App Strategies

But you might be wondering: Do we really need all of these burgeoning apps? With hundreds of options to choose from, it can sometimes feel like social media overkill.

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7 Best Feeds For RSS Weather Updates

These days, there are a lot of really useful ways that you can use RSS feeds. They are the fastest and most efficient way to receive alerts and updates from anywhere. You can serve those updates up on the sidebar of your website or blog, in your RSS reader or on your mobile phone.

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5 Reasons Your Social Media is Not Working

Common sense pretty much tells us most of what we need to know to get our fans and followers engaged with our social media content.

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Use RSS Feeds to Boost Your Web Traffic

We all know that the content writers are bringing their juice into social media nowadays, as people see Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms as ridiculously fresh, upbeat, and contemporary. Both are competing to be the best in content delivery, making these social networking sites an area for socialization and easier product exchange, a social slash business hub perfect for the growing online market.

Amongst the hustle brought about by too many content delivered in these sites, it is likely that the simple RSS is already forgotten, disabled and dead. But this is a wrong notion. As the RSS feeds are still coming on stronger than ever, and is still treated as one of the supreme in hot‐wiring the many thoughts of the general population brought together.

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Backup RSS Feed to Google Spreadsheet

Backup your RSS feed to a Google spreadsheet using an IFTTT recipe




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5 ways News Brands can take advantage of Linkedin

LinkedIn may have started out as a simple way to build professional connections and share contact details, but more users are looking to share articles that interest them, the Digital Media Europe conference heard today.

Isabelle Roughol, France editor for LinkedIn, told delegates that, compared to five years ago, there are five times as many people coming to the site for content than for jobs searches.

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Podcast RSS Feed Survey Results

Checkout the Podcast RSS Feed Survey Results

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Add RSS To Increase Touch Points

Would you like to reach your site visitors again and again after they visit your blog?

One way that businesses and organizations can increase readership of their blog posts and the touch points they have with visitor after the visit is by encouraging those visitors to subscribe to get new post alerts via email.

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