jeudi 1 octobre 2009

As long as you are getting older and growing up, that you're interesting yourself more and more in life, information is more accessible and indispensable, you have to be on the wave to understand the changements in the society and their consequences. Then a regular basis of reading become important and you're surprised to discover that you're enjoying knowing what's happening. You can then express yourself ( like I am doing right know ) and comment ideas that you've heard.



For example, I am more interested in the science / health topic and I read about it, differents article or the sames from different sources..



These sources generally are New York Times or CNN or some french paper like Le Monde, yes french. It's interesting to see how other countries evaluate the importance of some situation...







I read this article from The New York Times and it talked about a study (again) in hospitals which was supposed to prove that some hospitals aren't more " postoperatory deathly" than others. This idea about some hospitals being more dangerous than others are only about reputation on their postoperative complication. During this study from 2005 to 2007 and implicating more than 80,000 persons in about 150 hospitals, the death rates showed some difference in function of the hospitals but that the complication postoperative weren't more elevated in the high-death hospitals but in the low-death ones (24.6% against 26.9%).

This lead to think that the way that a team, in a hospital, reacts or responds to the complication is definitely more important than the the frequency of those.





Speaking of hospitals, children like this 3 years old boy received the first nasal spray swine-flu vaccine on last Tuesday, while the shots are supposed to begin in the following week...

The 50 states of the US already sent orders for the shots, but the officials also start to critic the vaccine by diffusing on radio and websites comments about their concerns. They qualify the vaccine as "untested" and say that the good one would come too late, but Dr Thomas R.Frieden hardly debunked them. "..flu is not a 'mild' illness-it can make you pretty sick, knock you out for a day or two or three. And in rare case, it kills." Conceding that the flu returned faster than a vaccine could be ready, he rejected the suggestions that it is too late.

2 commentaires:

  1. Pierre: I like this entry. You cover a lot of interesting topics. Something struck me that might be worth exploring is when you mention how interesting "to see how other countries evaluate the importance of some situation." I'd like to see you write more about that. What are some of the different perspectives media outlets in other countries take, compared to those in America? That would be an interesting focus.

    Also, don't forget to put a title on this entry and proofread it so you don't leave some of your hyperlinks incomplete.

    Good luck.

    Miller

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