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A hospital is recruiting nurses to work 12-hour shifts in its corridors caring for sick patients stuck waiting for a bed. Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said corridor care was a sign of the “total acceptance of failure” by the NHS
Hospital advertises for ‘corridor care’ nurses to ease NHS crisis
The new jobs have been labelled a ‘total acceptance of failure’ as oxygen lines are installed outside wards
www.thetimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Chili's sales have been growing, partly thanks to Gen Zers attracted by social media and dining value meals like 3 For Me and the Triple Dipper.
How Chili's became a Gen Z hangout spot
Chili's sales have been growing, partly thanks to Gen Zers attracted by social media and dining value meals like 3 For Me and the Triple Dipper.
www.businessinsider.com
January 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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The Henley Passport Index has moved the US passport from the top spot in 2014 to 9th place for 2025.
A US passport is no longer the golden ticket it once was
The Henley Passport Index has moved the US passport from the top spot in 2014 to 9th place for 2025.
www.businessinsider.com
January 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Vetted list of resources on here for Individuals that have been impacted by the wildfires.
My Replies on this thread will link directly to the resources for the following:
• 🚗 Transportation
• 🏠 Housing
• 🏘 Shelters
• 📞 Utilities
• ❤️‍🩹 Health
• 🐶 Pet care
• 🥘 Food
• 🖼️ Culture
January 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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A Pip is short for a performance improvement plan, which is nothing more than a roadmap of steps and objectives that aims to turn an underperforming employee into a better worker.

Even though it’s the “most hated” way to fire an employee it’s still the most popular one.
Rise of the Pips is a reminder to employees that no one is irreplaceable
Performance improvement plans are often a precursor of dismissal but workers can make themselves harder to fire
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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💉 Medical AI: Poisoned Data Risk

A new study highlights how deliberate misinformation can compromise medical AI models. Even 0.001% poisoned data increases harmful outputs.

Proposed solutions include real-time validation with knowledge graphs.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #AI 🧪
Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks - Nature Medicine
Large language models can be manipulated to generate misinformation by poisoning of a very small percentage of the data on which they are trained, but a harm mitigation strategy using biomedical knowl...
www.nature.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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We want to hear from people in the US about how you’re eating a climate-friendly diet on a budget, and what other challenges you face in eating this way.
People in the US: how do you eat a climate-friendly diet on a budget?
We want to hear how you manage to eat a planet-friendly diet despite soaring food prices and lack of access
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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🔬🚨 Hydroxychloroquine Study Retracted

The infamous 2020 study promoting hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 has been retracted due to ethical and scientific flaws.

A stark reminder: science without integrity can have harmful consequences.

Read more: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

#SciComm #COVID19 🧪
Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
doi.org
December 18, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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Two Bay Area women were arrested on shoplifting charges at a Tahoe ski resort.
Louis Vuitton bags, luxury cars: Bay Area duo nabbed in Tahoe heist
Placer County sheriff's deputies arrested two wealthy Bay Area women on shoplifting charges in Lake Tahoe.
www.sfgate.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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While chronological age does not denote decline, longer lives can mean longer battles with weakening bodies, illnesses and questions of purpose and identity.
‘He kept going until he couldn’t’: why do boomer men refuse to slow down?
Those born in the baby boomer generation are entering the longest phase of elderhood in history, full of potential but also fraught with challenges
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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🌟 Kindness improves healthcare

A new @bmj.com study shows that Kindness (proactive actions to help others flourish) can boost communication and care, even during burnout.

Unlike empathy or compassion, kindness is resilient and actionable.

🔗 bmjleader.bmj.com/content/earl...

#SciComm #Health 🧪
Kindness: Poor cousin or equal kin to Compassion and Empathy in the Healthcare Literature? A Scoping Review
Objective This scoping review seeks to understand how kindness, compassion and empathy are defined and conceptualised within existing healthcare services literature. Introduction Little consensus exi...
bmjleader.bmj.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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Good morning. ☕️
December 13, 2024 at 2:49 PM