Do We Still Need Office Visits?
Like many primary care practices, after a hasty transition to a year of phone calls and video visits, my practice is slowly transitioning back to “normal,” meaning that we are now seeing more patients in person than by video. However, as I reflect on the past year, I wonder how central this notion of the […]
Your Bad Posture Could Be Hurting You. Here Are 8 Products That Can Help
Amazon Neck phone holder, posture-correcting braces and handheld massage guns can help improve poor posture, according to experts. If you spend a lot of time on your computer or phone or sit for prolonged periods during work hours or otherwise, odds are you’ve wondered about the effect on your posture. If so, you’re right to […]
My Dad Partakes In ‘Tantric Sex Events’ — And Calls Me To Talk About It. Here’s Why I Like It.
Oscar Wong via Getty Images My phone flashes. It’s my dad calling. I answer: “Hi, Dad!” “Hello, Sprout!” He still uses his childhood nickname for me, even though I am now in my mid-30s and he’s 63. “I had an absolutely wonderful time at the tantra retreat last weekend. Deeply moving stuff. We started with […]
Opinion | You Choose: Food or Medications?
The phone rings at 2 a.m. The resident doctor on call that night is contacted to discuss a Latinx patient who presented with seizures. He had missed his medication for about a week. He had recently been laid off and lost insurance coverage. He couldn’t afford to refill his eslicarbazepine acetate (Aptiom) prescription. This was […]
How To Stop Reaching For Your Phone Right When You Wake Up
It’s 6:30 a.m., and the alarm on your phone is going off. You roll over to turn it off and notice you already have several notifications. You promise yourself you’re just going to respond to that one text from your sister and put your phone down. Then you see you have a Slack DM from […]
A rare discovery of long-term memory in wild frog-eating bats: 4 years after first exposure, bats remember a ringtone’s link to food
Frog-eating bats trained by researchers to associate a phone ringtone with a tasty treat were able to remember what they learned for up to four years in the wild, new research has found. The study acquainted 49 bats with a series of ringtones that attracted their attention, and trained them to associate flying toward just […]
What To Do If Group Texts Are Stressing You Out
We’ve all been there: You check your phone and see over 100 unread texts thanks to a group chat. The more this happens, the more it can start to feel overwhelming. The sheer volume of messages and rapidly changing conversation topics may leave you feeling stuck and unsure of how to respond. Advertisement “There’s something […]
Phone Calls Spot Early Alzheimer’s
Speech patterns in phone conversations can spot people with early to moderate Alzheimer’s dementia, a Japanese study suggested. A machine-learning predictive model correctly identified people with Alzheimer’s dementia with about 90% accuracy using audio files of phone conversations of 24 people with confirmed Alzheimer’s and 99 healthy controls, reported Akihiro Shimoda, MPH, of McCann Health […]