We’ve all read the tough-parenting stories from self-professed Tiger Mother Amy Chua, a Yale law professor who prides herself on raising her daughters the “Chinese way.” “She’s a monster,” was the all-too frequent comment, after the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother arrived in bookstores last month. As a product of an authoritative Asian parenting myself, read more about Three Truths about Tiger Moms on my BodiMojo blog.
As if Facebook and Twitter and other social media don’t offer enough cyber-information overload, the newest player in the age of social networking is doctor and hospital rating sites. More than 30 such rate-your-doctor Websites exist today, including Healthgrades.com and RateMDs.com, as well as more general consumer guides such as Angielist.com – more known for rating plumbers than clinicians – and Yelp.com. Read more on my article at The Progressive Physician.
The virtual operating room may be a step closer to reality, thanks to the latest version of 3D Slicer, a new generation of freeware that has already been used for brain mapping, image guided surgery, virtual colonoscopy, and other biomedical research. The aptly named “Slicer” provides different views of the same subject on demand, such as vivid 3-D images of the brain, created from the raw data of two-dimension magnetic resonance (MR) images. Read more on my article on Digital Healthcare and Productivity.
