How Do Doctors Think and How Do You?

Do you take time to step back and take a good look at the basis for your decisions? Jerome Groopman, hematologist at Harvard University took an in-depth look at doctors' decision-making and concentrated on what leads to mistakes. Groopman's findings not only teach us how to approach our doctors with a little more savvy, but also prod us to think deeply about decision-making.

You'd be surprised to know that 80% of medical mistakes are the result of logical fallacies, not being aware of all possibilities and communication with the patient. And, 20% result from technical errors such as wrong test results.

Harvard hematologist, Jerome Groopman's curiosity was piqued about doctors' thinking processes when a friend's eight-year-old daughter was misdiagnosed by neurologists and pediatricians. The young girl began to suffer with headaches. Doctors thought stress at home or a sinus condition caused the headaches. But a few months later it was apparent the girl had a brain tumor. Why did doctors draw conclusions and overlook a possibility?

Curiosity led Groopman, also a staff writer for the New Yorker, to research what causes doctors' thinking mistakes...And, you'll find answers to his query in, How Doctors Think, published in March. The book's an engaging and fascinating read that can help doctors improve diagnosis procedures or for patients as they interact with doctors. What's the basis for your critical decisions?

Groopman finds that most errors result from...

Stereotyping - A nervous young woman loses weight. Does that mean she's anorexic?

Cases Seem Similar - A doctor may diagnose a fever and headache as flu during flu season. But could it be meningitis?

Acting Too Quickly - At times doctors choose to do something rather than nothing when in doubt.

Emotions - Groopman found that emotions come into play more than doctors might admit. For instance, if a doctor is fond of a patient he may overlook a deadly disease because he doesn't want it to be true. And on the other hand if patients sense a doctor doesn't like them, they need to go to someone else.

By asking, What else could it be? both doctors and patients can begin to look deeper at problems and make better decisions.

How do you make critical decisions both at a physician's office or...at work?....

3G Stimulation

Finns did it ! Again !

Change the law and adoption goes up.
That's how Finns did for 3G adoption. The results are:

- almost half (40%) already use 3G services and every fourth (25%) is considering their adoption

- the most wanted 3G services are email (60%), map and route services (49%), and Internet (40% )

- According to comparative questionnaire studies, the use of 3G has increased more than six-fold from the previous year's 6 per cent to 40 per cent. Currently, there are more than 700,000 3G phones in use in Finland. A year ago, the number was only 50,000.

- the most wanted were email (60%), map and route services (49%), and Internet (40%). Next most popular were the news (39%), bank (37%), weather (33%), search (27%), music (21%) and television (19%).

From Nokia's mouths

Those bluddy amateurs :)

An interview with Nokia's vice president of Nseries Computers Pekka Pohjakallio about iPhone.

Rare opportunties to hear about iPhone.
He admits Apple implemented some things differently.

"We have been preaching the message of converged multimedia in one device, with lots of use cases and a good experience for the whole life of Nseries. And now Apple have come and said basically the same thing, even if they have implemented some things differently.

And

"They had music, internet, an email deal with Yahoo and a deal with Google, but it is a 2G device, not 3G, which was a surprise to me," he says. "And it's coming first to the US market with Cingular, so let's see. But overall, it's very exciting for us."

But my biggest question for Apple about iPhone is why Apple created a "internet device" running on ISDN speeds ?
How will they connect iTunes library and multimedia rich iPhone without high-speed wirelles tech ?

Nokia 5700

Music phone. Four important buttons.

Mobility thoughts of day

Recent thoughts and question about mobility:

- How will upcoming Apple iPhone handle clicking web links when browsing on tiny device only with a thumb? If there is a list of links, how will screen respond to clicking links and fully precise doing so ?

- Mobile operators want fewer mobile OS. So, is there a space for LiMo, Apple OS and in the future some Google OS ? Basic smartphone OS's are enough or not ? Fast device-to-market is important to them. Third party developers can also benefit from few basic mobile OS's

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Local production in a globalised world

Reverse-engineered globalisation

Motorola to launch in 2007. a new cell phone fully developed in Brazil.
Why ?
Support of local economy ? Nice try, I guess.
It's interesting development in the global economy.
More of:

Motorola will draw on the technology and software of 600 partners spread throughout Brazil, according to the spokesperson.

Man, it's 600 partners ! Local business and politician dream.
Hard & Soft will be produced in Brazil.

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