Keeping Pace With Wanda

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It's Not About the Money
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 1:40pm

Community Heroes is what it's about.
Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital (FHSH) is hosting a pilot for a Community Medical Center's Foundation program that will allow grateful patients to recognize staff and physicians for awesome care received and provided day in and day out. The patient is given an opportunity to make a donation, name an individual(s), and that person(s) can be formally recognized as a Community Hero, and ultimately have a very special lapel pin awarded to them to proudly display that symbolizes the heart of caring.

Keeping Pace With Wanda

Music and Laughter
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 12:46pm

I'm sure many of you were experiencing both (with some bubbly) on New Year's Eve.

Riding Motorcycles Safer Now?
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 11:01am

I ride a motorcycle and so am always interested in hearing about enhancing safety for that hobby. I was pleased to read an article recently about an inflatable jacket that deploys if there is an impact...like airbags in vehicles.

Fuehlometer...
Friday, December 16, 2011 - 10:25am

...you know, "feel-o-meter" for those of you who do not speak German.

Apparently, there are some creative artists in Lindau, Germany, that combined art and technology resulting in an interactive product. A monstrous-sized Smiley face is mounted on a lighthouse in the city that is constructed of fluorescent neon tubes and a bunch of steel pipe, and the thing displays a facial expression depending on the city dwellers' moods...huh?

The Nocebo Effect
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 9:40am

Huh? Well, I was reading about a graduate student at the University of Oxford who recently explored this "effect" which allegedly can cause patients to become genuinely physically ill just by thinking that they are! The power of the grey matter between the ears is truly amazing. Folks can think themselves into manifesting bad health.

Apophenia...
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 11:19am

...you know, the urge to find meaning or patterns in numbers. Well, it is after all 11/11/11. What does it mean to you?

 I am not superstitious, nor do I get all caught up in what the configurations could mean, but it is kinda fun when these things come around to pontificate.