Friday, September 2, 2011 at 12:00 PM « DragonCON 2011 - Open Source Medicine in the Reprap Revolution »
"Open Source Medicine in the
Reprap Revolution"
Panelist: Dr. Nicholas Giovinco
This post is intended as a companion to the actual lecture given. I intend to further edit and populate this page with follow-up information in addition to the references already provided. To those of you who were able to make it out to the event, thank you! Visit www.dragoncon.org for more information.
Freeside Atlanta Technology Space Freesidealtanta.org
A very special thanks to the guys and gals at Freeside Atlanta Technology Space. Come out to the regular "Freeside Weekly" community open house events, for anyone interested.
The definition of medicine per Wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine
This is a nice and informative explanation of medicine itself. A little history goes a long way... Essentially, medicine is the science and the art of healing.
"Doctoring" is nothing new to Social Species
Religion has continued to be an important role in health care delivery and health reception
There always seems to be a religious connection between healing and religion. Also, the imagery of the stake with a serpant may possibly represent overcoming fear.
Spirituality and clinical care
Spiritual values and skills are increasingly recognised as necessary aspects of clinical care
Larry Culliford, consultant psychiatrist (larry.culliford{at}southdowns.nhs.uk)
South Downs Health NHS Trust, Brighton Community Mental Health Centre, Brighton BN1 3RJ
The man pictured on the left is Imhotep, the earliest known physician by name. The man on the right is Hippocrates, the "Father of Medicine".
The "Open-ness" of Medicine
Medical practices, literature, tools, and techniques have continued to spread, since its inception.
Roman surgical instruments spread and have become relatively unchanged over the last 2,000 years.
Surgical Applications of today. The science and the art of surgical technique.
Just a plug for Morbid Anatomy Blog
Rather than sifting through several different examples, I wanted to illustrate my point from the perspectives of a single disease. "Diabetes"
This graph represents the flucutating insulin levels in the body, throughout the day.
WolframAlpha Sheds some light on Diabetes
These are a rundown of associated diseases in conjunction with Diabetic appointments to a doctor's office. Diabetes is a part a collective disease of bodily degeneration.
Persius Potato http://bentobjects.blogspot.com/2011/08/persius-potato.html
I love the bentopjects blog. The coffee table book on sale is a worthwhile purchase or gift, indeed
Hunger and the potential to over-eat:
McDonald's for a better tomorrow?
Diabetes > Neuropathy > Deformation (Charcot) > Ulceration > Amputation
Overview of the RANKL pathway in terms of explaining how Charcot may arise in patient's with Neuropathy.
Diabetes costs more than War on Terror and War on Drugs, combined!
Techology Challenges and Innovations:
This discussion and explanation of the overall "Health Challenge" of any disease. We have an assumed standard of care which everyone is entitled to. I agree with this notion, and I feel that we may soon be able to provide this before long, from the benefits of sophisticated and ubiquitous technology. Moore's Law will continue to prove useful. Technolog will dominate medical delivery in the future, until eventuall we become technology itself...
