We have a Wounded Warrior at Sandia who died three times - once on the battlefield, once in the medevac helo, and once in the field hospital.
We have several WWs at Sandia - I wonder how they received the news of their injuries? Combat injuries are surely a possible research pool to answer the question of tell or hide. A surgeon from either Beth Israel or Mass General said that marathon bombing victims were so happy to be alive that their limb loss didn't faze them. Ray Parks From: siddharth [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:16 AM Mountain Standard Time To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [FRIAM] bursting the placebo bubble Unrelated to the main topic here, but all the talk of DNR et al reminded me of this article earlier this week - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22154552 . Hmmm. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:38 PM, glen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Douglas Roberts wrote at 04/25/2013 09:44 AM: > A better question might be: why are we still teaching them these > dishonest little fairy tales in the first place, which we then have to > un-teach later? I admit that's a more philosophical question, but not a better one. It's not clear how answering that question will help address the applied complexity problem of handling the mature organism, where these beliefs are deeply rooted and may well affect their physiology in some way. Harris' questions get to the root of the applied complexity problem. Do you tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth to a dying old person? If so, is that medically beneficial or detrimental? -- =><= glen e. p. ropella Man alive the jive and lyrics, ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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