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AI is turning workers in ‘cyborgs,’ ‘centaurs,’ and ‘meat puppets’

Work Life

However, as AI takes on more tasks, some people could become ‘meat puppets’, executing manual tasks under AI supervision, which deviates from the idealistic promise of AI freeing us for creative work. Maintaining a clear delineation between human and AI roles also aids in accountability and ethical governance.

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

Mad in America

Additionally, since the mother must receive the drug under medical supervision for a period of 60 hours, she cannot function as the primary caregiver for her infant. MotherToBaby : Organization of Teratology Information Specialists provides a telephone and Web-based service for patients and healthcare providers.

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

Mad in America

Peruvian reform is especially good regarding legal capacity, but it has not included the issue of healthcare and it has not addressed the short-term involuntary measures in the mental health system that are still in place.

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my boss won’t manage a terrible employee, my coworker scream-yawns, and more

Ask a Manager

I am the head of a subsection of my department and am responsible for supervising and delegating work to one other employee. A lot of these students want healthcare careers! I accepted a short “student” placement in a highly visible government organization. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

According to a 1992 analysis published in The Lancet , the deaths of almost 1,500 children who died of Reye’s syndrome may have been prevented if the government had not waited five years to require warning labels on aspirin. Here in the States, the government has reached the same conclusion—without the subsequent ban.

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Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands

Mad in America

Although at that time, the state law forbade non-acupuncturists to apply this simple protocol, the tribe exercised their autonomy to govern themselves, defied state regulations and paved their own path to offer ear pokes. I was brought in by RISE to offer ongoing training and supervision for acudetox at the jail.

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‘Childless cat ladies’ have cared about America’s children and future for centuries

Work Life

“Maternalism: the coming great force in government” Throughout her life, Davis used what she called “the methods of motherhood” to promote public welfare. Insisting that “wise motherhood” was essential to better government, Davis argued that women needed the vote—and that the nation needed women voters.