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1. Language

 

a. phonetics
b. alphabets
c. braille
d. morse code
e. sign language

 

2. Oaths

 

a. dr./patient confidentiality
b. honor code
c. sworn testimony
d. boy scout/girl scout promise

 

3. Currency

 

a. circulation
b. abstract idea (money is not backed by gold)
c. foreclosures

 

4. Wayfinding

 

a. signage systems
b. shared space
c. transportation (subway maps)

 

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Dr./Patient Confidentiality

 

 

The hippocratic oath is considered a rite of passage for physicians. It is widely believed Hippocrates or one of his students wrote it in 4th century BC.

 

Originally in Greek:

 

Ὄμνυμι Ἀπόλλωνα ἰητρὸν, καὶ Ἀσκληπιὸν, καὶ Ὑγείαν, καὶ Πανάκειαν, καὶ θεοὺς πάντας τε καὶ πάσας, ἵστορας ποιεύμενος, ἐπιτελέα ποιήσειν κατὰ δύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμὴν ὅρκον τόνδε καὶ ξυγγραφὴν τήνδε.

 

Ἡγήσασθαι μὲν τὸν διδάξαντά με τὴν τέχνην ταύτην ἴσα γενέτῃσιν ἐμοῖσι, καὶ βίου κοινώσασθαι, καὶ χρεῶν χρηίζοντι μετάδοσιν ποιήσασθαι, καὶ γένος τὸ ἐξ ωὐτέου ἀδελφοῖς ἴσον ἐπικρινέειν ἄῤῥεσι, καὶ διδάξειν τὴν τέχνην ταύτην, ἢν χρηίζωσι μανθάνειν, ἄνευ μισθοῦ καὶ ξυγγραφῆς, παραγγελίης τε καὶ ἀκροήσιος καὶ τῆς λοιπῆς ἁπάσης μαθήσιος μετάδοσιν ποιήσασθαι υἱοῖσί τε ἐμοῖσι, καὶ τοῖσι τοῦ ἐμὲ διδάξαντος, καὶ μαθηταῖσι συγγεγραμμένοισί τε καὶ ὡρκισμένοις νόμῳ ἰητρικῷ, ἄλλῳ δὲ οὐδενί.

 

Διαιτήμασί τε χρήσομαι ἐπ' ὠφελείῃ καμνόντων κατὰ δύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμὴν, ἐπὶ δηλήσει δὲ καὶ ἀδικίῃ εἴρξειν.

 

Οὐ δώσω δὲ οὐδὲ φάρμακον οὐδενὶ αἰτηθεὶς θανάσιμον, οὐδὲ ὑφηγήσομαι ξυμβουλίην τοιήνδε. Ὁμοίως δὲ οὐδὲ γυναικὶ πεσσὸν φθόριον δώσω. Ἁγνῶς δὲ καὶ ὁσίως διατηρήσω βίον τὸν ἐμὸν καὶ τέχνην τὴν ἐμήν.

 

Οὐ τεμέω δὲ οὐδὲ μὴν λιθιῶντας, ἐκχωρήσω δὲ ἐργάτῃσιν ἀνδράσι πρήξιος τῆσδε.

 

Ἐς οἰκίας δὲ ὁκόσας ἂν ἐσίω, ἐσελεύσομαι ἐπ' ὠφελείῃ καμνόντων, ἐκτὸς ἐὼν πάσης ἀδικίης ἑκουσίης καὶ φθορίης, τῆς τε ἄλλης καὶ ἀφροδισίων ἔργων ἐπί τε γυναικείων σωμάτων καὶ ἀνδρῴων, ἐλευθέρων τε καὶ δούλων.

 

Ἃ δ' ἂν ἐν θεραπείῃ ἢ ἴδω, ἢ ἀκούσω, ἢ καὶ ἄνευ θεραπηίης κατὰ βίον ἀνθρώπων, ἃ μὴ χρή ποτε ἐκλαλέεσθαι ἔξω, σιγήσομαι, ἄῤῥητα ἡγεύμενος εἶναι τὰ τοιαῦτα.

 

Ὅρκον μὲν οὖν μοι τόνδε ἐπιτελέα ποιέοντι, καὶ μὴ ξυγχέοντι, εἴη ἐπαύρασθαι καὶ βίου καὶ τέχνης δοξαζομένῳ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐς τὸν αἰεὶ χρόνον. παραβαίνοντι δὲ καὶ ἐπιορκοῦντι, τἀναντία τουτέων.

 

I swear by Apollo, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath.

 

To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art.

 

I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.

 

I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.

 

But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.

 

I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art.

 

In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves.

 

All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.

 

If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot.

 

Many schools still use this oath, although omitting the part about forbidding surgery, abortion, and euthanasia.

 

The oath was not received with open arms when it was first written. The first code of medical ethics was was written by English physician Thomas Percival (1740–1804). An adaptation was adopted by the American Medical Association in 1846.

 

After War II, doctors from Nazi Germany concentration camps were charged with breaching the medical ethics code by conducting medical experiments on prisoners. This eventually led to the Nuremburg Code (1947) which outlined the ethics of medical research.

 

ANA's code of ethics states that doctors have always had teh responsibility to keep their patients' information and records private. The actual code states taht the information revealed to a hysician during teir patient-physician relationship is confidential to the utmost degree. The goal is to encourage total honesty betweent doctors and patients for better treatment.  The exceptions include where a patient threatens bodily harm to himself or another person.

 

"Courts have used ethical obligations as the basis for imposing legal obligations. A physician's legal obligations are are defined by the US Constitution, federal, and state laws, and by the courts."
-AMA Patient Confidentiality Article
Dr./Patient Confidentiality

 

A confidence is breached when there is a disclosure to a third party without patient consent or court order. This disclosure maybe written or oral, by any communications means available.

 

HIPAA has authored additional confidentiality considerations.

 

Items meant to be included in the release:

 

What has to be in the release?
Typical elements of a valid general release include:

 


   1. Patient's name and identifying information;
   2. Address of the health care professional or institution directed to release the information;
   3. Description of the information to be released;
   4. Identity of the party to be furnished the information;
   5. Language authorizing release of information;
   6. Signature of patient or authorized individual; and
   7. Time period for which release remains valid.

 

General releases will not suffice for records containing HIV or other sensitive material
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs8a-hipaa.htm

 

 


 

Information about Co-dependency, questions and techniques

 

http://www.nmha.org/go/codependency

 

Information about Dependency Personality Disorder, questions and techniques

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_personality_disorder
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/personality_disorders/hic_dependent_personality_disorder.aspx

 


 

 

Phone trees:
Use of phone trees:
Usually for emergency situations
Increases turnout to events by extending personal invitations
Saves printing and postage costs

 

Impress upon all people the importance of completing their assigned calls.
Have alternate numbers available for people and alternate people to fill in if some members can't be reached. Train the folks in your phone tree to keep trying each person on their list until they make contact. If a member of the phone tree cannot be reached, have the caller notify you as the coordinator so you can fill in or delegate the responsibility to another member.

 

Phone tree:

 

These tools allow you to mobilize the active members of your group really quickly for events, actions and urgent meetings. They will also enable you to stay in touch during exams and holidays.

 

This is a tool for group members to pass a message around the group without the need for a huge phone session, especially useful for smaller groups. One person decides to start off the message, and it is passed round the group.

 

Phone wheel:
If someone is out, move around the wheel and go back to them later. As soon as you get a live person, they take on the message (like a relay). The message continues round the wheel until the person who activated it gets it back again to check it didn’t get confused.

 

Branch/leaf method:
The phone tree is a different way of doing the same thing - this time all the calls emanate from one person, perhaps the group secretary. Larger groups will probably find this method more efficient.

 

Phone Pyramid:
A phone pyramid is another way to visualize this concept. The person sitting on top of the pyramid phones the two names "below" him; then those two people phone the two (or more) people below them; and so on.

 

One person at the top of the pyramid calls two people, who each call two more people, and so on, until every person in the phone tree has been called. This allows people to distribute information quickly, without placing the burden of work on one person.

 


 

Domino Theory
1.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_theory

 

2.) The Cold War “containment” notion was born of the Domino Theory, which held that if one country fell under communist influence or control, its neighboring countries would soon follow. Containment was the cornerstone of the Truman Doctrine as defined by a Truman speech on March 12, 1947. The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO and the United Nations then became the foundation of American foreign policy through the Reagan administration and beyond, for about 50 years.....read on at
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1965.html

 

3.) The dominotheory in U.S. foreign policy after World War II stating that the “fall” of a noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments in neighbouring states. The theory was first proposed by President Harry S. Truman to justify sending military aid to Greece and Turkey in the 1940s, but it became popular in the 1950s when President Dwight D. Eisenhower applied it to Southeast Asia, especially South Vietnam. The domino theory was one of the main arguments used in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations during the 1960s to justify increasing American military involvement in the Vietnam War....check it out at
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/168794/domino-theory
Three books:

 

Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views of the War
By George N. Katsiaficas
Interview with Eisenhower.

 

''Modernity and Power: A History of the Domino Theory in the Twentieth Century"
by Frank A. Ninkovic

 

Historical Dictionary of the 1950s
By James Stuart Olson

 


 

Braille
1.)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille
Shows diagrams of Braille.
http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/webbraille.html

 

2.) Web Braille
In 1999, The Library of Congress introduced Web-Braille.
Web-Braille is an Internet, web-based service that provides, in an electronic format, many braille books, some music scores, and all braille magazines produced by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). The service also includes a growing collection of titles transcribed locally for cooperating network libraries. The Web-Braille site is password-protected, and all files are in an electronic form of contracted braille, requiring the use of special equipment for access. read more at....
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1999/99-147.html

 

3.) Braille Flash Cards---online

 

http://brl.org/flashcards/flashcards-online/index.html

 

Ways to create Tactile Graphics.
http://www.brl.org/transcribers/session07/tools.html

 

4.) Tactile Graphics
www.tactilegraphics.org

 

Tactile Graphics
This term refers to those graphical representations that have been specially prepared for use by touch. Historically, such graphics were prepared with a wide range of tools and supplies - sewing tracing wheel, awls, string, and puffy paint, among many others. More recently with the advent of computer technology and sophisticated embossers, many graphics are being built through use of software and produced with embossers or specially constructed paper that reacts to heat.
Why Tactile Graphics?

Sighted people take for granted the huge amount of information we get from graphics: diagrams, flowcharts, graphs, logos and pictures. The many forms of graphic communication are all around us. Translating this information from graphics to tactile form makes it accessible for the visually impaired reader. This accessibility Braille
1.)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille
Shows diagrams of Braille.
http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/webbraille.html

 

2.) Web Braille
In 1999, The Library of Congress introduced Web-Braille.
Web-Braille is an Internet, web-based service that provides, in an electronic format, many braille books, some music scores, and all braille magazines produced by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). The service also includes a growing collection of titles transcribed locally for cooperating network libraries. The Web-Braille site is password-protected, and all files are in an electronic form of contracted braille, requiring the use of special equipment for access. read more at....
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1999/99-147.html

 

3.) Braille Flash Cards---online

 

http://brl.org/flashcards/flashcards-online/index.html

 

Ways to create Tactile Graphics.
http://www.brl.org/transcribers/session07/tools.html

 

4.) Tactile Graphics
www.tactilegraphics.org

 

Tactile Graphics
This term refers to those graphical representations that have been specially prepared for use by touch. Historically, such graphics were prepared with a wide range of tools and supplies - sewing tracing wheel, awls, string, and puffy paint, among many others. More recently with the advent of computer technology and sophisticated embossers, many graphics are being built through use of software and produced with embossers or specially constructed paper that reacts to heat.
Why Tactile Graphics?

Sighted people take for granted the huge amount of information we get from graphics: diagrams, flowcharts, graphs, logos and pictures. The many forms of graphic communication are all around us. Translating this information from graphics to tactile form makes it accessible for the visually impaired reader. This accessibility is always welcomed and is sometimes required by law.

 

LINKS:
- don't ask don't tell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_ask_don%27t_tell
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/washington/23pentagon.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/us/politics/08gays.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/us/30military.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

 

- morse code:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code
http://nrich.maths.org/public/viewer.php?obj_id=2198
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/business/27morse.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE4DD133AF931A35757C0A963958260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

 

- honor code:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE4DD1131F93AA35750C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED81030F93AA25755C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

 

+ boy scout oaths:
http://www.scouting.org/BoyScouts/TheBuildingBlocksofScouting/values.aspx

 

+ scout pledges
http://www.macscouter.com/Eagle/EagleBook_Pledges.asp

 

+ Sworn Testimony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sworn_testimony

 

- luggage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/us/28brfs-LUGGAGE.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7D71E3FF93AA15750C0A961948260&sec=travel&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E6DC1F31F93BA15751C1A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

 

 

- dependency theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_theory

 

- dominos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominoes

 

- seesaw (note new england variances in names)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See-saw

 

- Rube Goldberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_goldberg

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