{"id":3192,"date":"2010-05-05T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T01:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2010-05-05T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T01:14:10","slug":"making-a-doctors-job-easier-nude-coloured-hospital-gowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/making-a-doctors-job-easier-nude-coloured-hospital-gowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a doctors job easier: nude coloured hospital gowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems <strong>changing the colou<\/strong>r of a hospital gown <strong>to skin colour<\/strong> <strong>significantly helps<\/strong> doctors ability to detect health problems (based on the change of colour of their skin). \u00a0Interesting huh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2010-04\/rpi-nhg042910.php\">Read the original here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And along the same lines.<\/p>\n<p>The fake bus stop in Germany outside a rest home. \u00a0As Alzheimer&#8217;s patients wander off (from the home) they go to bus stop to catch the next bus. \u00a0Of course buses don&#8217;t turn up but it acts as a capture point, whereby the nurses can assist them once they come back to reality. \u00a0Immoral or moral? I suggest a best case answer to a difficult problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/2071319\/Fake-bus-stop-keeps-Alzheimers-patients-from-wandering-off.html\">Read more over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The point is, modifying \u00a0contextual factors can completely change the outcome. \u00a0Controlling the context to reach favourable outcomes. \u00a0The first helps doctors do their jobs better and the second helps nurses (and patients) deal with Alzheimer&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/springwise.com\/\">Springwise<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/\">Radiolab<\/a> for passing that on).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems changing the colour of a hospital gown to skin colour significantly helps doctors ability to detect health problems (based on the change of colour of their skin). \u00a0Interesting huh? Read the original here. And along the same lines. The fake bus stop in Germany outside a rest home. \u00a0As Alzheimer&#8217;s patients wander off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[298,601,771,1011,1142,1175,1378],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}