CAUSTON HEALTH CENTRE PATIENT INFORMATION LEAFLET
Appointments
Please telephone 826969 (8:30 am-5:00 pm: Mon-Fri). We suggest that you try to see the same doctor whenever possible because it is helpful for both you and your doctor to know each other well. We try hard to keep our appointments running to time, and ask you to be punctual to help us achieve this; if you cannot keep an appointment, please phone in and let us know as soon as possible so that it can be used for someone else. Please try to avoid evening appointments if possible. Each appointment is for one person only. Please ask for a longer appointment if you need more time.
Centre Nurses
Liz Stuart, Martina Scott, Megan Fox and Helen Stranger are available daily by appointment to help you with dressings, ear syringing, children's immunizations, removal of stitches and blood tests. They will also advise on foreign travel and can administer various injections and blood pressure checks. For any over 75s unable to attend the clinic, Helen Stranger will make a home visit. All four Centre nurses are available during normal working hours to carry out health checks on patients who have been on doctors' lists for 3 years.
New Patients
Within 3 months of registering with the Centre, new patients on regular medication are invited to attend a health check with their doctor. Other patients can arrange to be seen by one of the Centre nurses.
Receptionists
Our receptionists provide your primary point of contact—they are all very experienced and have a lot of basic information at their fingertips. They will be able to answer many of your initial queries and also act as a link with the rest of the team. They may request brief details of your symptoms or illness—this enables the doctors to assess the degree of urgency.
Like almost all new parents, Bryan and Elizabeth Shaw started snapping pictures of their son, Noah, from the moment he was born.
When he was about three months old, Elizabeth noticed something odd when taking his picture. The flash on their camera created the typical red dot in the center of Noah's left eye, but the right eye had a white spot at the center, almost as if the flash were being reflected back at the camera by something. When Elizabeth mentioned it to their doctor, she shined a light into Noah's eye, and saw the same white reflection. She realized there was something wrong and arranged for a complete examination for Noah right away. As the result showed, a white reflection is a telltale sign of retinal cancer and that was exactly what Noah had. He endured months of painful treatments, but doctors ultimately could not save his eye.
However, Noah's condition was treatable if caught early. Bryan Shaw couldn't help but wonder whether there were signs he'd missed. He went back over every picture of Noah and discovered the first white spot in a photo taken when Noah was 12 days old. As time went on, it appeared more frequently. Bryan, a chemistry professor found by the time Noah was four months old, it appeared in approximately 25 percent of the pictures taken of him.
It was too late for Noah's eye, but Bryan was bent on putting his hard-won insights to good use. He created a database that charted the cancer's appearance in every photo. He also collected photos and data from eight other children with the same condition. Armed with the data, he began to work with colleagues to develop an app that can scan the photos in the user's camera roll to search for white eye and can be used as a kind of ophthalmoscope (检眼镜): White Eye Detector, and it is now available for free on Google Play and in Apple's App Store.
"I just kept telling myself, I really need to do this." Bryan told the interviewer. "This disease is tough to detect. Not only can this software save vision, but it can save lives."
In a world of music streaming services, access to almost any song is just a few clicks away. Yet, the live concert lives on. People still fill sweaty basements, muddy fields and grand concert halls to hear their favorite musicians play. And now neuroscientists might know why: live music engages the brain's emotion centres more than the recorded track.
Concerts are immersive social experiences in which people listen to and feel the music together. They are also dynamic—artists can adapt their playing according to the crowd's reaction. It was this last difference that led neuroscientists, based at the Universities of Zurich and Oslo, to study the brain responses of people listening to music.
A total of 160 people were recruited as volunteers and the scientists divided them into two groups randomly. In the "live" experiment, participants lay in an MRI scanner listening to the music through earphones, while a pianist was positioned outside the room. The pianist was shown the participant's real-time brain activity as a form of feedback. In the recorded condition, participants listened to pre-recorded versions of the same tunes.
The scientists were interested in how live music affected the areas of the brain that process emotions. In the live condition pianists were instructed to try and adjust their playing in order to drive the activity in one of these regions known as the amygdala (杏仁体), an almond-shaped area deep inside the brain.
The results, just published in the journal PNAS, showed that live music had far more emotional impact. Whether the music was happy or sad, listening to the pianist playing in a dynamic way led to more activity in both the amygdala and other parts of the brain's emotion processing network. The researchers also found that participants' brain activity tracked the acoustic (声音的) features of the music, like tempo and pitch, far more closely when it was played live.
Bird watchers get nervous when they see wind turbines (风力涡轮机) are never a rare sight nationwide. When the wind gets going, their blades can turn around at over 200km per hour. It is easy to imagine careless birds getting cut to bits. Campaigners often point to the possibility when trying to stop the building of new wind farms.
No one doubts that wind turbines do indeed kill at least some birds. But a new analysis of American data, published in Environmental Science & Technology, suggests the numbers are very small, and have little impact on bird population.
Wind power has expanded dramatically in America over the past 20 years. Many studies have analysed the effects in specific locations or on specific bird species. But few have looked at the effects on wildlife at the population level. Dr. Erik Katovich, an economist at the University of Geneva, made use of the Christmas Bird Count, a citizen- science project run by the National Audubon Society, an American non-profit organization. Volunteers count birds they spot over Christmas, and the society brings together the numbers and has kept the records for about a century.
Dr. Katovich assumed reasonably that if wind turbines harmed bird population, then the numbers seen in the Christmas Bird Count would drop in places where new turbines had been built. He combined bird population and species maps with the locations and construction dates of all wind turbines in the United States between 2000 and 2020. He found that building turbines had no noticeable effect on bird population. That finding held true even when he looked specifically at large birds like hawks, and eagles that many people believe are particularly likely to be struck.
"Wind power not only produces much less planet-heating carbon dioxide and methane than fossil fuels. It appears to be far less damaging to wildlife, too. Yet that is not the impression you would get from reading the news," said Dr. Katovich, "In 2020 alone, there were 173 stories in major American news agencies reporting the negative effects that wind turbines had on birds. The fact is, wind turbines might look dramatic. But their effect on birds is not."
Your Path to Emotional Maturity
Emotions play a critical part in life. In order to grow and be better than before, you must learn to be emotionally intelligent. Let's explore some powerful strategies to help you become emotionally mature!
Try using"I" statements
Whenever you feel hurt, you need to tell others your feelings in a considerate way. The best way to do this is by using "I" statements instead of "You" statements. For example, you should use the statement: "I feel miserable and heartbroken" instead of "You make me feel miserable and heartbroken".
Own your feelings
If you want to change yourself, start with taking ownership of your feelings. However, in some situations, instead of owning your feelings, you tend to deflect (转移) them and make others feel guilty about how you are feeling. Embrace them as a part of yourself because they are a part of you, right?
People interact with us like we are mind readers sometimes; this happens mostly in relationships. Your partner would want you to know exactly what they want and when they want it; this can be extremely annoying. Just as you aren't a mind reader, others aren't either. You need to share your needs with the other person, and they need to do the same with you.
Mind your actions and words
Often, you say a lot when you are emotional, especially when you are angry. You need to mind whatever you say and do; this can either make the other person love or hate you. The strategy in a stressful situation is to focus on yourself instead of focusing on others; this will calm you down instantly.
Always question your thoughts
Actions and words have the same importance; this is what I need you to understand. In some situations, your loved ones could be hurting you through their words or their actions, and you could also be wrong. What happens in more than 70% of situations is that you let negative thoughts take hold of you; this is completely wrong.
A．Attempt to be mind readers.
B．Communicate your needs.
C．You'd better not let negative thoughts question your judgment.
D．Thus, rather than dump them on others, learn to take charge of your feelings.
E．The approach is non-aggressive and describes you as emotionally mature.
F．If not controlled, it can have severe consequences, especially in your relationship.
G．Let's say that you get into a fight with your partner, and you also get hurt.
Micro-dramas are short web series which usually last only a few minutes or even no longer than 60 seconds. They have been gathering 1 in recent years mostly through online platforms like WeChat mini-programs. 2 the brevity of these mini-dramas, viewers don't have to waste much energy and time, consequently leading to a pleasurable viewing experience. Their easy 3 allows people to enjoy the content anywhere they like, from public transportation to elevators.
Mini-dramas have won hearts of younger audiences due to their 4 storytelling and surprising plot developments, which make them perfectly 5 young people's busy lives. According to several 6 of mini-dramas, a key reason behind the popularity of their shows is that people who experience stress in real life may find a kind of 7 release in the conflicts in these stories, such as successfully taking revenge by gaining superpower or having great wealth.
These producers also 8 that about 90 percent of the mini-dramas in the market are 9 from web novels, which are rich in plot twists and conflicts to get readers 10 .
Mini-dramas' success can be 11 to the growing habit of watching short videos in China. Data shows that more than 1 billion Chinese online users spent an average of 2.5 hours daily watching short video content in 2022.
12 , mini-dramas are not problem-free; quite a few of them include violence, emotional manipulation and other 13 content in the hope of obtaining higher 14 and viewership. As of March 2024, over 36,000 "vulgar and harmful" mini-dramas were 15 from online platforms and the National Radio and Television Administration claimed to enhance the monitoring of the creation and distribution of mini-drams in the future.
The jade pig-dragon, a specific type of jade artifact (originate) from Hongshan culture, is regarded as the (early) prototype (原型) of the loong. Although its purpose remains unclear, there is a widespread belief that the jade pig-dragon might have played a significant role in religious ceremonies.
The Hongshan culture was mainly found in the southeastern part of is now the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, showcasing a renowned Neolithic (新石器时代的) culture in northern China dating back 5,000 to 6,500 years ago. its distinguishing features is the use of jade artifacts.
Jade pig-dragons have one two round holes on their backs, possibly for attaching decorations or strings for suspension, and the likelihood of them (use) as decorations is significant. However, larger jade pig-dragons with a height over 15 centimeters are considered (practical) for wearing due to their weight. Therefore, many scholars believe that the jade pig-dragon is not merely a decoration. rather a sacred object, representing a symbol respected by the Hongshan culture ancestors.
So far, in addition to the jade pig-dragon, other jade artifacts such as the jade bird- dragon and the jade fish-dragon (unearth) from sites linked to the Hongshan culture, reflecting the early (settler) understanding of life within the natural process.
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Operas Go Into Campuses
Hope Is Ever Ready to Arise
Joe Spring, an adventurous boy full of love for life, was packing his bright red car for a friend's graduation party. However, his parents had tried their best to persuade him to take the bus instead. "It's along trip, and you might have ear troubles." they said. Joe was convinced that he would be fine. After several failed persuasions. they hugged Joe good-bye, and off he went.
Two days later. The Springs were becoming increasingly alarmed because their son had not called home. At first the Springs thought he had simply driven a hitchhiker to his destination. But as time passed, the Springs' alarm took on a desperate tone. They contacted the police. also the local TV station aired Joe's picture and story. and the local paper ran a front-page photo and coverage.
Every day, The Springs drove and even walked sections of the highway that Joe had driven—looking for anything that might show them where Joe was. They even handed out posters to all detachments along the route Joe might have travelled. Desperately as they tried, they were also aware Joe might not be alive. "But we won't give up easily. we must find him, even if..." the couple later told the reporter.
The police believed that Joe's car might have had an accident, leaving it just off the highway and only visible from the air. So Jodeen, a search helicopter pilot was posted to help the search. On receiving the task, Jodeen was piloting the helicopter over the dense forest alongside the highway. It had now been eight days since Joe disappeared. Most people would have quit. Jodeen, however, was persistent. "I must find that kid. I can find him."
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However, the search didn't proceed smoothly.
……
Jodeen dashed towards the car immediately.
