What a week! In our immediate area, we have been nearly blown apart by the 70 plus mph winds in our neck of the woods. I was reminded again of “the good old days” without electricity and of the fact that, indeed, as independent as we view ourselves, we are not “in charge” of our lives.
We have passed the midpoint of the Legislative session and in the next week will complete the public hearing process and move to all day floor debate for the rest of the session.
Over one hundred years ago, the gold mining industry of South Africa had a problem: too many workers were dying from pneumonia. They turned to Dr. Almorth Wright, a British physician who had successfully created a vaccine against typhoid fever that saved countless lives of British soldiers in World War I and other wars. Wright and his colleagues developed an inoculation of killed pneumococci bacteria which resulted in a substantial reduction of cases of pneumonia and death in the miners.
Nebraska farmers and ranchers produce the safest and most abundant food supply in the world. Agricultural inputs have further increased efficiency, improved resiliency to disease and drought, and reduced impacts on the environment. Nebraska producers have led the way on all those fronts. They feed and fuel the world. This week, I introduced bipartisan legislation to secure our food and agricultural supply chains.
We are approaching the midpoint of the Legislative session and the time for Senators, Committees and the Speaker to designate their priority bills has expired.
Effective medical diagnosis depends not just on looking, but on truly perceiving. Recognizing this, many medical training programs have adopted Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) discussions about art to enhance students’ skills in nuanced observation, inference, and communication. In 2004, Harvard Medical School pioneered use of VTS within medical education to refine the diagnostic and interpersonal skills of future healthcare professionals. Now, VTS is embraced in over 30 medical schools.
