"Sounds like the goddamn Spanish Inquisition if you ask me!" - Bones McCoy on 20th century medical practices
We do what we gotta, and sometimes there are no good choices. When we learn about potentially better ones, we try those too. I'm glad that more cognitive brain training choices are showing promise, and I hope that works out for him.
I don't know if the AX was hearing the thing this morning, but the thing I heard this morning was talking about the utter unrealism of trying to get a game certified by the FDA, which tends to be about a 4 year process for drugs or medical equipment.
My immediate thought was that what they needed to do was start building up a body of evidence on *existing* games, with an eye toward getting a class of game features identified as therapeutic so that new games would just have to go through a much shorter "yes, game meets therapeutic criteria" process.
(Meanwhile, I made the decision last Friday not to do chemo because if the percent chance of later cancer happens, I'd rather do *next* decade's chemo, thanks.)
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We do what we gotta, and sometimes there are no good choices. When we learn about potentially better ones, we try those too. I'm glad that more cognitive brain training choices are showing promise, and I hope that works out for him.
I don't know if the AX was hearing the thing this morning, but the thing I heard this morning was talking about the utter unrealism of trying to get a game certified by the FDA, which tends to be about a 4 year process for drugs or medical equipment.
My immediate thought was that what they needed to do was start building up a body of evidence on *existing* games, with an eye toward getting a class of game features identified as therapeutic so that new games would just have to go through a much shorter "yes, game meets therapeutic criteria" process.
(Meanwhile, I made the decision last Friday not to do chemo because if the percent chance of later cancer happens, I'd rather do *next* decade's chemo, thanks.)