Deans' stroke musings: Information Avoidance

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Monday, March 26, 2018

Information Avoidance

Is this what your doctor is doing to not have to keep up-to-date on all the stroke research out there? My doctor pooh-poohed the information I brought him on Saebo-flex and Henry Hoffman, did absolutely nothing. He was completely worthless. This would be a great thesis project for a neurologist.
https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/docs/loewenstein/InfoAvoidance.pdf

We commonly think of information as a means to an end. However, a growing theo-

retical and experimental literature suggests that information may directly enter the

agent’s utility function. This can create an incentive to avoid information, even when it

is useful, free, and independent of strategic considerations. We review research docu-

menting the occurrence of information avoidance, as well as theoretical and empirical

research on reasons why people avoid information, drawing from economics, psy-

chology, and other disciplines. The review concludes with a discussion of some of the

diverse (and often costly) individual and societal consequences of information avoid-

ance.

(Journal of Economic Literature 2017, 55(1), 96–135

https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20151245

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