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Fox News
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Short questions for Dana Perino on her new book
Dana Perino answers questions on her new book, "I Wish Someone Had Told Me…The Best Advice for Building a Great Career and a Meaningful Life." Why did you write the book? When my mom finished reading "Everything Will Be Okay, — Life Lessons for Young Women from a Former Young Woman," she called me and said, "Wow, I wish someone had told me all of this." She started working in the mid-1960s, when women were really coming into the workforce in droves. They paved the way for so many of us, and now we have lots of different avenues we can take in our careers. (Thank you, ladies! We appreciate all you did for us.) I've found that since I left the White House and started mentoring younger people that the questions don't change that much — but the hunger for more advice and guidance continues to grow. So I decided to refresh my advice in a post-COVID and pre-AI world, and to gather the best advice from the most wonderful group of advisors and mentors I could put together in one book. PHOTO How is this book different from your previous mentoring books? "I Wish Someone Had Told Me" is an updated version of the advice that I've gathered based on experience, and includes interviews with over forty of my friends, loved ones, and colleagues — including my husband, Peter McMahon, my college roommate, Andrea Aragon, and country music star Dierks Bentley, as well as many of my Fox News colleagues. They were very generous with their time, and their suggestions are terrific. There's so much wisdom in their answers to my questions — it opened my eyes to the hard-earned success of the people around me every day. The chapters span the questions of how to decide what you want to do in your career, tried and true ways to get the promotions you want, managing the elusive work-life balance, and focusing on what really matters in your life before you retire, or IF you retire, as my friend Stuart Varney talks about in that chapter. Who is this book for — when you think about your reader, who do you imagine? Whereas my last book was targeted at young women, this book has a much larger audience and isn't specifically targeted at women. I included advice from a wide variety of people so that I could get as many perspectives as possible into the book. I think I'll be a better mentor now that I have put into a one-stop shop so much rich new advice. Here's who I think would benefit from reading "I Wish Someone Had Told Me": — ambitious young people trying to figure out what they want to do and what industry they want to go into — young career enthusiasts going for their first promotion and trying to climb to the next rung on the ladder — solidifying your position in the workforce and achieving that next level of success in management, as an entrepreneur, or on the executive track — new parents who are trying to figure out how to handle the responsibilities of work and family — anyone feeling burned out and wondering about switching careers — managers looking for fresh ways to give guidance to their employees — to help train, encourage, and recruit talent. — those searching for a bigger meaning in their life beyond their career Was there advice you gathered in your interviews that helped you think about things in a different way? I learned so much. Such as how to better handle disappointment and rejection; how to stay curious and be a person that continues to grow, and how to laugh at circumstances instead of getting bogged down by them. In particular, for example, I loved how Martha MacCallum said that when she was working in television and raising her three young children that she didn't let herself think more than three months ahead. That's excellent, practical advice that works for anyone — even those without children (but with a Percy!). I think I'll be a better mentor now that I have put into a one-stop shop so much rich new advice that I can use to inform my thinking. What is the best advice you ever received? That choosing to be loved is not a career-limiting decision. Back in 1997, when I met Peter on an airplane (it happens, I swear!), I was quite worried about what would happen to my career track if I moved to England to marry him — a guy eighteen years my senior who'd been divorced twice before, and someone I'd known for only a few moths. I was way too preoccupied with what others would think of me, how they'd judge me, if I chose to go for it. A family friend pulled me aside that Christmas and asked me what was going on with Peter and me. I explained my hesitation. And she said, "Don't give up on this chance to be loved. It may be your only shot." And boy was she right. And making that decision turned out to be the very best one of my life. Twenty-eight years later we are still together, and we pinch ourselves every day that we came so close to not meeting that day. I almost missed that flight, and Peter nearly took an earlier one. That we were assigned seats next to each other was a gift from God that we can never repay. The best we can do is pass on this advice to everyone — choosing to be loved helped make my career possible. Without him, I wouldn't have accomplished what I have so far — and nothing I'd have done would have mattered at all if I didn't have him to share it with me. What do you wish someone had told you? I wish someone had told me that I didn't have to worry my twenties away — that, as an educated American woman, I had already won life's great lottery. Worry was a waste of time and my greatest hope is that readers will take away some practical tips that they can apply to their lives to ensure that they're getting the most out of their time on earth. It goes so fast — and I'd buy anyone's minutes if I could. Since that's impossible, I'm just determined to make the most of the time I have here with all of you.
Fox News
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
‘I Wish Someone Had Told Me...The Best Advice for Building a Great Career and a Meaningful Life' out April 22
Why did you write the book? When my mom finished reading Everything Will Be Okay, — Life Lessons for Young Women from a Former Young Woman, she called me and said, "Wow, I wish someone had told me all of this." She started working in the mid-1960s, when women were really coming into the workforce in droves. They paved the way for so many of us, and now we have lots of different avenues we can take in our careers. (Thank you, ladies! We appreciate all you did for us. I've found that since I left the White House and started mentoring younger people that the questions don't change that much - but the hunger for more advice and guidance continues to grow. So, I decided to refresh my advice in a post-Covid and pre-AI world, and to gather the best advice from the most wonderful group of advisors and mentors I could put together in one book. How is this book different from your previous mentoring books? I Wish Someone Had Told Me is an updated version of the advice that I've gathered based on experience, and includes interviews with over forty of my friends, loved ones, and colleagues — including my husband, Peter McMahon, my college roommate, Andrea Aragon, and country music star Dierks Bentley, as well as many of my Fox News colleagues. They were very generous with their time — and their suggestions are terrific. There's so much wisdom in their answers to my questions — it opened my eyes to the hard-earned success of the people around me every day. The chapters span the questions of how to decide what you want to do in your career, tried and true ways to get the promotions you want, managing the elusive work-life balance, and focusing what really matters in your life before you retire, or IF you retire, as my friend Stuart Varney talks about in that chapter. Who is this book for — when you think about your reader, who do you imagine? Whereas my last book was targeted to young women, this book has a much larger audience and isn't specifically targeted to women. I included advice from a wide variety of people so that I could get as many perspectives as possible into the book.I think I'll be a better mentor now that I have put into a one-stop shop so much rich new advice. Here's who I think would benefit from reading I Wish Someone Had Told Me: — ambitious young people trying to figure out what they want to do and what industry they want to go into — young career enthusiasts going for their first promotion and trying to climb to the next rung on the ladder — solidifying your position in the workforce and achieving that next level of success in management, as an entrepreneur or on the executive track — new parents who are trying to figure out how to handle the responsibilities of work and family — anyone feeling burned out and wondering about switching careers — managers looking for fresh ways to give guidance to their employees — to help train, encourage, and recruit talent. — those searching for a bigger meaning in their life beyond their career Was there advice you gathered in your interviews that helped you think about things in a different way? I learned so much. Such as how to better handle disappointment and rejection; how to stay curious and be a person that continues to grow, and how to laugh at circumstances instead of getting bogged down by them. In particular, for example, I loved how Martha MacCallum said that when she was working in television and raising her three young children that she didn't let herself think more than three months ahead. That's excellent, practical advice, that works for anyone — even those without children (but with a Percy!). I think I'll be a better mentor now that I have put into a one-stop shop so much rich new advice that I can use to inform my thinking. What is the best advice you ever received? That choosing to be loved is not a career limiting decision. Back in 1997 when I met Peter on an airplane (it happens, I swear!), I was quite worried about what would happen to my career track if I moved to England to marry him — a guy eighteen years my senior who'd been divorced twice before, and someone I'd known for only a few moths. I was way too preoccupied with what others would think of me, how they'd judge me, if I chose to go for it. A family friend pulled me aside that Christmas and asked me what was going on with Peter and me. I explained my hesitation. And she said, "Don't give up on this chance to be loved. It may be your only shot." And boy was she right. And making that decision turned out to be the very best one of my life. Twenty-eight years later, we are still together, and we pinch ourselves every day that we came so close to not meeting that day. I almost missed that flight, and Peter nearly took an earlier one. That we were assigned seats next to each other was a gift from God that we can never repay. The best we can do is pass on this advice to everyone — choosing to be loved helped make my career possible. Without him, I wouldn't have accomplished what I have so far — and nothing I'd have done would have mattered at all if I didn't have him to share it with me. What do you wish someone had told you? I wish someone had told me that I didn't have to worry my twenties away — that as an educated American woman I had already won life's great lottery. Worry was a waste of time, and my greatest hope is that readers will take away some practical tips that they can apply to their lives to ensure that they're getting the most out of their time on earth. It goes so fast — and I'd buy anyone's minutes if I could. Since that's impossible, I'm just determined to make the most of the time I have here with all of you.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Can AI help modernise Ireland's healthcare system?
For a country famous as Big Tech's European address, Ireland's hospitals often lag far behind in technology. They lack shared computerised patient records, or unique identifiers to track people when they move between clinics. In July 2024, a computer system failure made Dublin's Mater hospital push back surgeries and beg people not to come to its A&E. Three years before, Russian ransomware attackers shut down the Irish health system's entire computer network, and published 520 people's medical records online. But Ireland now has ambitious goals to modernise its healthcare. That includes a programme called Sláintecare. Announced in 2017, the plan is to use some of its €22.9bn (£20bn; $24bn) budget surplus to create a healthcare service that is free at the point of care, like the UK's or Canada's. To improve healthcare, pinch points like diagnostics will have to be improved. It's a problem being tackled at Dublin's Mater hospital, 164-years-old and the location of Ireland's busiest emergency department. That's especially so in winter, when one day early this January Irish A&E departments had 444 people on trolleys waiting to be seen. "In Ireland, the big problem we have is waiting lists, and in particular waiting for diagnostics, for MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] or CT [computed tomography] scans," says Prof Peter McMahon, a consultant radiologist at the Mater. Because of Prof MacMahon, who as a medical student dabbled as a hobbyist programmer, the Mater is now among the first hospitals in Ireland to use artificial intelligence (AI) across its radiology department - the part of a hospital providing medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide treatment. To make sure patients with the most urgent needs are seen first, Prof MacMahon says: "We use AI to immediately analyse all head scans for bleeds, all chest scans for blood clots, and all bone x-rays for fractures." The AI is particularly helpful in assisting younger doctors, when they don't have experienced consultants to turn to. "Now a nurse or junior doctor at 2am isn't alone, they've got a wing man," he says. Rural hospitals face different kinds of challenges. Letterkenny University Hospital in Donegal is without MRI facilities at evenings and weekends. Currently, a patient urgently needing an MRI scan at night can face an ambulance ride to Dublin. But now, Prof MacMahon and the Mater's AI research fellow Paul Banahan have trained a trial AI model to create a "synthetic MRI" from CT scans, to immediately triage patients with suspected spinal injuries. That was done by feeding a "generative AI" model around 9,500 pairs of CT and MRI images of the same area on the same person. Now the AI can predict what the MRI scan would look like from the CT scan, something available in all emergency departments. And since radiology scans also come with doctors' text reports, he is also exploring using large language models to identify important disease patterns and trends. Applying AI to medical images in Ireland is easier since the country has stored scans in a central, digital filing system since 2008. But a lot of other important information, like medical notes or electrocardiograms (ECGs), remains largely in paper format in most Irish hospitals, or in smaller databases that are not shared centrally. That will "severely delay" applying AI to spot potential diseases and improve clinical care, points out Prof MacMahon. Ageing IT systems in Irish healthcare are more broadly a challenge. "Quite bluntly, a lot of hospitals are dealing with legacy IT systems where they're just trying to keep the show on the road," says Dr Robert Ross, a senior computer science lecturer at Technological University Dublin. "Doing anything else like integrating AI is not easy to do," he says. Using AI in healthcare is not without problems. An example here is AI speech-recognition tools. Using them could let doctors spend less time on note-taking and report writing. But some have been found to make things up, including to invent non-existent medication. To prevent such AI from hallucinating, "you need to make sure it's penalised in its training, if it gives you something that doesn't exist," says Prof MacMahon. AIs can have biases, but "humans have biases too", he points out. A tired doctor, expecting a young patient to be healthy, can overlook their blood clot. "For whatever reason we're far more open to accept human error", than in new health technology where "the acceptable risk is zero", says Prof Seán Kennelly, a consultant at Tallaght University Hospital and professor at Trinity College Dublin. This means we "continue with the illusion of 100% accuracy in humans", and ignore areas where AI-supported technology can make better clinical decisions, he says. Healthcare regulators, who already have a "weak enough" understanding of software as a medical device, haven't at all caught up with rules for AI, says Dr Aidan Boran, founder of an Irish medical tech start-up called Digital Gait Labs, and a researcher at Dublin City University. For example, getting a CE mark, which shows that a medical device meets EU safety regulations, includes providing details about the factory where the product is manufactured. But in the case of software that is not relevant says Dr Boran. "For us, manufacturing literally means copying software," he points out. AI can have a black box problem: we can see what goes in them and what comes out, but the deep learning systems that power these models are so complex that even their creators do not understand exactly what happens inside them. That can create difficulties for a doctor trying to explain treatment decisions that involve AI, says Dr Paul Gilligan, head of St Patrick's Mental Health Services, one of Ireland's largest mental health providers that runs St Patrick's Hospital in Dublin. When AI influences their decisions, doctors need to "be able to articulate the reasoning behind those decisions in a manner that is accessible and understandable to those affected," he says. Countries compete to keep skilled young workers Hair: 'It's just thrown away but it's gold' Scientists work on 'superhuman' vision systems for robots
BBC News
28-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Can AI help modernise Ireland's healthcare system?
For a country famous as Big Tech's European address, Ireland's hospitals often lag far behind in lack shared computerised patient records, or unique identifiers to track people when they move between July 2024, a computer system failure made Dublin's Mater hospital push back surgeries and beg people not to come to its A& years before, Russian ransomware attackers shut down the Irish health system's entire computer network, and published 520 people's medical records Ireland now has ambitious goals to modernise its includes a programme called Sláintecare. Announced in 2017, the plan is to use some of its €22.9bn (£20bn; $24bn) budget surplus to create a healthcare service that is free at the point of care, like the UK's or Canada's. To improve healthcare, pinch points like diagnostics will have to be a problem being tackled at Dublin's Mater hospital, 164-years-old and the location of Ireland's busiest emergency especially so in winter, when one day early this January Irish A&E departments had 444 people on trolleys waiting to be seen."In Ireland, the big problem we have is waiting lists, and in particular waiting for diagnostics, for MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] or CT [computed tomography] scans," says Prof Peter McMahon, a consultant radiologist at the of Prof MacMahon, who as a medical student dabbled as a hobbyist programmer, the Mater is now among the first hospitals in Ireland to use artificial intelligence (AI) across its radiology department - the part of a hospital providing medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide make sure patients with the most urgent needs are seen first, Prof MacMahon says: "We use AI to immediately analyse all head scans for bleeds, all chest scans for blood clots, and all bone x-rays for fractures."The AI is particularly helpful in assisting younger doctors, when they don't have experienced consultants to turn to."Now a nurse or junior doctor at 2am isn't alone, they've got a wing man," he says. Rural hospitals face different kinds of University Hospital in Donegal is without MRI facilities at evenings and a patient urgently needing an MRI scan at night can face an ambulance ride to now, Prof MacMahon and the Mater's AI research fellow Paul Banahan have trained a trial AI model to create a "synthetic MRI" from CT scans, to immediately triage patients with suspected spinal was done by feeding a "generative AI" model around 9,500 pairs of CT and MRI images of the same area on the same the AI can predict what the MRI scan would look like from the CT scan, something available in all emergency since radiology scans also come with doctors' text reports, he is also exploring using large language models to identify important disease patterns and trends. Applying AI to medical images in Ireland is easier since the country has stored scans in a central, digital filing system since a lot of other important information, like medical notes or electrocardiograms (ECGs), remains largely in paper format in most Irish hospitals, or in smaller databases that are not shared will "severely delay" applying AI to spot potential diseases and improve clinical care, points out Prof IT systems in Irish healthcare are more broadly a challenge."Quite bluntly, a lot of hospitals are dealing with legacy IT systems where they're just trying to keep the show on the road," says Dr Robert Ross, a senior computer science lecturer at Technological University Dublin."Doing anything else like integrating AI is not easy to do," he says. Using AI in healthcare is not without example here is AI speech-recognition tools. Using them could let doctors spend less time on note-taking and report some have been found to make things up, including to invent non-existent medication. To prevent such AI from hallucinating, "you need to make sure it's penalised in its training, if it gives you something that doesn't exist," says Prof can have biases, but "humans have biases too", he points out.A tired doctor, expecting a young patient to be healthy, can overlook their blood clot."For whatever reason we're far more open to accept human error", than in new health technology where "the acceptable risk is zero", says Prof Seán Kennelly, a consultant at Tallaght University Hospital and professor at Trinity College means we "continue with the illusion of 100% accuracy in humans", and ignore areas where AI-supported technology can make better clinical decisions, he says. Healthcare regulators, who already have a "weak enough" understanding of software as a medical device, haven't at all caught up with rules for AI, says Dr Aidan Boran, founder of an Irish medical tech start-up called Digital Gait Labs, and a researcher at Dublin City example, getting a CE mark, which shows that a medical device meets EU safety regulations, includes providing details about the factory where the product is in the case of software that is not relevant says Dr Boran. "For us, manufacturing literally means copying software," he points can have a black box problem: we can see what goes in them and what comes out, but the deep learning systems that power these models are so complex that even their creators do not understand exactly what happens inside can create difficulties for a doctor trying to explain treatment decisions that involve AI, says Dr Paul Gilligan, head of St Patrick's Mental Health Services, one of Ireland's largest mental health providers that runs St Patrick's Hospital in AI influences their decisions, doctors need to "be able to articulate the reasoning behind those decisions in a manner that is accessible and understandable to those affected," he says.
