The report by Martinez-Motta and colleagues [ 1] that appears in this issue of Critical Care illustrates that adoption of some useful applications of computer technology may run counter to ingrained behaviors that are conditioned by human nature.
I have a deeply ingrained fear of vigorous movement (conditioned by school PE lessons) and I really, really like smoking.
Her ideas are conditioned as well by an ingrained sense of fairness.
The recourse to cruelty, personal, communal and international, seems ingrained in the human condition.
That fact will serve as an experience for that nurse…", (N 6/ YE: 29) In the following story, the nurse also shows knowledge of the team which enables her to distinguish the ingrained prejudices that can condition good practices.
Suspicion of outsiders, of people who behave or worship differently, may be an ingrained element of the human condition, a survival instinct from our cave-man days.
But what they all have in common is an abiding fascination with films and film genres, a high degree of violence, a good deal of blood-letting, an acute ear for language (often as a means of evasion), and an ingrained pessimism about the human condition.
"So we've had some really successful, potential change, led by people with mental-health conditions, but inevitably it's still deeply ingrained in our culture and it takes a lot of work to change those misconceptions.
Higher levels of communication, guidance and familiarity with behaviour change techniques by physicians may be necessary to overcome patient factors such as denial; poor understanding of the condition, and treatment; the limitations of alternative medicine and religious beliefs; ingrained habits and fears; and lack of time management skills necessary for appropriate exercise and food preparation.
In fact, it seems clear that so deeply ingrained are the evolutionary products of group selected behaviors, so completely a part of the human condition, that we are prone to regard them as fixtures of nature, like air and water.
