"A disembodied voice over the telephone": a qualitative study of healthcare practitioners' experiences in geriatric medicine.

Objectives: This study explored the experience of delivering care remotely among practitioners in a UK geriatric medicine clinic.

Methods: Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with consultants (n = 5), nurses (n = 2), a speech and language and an occupational therapist, and thematically analysed.

Results: Four themes developed; Challenges of remote consultations; Perceived advantages of remote consultations; Disruption of involvement of family members; Impact on care staff.

Cosmic Bell Test: Measurement Settings from Milky Way Stars.

Bell's theorem states that some predictions of quantum mechanics cannot be reproduced by a local-realist theory. That conflict is expressed by Bell's inequality, which is usually derived under the assumption that there are no statistical correlations between the choices of measurement settings and anything else that can causally affect the measurement outcomes. In previous experiments, this "freedom of choice" was addressed by ensuring that selection of measurement settings via conventional "quantum random number generators" was spacelike separated from the entangled particle creation.