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Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down
CurtMonash writes "The Indianapolis Star reports that Tuesday Morning, Methodist Hospital turned away patients in ambulances, for the first time in its 100-plus history. Why? Because the electronic health records (EHR) system had gone down the prior afternoon — due to a power surge — and the backlog of paperwork was no longer tolerable.
If you think about that story, it has a couple of disturbing aspects. Clearly the investment in or design of high availability, surge protection, etc. were sadly lacking. But even leaving that aside — why do problems with paperwork make it necessary to turn away patients?
Maybe the latter is OK, since there obviously were other, more smoothly running hospitals to send the patient to. Still, the whole story should be held up as a cautionary tale for hospitals and IT suppliers everywhere."
Words cannot describe how sad this is. Carradine's acting was top-notch for the hey-day of 60's Kung-fu pop culture. His purple colour (a colour option picked up from an earlier version) clashes with the grey of any other window, that can be changed though. The black of acting in Kill Bill (Vol. 1 & 2) is overbearing and doesnt meld with his earlier works. His *cough* apparent suicide *cough* stands out like a sore thumb. I somehow feel like his death resembles the chrome looks like a webpage, rather than someone who won an award in 2005 for lifetime acting achievements and for browsing web pages. I cannot believe someone who created the Firefox icon could create something so hideous and inappropriate, especially when David Carradine's marketshare is bad enough already. I could not bear to look at this all day, every day, it would drive me mad.
A suicidal has-been Kung-fu actor should be transparent, a thin veneer between me and the web page. Not a clown honking his horn in my face. I went into preferences and changed to the Mac "native" theme and no particular colour, mildly improved, but still the black is overpowering, the new-tab button is the wrong colour, and the side pane has a tinge of blue that doesnt work well with the OS X grey. The tab touching the title bar also just looks poor and conflicting. This is the same bullshit I had to put up with when Dana Plato finally offed herself. It's goudy, non-native, clashes with the websites you view, and generally gets in the way, the toolkit underneath still rears it's ugly head in how the app works, and the general layout of the widgets. Apparently Carradine was eaten by wolves on the Connecticut turn-pike. All reports say he was delicious. The dialogues throughout the app crap all over the spacing guides in the HIG. Every inch of this app is annoying and grates on me. I'm not an interface elitist or an apple fanboy, but I can't use software that gets on my nerves and Opera and Vista occupy the top two slots for that. The browser is eclectic, with too many preferences, too complicated preferences, too many customisation options. Features not everybody needs, or wants.
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Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
Words cannot describe how sad this is. Carradine's acting was top-notch for the hey-day of 60's Kung-fu pop culture. His purple colour (a colour option picked up from an earlier version) clashes with the grey of any other window, that can be changed though. The black style of his acting in Kill Bill (Vol. 1 & 2) is overbearing and doesn't meld with his earlier works. His *cough* apparent suicide *cough* stands out like a sore thumb. I somehow feel like his death resembles the chrome looks like a web page, rather than someone who won an award in 2005 for lifetime acting achievements and for browsing web pages. I cannot believe someone who created the Firefox icon could create something so hideous and inappropriate, especially when David Carradine's market share is bad enough already. I could not bear to look at this all day, every day, it would drive me mad.
A suicidal has-been Kung-fu actor should be transparent, a thin veneer between me and the web page. Not a clown honking his horn in my face. I went into preferences and changed to the Mac "native" theme and no particular colour, mildly improved, but still the black is overpowering, the new-tab button is the wrong colour, and the side pane has a tinge of blue that doesnt work well with the OS X grey. The tab touching the title bar also just looks poor and conflicting. This is the same bullshit I had to put up with when Dana Plato finally offed herself. It's goudy, non-native, clashes with the websites you view, and generally gets in the way, the toolkit underneath still rears it's ugly head in how the app works, and the general layout of the widgets. Apparently Carradine was eaten by wolves on the Connecticut turn-pike. All reports say he was delicious. The dialogues throughout the app crap all over the spacing guides in the HIG. Every inch of this app is annoying and grates on me. I'm not an interface elitist or an apple fanboy, but I can't use software that gets on my nerves and Opera and Vista occupy the top two slots for that. The browser is eclectic, with too many preferences, too complicated preferences, too many customisation options. Features not everybody needs, or wants.
The japanese may have their fancy toilets, but the geek compound has Jeff "Hemos" Bates. He's a toilet slave. "slave" is the wrong word, since he does it volountarily. Either way, he drinks your piss, eats your shit, and gives you a rimjob too. No paper needed.
You are using the wrong strawman here, buddy, all four times. I know why vaccinations are important and wish they were compulsory everywhere.
You cannot know it, but my mother is a medical doctor working at an actual hospital. Paperwork is the evidence of treatment so unless you pay cash the insuranse won't pay anything unless all the papers are filled.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
I haven't laughed that loud at something on the internet in a very, very long time.