I'm surprised by this. CPR is a dangerous procedure for the rescuer. In the era of HIV, Hepatitis B, tuberculosis etc mouth to mouth resuscitation or even less intimate physical contact with a victim who is covered in bodily fluids (froth from pulmonary edema, urine) or blood is very dangerous. It should be ok to do chest compressions but mouth to mouth is a definite NO without a proper one way valve device to protect the rescuer. Chest compressions are dangerous if someone is covered in blood or bodily fluids. Get a scratch while performing CPR on the asphalt? Enjoy your HIV.
Honestly, these laws are ridiculous if not illegal.
Definately where in the country where I live, as a doctor, I am under NO OBLIGATION whatsoever to help anyone if my life may be put in danger by the action. That includes not having protective equipment (N95 mask for TB, goggles, gloves, ambu bag etc).
The right tool for the job, I guess. I have a 2006 Mac Pro and use it for Final Cut Pro work. I have a 2008 Panasonic Let's Note (probably the best built consumer laptop out there, better than MBP)
for email/www and a NEC VersaPro UltraLite for portability (it's 700g in weight, has a Toshiba SSD and can be dropped 78cm or packed with 150kg of luggage without problems).
The right tool for the job. I guess I'm a Mac Pro/Panasonic Toughbook/NEC netbook fanboy - but these devices work best for me. The right tool for the job, I guess. To each their own without any false allusions to user superiority or whatnot. MacOSX does have benefits because it is easier to use than Windows. I grew up on Windows 3 and OSX was way easier to learn as an adult.
If only Apple got NEC or Panasonic to build their notebooks in Osaka for them, that would make the ultimate notebook.:-)
You can't compare the low class humour of The Daily Show to Monty Python skits which require more knowledge and abstract thinking than merely knowing what's going in petty party politics in the US.
Very cruel, I agree.
However, I would not say that the pain of vivisection is any worse or better than the pain brought on by burn wounds of various degrees, radiation poisoning and emotional anguish at the sight of loss of your family and loved ones especially parents seeing young children die or suffer. If anything, anyone being dissected will likely pass out early on but victims of nuclear bombings often survived for days.
Yes there was a purpose to those nuke bombings and other allied bombings of civilians, to end the war as soon as possible, but in the eyes of the Japanese who conducted the atrocities there had to be a purpose for that as well - pacifying the population or whatever other outrageous reason they came up with. Certainly one could also say that an officer raised in the Bushido culture would have a different take than one raised in a Christian one when confronted with orders to kill women and children. In the same way for example, Polish Home Army units did not engage German civilians or families of collaborators, even though the war had been lost for them already. They were more desperate then the guys who ordered bombings of civilians. They executed traitors, SS commanders and performed other sabotage operations but German civilians were not targeted.
No, I'm not saying that the guys who dropped bombs on civilians should be prosecuted or anything such, just pointing out that everything is a shade of grey.
That's when the Church got into politics and secular rule. Crusades were about that for example. Let's also keep in mind that the Inquisition killed far fewer people than Protestant English propaganda originally sowed and that often the religious courts gave non-capital sentences while secular ones executed more people. However, Christianity itself and what the mainstream churches have been preaching was peace and tolerance for centuries now. Marxism actually preaches murder all the way back to its roots - Marx an opponent of religion and a staunch atheist advocated racial genocide and subsequent Marxists like Lenin and Stalin advocated a class genocide. Even Hitler admired Marx and Lenin.
but I don't want to spend the money on a Mac when I could be tinkering with and progressively upgrading my hardware for my gaming while not worrying about whether things will be compatible with OSX.
You can only upgrade the same mobo/CPU for so long. The socket design, the graphic interface, chipset etc change every couple of years. At best you get to keep your old monitor, power supply, box, keyboard and mouse.
I am a professional in the television broadcast industry, and I refuse to use anything besides Final Cut Pro for video editing. That leaves me to wonder, though, how Apple gets away with almost a 50% share in the professional video editing market... while making FCP only for their own operating system... when Microsoft gets shit for including a basic feature that all OSes include while they don't in any way interfere with the use of an alternative for the software they include (I'm talking about IE -- for the idiots out there).
FCP cost lots of money to develop. It was subsidised by expensive Mac h/w sales. Without that system and without others buying Macs, you wouldn't have FCP. Also look at the other products Apple brought out - Shake and Color. Their predecessors were very expensive. Apple bought them out and included them in FCS or sold them for much more reasonable prices.
Why do you need such a medical record? You don't need such records. A basic medical student should know how to take a thorough medical history. The patient can bring in empty pill bottles and prescriptions. Any additional tests should come with a referral letter from the patient's previous doctor (for blood test results, previous angiography results etc). This isn't rocket science and having patients fill the record with useless rubbish (sprained ankle, weight gain) is hardly productive.
You should know that the history gives you 90% of the diagnosis, the physical examination 5% and 5% comes from diagnostic tests (imaging, lab tests, EKG, etc).
This service is a joke however, it should give you a disclaimer stating that it's not fit for any purpose and is not a replacement for a doctor consultation.
The best built laptops are made by Panasonic. The Let's Note range has the best built quality I've seen so far - they better Apple, Alienware, Dell, HP, Toshiba, Sony, etc. These are very light, toughened Magnesium Alloy notebooks, designed by Matsushita and assembled in Osaka, Japan.
You won't get a lighter and better built notebook for business use than a Let's Note. Except perhaps for some NEC models.
The standard Let's Note spec includes a 100kg weight tolerance on the cover, 78cm drop height and spill proof keyboard.
The other beautifully built machines are made by NEC. I also have an August release NEC VersaPro UltraLite Type VS. It's a 10.1 inch, 1280 by 768px screen netbook with an Intel Atom 1.86 GHz CPU, Intel GMA500 Chipset capable of decoding 1080p H.264 video with the right drivers and OS, a 64GB Toshiba SSD, 1GB DDR2 RAM and the usual bells and whistles - Kensington Lock, 3xUSB, Ethernet socket, WiFi, SD card reader, Audio In/Out, speaker etc. The netbook's also made of Magnesium alloy and can withstand 150kg of weight, 78cm drop height and is very light - 730g - and very thin - thinner than any other net/notebook I've seen including Macbook Air. Japan market only. Conics.net do export them.
Both Panasonic's and NEC machines have such strong specs for build because Japanese salarymen take them on the busy trains where people pack like sardines. A normal Lenovo/Vaio/Dell or HP would not survive such hell.
For me, only Panasonic and NEC have the ultimate build quality. Sadly we get very few of these in the West. You simply don't know notebooks until you've handled a Panasonic or a NEC laptop.
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As for the languages, Germany is in decline. It has an aging population and will need mass immigration to retain any competitiveness.
But even then you can still harm people by inaction or inappropriate actions.
As a doctor, I find that knowing more facts can lead to fewer mistakes. I agree that being an encyclopedia is not enough, but it helps.
I'm surprised by this. CPR is a dangerous procedure for the rescuer. In the era of HIV, Hepatitis B, tuberculosis etc mouth to mouth resuscitation or even less intimate physical contact with a victim who is covered in bodily fluids (froth from pulmonary edema, urine) or blood is very dangerous. It should be ok to do chest compressions but mouth to mouth is a definite NO without a proper one way valve device to protect the rescuer. Chest compressions are dangerous if someone is covered in blood or bodily fluids. Get a scratch while performing CPR on the asphalt? Enjoy your HIV. Honestly, these laws are ridiculous if not illegal. Definately where in the country where I live, as a doctor, I am under NO OBLIGATION whatsoever to help anyone if my life may be put in danger by the action. That includes not having protective equipment (N95 mask for TB, goggles, gloves, ambu bag etc).
The right tool for the job, I guess. I have a 2006 Mac Pro and use it for Final Cut Pro work. I have a 2008 Panasonic Let's Note (probably the best built consumer laptop out there, better than MBP) for email/www and a NEC VersaPro UltraLite for portability (it's 700g in weight, has a Toshiba SSD and can be dropped 78cm or packed with 150kg of luggage without problems). The right tool for the job. I guess I'm a Mac Pro/Panasonic Toughbook/NEC netbook fanboy - but these devices work best for me. The right tool for the job, I guess. To each their own without any false allusions to user superiority or whatnot. MacOSX does have benefits because it is easier to use than Windows. I grew up on Windows 3 and OSX was way easier to learn as an adult. If only Apple got NEC or Panasonic to build their notebooks in Osaka for them, that would make the ultimate notebook. :-)
You can't compare the low class humour of The Daily Show to Monty Python skits which require more knowledge and abstract thinking than merely knowing what's going in petty party politics in the US.
Very cruel, I agree. However, I would not say that the pain of vivisection is any worse or better than the pain brought on by burn wounds of various degrees, radiation poisoning and emotional anguish at the sight of loss of your family and loved ones especially parents seeing young children die or suffer. If anything, anyone being dissected will likely pass out early on but victims of nuclear bombings often survived for days. Yes there was a purpose to those nuke bombings and other allied bombings of civilians, to end the war as soon as possible, but in the eyes of the Japanese who conducted the atrocities there had to be a purpose for that as well - pacifying the population or whatever other outrageous reason they came up with. Certainly one could also say that an officer raised in the Bushido culture would have a different take than one raised in a Christian one when confronted with orders to kill women and children. In the same way for example, Polish Home Army units did not engage German civilians or families of collaborators, even though the war had been lost for them already. They were more desperate then the guys who ordered bombings of civilians. They executed traitors, SS commanders and performed other sabotage operations but German civilians were not targeted. No, I'm not saying that the guys who dropped bombs on civilians should be prosecuted or anything such, just pointing out that everything is a shade of grey.
The music/movie industry want their cake and eat it too.
That's when the Church got into politics and secular rule. Crusades were about that for example. Let's also keep in mind that the Inquisition killed far fewer people than Protestant English propaganda originally sowed and that often the religious courts gave non-capital sentences while secular ones executed more people. However, Christianity itself and what the mainstream churches have been preaching was peace and tolerance for centuries now. Marxism actually preaches murder all the way back to its roots - Marx an opponent of religion and a staunch atheist advocated racial genocide and subsequent Marxists like Lenin and Stalin advocated a class genocide. Even Hitler admired Marx and Lenin.
but I don't want to spend the money on a Mac when I could be tinkering with and progressively upgrading my hardware for my gaming while not worrying about whether things will be compatible with OSX.
You can only upgrade the same mobo/CPU for so long. The socket design, the graphic interface, chipset etc change every couple of years. At best you get to keep your old monitor, power supply, box, keyboard and mouse.
I am a professional in the television broadcast industry, and I refuse to use anything besides Final Cut Pro for video editing. That leaves me to wonder, though, how Apple gets away with almost a 50% share in the professional video editing market... while making FCP only for their own operating system... when Microsoft gets shit for including a basic feature that all OSes include while they don't in any way interfere with the use of an alternative for the software they include (I'm talking about IE -- for the idiots out there).
FCP cost lots of money to develop. It was subsidised by expensive Mac h/w sales. Without that system and without others buying Macs, you wouldn't have FCP. Also look at the other products Apple brought out - Shake and Color. Their predecessors were very expensive. Apple bought them out and included them in FCS or sold them for much more reasonable prices.
Panasonic Let's Note trumps Thinkpad, Vaio and MBP for build quality and reliability.
Why do you need such a medical record? You don't need such records. A basic medical student should know how to take a thorough medical history. The patient can bring in empty pill bottles and prescriptions. Any additional tests should come with a referral letter from the patient's previous doctor (for blood test results, previous angiography results etc). This isn't rocket science and having patients fill the record with useless rubbish (sprained ankle, weight gain) is hardly productive.
You should know that the history gives you 90% of the diagnosis, the physical examination 5% and 5% comes from diagnostic tests (imaging, lab tests, EKG, etc). This service is a joke however, it should give you a disclaimer stating that it's not fit for any purpose and is not a replacement for a doctor consultation.
The best built laptops are made by Panasonic. The Let's Note range has the best built quality I've seen so far - they better Apple, Alienware, Dell, HP, Toshiba, Sony, etc. These are very light, toughened Magnesium Alloy notebooks, designed by Matsushita and assembled in Osaka, Japan. You won't get a lighter and better built notebook for business use than a Let's Note. Except perhaps for some NEC models. The standard Let's Note spec includes a 100kg weight tolerance on the cover, 78cm drop height and spill proof keyboard. The other beautifully built machines are made by NEC. I also have an August release NEC VersaPro UltraLite Type VS. It's a 10.1 inch, 1280 by 768px screen netbook with an Intel Atom 1.86 GHz CPU, Intel GMA500 Chipset capable of decoding 1080p H.264 video with the right drivers and OS, a 64GB Toshiba SSD, 1GB DDR2 RAM and the usual bells and whistles - Kensington Lock, 3xUSB, Ethernet socket, WiFi, SD card reader, Audio In/Out, speaker etc. The netbook's also made of Magnesium alloy and can withstand 150kg of weight, 78cm drop height and is very light - 730g - and very thin - thinner than any other net/notebook I've seen including Macbook Air. Japan market only. Conics.net do export them. Both Panasonic's and NEC machines have such strong specs for build because Japanese salarymen take them on the busy trains where people pack like sardines. A normal Lenovo/Vaio/Dell or HP would not survive such hell. For me, only Panasonic and NEC have the ultimate build quality. Sadly we get very few of these in the West. You simply don't know notebooks until you've handled a Panasonic or a NEC laptop.