I too don't see how this is an advance. Controlling the anethesia machine is really just the smallest fraction of an anethetist's skill. TFA talks about videoconferencing for the pre-op visit, but one still needs to assess the patient's airway and suchlike to do that.
The problem with this approach is most people's *perception* of a reasonable speed limit is incorrect.
For an individual major accidents are a highly unusual occourance, hence the feeling of 'too fast' is strongly associated with whatever you're used to. Remember back to when you were first driving, and how everything seemed too fast? You soon got used to it.
Unfortunatly e=mv^2 is not your friend. At high speeds that huge amount of energy turns a fender bender into a 6 month stay in hospital and two years of rehab for the survivors.
If you receive an e-mail with a subject of Badtimes, delete it immediately WITHOUT READING IT. This is the most DANGEROUS e-mail virus ever.
It will rewrite your hard drive and scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your freezer's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your VCR, and use subspace field harmonics to render any CDs you try to play unreadable.
It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend/ex-husband/wife your new phone number. It will mix antifreeze into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when company comes over. It will put a kitten in the back pocket of your good suit and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
Badtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.
It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It will tease your dog. It will leave strange messages on your boss's voicemail in your voice. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of methamphetamine in your bathtub and leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase high school kids with your snowblower.
These are just a few of the signs. Be very, very afraid!
The solution to this predicament is to vote green.
If they have the unobstructed balance of power in the senate (which looks likley) then they can block any of this s**t as long as there's not bipartisan support. It also gives them the political clout to say 'not this law if you want our support in the future'.
considering that the problem is that doctors mostly refuse to spend an appropriate amount of time with a patient, i have a hard time believing that an intelligent and discerning person should be discouraged from doing research and asking questions on the internet.
Agreed to a point. It's difficult to take more time with every patient when there's already a one hour wait time in the waiting room, and every second patient has some constelation of unusual symptoms. There's so much noise it's sometimes difficult to find the signal.
You can't fake a whole different personality, it's simply not possible to sustain for any length of time.
Of course a bit of positive self-evaluation does everyone a bit of good - don't dwell on your mistakes but try to learn from them. Try to identify your personal pecadillos, and try not to let them act against your own self-interest.
The court isn't there to decide what can and can't possible cause burns, it's there to decide that someone has either through incompetence or malace caused someone else harm, and to determine the way in which this harm can be reconciled.
If it's never happened before that a check-out scanner has burned anyone, let alone caused PTSD or tourettes, then how can that possibly be considered incompetence or malace?
The government has plenty of incentive to save money.
Healthcare costs are rising faster than GDP across the western world, it's either sve money, or increase taxes, which is a sure fire way of losing the next election.
There's a hell of a lot of money wasted on people who are going to die in the near term anyhow, sure it's tough to say that we can't afford to keep granny going, but there's got to be some ratioinale behind it all or all you end up doing is continually patching up the same crumbling sand castle.
Why not ignore the missive and carry on regardless?
It would be pretty petty to fire someone for this. If you get a handful of the employees to do the same thing then there's nothing much really they can do about it, short of fire the whole staff.
You also might want to think about becomming a doctor.
I'm just about to finish my med degree after four years of study. The money is good and you're in demand everywhere.
You do have to poke poop sometimes, but very rareley need to clean it up, and in all honesty the gross stuff doesn't bother you in the slightest after the first few times.
What is more, in my experience at least half the time when you're doing lap surgery the camera is all fogged from being squidged around in body fluids, and you just ignore it because it's a PITA to keep pulling it out to wipe off the gunge.
Now what would be a real advantage is if the scope was sterioscopic, seeing where things are in 3D is often the trickiest bit.
Increased space to move when you're crashing isn't such a bad thing - it means the airbags and seatbelt have a greater deceleration distance in which to slow you down. Of course this is negated if the space just gets removed entirely.
Unfortunatly the difference between average treatment, and the best money can buy, isn't actually all that great.
Working in medicine myself I can tell you that healing takes time, there's no miracles, and some people are luckier than others. Of course the doctor's/surgeon's skills are still important, but more from the respect that they don't suff up anything, rather than they do anything particularly *better*.
The expensive treatments for cancer, such as the biologicals, are generally only statistically better, rather than dramatically better.
Most importantly, how to get offsite backup on the human genome. If we don't do that then nothing else matters.
Why?
When a disaster happens, and the whole population of the earth is wiped out, it's unlikley to give either myself or my offspring much solace to know that some splinter of humanity still exists elsewhere. We can never evacuate the planet in spaceships - the birth rate is higher than the speed at which you could transport people off, and barring some miraculous new physics, always will be.
I used to live in the same street as a brothel. It's really not as bad as all that. The one I was near was quiet and the security at the place kept any dodgy types off the local streets.
I'd prefer living near a brothel to a noisy bar any day. Drunk people tend to act like idiots as they stagger away from the drinking establishment.
Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't pension off all the old guys (and gals) that actually know WTF their job is for and how to do it properly?
In the good old days, that's exactly what was done.
Some fields do retain something of that system, but unfortunatly in many industries with a high knowledge turnover that's no longer possible since the way the 'old guys' did it is no longer relivant.
Fortunatly not. Gun control here is quite tight. Less guns = less people shot.
After working in an emergency department here, and visiting one in the USA, I think that's generally a good thing. You're more likley to shoot a member of your own family than an intruder if there's a gun in the house.
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Notably: There is no correlation between sunscreen use and skin cancer. It seems sun screen doesn't actually help!
Actually the Japaneese *do* have a substantial miliatary!
It's the second largest after the USA.
Fortunatly the magnetic confinement techniques they'll be using doesn't fail at any particular temperature. RTFM!
I too don't see how this is an advance. Controlling the anethesia machine is really just the smallest fraction of an anethetist's skill. TFA talks about videoconferencing for the pre-op visit, but one still needs to assess the patient's airway and suchlike to do that.
This is really a non-advance.
The problem with this approach is most people's *perception* of a reasonable speed limit is incorrect.
For an individual major accidents are a highly unusual occourance, hence the feeling of 'too fast' is strongly associated with whatever you're used to. Remember back to when you were first driving, and how everything seemed too fast? You soon got used to it.
Unfortunatly e=mv^2 is not your friend. At high speeds that huge amount of energy turns a fender bender into a 6 month stay in hospital and two years of rehab for the survivors.
If you receive an e-mail with a subject of Badtimes, delete it immediately WITHOUT READING IT. This is the most DANGEROUS e-mail virus ever.
It will rewrite your hard drive and scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your freezer's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your VCR, and use subspace field harmonics to render any CDs you try to play unreadable.
It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend/ex-husband/wife your new phone number. It will mix antifreeze into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when company comes over. It will put a kitten in the back pocket of your good suit and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
Badtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.
It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It will tease your dog. It will leave strange messages on your boss's voicemail in your voice. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of methamphetamine in your bathtub and leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase high school kids with your snowblower.
These are just a few of the signs. Be very, very afraid!
The solution to this predicament is to vote green.
If they have the unobstructed balance of power in the senate (which looks likley) then they can block any of this s**t as long as there's not bipartisan support. It also gives them the political clout to say 'not this law if you want our support in the future'.
Awooooooo!!!!!!
considering that the problem is that doctors mostly refuse to spend an appropriate amount of time with a patient, i have a hard time believing that an intelligent and discerning person should be discouraged from doing research and asking questions on the internet.
Agreed to a point. It's difficult to take more time with every patient when there's already a one hour wait time in the waiting room, and every second patient has some constelation of unusual symptoms. There's so much noise it's sometimes difficult to find the signal.
You can't fake a whole different personality, it's simply not possible to sustain for any length of time.
Of course a bit of positive self-evaluation does everyone a bit of good - don't dwell on your mistakes but try to learn from them. Try to identify your personal pecadillos, and try not to let them act against your own self-interest.
Easy Answer: (in most tax laws)
Any arangement who's primary purpose is to avoid taxation is illegal, and will be charged tax at the rate at which it would normally have been taxed.
Why not?
The court isn't there to decide what can and can't possible cause burns, it's there to decide that someone has either through incompetence or malace caused someone else harm, and to determine the way in which this harm can be reconciled.
If it's never happened before that a check-out scanner has burned anyone, let alone caused PTSD or tourettes, then how can that possibly be considered incompetence or malace?
The government has plenty of incentive to save money.
Healthcare costs are rising faster than GDP across the western world, it's either sve money, or increase taxes, which is a sure fire way of losing the next election.
There's a hell of a lot of money wasted on people who are going to die in the near term anyhow, sure it's tough to say that we can't afford to keep granny going, but there's got to be some ratioinale behind it all or all you end up doing is continually patching up the same crumbling sand castle.
Why not ignore the missive and carry on regardless?
It would be pretty petty to fire someone for this. If you get a handful of the employees to do the same thing then there's nothing much really they can do about it, short of fire the whole staff.
In Australia this was also tried. Thankfully we have a decent consumer watchdog, the ACCC, which has now made this kind of thing illegal.
You also might want to think about becomming a doctor.
I'm just about to finish my med degree after four years of study. The money is good and you're in demand everywhere.
You do have to poke poop sometimes, but very rareley need to clean it up, and in all honesty the gross stuff doesn't bother you in the slightest after the first few times.
What is more, in my experience at least half the time when you're doing lap surgery the camera is all fogged from being squidged around in body fluids, and you just ignore it because it's a PITA to keep pulling it out to wipe off the gunge.
Now what would be a real advantage is if the scope was sterioscopic, seeing where things are in 3D is often the trickiest bit.
Increased space to move when you're crashing isn't such a bad thing - it means the airbags and seatbelt have a greater deceleration distance in which to slow you down. Of course this is negated if the space just gets removed entirely.
Unfortunatly the difference between average treatment, and the best money can buy, isn't actually all that great.
Working in medicine myself I can tell you that healing takes time, there's no miracles, and some people are luckier than others. Of course the doctor's/surgeon's skills are still important, but more from the respect that they don't suff up anything, rather than they do anything particularly *better*.
The expensive treatments for cancer, such as the biologicals, are generally only statistically better, rather than dramatically better.
Most importantly, how to get offsite backup on the human genome. If we don't do that then nothing else matters.
Why?
When a disaster happens, and the whole population of the earth is wiped out, it's unlikley to give either myself or my offspring much solace to know that some splinter of humanity still exists elsewhere. We can never evacuate the planet in spaceships - the birth rate is higher than the speed at which you could transport people off, and barring some miraculous new physics, always will be.
I say concentrate on the planet we already have.
Finally, the first person to RTFA in this whole thread!
Medical care is as much, if not more, about recording what has happened and when than it is about going in with treatments and proceedures.
If you can't access your records you're really fumbling around in the dark.
I used to live in the same street as a brothel. It's really not as bad as all that. The one I was near was quiet and the security at the place kept any dodgy types off the local streets.
I'd prefer living near a brothel to a noisy bar any day. Drunk people tend to act like idiots as they stagger away from the drinking establishment.
Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't pension off all the old guys (and gals) that actually know WTF their job is for and how to do it properly?
In the good old days, that's exactly what was done.
Some fields do retain something of that system, but unfortunatly in many industries with a high knowledge turnover that's no longer possible since the way the 'old guys' did it is no longer relivant.
it's = its.
other's = others.
Learn how to use the apostrophe.
Fortunatly not. Gun control here is quite tight. Less guns = less people shot.
After working in an emergency department here, and visiting one in the USA, I think that's generally a good thing. You're more likley to shoot a member of your own family than an intruder if there's a gun in the house.