I work with physicians every day and can agree that they can sometimes be challenging with their social skills. HOWEVER, the main point behind them writing in the chart is care for the PATIENT. There is a reason why orders are called "orders" and not "requests." At any job we all have our roles and a tech's or nurse's or any other non decision making clinician role happens to be to carry out the physician's orders. If this is to make them be nicer and less demanding, it is the most annoying piece of passive aggressive garbage I have seen in a hospital.
Also, the patient's chart is designed to be a concise list of actions ordered, tests done, results and diagnoses, not a social commentary. Adding ANY extra word that does not directly affect patient care just makes it more difficult to read.
There are far more impacting ways to deal with difficult physicians, most of them revolve around a hospital's medical staff dept. To the Parent poster, perhaps you should reevaluate your job if you do not like the environment in which you work. As far as I have seen, the same issues appear, in some ways, at every company where a clearly defined caste system exists.
I know it is more fun to speculate on what he MIGHT mean, but maybe this guy was just making up shit to get potential employers' attention... If they ask about any details, he could always hide behind the NDA he signed when working at MS... Sounds like a perfect plan.
I worked on developing synergies between IBM and Google to better facilitate the upcoming merger... When it never happens, whoops? it must have fallen through.
Why are there so many haters on this car? If anyone thinks that this is the end all be all solution to the problem, they are freaking idiots. This is just the first volley across the bow of the PRACTICAL electric car idea. With mass production brings decreased costs and better technology over time. If all car companies waited until the technology were perfect before producing it, it would be another full decade before anything hits the market. Yes, GM has screwed up in the past, but don't hold that against them with this car. THIS IS A GOOD START.
Thanks, I ended up ordering the 1000HE, which shipped today so I should have it Monday or Tuesday. I was really torn about whether to wait or not for the 1000HE since both models seemed to be pretty close from a +/- standpoint. I chose the 1000HE for the extra battery time, better touchpad and better tested wifi connection speeds, but I the battery time and wifi connection speeds were close. I thought about the NC10SE for the better battery life and better touchpad, but in that model they switched to a glossy screen and I wanted matte. It really was a tough decision.
I am a beginner to intermediate level desktop user of Linux who is getting ready to buy a Samsung NC10 netbook and plan on dual booting it with ubuntu. I am COUNTING on the linux community to help me along the way. From what I have seen, it isn't assholes like the AC who keep linux from getting any traction, it is the overwhelming amount of information out there about the 'alternative' free OS. The linux user community and their willingness to help others is the reason that it is UP to 1.2%
Let's try this..... You call your Dr.'s office after hours because you have a sniffle or something like that, it goes to their answering service so that your doctor gets paged with your name and phone number to call back. Dr who blocks their caller ID to keep nutjob patients from calling their house back, calls you back but gets a message that you aren't accepting calls from a blocked caller ID... Many doctors, not to mention many service people in general, block their CNID from their home number to keep people from using that number to call back instead of the correct, published, number.
You have got to be kidding me.... Either you are full of it or you do not have the full story from your friend. Up until a couple years back we visited Vegas a couple of times a year and hit the Michigan casinos a couple times as well. On numerous occasions I won an unusually high number of hands in a row at Blackjack (a few over 9 in a row) and was never visited by security or even looked at in a suspicious manner. In many cases those wins were followed by an unusually high number of losing hands which I just attributed to the probability gods reminding me that you can't beat the numbers at the end of the day.
You need to remember that the casinos NEED someone to occasionally win more than it appears like they should; it gives everyone else at the table a reason to keep betting and losing. The bottom line is the casinos are FAIR when it comes to winning and losing until you get up into the really big winnings. Then they start to question things. But for the little guy, like me, that may sometimes take them for a few hundred to a few thousand by winning honestly they call it marketing
SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH SLASHDOT...
Last time I looked there was no defectivebydesign attached to this article. The pattern matchers that assign that tag to all Microsoft OS articles must be offline. Mods, please investigate.
No, but you have to defend it to keep everyone else from disregarding it as well. If you don't litigate the first time, your legal fees will be through the roof with all of the other "me toos" out there looking for a piece when you DO decide to 'defend' it.
why don't you get a consol in stead and keep windows off your computer? You might even go for the slightly less evil PS3 and keep microsoft out of your house that way;)
Did I miss a memo, I thought that Sony was more evil on slashdot this week instead of microsoft? I can never keep up anymore now that Apple and Google have joined the evil fray.
I tried to argue this same point to someone else, and was only met with the response "no, it's because the Democrats are a bunch of useless idiots." That's almost word for word, and it represents way too many people's thought processes.
No, that person was correct, the Democrats are a bunch of useless idiots, but was only halfway there. They forgot to include the Republicans as idiots in their arguement. Hell, career politicians are the bunch of idiots. Having a "party" define your voting rather than the individual you are voting for is idiotic.
Did they not support it on purpose (conspiracy theory)? - If this is the case, they should be shunned, but a majority of the world will never know since it is a truly technical issue. Joe who works in accounting but he "knows stuff about computers" and cheaply builds them for everyone in the dept doesn't even understand the problem. People technical enough to use Linux already shunned Foxconn, so it doesn't hurt them. In this scenario I hope that Microsoft paid them well for their sabotage.
Did they just not support it because it wasn't worth the time to do it? (indifference theory) - In this case, again it doesn't matter because the Linux marketshare isn't there for a company that can't afford to spend the extra funding on a linux support team.
Is it broken becuase they are too inept to make it work with linux? (ineptitude theory) - Again, Linux users shunned them already and Joe the PC guy in accounting doesn't even notice because he is installing Windows on all of his coworkers PCs and configuring their router to put the PC on the outer DMZ so he can "fix stuff from home" when they call.
You can't really buy the whole "who is stupid enough not to support linux" yet because the marketshare isn't there yet. Hopefully it is coming but how many years in a row have we proclaimed it the "year of linux" where people were going to miraculously start paying attention?
The guys who will eat their lunch are the Googles and Apples of the world, who are both innovating and listening to their customers
Apple caring about their customers? I am not quite sure why that reputation still lives but they have almost become the next Microsoft in terms of how many decisions they make to limit what users can do with their tools (not going to cite links, but just do a/. seach on Apple for the last couple of years)
Google innovates, but they are no longer the darling of their 'do no evil' days. They are on here lately as much as Apple in terms of their lack of social conscience.
Personally, I like Google and Apple, but to think that given time and power they won't become the same kind of companies Microsoft and Yahoo are is short sighted. The industry is cyclical (and fickle.) As Microsoft and Yahoo continue their slow decline (yes it will be VERY slow for MS because of their cash reserves), other companies will grow. Over time those companies, like google, will eventually fade when they stop being about the customer and more about profit and appeasing the other corporate warlords.
Oh yeah, and unobscure Cheney's house please. Me and a truck full of toilet paper have a data with the trees in his front yeard. (kidding of course, but I better say it lest those humour-free bozos actually label me a terrorist threat and have me "rendered" to Gitmo).
It's ironic that a slashdot poster would slip up and type 'data' instead of 'date'. Maybe more exposure to one than the other.
I think that you are being way too simplistic with your car analogy in terms of the items you change on the car... It would be more equated to a car company no longer supporting your warranty if you decided to replace the car's computer chip with one that doesn't regulate torque as much and then blew the transmission.
It's funny that I hear people talk about recopiling the drivers with the different version headers and then in the same sentence claim that the general public should give up on MS and move to Linux. Are you crazy? Do you really think that anyone non technical would have a CLUE about how to do that in what is frequently considered the most user friendly distro, (k)ubuntu? I am not a MS fan, but we have to be reasonable here; they have their place until things get better on that front. I am perfectly OK with the upgrade not occurring with drivers that will fail, as long as they tell me which drivers are the ones that screwed it up.
I know this is considered by many as blasphemy but, it can't be seen as anything other than a REALLY good thing for the linux camp out there, provided it works well. One of the biggest barriers to people running linux is that they are uncomfortable with how it will work compared to their comfy Windows box. With this, people can see that KDE is really not that dissimilar, but is more functional.
Over time, people will see that they can run the same thing on a VASTLY less expensive computer. Get people comfortable with how it functions, show them how cheap it is by comparison, increase marketshare.
I guess I probably should have added inserted a step three in there before the increase maketshare as ??? to follow/. policies.
Did you research all of this or is this something you already knew? If it is the latter, I really need to go back to school and figure out what the hell I missed.
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I work with physicians every day and can agree that they can sometimes be challenging with their social skills. HOWEVER, the main point behind them writing in the chart is care for the PATIENT. There is a reason why orders are called "orders" and not "requests." At any job we all have our roles and a tech's or nurse's or any other non decision making clinician role happens to be to carry out the physician's orders. If this is to make them be nicer and less demanding, it is the most annoying piece of passive aggressive garbage I have seen in a hospital.
Also, the patient's chart is designed to be a concise list of actions ordered, tests done, results and diagnoses, not a social commentary. Adding ANY extra word that does not directly affect patient care just makes it more difficult to read.
There are far more impacting ways to deal with difficult physicians, most of them revolve around a hospital's medical staff dept. To the Parent poster, perhaps you should reevaluate your job if you do not like the environment in which you work. As far as I have seen, the same issues appear, in some ways, at every company where a clearly defined caste system exists.
I know it is more fun to speculate on what he MIGHT mean, but maybe this guy was just making up shit to get potential employers' attention... If they ask about any details, he could always hide behind the NDA he signed when working at MS... Sounds like a perfect plan.
I worked on developing synergies between IBM and Google to better facilitate the upcoming merger... When it never happens, whoops? it must have fallen through.
Why are there so many haters on this car? If anyone thinks that this is the end all be all solution to the problem, they are freaking idiots. This is just the first volley across the bow of the PRACTICAL electric car idea. With mass production brings decreased costs and better technology over time. If all car companies waited until the technology were perfect before producing it, it would be another full decade before anything hits the market. Yes, GM has screwed up in the past, but don't hold that against them with this car. THIS IS A GOOD START.
Thanks, I ended up ordering the 1000HE, which shipped today so I should have it Monday or Tuesday. I was really torn about whether to wait or not for the 1000HE since both models seemed to be pretty close from a +/- standpoint. I chose the 1000HE for the extra battery time, better touchpad and better tested wifi connection speeds, but I the battery time and wifi connection speeds were close. I thought about the NC10SE for the better battery life and better touchpad, but in that model they switched to a glossy screen and I wanted matte. It really was a tough decision.
BTW - I am having trouble deciding between the ASUS 1000HE and the Samsung NC10. Any reason you chose the NC10?
Thank you for making my point (and thanks for your help).
Why did you feed the troll??
I am a beginner to intermediate level desktop user of Linux who is getting ready to buy a Samsung NC10 netbook and plan on dual booting it with ubuntu. I am COUNTING on the linux community to help me along the way. From what I have seen, it isn't assholes like the AC who keep linux from getting any traction, it is the overwhelming amount of information out there about the 'alternative' free OS. The linux user community and their willingness to help others is the reason that it is UP to 1.2%
These cheap netbooks will keep the % going up.
Let's try this..... You call your Dr.'s office after hours because you have a sniffle or something like that, it goes to their answering service so that your doctor gets paged with your name and phone number to call back. Dr who blocks their caller ID to keep nutjob patients from calling their house back, calls you back but gets a message that you aren't accepting calls from a blocked caller ID... Many doctors, not to mention many service people in general, block their CNID from their home number to keep people from using that number to call back instead of the correct, published, number.
Personally, I am OK with that.
You have got to be kidding me.... Either you are full of it or you do not have the full story from your friend. Up until a couple years back we visited Vegas a couple of times a year and hit the Michigan casinos a couple times as well. On numerous occasions I won an unusually high number of hands in a row at Blackjack (a few over 9 in a row) and was never visited by security or even looked at in a suspicious manner. In many cases those wins were followed by an unusually high number of losing hands which I just attributed to the probability gods reminding me that you can't beat the numbers at the end of the day.
You need to remember that the casinos NEED someone to occasionally win more than it appears like they should; it gives everyone else at the table a reason to keep betting and losing. The bottom line is the casinos are FAIR when it comes to winning and losing until you get up into the really big winnings. Then they start to question things. But for the little guy, like me, that may sometimes take them for a few hundred to a few thousand by winning honestly they call it marketing
And this is the exact reason why Linux will never catch on with non technical people..... that kind of attitude.
You either get an OS that is techie used only or have to care enough to spend more time helping others.. Take your pick..
SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH SLASHDOT... Last time I looked there was no defectivebydesign attached to this article. The pattern matchers that assign that tag to all Microsoft OS articles must be offline. Mods, please investigate.
You're a COBOL coder, aren't you......
No, but you have to defend it to keep everyone else from disregarding it as well. If you don't litigate the first time, your legal fees will be through the roof with all of the other "me toos" out there looking for a piece when you DO decide to 'defend' it.
why don't you get a consol in stead and keep windows off your computer? You might even go for the slightly less evil PS3 and keep microsoft out of your house that way ;)
Did I miss a memo, I thought that Sony was more evil on slashdot this week instead of microsoft? I can never keep up anymore now that Apple and Google have joined the evil fray.
I tried to argue this same point to someone else, and was only met with the response "no, it's because the Democrats are a bunch of useless idiots." That's almost word for word, and it represents way too many people's thought processes.
No, that person was correct, the Democrats are a bunch of useless idiots, but was only halfway there. They forgot to include the Republicans as idiots in their arguement. Hell, career politicians are the bunch of idiots. Having a "party" define your voting rather than the individual you are voting for is idiotic.
This question can fall into 3 categories..
Did they not support it on purpose (conspiracy theory)? - If this is the case, they should be shunned, but a majority of the world will never know since it is a truly technical issue. Joe who works in accounting but he "knows stuff about computers" and cheaply builds them for everyone in the dept doesn't even understand the problem. People technical enough to use Linux already shunned Foxconn, so it doesn't hurt them. In this scenario I hope that Microsoft paid them well for their sabotage.
Did they just not support it because it wasn't worth the time to do it? (indifference theory) - In this case, again it doesn't matter because the Linux marketshare isn't there for a company that can't afford to spend the extra funding on a linux support team.
Is it broken becuase they are too inept to make it work with linux? (ineptitude theory) - Again, Linux users shunned them already and Joe the PC guy in accounting doesn't even notice because he is installing Windows on all of his coworkers PCs and configuring their router to put the PC on the outer DMZ so he can "fix stuff from home" when they call.
You can't really buy the whole "who is stupid enough not to support linux" yet because the marketshare isn't there yet. Hopefully it is coming but how many years in a row have we proclaimed it the "year of linux" where people were going to miraculously start paying attention?
The state of affairs at Microsoft has gotten so bad and depressed that it's hardly worth the effort to toss a chair.
It's ALWAYS worth the effort to toss a chair..
The guys who will eat their lunch are the Googles and Apples of the world, who are both innovating and listening to their customers
/. seach on Apple for the last couple of years)
Apple caring about their customers? I am not quite sure why that reputation still lives but they have almost become the next Microsoft in terms of how many decisions they make to limit what users can do with their tools (not going to cite links, but just do a
Google innovates, but they are no longer the darling of their 'do no evil' days. They are on here lately as much as Apple in terms of their lack of social conscience.
Personally, I like Google and Apple, but to think that given time and power they won't become the same kind of companies Microsoft and Yahoo are is short sighted. The industry is cyclical (and fickle.) As Microsoft and Yahoo continue their slow decline (yes it will be VERY slow for MS because of their cash reserves), other companies will grow. Over time those companies, like google, will eventually fade when they stop being about the customer and more about profit and appeasing the other corporate warlords.
Oh yeah, and unobscure Cheney's house please. Me and a truck full of toilet paper have a data with the trees in his front yeard. (kidding of course, but I better say it lest those humour-free bozos actually label me a terrorist threat and have me "rendered" to Gitmo).
It's ironic that a slashdot poster would slip up and type 'data' instead of 'date'. Maybe more exposure to one than the other.
I can't get past the name of Iggy's Wrecking Balls (N64).
http://ign64.ign.com/objects/002/002272.html
I think that you are being way too simplistic with your car analogy in terms of the items you change on the car... It would be more equated to a car company no longer supporting your warranty if you decided to replace the car's computer chip with one that doesn't regulate torque as much and then blew the transmission.
It's funny that I hear people talk about recopiling the drivers with the different version headers and then in the same sentence claim that the general public should give up on MS and move to Linux. Are you crazy? Do you really think that anyone non technical would have a CLUE about how to do that in what is frequently considered the most user friendly distro, (k)ubuntu? I am not a MS fan, but we have to be reasonable here; they have their place until things get better on that front. I am perfectly OK with the upgrade not occurring with drivers that will fail, as long as they tell me which drivers are the ones that screwed it up.
Yeah, he went to really extreme lengths to KarmaWhore..... Makes my attempts to get to '+5 Funny' on this post seem lazy....
I know this is considered by many as blasphemy but, it can't be seen as anything other than a REALLY good thing for the linux camp out there, provided it works well. One of the biggest barriers to people running linux is that they are uncomfortable with how it will work compared to their comfy Windows box. With this, people can see that KDE is really not that dissimilar, but is more functional.
/. policies.
Over time, people will see that they can run the same thing on a VASTLY less expensive computer. Get people comfortable with how it functions, show them how cheap it is by comparison, increase marketshare.
I guess I probably should have added inserted a step three in there before the increase maketshare as ??? to follow
Did you research all of this or is this something you already knew? If it is the latter, I really need to go back to school and figure out what the hell I missed.
Kinda like, um, WINE?