As a physician, I see no recourse that I could take if a patient decided to make a libelous statement about me. Someone could write something, but I couldn't write a rebuttal without violating patient confidentiality. Say someone posts something like "Dr. Magic_Dude was arrogant, rude, didn't address my concerns, and insulted me before throwing me out", I couldn't say "Just before this comment was posted, Mr. Johnson came to visit me as a new patient asking for Oxycontin. After discussion with his prior physician, I learned that he has a history of narcotics abuse, and has severe bipolar disorder. When I refused to fill his prescription, he stormed out of my office. He also required treatment for gonorrhea during his visit." Essentially, in order to defend your actions to the best of your ability, you would be required to break confidentiality. If anything, I would say physicians should change the contract saying that if you're going to start posting your medical encounters on the internet for all to see, then you waive your right to confidentiality and permit rebuttal by your practitioner.
Just like what if the government decided that everyone should have a 10 PM bedtime, and no desert for a week after yelling at your sister. Parenting a slippery slope people.
You should play City of Heroes. The core gameplay isn't centered around loot per se (though some of the recent expansions have introduced a system of optimizing your character with "salvage"), but is more of the kind of story you'd expect from being a super hero - fly around and bring righteous justice upon the criminal element. On top of that, there is a fairly good story system, where you make contacts who take you on story arcs where you ferret out conspiracies, do hostage rescues, timed bomb disarm missions, etc. The accomplishments are in earning medals and badges for completing some of the larger task force missions or other similar tasks. I found COH a lot more fun when WOW in that WOW people aren't in it to enjoy themselves it seems, it's all about leveling up to get to a high enough level to do raids to get the good loot. When my WOW characters were low level (under 20), I found that nobody was interested in grouping to do the missions from the starting towns ("Does anybody want to do the mission to kill the troll chieftain?" "Go to hell noob"). When I posed the question of how to go about getting small pick up groups on the WOW message boards, I was basically told that unless you're in a guild, nobody will want to team with you, and that I should just grind my character up to level 25 so I could start doing some of the upper level raiding. COH seemed much better for casual gaming and to do pick up groups, and there's no greifing or fighting over loot.
Windwaker is fantastic. For my part, it's surpassed only by OOT. Don't believe anyone who says the cell shaded art takes away from it. If you haven't played it, I strongly recommend it.
probably not enough to grab very young kids' attentions
I was just thinking the opposite, as how the movie expressed most of the plot with very little dialog. Kids, especially the very young, pick up on body language and gestures much more easily than spoken language. I was recently reading about how children can be taught sign language much earlier than they would be expected to begin talking. The lack of dialog makes the movie flow much more smoothly and makes it more universal. It occurred to me that there are two main plots to the movie. One is the social commentary part on the wastefulness of society, but the other was essentially a love story. And not being one for romantic movies, I was caught off guard for liking a movie which had it been done in real life, would have been an incredibly painful romantic comedy with stilted dialog between the likes of Matthew Mcconaughey and Sandra Bullock.
Fair enough. I should endeavor to learn from your example. If you could lead me to the news articles that have been written about your protests and subsequent arrests in trying to change the laws, I'd appreciate it. Or perhaps about how you've been petitioning the government for changes in their security requirements. But, I don't want to burden you, just tell me which airport or city you've been doing your work in, I'll dig around myself. From your eloquent post, I presume you have a great deal of writing to support your position and actions that wouldn't sound anything like a teenager on speed.
I didn't catch your name though. Mr. Tough-Guy was it? Internet Tough-Guy?
I agree, but the airport security line is not a place to make a stand about how you feel about the security regulations. Just like how when you get pulled over for speeding, you don't take that as an opportunity to rail about how speed limit laws are unjust and unrelated to driver safety. You keep your head down, speak politely, take the ticket, and then fight it in court or start a campaign with lawmakers. You want to fight the man, more power to you, I'll subscribe to your newsletter, but do it on your own time. Take off your damn shoes, and don't hold up the line arguing the the TSA monkey about why you need to take your 6 oz bottle of shampoo on the plane.
A lot of the holdup are people who don't know the drill at airport security. You always have to take of your shoes, you always need to empty your pockets, you always need to take the laptop out of its bag, and you should just minimize how much metal you're carrying (before I enter security, I just toss all my pocket change into my carry on, rather than fishing for it at Xray, and then putting it back in my pocket). When you watch the experienced business travelers, they know the drill, and how to get to the other side of security quite quickly. To this end, I suggest that security use a soup nazi style of handling the line. You show up to the front of the line, shoes off, coat over your arm, carry on over your shoulder, ticket and ID in your hand (completely out of the wallet), step to the conveyor belt, a basket will be waiting for you, place everything in the basket, take two steps to the right, go through the metal detector, pick up basket en mass to separate re-dressing area where you will leave the basket, and then proceed to gate. Any breach in this protocol (fishing for ID, untying shoes, being told that you need to take your laptop out of your bag), and all your belongings will be returned to you, and you will be sent to the back of the line (don't worry, you should be back to the front in 20 minutes or so). Travelers with young children will be given a modicum of leeway, but not too much.
It is possible to get meds in individual packaging. Some pharmacies will sell medicitaions in blister packaging, so the meds for the morning, afternoon, and evening are in little bubbles that you just burst. If you look around you should find it, more likely in local pharmicies rather than the national chains.
Isn't this basically the way things are right now? All they're doing is replacing the driver's license with the new national ID. You already can't enter federal govt areas or get on airplanes or even trains without identification, and every college campus is rife with examples of how not secure the driver's license system is. I recall reading somewhere that the DMV is not, and was never designed to be a bureau which handled the task of identification of individuals; it was simply supposed to be the department which said if you were qualified to operate a car.
IIAMS (Medical Student), and here how I see this device being used, docs will continue using regular stethoscopes because most diagnoses quite straightforward. When there are unusual sounds that require additional insight, then you break out the one VRI that is available in the physician's group. It would be similar to how most cardiac auscultation is straightforward, but when there is something particularly unusual, you send a person for an echo cardiogram. Even there where there is a well established, safe, accurate, non-invasive, relatively cheap imaging modality, you still listen first. Also, imaging isn't infallible, and just like different physicians can disagree about lung sounds, different radiologists can disagree about image interpretation.
Why are we discussing this on slashdot? When was the last time a fantasy book was this popular. I don't think LOTR sold this well back when it was first released. This book has spawned a new breed of fans. Take this story about a wedding I attended this past weekend, I met up with the groom and the rest of our pseudo-college reunion for drinks at a pub, and we asked what his fiancee was up to on the night before the wedding. Turns out she ditched him after the rehearsal dinner to go wait in line for the book. As the night continued we bumped into a bachelorette party, and some idle conversation revealed that her groom had done the same thing to her.
My question is why don't we want a national ID? It seems to me that our social security number has already become a defacto national ID number. Whenever I have to fill out official paperwork, for either governmental things, or even for national corporations or whatever, they all ask for the social security number, supposedly for identification purposes. However, with identity theft rampant, I don't want to give that number away so easily but often the alternative isn't pleasant, so I do it anyway. I wish I had a national ID number which I could give away as easily as my telephone number for identification purposes, knowing that nothing can be done to my financial accounts if someone had only this number, while guarding my social security number as much as I guard my ATM PIN.
You speak as if any treatment that is less than 100% is worthless. Gardisil which immunizes against HPV strains 16 and 18 will act against strains which prevent 60 to 70 percent of cervical cancer. According to your logic, it's not worth immunizing people against polio, because it doesn't protect against 100% of causes of paralysis.
As a medical student, I know how much our education is divided into what we do in real life, and what is the proper answer for exams. Quite often, during our education exercises, we're given senarios like "A patient presents with symptoms X, Y and Z. What do you do next?". At that point, that's when the resident says "You would diagnose condition A from those symptoms, but for the exam, you'd say you'd get an MRI to rule out B". So many questions are basically having intuition for where the question is guiding you too, rather than practical medicine. Often, it's extremely difficult to discern what the question wants. There will be some question along the lines of "A patient presents with general fatigue over the past 3 months, which one blood test do you want to order?" and you'll narrow down the answer choices to either thyroid stimulating hormone, or a complete blood count, both studies are equally important in the evaluation of fatigue, but the question wants you to know which one is more important. In real life, you would always get both because both conditions fairly common, and you want to evaluate both at once to save the patient time and effort. However, the question will nail you if you don't know some obscure study which states that there like is a 1% difference in the incidence of hypothyroidism vs anemia in fatigue. Moreso, if you were on the hospital floor and you were to say "I'm getting only a CBC, because it's more likely," the resident will chide you for not considering hypothyroidism as well and getting the Thyroid stimulating hormone as well, making you look bad. So yeah, learning for the test doesn't really ever end.
Now I'm even more confused. If you can get any channel you want a la carte, then why do you need to impose indecency regs on channels. I could almost see the logic when you had to get Spike and TNT in order to get Nickelodeon for the kids, but now if you can cherry pick the safe channels you specifically want (and as such, pick the not so safe at your discretion), you should do away with the regs and let the market sort out what people are willing to pay for.
As part of my surgical clerkship in medical school, I in on an endotracheal surgery, where a camera was basically pushed into the bronchi and then tools manipulated in view of the camera. The fellow was doing the procedure under the guidence of the attending. During the procedure, the attending hat to keep reminding the fellow about keeping the camera centered and how the tip only moved on 1 axis and how you had to rotate the entire appratus to get 2d motion and so on. After the procedure, the attening literally asked if the fellow had ever played video games before. I could see the point, as if I could see the points that the attending was getting, it was more or less like flying down the death star trench. I would think that video games can help during camera assisted or laprascopic procedures since your actions are not exactly correlated to your view of the operating field; your camera is rotated at different angles and you need to be able to construct the entire field in your mind in order to know what actions are needed from the input on the moniter. Just like when playing video games, your actions are not directly translated into the game. Wii excluded, if you want to swing a sword, you push a button on the controller, essentially you learn to input a different action in order to accomplish what you want on screen, which is kind of what laproscopic surgery is. Like if you want the instrumented rotated to the right on the screen, you have to be able to analyze the picture on the monitor and perhaps realize that a move to the right on the screen is really a move to the left with your hand.
The person liable would be the ambulance driver on duty that night. All good intentions aside, you're much better waiting for trained personel to transport an injured person. Suppose a person has a fractured neck, but you feel you don't need to wait for some damned ambulance to get here, because you can drunkenly drive to a hospital faster. You pick up your friend to carry him to your car and **SNAP**, his fractured neck turns him into a quadrapelegic for the rest of his life. Sure, that's an extreme example, but guess who's responsible for your friend living a wheelchair for the rest of his life?
Simply plugging in symptoms will rarely get you a definitive diagnosis. Symptoms always have to be taken into context around things like personal medical history, physical exam, and the doctor thinking to ask about questions you might not think relevant. Say one day you have chest pain and trouble breathing. That could be anything from a heart attack, to a pulmonary embolus, to a pneumothorax, a fractured rib, or many other things. Medicine is a tapestry, you can't look at just 1 or 2 strands and expect to see the entire picture. As for getting information, information has never been restricted. Nobody is trying to restrict you from buying a medical textbook. You're able to visit libraries and do your own research. We'd all like information to be freely availably at no cost to us, but there are limitations to being able to get things for free.
While an interesting idea, you have to wonder how much of these books will be outdated in 10 or 20 years, espically ones relating to rapidly evolving fields like computer science. While I don't want to say that making current events and scientific theories isn't important, one has to wonder whether there are better uses for the money that will be more lasting, like in making literature or music free of copyrights.
Yeah, it may be cheaper, but if you don't want this ring enough to make it youself, why would you want it at all? It serves no purpose aside from establishing geek cred, which is then taken away by virtue of you having bought it. A computer is something with a legitimate purpose and necessity, yet around here it's blasphemy to admit that you bought a pre-made system rather than building your own. For little things like this, the fun is in making them yourself. You could buy a pre-constructed enterprise model to hang from your ceiling, but if you're going to do that, wouldn't you rather get the 1000 peice model with the LEDs and fiberoptic lights to build yourself?
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As a physician, I see no recourse that I could take if a patient decided to make a libelous statement about me. Someone could write something, but I couldn't write a rebuttal without violating patient confidentiality. Say someone posts something like "Dr. Magic_Dude was arrogant, rude, didn't address my concerns, and insulted me before throwing me out", I couldn't say "Just before this comment was posted, Mr. Johnson came to visit me as a new patient asking for Oxycontin. After discussion with his prior physician, I learned that he has a history of narcotics abuse, and has severe bipolar disorder. When I refused to fill his prescription, he stormed out of my office. He also required treatment for gonorrhea during his visit." Essentially, in order to defend your actions to the best of your ability, you would be required to break confidentiality. If anything, I would say physicians should change the contract saying that if you're going to start posting your medical encounters on the internet for all to see, then you waive your right to confidentiality and permit rebuttal by your practitioner.
When I did my EMT training, the song I learned was "Another one bites the dust". My instructor also told us not to start singing during compressions.
Just like what if the government decided that everyone should have a 10 PM bedtime, and no desert for a week after yelling at your sister. Parenting a slippery slope people.
You should play City of Heroes. The core gameplay isn't centered around loot per se (though some of the recent expansions have introduced a system of optimizing your character with "salvage"), but is more of the kind of story you'd expect from being a super hero - fly around and bring righteous justice upon the criminal element. On top of that, there is a fairly good story system, where you make contacts who take you on story arcs where you ferret out conspiracies, do hostage rescues, timed bomb disarm missions, etc. The accomplishments are in earning medals and badges for completing some of the larger task force missions or other similar tasks. I found COH a lot more fun when WOW in that WOW people aren't in it to enjoy themselves it seems, it's all about leveling up to get to a high enough level to do raids to get the good loot. When my WOW characters were low level (under 20), I found that nobody was interested in grouping to do the missions from the starting towns ("Does anybody want to do the mission to kill the troll chieftain?" "Go to hell noob"). When I posed the question of how to go about getting small pick up groups on the WOW message boards, I was basically told that unless you're in a guild, nobody will want to team with you, and that I should just grind my character up to level 25 so I could start doing some of the upper level raiding. COH seemed much better for casual gaming and to do pick up groups, and there's no greifing or fighting over loot.
Windwaker is fantastic. For my part, it's surpassed only by OOT. Don't believe anyone who says the cell shaded art takes away from it. If you haven't played it, I strongly recommend it.
probably not enough to grab very young kids' attentions I was just thinking the opposite, as how the movie expressed most of the plot with very little dialog. Kids, especially the very young, pick up on body language and gestures much more easily than spoken language. I was recently reading about how children can be taught sign language much earlier than they would be expected to begin talking. The lack of dialog makes the movie flow much more smoothly and makes it more universal. It occurred to me that there are two main plots to the movie. One is the social commentary part on the wastefulness of society, but the other was essentially a love story. And not being one for romantic movies, I was caught off guard for liking a movie which had it been done in real life, would have been an incredibly painful romantic comedy with stilted dialog between the likes of Matthew Mcconaughey and Sandra Bullock.
He's Nick Burns ... Your Company's Computer Guy
Fair enough. I should endeavor to learn from your example. If you could lead me to the news articles that have been written about your protests and subsequent arrests in trying to change the laws, I'd appreciate it. Or perhaps about how you've been petitioning the government for changes in their security requirements. But, I don't want to burden you, just tell me which airport or city you've been doing your work in, I'll dig around myself. From your eloquent post, I presume you have a great deal of writing to support your position and actions that wouldn't sound anything like a teenager on speed.
I didn't catch your name though. Mr. Tough-Guy was it? Internet Tough-Guy?
I agree, but the airport security line is not a place to make a stand about how you feel about the security regulations. Just like how when you get pulled over for speeding, you don't take that as an opportunity to rail about how speed limit laws are unjust and unrelated to driver safety. You keep your head down, speak politely, take the ticket, and then fight it in court or start a campaign with lawmakers. You want to fight the man, more power to you, I'll subscribe to your newsletter, but do it on your own time. Take off your damn shoes, and don't hold up the line arguing the the TSA monkey about why you need to take your 6 oz bottle of shampoo on the plane.
A lot of the holdup are people who don't know the drill at airport security. You always have to take of your shoes, you always need to empty your pockets, you always need to take the laptop out of its bag, and you should just minimize how much metal you're carrying (before I enter security, I just toss all my pocket change into my carry on, rather than fishing for it at Xray, and then putting it back in my pocket). When you watch the experienced business travelers, they know the drill, and how to get to the other side of security quite quickly. To this end, I suggest that security use a soup nazi style of handling the line. You show up to the front of the line, shoes off, coat over your arm, carry on over your shoulder, ticket and ID in your hand (completely out of the wallet), step to the conveyor belt, a basket will be waiting for you, place everything in the basket, take two steps to the right, go through the metal detector, pick up basket en mass to separate re-dressing area where you will leave the basket, and then proceed to gate. Any breach in this protocol (fishing for ID, untying shoes, being told that you need to take your laptop out of your bag), and all your belongings will be returned to you, and you will be sent to the back of the line (don't worry, you should be back to the front in 20 minutes or so). Travelers with young children will be given a modicum of leeway, but not too much.
It is possible to get meds in individual packaging. Some pharmacies will sell medicitaions in blister packaging, so the meds for the morning, afternoon, and evening are in little bubbles that you just burst. If you look around you should find it, more likely in local pharmicies rather than the national chains.
Isn't this basically the way things are right now? All they're doing is replacing the driver's license with the new national ID. You already can't enter federal govt areas or get on airplanes or even trains without identification, and every college campus is rife with examples of how not secure the driver's license system is. I recall reading somewhere that the DMV is not, and was never designed to be a bureau which handled the task of identification of individuals; it was simply supposed to be the department which said if you were qualified to operate a car.
IIAMS (Medical Student), and here how I see this device being used, docs will continue using regular stethoscopes because most diagnoses quite straightforward. When there are unusual sounds that require additional insight, then you break out the one VRI that is available in the physician's group. It would be similar to how most cardiac auscultation is straightforward, but when there is something particularly unusual, you send a person for an echo cardiogram. Even there where there is a well established, safe, accurate, non-invasive, relatively cheap imaging modality, you still listen first. Also, imaging isn't infallible, and just like different physicians can disagree about lung sounds, different radiologists can disagree about image interpretation.
Why are we discussing this on slashdot? When was the last time a fantasy book was this popular. I don't think LOTR sold this well back when it was first released. This book has spawned a new breed of fans. Take this story about a wedding I attended this past weekend, I met up with the groom and the rest of our pseudo-college reunion for drinks at a pub, and we asked what his fiancee was up to on the night before the wedding. Turns out she ditched him after the rehearsal dinner to go wait in line for the book. As the night continued we bumped into a bachelorette party, and some idle conversation revealed that her groom had done the same thing to her.
My question is why don't we want a national ID? It seems to me that our social security number has already become a defacto national ID number. Whenever I have to fill out official paperwork, for either governmental things, or even for national corporations or whatever, they all ask for the social security number, supposedly for identification purposes. However, with identity theft rampant, I don't want to give that number away so easily but often the alternative isn't pleasant, so I do it anyway. I wish I had a national ID number which I could give away as easily as my telephone number for identification purposes, knowing that nothing can be done to my financial accounts if someone had only this number, while guarding my social security number as much as I guard my ATM PIN.
You speak as if any treatment that is less than 100% is worthless. Gardisil which immunizes against HPV strains 16 and 18 will act against strains which prevent 60 to 70 percent of cervical cancer. According to your logic, it's not worth immunizing people against polio, because it doesn't protect against 100% of causes of paralysis.
As a medical student, I know how much our education is divided into what we do in real life, and what is the proper answer for exams. Quite often, during our education exercises, we're given senarios like "A patient presents with symptoms X, Y and Z. What do you do next?". At that point, that's when the resident says "You would diagnose condition A from those symptoms, but for the exam, you'd say you'd get an MRI to rule out B". So many questions are basically having intuition for where the question is guiding you too, rather than practical medicine. Often, it's extremely difficult to discern what the question wants. There will be some question along the lines of "A patient presents with general fatigue over the past 3 months, which one blood test do you want to order?" and you'll narrow down the answer choices to either thyroid stimulating hormone, or a complete blood count, both studies are equally important in the evaluation of fatigue, but the question wants you to know which one is more important. In real life, you would always get both because both conditions fairly common, and you want to evaluate both at once to save the patient time and effort. However, the question will nail you if you don't know some obscure study which states that there like is a 1% difference in the incidence of hypothyroidism vs anemia in fatigue. Moreso, if you were on the hospital floor and you were to say "I'm getting only a CBC, because it's more likely," the resident will chide you for not considering hypothyroidism as well and getting the Thyroid stimulating hormone as well, making you look bad. So yeah, learning for the test doesn't really ever end.
Now I'm even more confused. If you can get any channel you want a la carte, then why do you need to impose indecency regs on channels. I could almost see the logic when you had to get Spike and TNT in order to get Nickelodeon for the kids, but now if you can cherry pick the safe channels you specifically want (and as such, pick the not so safe at your discretion), you should do away with the regs and let the market sort out what people are willing to pay for.
I guess we better get to building some coliseums, or the citizens will stop being productive.
As part of my surgical clerkship in medical school, I in on an endotracheal surgery, where a camera was basically pushed into the bronchi and then tools manipulated in view of the camera. The fellow was doing the procedure under the guidence of the attending. During the procedure, the attending hat to keep reminding the fellow about keeping the camera centered and how the tip only moved on 1 axis and how you had to rotate the entire appratus to get 2d motion and so on. After the procedure, the attening literally asked if the fellow had ever played video games before. I could see the point, as if I could see the points that the attending was getting, it was more or less like flying down the death star trench. I would think that video games can help during camera assisted or laprascopic procedures since your actions are not exactly correlated to your view of the operating field; your camera is rotated at different angles and you need to be able to construct the entire field in your mind in order to know what actions are needed from the input on the moniter. Just like when playing video games, your actions are not directly translated into the game. Wii excluded, if you want to swing a sword, you push a button on the controller, essentially you learn to input a different action in order to accomplish what you want on screen, which is kind of what laproscopic surgery is. Like if you want the instrumented rotated to the right on the screen, you have to be able to analyze the picture on the monitor and perhaps realize that a move to the right on the screen is really a move to the left with your hand.
The person liable would be the ambulance driver on duty that night. All good intentions aside, you're much better waiting for trained personel to transport an injured person. Suppose a person has a fractured neck, but you feel you don't need to wait for some damned ambulance to get here, because you can drunkenly drive to a hospital faster. You pick up your friend to carry him to your car and **SNAP**, his fractured neck turns him into a quadrapelegic for the rest of his life. Sure, that's an extreme example, but guess who's responsible for your friend living a wheelchair for the rest of his life?
Simply plugging in symptoms will rarely get you a definitive diagnosis. Symptoms always have to be taken into context around things like personal medical history, physical exam, and the doctor thinking to ask about questions you might not think relevant. Say one day you have chest pain and trouble breathing. That could be anything from a heart attack, to a pulmonary embolus, to a pneumothorax, a fractured rib, or many other things. Medicine is a tapestry, you can't look at just 1 or 2 strands and expect to see the entire picture. As for getting information, information has never been restricted. Nobody is trying to restrict you from buying a medical textbook. You're able to visit libraries and do your own research. We'd all like information to be freely availably at no cost to us, but there are limitations to being able to get things for free.
So in 2048, we'll have 8 billion people and no fish. Time to buy stock in Soylant Green.
While an interesting idea, you have to wonder how much of these books will be outdated in 10 or 20 years, espically ones relating to rapidly evolving fields like computer science. While I don't want to say that making current events and scientific theories isn't important, one has to wonder whether there are better uses for the money that will be more lasting, like in making literature or music free of copyrights.
Yeah, it may be cheaper, but if you don't want this ring enough to make it youself, why would you want it at all? It serves no purpose aside from establishing geek cred, which is then taken away by virtue of you having bought it. A computer is something with a legitimate purpose and necessity, yet around here it's blasphemy to admit that you bought a pre-made system rather than building your own. For little things like this, the fun is in making them yourself. You could buy a pre-constructed enterprise model to hang from your ceiling, but if you're going to do that, wouldn't you rather get the 1000 peice model with the LEDs and fiberoptic lights to build yourself?