http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/ erdoc: chronicles of an ER doc and his palm Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:30:20 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. Health & Medicine Computers & Internet Occupations http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/archive/83.html Fri, 25 Mar 2005 03:16:06 GMT erdoc apologizes for the paucity of entries in past months due to his attentions being required elsewhere... But he will relate the contents of an e-mail message he received from a frustrated colleague from across the globe: "Have you, xxx, ever considered that in what we do, we are uh... anti-darwinists? By that I mean we are artificially selecting who gets to live and hence go on to pollute the gene pool with their genes... And it's not just the genes, for you have to remember, besides nature, nurture is vitally important as well... so they go on to reproduce and not just pass on... (more) http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/comments?id=83 http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/archive/82.html Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:51:57 GMT What the hell is happening at PalmSource? What are the implications of this? Cobalt will die? http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/comments?id=82 http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/archive/81.html Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:09:12 GMT 1. they are hard to intubate 2. they are near impossible to resuscitate 3. they sometimes do not fit ambulances... 4. veins.... can be a problem.... 5. chest x-rays? urrrghhhh...... okay, we know there are lungs there but... 6. CT scans? well, most CT machines can't take people > 200 kgs. Then there's the girth of the detector ring... 7. Ever tried reducing a fracture/dislocated ankle in someone like this? 8. Well first you gotta diagnose it... Sometimes without an x-ray it's hard... So you see apart from the usual medical reasons for not... (more) http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/comments?id=81 http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/archive/79.html Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:52:31 GMT US$499 gets you a low end ibook without keyboard and screen in a nifty teeny little package. Not a bad deal, given there's only one real player in the market of selling macintoshes. You get way more bang for buck buying an OEM or DIY PC but you can't get a mac for that price. OS/X is a VERY impressive OS, despite being quite bloated and having Aqua, that eye-candy processor intensive and ultimately klunky user interface... (ONE BUTTON MICE? Come on, mate?). There's also a lot to be said about objective C which IMO is probably a lot cleaner and intuitive than... (more) http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/comments?id=79 http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/archive/80.html Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:56:54 GMT Interesting concept, if it works... But for US$200.... Mmmm.... erdoc says bring back the thumb boards... http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/comments?id=80 http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/archive/78.html Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:28:43 GMT It's the nejm for you... sensationalist, hype or otherwise... there is a vaccine for it. weighing the pros and cons, erdoc promptly got his paws on a vial... wash your hands, y'all... http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/comments?id=78 http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/archive/77.html Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:00:00 GMT What erdoc would like to see this year: 1. PalmOS 6 machines (quite likely perhaps). 2. A cheap portable and easy to use ultrasound machine. 3. Some way of simplifying the usual tangles of monitor leads, iv tubing etc... you know what I mean. Wireless monitors? Mmm.... Well you still got the infusions and iv tubing... and interference may not be a good idea. 4. G5 ibooks (okay, don't need them but they'd be cool nevertheless). 5. Good usable battery life on portable devices (this includes PDA's, laptops as well as portable monitors and ventilators :) Anything... (more) http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/comments?id=77 http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/archive/76.html Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:59:59 GMT Well, goodbye 2004... It's that time to start making resolutions again... For those of you who do not any yet, here's the golden one, albeit in the negative. Admittedly erdoc has a vested interest in you keeping it :) Do not do anything irresponsible that could land you or someone else in the ED. i.e. do not even think of driving if you're drinking or doing drugs or using your mobile phone or just being a d!ckhead altogether. That sort of thing. And don't try to kill yourself. If you don't know how, you'll probably mess up, and guess where you'll land... (more) http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/comments?id=76 http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/archive/75.html Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:13:46 GMT While erdoc was out surfing today he caught a big fish... A lot of stuff in here worth sparing a second thought now and then... http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/comments?id=75 http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/archive/74.html Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:28:02 GMT Neal at Quartus has been busy and it looks like a fairly major revision of Quartus Forth is imminent... Some may find the stack notation of forth rather daunting and inefficient... For others, forth itself may be as fresh and refreshing an approach to programming as ever... http://erdoc.blogdrive.com/comments?id=74