
Re: Makes you proud
Codeless code nails it
http://thecodelesscode.com/case/116
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NHS England is a government body
GMC is a government QUANGO - it s not a professional body - it is a regulator controlled by the government
AoMRC is run by those awaiting an honour (CBE/Knighthood etc)
RCoA is an independent body and nothing to do with the NHS. It deals with anaesthetists who work IN the NHS.
It fucked up
Almost as badly as the COVID excel shit.
Not my College (RCR)
And I am geek/nerd enough to do a decent job with excel.
And currently managing better SQL searches on local productivity than the flailing efforts of medical management.
Several points.
I use VR for this purpose daily. Like all my colleagues it is full of strange typos. It is about the psychology of reading/dictation - you read what you said and it is *really* hard to pick up errors in your own transcribed output.
It is not just summarising the audio - it is pulling past medical history, other interesting facts and results into a report from the article.
Clinic summaries are not just a sanitised record of the consultation. There is also a synthesis of information into a diagnosis, problem lists and treatment plans.
No mention as to who or where that is happening. If only check and sign it hints at trying to be Watson.
Other wise there is a missing step of dictate outcomes.
...burning gases...
There is fusion. there is NO burning, particularly no exothermic oxidation.
A suitable scientific response is on how the sun "burns" without oxygen
I shall pass over the ball of thermonuclear explosion as I bask in the warm glow of solar thermonuclear fusion.
XCoverPro now obsolete due to google bloat and insisting 500mb is a shortage of space. Liked it wile it was usable. Bedside alarm now.
XCover Pro 6 looks smashing (including pogo charging but finding a base is not so easy). Would track one down if I was due to change but have a phone/pda to play with now. 2 USB C slots, and headphone socket.
So if it might land in water, why no airbags/floats on the project. Just asking. For the sake of a small additional weight, the ability to recover enough or it to reuse seems a missed opportunity.
[resisting voting on the ground level v above mean sea level / chart datum thing]
And if they add airbags I claim patent rights!
Singer had to buy up the second hand original sewing machines and smash them to replace them with more "time limited" successors.
If you like your whisky (no e) you would know that the company that made the malt milling machines, sold 1 to each distillery (honourable exceptions of similarly long lived machines) and went bust.
Too reliable. Market saturation.
DOI been on 1 (or more) too many whisky tours in Scotland. Not like I could run one. There are 3 things you need...
Why can't we just switch off street lights 0100-0500 to give us all a break.
But also deal with light polluting domestic and farm lights.
I used to enjoy my local street light being broken. Now an ultrabright LED.
I live 10 miles (sorry I'll post the length in whales shortly as per the Reg standards) from a Dark Sky reserve,
so in the right places I can count a lot of stars in pegasus, or orion depending on which citizen science I'm doing.
Thank you fir the hint, this is pertinent from NASA
--------> astronomer
Well MRI works by interrogating the spin of atoms.
What it *doesn't do* is spin a superconducting magnet around your body. The physics is phenomenal. TL;DR there is a gradient/shim field that alters the resonant frequency across the volume. Ping in some RF and you can read out the atomic relaxation.
What does spin 2 tonnes (230 Adult badgers or 1 1/3 skateboarding rhinocerii) around your head or body is a CT scanner, using slip ring (ooer Matron) technology - as pictured in the article.
It's my day job,,, and I'm licenced to play with the unsealed radioactive sources too
Unless it is a house in the UK.
Once the land registry is updated it is near impossible to revert the theft.
There are many stories on this.
Tenant updates land registry, sells house, runs away. There are some small protections at the registry but they don't make it easy.
Much more a threat to houses that are mortgage free.
It would be ~really~ nice if I could sync multiple accounts across devices. I mean profiles, preferences, plugins (ddone, extension whatever) etc, I don't mind getting my IMAP in real time. My Dovecot is sitting happily. But having added a number of new machines to my home, a sync like FireFox does would be 'neat' [all hail our USAsian overlords!]
But if the business model changes to rent by the trip, the car can be used multiple times a day, scheduled for your routine.
It may even support ride sharing.
Reduces total number of vehicles on the road. Maximises benefit from a fixed resource.
As Henry Ford said, if you asked the customer what they wanted, the answer would have been faster horses
So wish I had found that.
Had (past tense) 2 x 5mx with broken flexi cables to display. got 2x replacments
temperature controlled soldering iron but still borked 2x replacements (soldering skills not shabby) binned chasis
Consoling myself with the just delivered (couple of years delayed) Astro Slider :)))
Still have a 3a and a semi-eqivalent as 232 terminals with screens for my headless server.
Waiting for the Kali on Astro ...
/block
Someone once did that to me - the caller was told to "go away" in a very direct biblical sense and a formal complaint made to the only people that could have shared it.
They were told to make their request properly through the formal channels.
I've done nothing ever for them ever again - even when their clients would be paying me for their referral. Nor in my day job - the department they work in is toxic and I refuse to to deal with them. Doesn't help that they are openly critical of my departments whole service. Not the boss. SEP - painting it pink!
We just "did" Cerner.
I invested a lot of time in the interface to our dept. My manager nuked it from orbit.
I had 200 (ish) codes for requests, we now have 6000, many not previously available (for good reason)
I am more geek than our chief information officer.
UI is awful. so many issues...
I dip in and out as I use a radiology system. But messaging is broken
Just had notices sent out [at my instigation] that & ^ " all break messages/referrals so 'usually fit & well, new bleed & breathlessness' comes to us as 'usually fit'
I've had to update reports re inappropriate details (grrrr)
3 screens, working on the right - pop ups on the one on the left.. Can't set date ranges easily.. can't "favourite" our local label printer, can't reprint labels.. microbilogy requisitions don't print... you get the idea (I stab people for a living before you ask, and samples need to be identified apparently)
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I agree with your points entirely.
And have looked at your posting history at Vulture Central {RIP VC UK}
As a schmuck [sp?] who previously used these images and has enough training to comment, it is a useful adjunct to flag a "but did you see this...", never AutoPilot machine diagnosis.
Given that I am currently attending a major conference virtually, the ethnic mix of lots of stuff is being actively questioned in many imaging communities, and the limitations of AI looked at.
You all know of random examples, I've seen the AI heat maps for some diagnoses, which don't map pathology at all.
A bit like the what dog is this Husky ID which relied on the presence of snow alone.
There is definitely a place for CAD (computer aided diagnosis) but AIDED is the thing.
There are papers showing reduced reporting time and increased accuracy, but don't forget the "other" bits that make me worthwile - the spots the computer isn't trained on.
Radiologist
But the massive energy of waves impacting the UK is completely unrealised.
There are interesting demonstrators around Scotland, including small inlets, air compression chambers and bidirectional turbines
Nothing needs to get wet.
And there *are* always waves.
Tide is more problematic, needs larger projects and timing keeps shifting.