sanotehu

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by sanotehu 2y ago
Syncthing to sync the grocery list to your phone whenever it is on the home WiFi. Any changes will be updated when you next get back home. I use this with obsidian and it's a game changer, removing need for the cloud
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by sanotehu 4y ago
If you're interested in chatting about this sort of stuff, let me know. I'm a UK doctor working in the field, always looking to optimise processes while keeping quality. Email is in my profile.
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by sanotehu 5y ago
Interesting... Do you have a source copy for this? I'm always interested to play music as the artist intended and Stevie Wonder is one of my favourites :)
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Covid-19 antibodies found in 6% of England's populace(gov.uk)
4 points by sanotehu 6y ago|0 comments
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by sanotehu 6y ago
A solution to this is having user-chosen programmes with an allotted study budget. This is the model in UK post-grad medical education. I know around London there are a couple of schemes running that teach practical skills using outdated no
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by sanotehu 8y ago
Agreed. You're putting an overworked, underpaid public servant in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario. They complied with a far reaching request and got told their response was too far reaching? I'd q
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by sanotehu 8y ago
I'm a doctor of four years now and I completely empathise with you. The one thing I have learnt doing the job is not to fully trust anything but to check it yourself. That's how you get outstanding results. It's unfortunate t
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by sanotehu 8y ago
Out of interest, what was your parenting style like? Was it just a matter of clear expectations and consistent rewards and punishments? Did you have a source for all this or did you work it out by yourself?
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1,500 UK doctors' job offers withdrawn after Excel blunder(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by sanotehu 8y ago|0 comments
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by sanotehu 9y ago
Yes, through the "Import" feature. Excel will in that case allow you to choose what "type" each column in the CSV has (and will not parse text if given the "text" type). The problem is that a lot of users (myse
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by sanotehu 9y ago
We don't adhere to the EWTD. I think a UK doctor's hours are probably easier than a US doctor's but we all break the EWTD (except for some specialties like psychiatry). For example I am rostered to work an average 48 hours a
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by sanotehu 10y ago
To answer your question about the difference between "clinical grade" and "consumer grade" hardware, consider [1] - where FitBit-measured heartrates differed from actual heartrates by about 30bpm. As a doctor I looked in
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by sanotehu 11y ago
A lot of it is essentially hacking around the fact that medicine & hospitals weren't designed for computers. For example: we used to (still do) keep large files of old notes for patients. In the worst cases think reams of paper thr
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by sanotehu 11y ago
I completely agree with this sentiment. Unfortunately there's no motivating factor for the companies that produce these things to continually update products that are "in the wild". I recently bought a Volkswagen 2013 model a
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by sanotehu 11y ago
Yes. Being in a queue means you have to constantly keep an ear out for being transferred to an actual human being. Which can be quite hard when the hold music is regularly interrupted with voice announcements. Yes I realise my call is impor
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by sanotehu 11y ago
Amen. As a doctor I have to deal with a lot of crappy computer interfaces. Data entry in hospitals (at least the sort that gets the hospitals money) ends up being done by non-medical personnel because the medical personnel are too busy tryi
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by sanotehu 11y ago
Completely. While playing a complex classical piano piece I used to perform jumps with my hands "blind" - without looking at the keys. The trick (apart from lots and lots of practice) was the sidelong glance to eye up your target
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by sanotehu 11y ago
What, like the pharmaceutical industry? I would argue that much good knowledge is created that way but it, too, has its issues. See much of Ben Goldacre's work. http://www.badscience.net/
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by sanotehu 11y ago
Would you mind explaining the double-blind review in CS conferences? I'm a doctor by trade so am well acquainted with the way peer-review works but I've never heard of conferences being reviewed, either before-the-fact as an accep
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by sanotehu 12y ago
Out of interest, which headphones did you go with? I've been looking at wireless headphones but I've always been put off by not knowing their battery life. Aside from the manufacturer's ratings, which have a variable degree o
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by sanotehu 13y ago
A great parable for how we try to make technology more human-friendly with unintended consequences. I went on a road trip recently and I've been thinking about how advances in car technology change how we view cars. I came to a similar
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by sanotehu 14y ago
What I found interesting while reading this article was the parallel to what a doctor does when diagnosing problems. In medicine, it's commonly known that the interview with the patient (the 'history') is the first thing a doctor should be
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by sanotehu 14y ago
Shivering is a common side-effect of general anaesthetic. I've not seen enough post-op recovery to know exactly how common, but it's high on the list of side-effects we have to tell people. WRT the hypothermia, you may have been slightly hy
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by sanotehu 14y ago
I think it's a testament to modern medicine that we can do these sorts of things. Glad to hear you got through the recovery alright. With the operation I saw, they packed the patient's head with ice bags as well as cooling the blood. I reme
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by sanotehu 14y ago
Yes, they are indeed. As a medical student I had the privilege of seeing a heart valve being installed. They are a witness to how far medicine has progressed since the days of barber surgeons. The blood is taken out of your body through the
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by sanotehu 16y ago
and... did it work?