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I re-learned cursive using 100 year old textbooks, also to write it right handed (I am left handed, now ambidextrous). I think cursive is kinda cool and I see why it was in use, so quick to write with. I now have a quasi-cursive handwriting with my right hand, texting with my left. e: lol what a snipe, I would give you a cat, but you get my current project instead: 
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Apr 8, 2024 12:59
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My work in clinic admin has got much easier since we went paperless and the clinicians were forced to type their notes up, but whereas previously it would have been hidden by their handwriting, now there is nothing to hide their incomprehensible grammar Plus ça change
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Apr 8, 2024 13:00
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mrpwase posted:My work in clinic admin has got much easier since we went paperless and the clinicians were forced to type their notes up, but whereas previously it would have been hidden by their handwriting, now there is nothing to hide their incomprehensible grammar Here's a really inside-baseball pet peeve of mine. One of the doctors here, when writing dosage for liquid morphine, will write '2.5-5ml to be given up to every four hours' Now, I know they mean 'no more often than every four hours' but that isn't what they wrote! They wrote something that implies four hours is the *longest* you should go between doses! Ugh. And there's one who uses 'dinner' when standard procedure is 'the evening meal' because some people call lunch 'dinner'.
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Apr 8, 2024 13:03
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His Divine Shadow posted:I re-learned cursive using 100 year old textbooks, also to write it right handed (I am left handed, now ambidextrous). I think cursive is kinda cool and I see why it was in use, so quick to write with. I now have a quasi-cursive handwriting with my right hand, texting with my left. what is this?
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Apr 8, 2024 13:04
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His Divine Shadow posted:... I see what you did there.  I switched to just using capital letters all the time, i just make the first letter bigger when a word/sentence requires it.  edit: looks like you are doing a bit of rust removal with electrolysis.
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Apr 8, 2024 13:06
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Are you electrocuting a bucket of poo poo
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Apr 8, 2024 13:07
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Basically, electrolysis rust removal. The water gets real disgusting.
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Apr 8, 2024 13:08
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HopperUK posted:Here's a really inside-baseball pet peeve of mine. One of the doctors here, when writing dosage for liquid morphine, will write '2.5-5ml to be given up to every four hours' At least in our notes grammar usually isn't that important, it just takes a bit longer to decipher what they mean. But for dosage surely they should be using strict definitions, that's crazy!
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Apr 8, 2024 13:13
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His Divine Shadow posted:I re-learned cursive using 100 year old textbooks, also to write it right handed (I am left handed, now ambidextrous). I think cursive is kinda cool and I see why it was in use, so quick to write with. I now have a quasi-cursive handwriting with my right hand, texting with my left. Is this what you did to your cat? Or is this the process by which you are using to create a new cat? Maybe out of Liquid Metal. A Mew-inator 1000.
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Apr 8, 2024 13:19
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Just go all the way back and demand your prescriptions be written in textura quadrata
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Apr 8, 2024 13:19
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used to work in cancer services and organized the weekly MDT where I'd have to type up the incomprehensible scribbles of six urology surgeons surgeons are meant to be good with their hands!
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Apr 8, 2024 13:24
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His Divine Shadow posted:I re-learned cursive using 100 year old textbooks, also to write it right handed (I am left handed, now ambidextrous). I think cursive is kinda cool and I see why it was in use, so quick to write with. I now have a quasi-cursive handwriting with my right hand, texting with my left. electroplating? rust removal?
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Apr 8, 2024 13:28
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His Divine Shadow posted:I re-learned cursive using 100 year old textbooks, also to write it right handed (I am left handed, now ambidextrous). I think cursive is kinda cool and I see why it was in use, so quick to write with. I now have a quasi-cursive handwriting with my right hand, texting with my left. found an old cast iron skillet?
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Apr 8, 2024 13:29
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Nah car parts (brake calipers) needing rescuing, I'll be damned throw them away after only 33 years.
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Apr 8, 2024 13:32
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UKMT Spring 2024 - His Divine Shadow posted:The water gets real disgusting.
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Apr 8, 2024 13:51
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Microplastics posted:Are you electrocuting a bucket of poo poo And is Thames Water hiring?
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Apr 8, 2024 13:53
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fuctifino posted:You wouldn't download a child.... fuctifino posted:That's what I thought when I posted the article. Haven't all of our NHS records been digitised since at least the start of the millenium? So for example you'd go to your GP and they'd request a blood test. The blood test would be stored on the surgery's own system they had purchased, and they'd send the patient / samples up to the hospital with a printout of the form. Pathology would enter that info into our system, print out the results, and mail it back to the surgeries, who would re-enter it onto their system. And each surgery had its own system. If the nearby private hospital, or any NHS service outside of the hospital wanted to see blood rest results, they'd have to call up and use a password to have it read out to them. Back then at least, there was no central, national 'NHS database,' primarily because each trust was proudly announcing massive purchases of their own 'central' computer system with multi-decade tenures, and then finding out it was incompatible with (or kept losing data from) pretty much every existing system. And there were a ton of departments that refused to use it, or kept using their own systems and then had a custom pass-through badly translating the records to the trust's system. Don't get me wrong, this is an example of something in the NHS which (if it hasn't already been changed) does need reform. But it needs careful, well-funded and centralised change, and you simply can't do that when every department, hospital and trust are being run as their own thing, and even worse have the Blairite management college idea of 'competing with each other.' There are also many privacy concerns and other issues with having one national database that I can't be arsed to get into right now. This might all have changed now, but I wouldn't be surprised if the idea of one big national database is still being held back by every trust going 'Yes we can have a national database, but it has to be / be compatible with our program.' There's now national access to repeat prescriptions it seems, because you can access those via the patient access app, but even when I moved house around 2020 I was told by my new GP surgery that I would have to write to my old surgery and get them to post my records on.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:04
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Bobby Deluxe posted:There's now national access to repeat prescriptions it seems, because you can access those via the patient access app, but even when I moved house around 2020 I was told by my new GP surgery that I would have to write to my old surgery and get them to post my records on.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:16
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Don't get me wrong, this is an example of something in the NHS which (if it hasn't already been changed) does need reform. But it needs careful, well-funded and centralised change, and you simply can't do that when every department, hospital and trust are being run as their own thing, and even worse have the Blairite management college idea of 'competing with each other.' You aren't wrong, but the last Labour lot did try that and it went bang: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28166675/ Massive, centralised IT projects from the Oracles and IBMs of this world have a tendency to fail horribly, it's not even government specific. So not optimistic about this new wheeze either.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:18
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Bobby Deluxe posted:'Reform our NHS' is such a sinister phrasing coming from those ghouls. The bit in bold was the bulk of my job when I worked in the NHS in the same period. I was in one small department which had two clinical databases, neither of which could fully handle all the required info by themselves and could only 'talk' to each other by exporting and importing via Excel. There was a third database which handled the 18-week pathway data, and then about six months before I left they introduced a fourth database which the Trust had purchased which supposedly did clinical and pathway data...but not in the way my department could use (it was Clinical Genetics, so we had to link records in ways that were verboten in other contexts) so when I left they were back-entering all the patient records onto the new database and triple-entering new records. In a sensible world the sheer scale of, and resources available to, the NHS really should mean that it has a bespoke single IT and record system, or at least multiple clumps of the same system that can talk to each other when needed. It could be developed, maintained and managed in-house, and possibly even sold to other users.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:19
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Our head of IT was part of the NHS when they last tried the centralised database stuff and he has absolute horror stories. It would take decades to get every trust on the same system.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:30
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Can't they just import all the databases into a single large spreadsheet?
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Apr 8, 2024 14:34
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fuctifino posted:Can't they just import all the databases into a single large spreadsheet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBoKwArgC3A
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Apr 8, 2024 14:36
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 Huge if true???
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Apr 8, 2024 14:41
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hmm yes, that's true. I know let's put it in a word document instead. we can read it with a Macro
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Apr 8, 2024 14:44
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Angepain posted:hmm yes, that's true. I know let's put it in a word document instead. we can read it with a Macro There needs to be redundancy backup, so make sure you print the document on the hour every hour.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:47
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Theres much more experienced IT people in here than me so I'm only posting what the guy at work has told me, and maybe misremembering some of it, but he said in the Dorset Hospitals Trust there was a different system for Bournemouth and Pooles A&E Reception just for logging patients in.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:49
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josh04 posted:
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Apr 8, 2024 14:54
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Why not have an actual oracle? Like get someone high as hell and have them read all the records and then you ask them questions.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:55
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Weird how the second David Lammy grows a spine Ofcom suddenly launches an investigation into his radio show while studiously ignoring all the tories on GB News.
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Apr 8, 2024 14:56
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feedmegin posted:You aren't wrong, but the last Labour lot did try that and it went bang: It will be done, but only because some genocidal AI startup wants to hoover it all up
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Apr 8, 2024 15:01
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serious gaylord posted:Weird how the second David Lammy grows a spine Ofcom suddenly launches an investigation into his radio show while studiously ignoring all the tories on GB News. The investigation was going to happen, as there was a concerted drive by the fash to get Lammy investigated by OFCOM for reading a news item on his LBC show as retaliation for Jacob Rees-Mogg being investigated for reading news on his GBeebies show. I don't think Lammy erred like JRM, but OFCOM had their arm twisted by the fash writing in and complaining. I think the investigation will conclude that Lammy did nothing wrong, but the timing and framing of the news is certainly suspicious. Lammy supported the genocide and his recent change in stance is just political posturing, so I don't care either way if he gets hosed over for something he didn't do.
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Apr 8, 2024 15:03
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serious gaylord posted:Theres much more experienced IT people in here than me so I'm only posting what the guy at work has told me, and maybe misremembering some of it, but he said in the Dorset Hospitals Trust there was a different system for Bournemouth and Pooles A&E Reception just for logging patients in. I apologise to the thread's computer touchers for what I just made them envision. I briefly worked for the wheelchair service and even that had its own custom database that absolutely would not play ball with the physio's systems.
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Apr 8, 2024 15:06
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Czech Republic has a decent centralised health records system, but it did take like 12 years to work out all the kinks and more importantly the fact that all hospitals are managed by the government on a county level helps a lot with getting every hospital on board. The only reason I know about it is that my dad spent half of his life working on it, it just kindof works and is pretty good.
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Apr 8, 2024 15:08
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Estonia is often the example brought up here as the gold standard for a computer system.
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Apr 8, 2024 15:09
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I like their ID cards that you can actually use to do useful things, like securely sign emails, rather than just being held over everyone as a threat.
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Apr 8, 2024 15:12
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Guavanaut posted:Do the cockney punk frog and the rural gay gentry frog have a beef? Is Tosh there to catch Bill but gets him mixed up with Wally? Is Supertato the secret identity of the Irish crisp mascot, and if so which Irish crisp mascot? the Free Stayto one
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Apr 8, 2024 15:14
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kecske posted:the Free Stayto one Both Ulster Tayto and Freestayto are called Supertato. But they each live in a separate universe. Sort of like how Jay Garrick and Barry Allen both used to be the Flash. Imagine the cover to "The Flash of Two Worlds" but it's a guy desperate for a pack of Crisps, and both Supertato are running towards him to provide him with a snack. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Apr 8, 2024 15:22
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Guavanaut posted:I like their ID cards that you can actually use to do useful things, like securely sign emails, rather than just being held over everyone as a threat. Poorer and less advanced countries have biometrically linked ID cards which are used to verify your identity for govt and bank transactions. None of this carrying around leccy bills nonsense.
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Apr 8, 2024 15:35
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I bet they don't even poo poo directly in the rivers.
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