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Please Choose One -- A doctor's story about software and medicine(philipallengreen.com)
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by davycro 12y ago
Same. I learned from library books w/o Internet.
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Could be worse. The pandemic will start if Ebola spreads to a low-resource country with a large urban population. Worst case, in my opinion, would be an Ebola case diagnosed in Johannesburg.
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I work in a family practice every other week as a requirement for medical school. I've noticed that EMRs are very disruptive to a doctors bedside manner. For every visit the doctor types notes into a laptop while the patient speaks to
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Mr Draper states that Bitcoin is badly needed in resource-poor countries with unstable currencies. How does he expect Bitcoin to compete with mobile currencies such as M-Pesa? Thinking about it, I imagine that the advantage of Bitcoin is th
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I followed the Starting Strength regime for about 7 months and had great results where I added about 15 lbs of muscle to my frame. Its a fantastic method for building a foundation of strength and muscle. My biggest complaint during the proc
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by davycro 12y ago
I was going to post the same thing. My family uses the SPOT messenger. Whenever one of my brothers embarks on a dangerous trip, he takes it with him. Recently my brother kayaked through the Grand Canyon alone in the winter. Every day he wou
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Cormac McCarthy writes everything on a typewriter that cost him $50 in 1964 [1]. The novel, A Confederacy of Dunces was written by hand [2]. So I guess this means that when it comes to writing, especially writing fiction, the man and his mi
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Agreed. But the video has to be quality. We have several flipped classrooms at my school, where you watch a video before lecture and then have an interactive session. The videos are mostly a professor talking over a PowerPoint deck, which i
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Medical student here. I've tried many flashcard programs (StudyBlue, Quizlet, gFlashcard, MentalCase, and more), and Anki is by far the best for my needs. One thing that puts Anki in an orbital beyond the other programs is the ImageOcc
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I just tested this service with gmail and it did in fact work. Pluto sends an image that contains the body of the message. After about 30 seconds the image is replaced with another that says "this message has expired." A very rema
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I rely on flashcards for medical school. A few requirements that I would need to switch from Anki-- 1) Copy paste of images. This is key. With my mac I screenshot a slide from an anatomy atlas to the clipboard. Then use the image occlusion
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Have you looked at the Dartmouth Atlas? They've been mapping healthcare costs for the last decade. Might have some good data and inspiration for you.
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Reasons that I did not blog when I ran a company: 1) I'm a poor writer 2) Any insights that I shared would benefit my competitors and would be insignificant for customers 37signals is an outlier because their readers are potential cust
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by davycro 13y ago
I'm surprised that people here are sympathizing with the criminal. Have you ever been robbed before?
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Someone willing to pay $10 a month to hide ads probably uses AdBlock.
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For this, he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
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> Going back to the subject of the article, I wonder how much this visit program actually costs, and whether it could be direct-marketed to wealthy people with elderly parents. "For $10,000(e.g.) a year, we can reduce your parents' hosp
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by davycro 13y ago
Function is beauty. I doubt you will find another sub $75 phone with a QWERTY keyboard and WhatsApp. The Pink and Yellow colors are a nice touch too. I think low-income buyers are tired of being limited to just black and gray phones.
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by davycro 13y ago
This looks fantastic. Keep in mind that this phone is designed for the worlds poor-- people who can barely afford enough prepaid airtime to send a text message. Nokia and WhatsApp are bringing technology to an underserved market that have t
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by davycro 14y ago
the iphone app pulsepoint is worth mentioning here. its designed to alert people with cpr training when a cardiac arrest occurs near them. if more people use this app them more people should survive this type of accident
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by davycro 14y ago
Just the potential medical applications of Google Glass are enough for me to believe the hype. Doctors could use glass to: collect patient data (by photographing injuries, surgeries, symptoms, or lesions); automatically recall patient infor
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by davycro 14y ago
I think that friends always bailing on you is a sign that you are boring. Reading this article reminded me of this quote from Anne Lamott: "There are certain people whose company you love, whose mind you love to pick, whose running commenta
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by davycro 14y ago
For now just web and SMS. I am not sure which platform to use if my cohorts and I decide expand our project outside of Cape Town. Shoot me an email at me@davecro.com if you would like to talk more about it. I'd be interested in hearing abou
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I think most people in cape town will spend up to $100 for a phone. It's by far the most important possession here. Data plans are prepaid.
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Awesome, I am developing mobile software in Cape Town and wish Android phones had a higher adoption rate so I could build gps enabled apps for medical workers. Nairobi has a reputation for being the most tech forward city in Africa and hear
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> Almost half of those surveyed were using internet-enabled smart or “feature” phones. The scratch cards that many Kenyans use to charge their mobiles have recently begun to advertise their value in terms of data rather than talk time.
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I agree with your points. However, I think that this market is underserved and ripe for some form of profitable innovation.
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> People in third-world countries don't care about the average U.S. site, and if they did, they would find someone with a computer that probably is 5-7 years old, possibly older, therefore they wouldn't be using that resolution. The mos
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When I first arrived I thought that Android would be the dominant upcoming phone. But for reasons I do not understand, the devices are marked up. An iPhone 4 in South Africa will cost $800. I would like to see more android phones in the dev

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