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I have found the Pilot Kakuno (about ¥1000, so inexpensive) - just IMO, - pilot ink is very easy flowing, the nibs are great for my writing style, pull off cap not screw, so much easier and readier to use, easy to clean.
I work in the UK health service which is not a good place for stationery lovers.
Nice that he has a slide rule on the desk (under the front basket) looks like a K&E Deci-Lon case.
This link is not about gaming on asahilinux.
Wow, but what does it mean?
Posted by
capnahab on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:42PM
from the self-post dept.
Well, not specifically Latex but text decouments, black or grey scale, don't need color, don't need scanning etc.
I just want nice crisp computer modern font. If you want to recommend paper too that would be a bonus.
I don't mind upfront cost for reliability and longevity. I'd rather not be tied into a difficult consumable deal though I realise that's part of the hardware deal.
and the helicopter leading edge tape, I have a 50m roll I have used 3 iches of.
Fascinating and something to think about as I ride the Piccadilly line escalators with my mind in neutral. Thanks.
"Example: My wife is in surgery, and has told me how surgical tools often come billed as a set. Rather than being able to bill for a single tool, if an operation requires another duplicate of the same tool the surgeon will often just open an entire new set."
That could be because the instrument required has been sterilised as part of a set and is not sterilised individually. This is a common problem in the UK where I work (as a surgeon), - the logistics of individually tracking all single packaged instruments would be unworkable and hugely costly.So they are grouped as a set for a particular operation.
What regulatory jurisdiction are you under? - as in the original post,- the UK thats why I posted the advice.
This would not be an open forum. budget is minimal.
Posted by
capnahab on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:36AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I need to set up a secure forum for doctors to discuss various apsects of neurosurgery. This is a specialty with many rare types of tumour and a platform to share learning and ask advice would be very helpful. This is mainly community support for surgeons in different stages of training.
There is good advice from the UK General Medical Council...
As a total R beginner I was hugely put off by the complexities of data cleansing especially columns with ?different data types.
(Not remotely competing) neurosurgeon here. Vision never ceases to amaze me in its robustness. Patients with long-standing (years) visual field defect from pituitary tumour will recover their vision within minutes of it being decompressed. One of the most satisfying things I do is ask the patient in the recovery area if they can see the time on the clock opposite them, - the operation having finished 30 mins ago. Most can, - this says much more about nature, nerve compression and neuronal plasticity than the surgery.
Very interesting, I always wondered how that worked. Also the huge loss of track, - 23000 miles in 1936, 10000 today.
What did you go for?,- I live in Northern Europe too.
Yes, tho they have been around now for about 20y, are big (no
good for eg neurosurgery, ent) and cost $2m.
You don't need that for lap appendicectomy, - just a better scope, and a good surgeon.
Robots have no advantage over human dexterity. They have a few niche roles eg where we can't get our hands in eg the prostate.
Noted. What has been stable for a long time and remains frustratingly static and unrefined is the field of surgcial instruments. There are a few exceptions but most haven't changed in the 20years I have been a surgeon.
The regulatory costs of developing new instruments and intertia of manufacturers doesnt help. Once a manufacturer gains a market share they try and keep by not innovating which keeps their deveopment costs down and the consumer volume is comparatively low. I don't get the feeling there is any sense of patient altruism.
I have been using the same 4mm dia endoscope 25cm long since 2007 when the first iphone came out. It is very simple, made of glass fibres with a sony 3chip camera that is 10y old. We get some v slow progression on video output and have just got 4k.
Compared to consumer tech the advances are ridiculously slow.
We need a camera (the iphone camera is small enough) on a steerable stick. How hard an engineering task can that be?.
I am a surgeon, hospitals are seizing the online video call as a new miracle cost saver. Whilst some consultations are OK for routine encounters eg organising tests, when it comes to discussing surgery most patients value seeing the surgeon.
not working on mac chrome or safari, so british and such a waste of time.
The facial nerve is the 7th cranial nerve. It's branches innervate the muscles of facial expression. It is deep and it takes a deep cut to sever it's branches usually through muscle. Most of the scars are horizontal and I dont think I have seen one associated with a facial palsy.
Are these milliseconds?
The visual evoked response latency ( time taken from the eye to electrical activity in the occipital cortex ) is about 88 ms in Women and 92 ms in men. There will be additional time for the visual object ( eg cursor) to be processed and appreciated in higher centres.