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• On the post: Doctors Against Patients Having Direct Access To Test Results

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2010 @ 09:30pm

  "The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports on two studies estimating the hospital deaths due to medical errors at 44,000 to 98,000 annually, which would place medical errors in the top ten causes of death in the USA. Barbara Starfield's article in JAMA places the estimates even higher, citing a total of 225,000 deaths due to iatrogenic causes, which would place health-caused deaths as the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA. Holland et al (1997) estimates as many as 1 million patients are injured while in the hospital and approximately 180,000 die as a result, with the majority due to medication adverse reactions."
  
  Take it for what it's worth.
  http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/mistakes/common.htm

• On the post: Doctors Against Patients Having Direct Access To Test Results

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2010 @ 07:58pm

  For every case of a person diagnosing themselves incorrectly there is a case of a person who got a wrong professional diagnosis and then saved themselves by their own accord. From telling woman to learn to live with cramps when she actually has uterine cancer to the person who "migraines" turn out to be a tumor to obese people who are told they are weak when they have serious thyroid issues, doctors make mistakes.
  
  The patient has the right to examine their information and the chance to catch errors. If I pay a doctor to examine me the result of tests I pay for are mine.
  
  Would you go to a mechanic that charged you for a diagnostic on your car but then wouldn't tell you the results because you might get upset or disagree with your findings?

• On the post: Doubleplusungood: That Copy Of 1984 On Your Kindle Is Now Gone

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2009 @ 12:06pm

  Long live fictionwise.com!

• On the post: Why The Healthcare Industry Doesn't Want Electronic Medical Records

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2009 @ 06:19am

  "he healthcare system profits from people being sick and not from having them be well" I've been saying this for years. Nice to see it spelled out so well.

• On the post: Yes, A Newspaper Can Survive If It Focuses On The Community

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2009 @ 09:27am

  In an area with 500,000 people, on any given day you will be lucky to find 4 LOCAL articles in our paper. Everything else is regurgitated news from the AP wire or something I read on Google 2 weeks ago.
  
  Newspapers got lazy. Reporters forgot how to report.
  
  Nostalgic is right. They lost their connection and now they are paying the price. Nice to see a paper that actually has a clue.

• On the post: Comedian Smashes Mobile Phone; Fearing 'Joke Stealing'

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2009 @ 10:17am

  The real problem with youtube when you are a comedian is that you now have to come up with new jokes and can't make a living off of one old tired routine anymore.

• On the post: Activision Threatens EA For Agreeing To Publish Game Activision Dropped

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2009 @ 01:28pm

  Re: Tea Party

  http://captaincapitalist.blogspot.com/2008/11/time-for-new-tea-party.html

• On the post: You Don't Beat Pirates By Doing Something More Annoying

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2008 @ 06:11am

  Looks like emusic is subscription based. Sorry....I don't do "easy monthly payments". Especially since there can be 6 months periods where there is nothing worth downloading.

• On the post: Don't Blame One Wal-Mart Employee For Dumb Copyright Comments

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2008 @ 10:37am

  I own a copy & print shop. I put up a big red sign that says...
  
  CUSTOMERS PROVIDING MATERIALS FOR CPOYING OR PRINTING ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THOSE MATERIALS. THE CUSTOMER IS ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY POSSIBLE INFRINGEMENT OF ANY COPYRIGHT LAW.
  
  I am not a freaking cop. It isn't my job to interigate people to make sure they are legitimately copying a picture of their great-grandma.
  
  Of course, that statement wont protect me from a lawsuit. Logic and reason wont either apparently.

• On the post: BBC Upset That Fans Are Knitting Dr. Who Characters

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 12 May, 2008 @ 10:46am

  You mean THIS hat?
  
  http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/8862/jaynehat6jj1sp.jpg
  
  "Pretty cunning, don't ya think?"

• On the post: BBC Upset That Fans Are Knitting Dr. Who Characters

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 11 May, 2008 @ 07:06pm

  While I have not knitted a Dr. Who character yet, I have made a Futurama brain slug, some Harry Potter scarves and a Serenity Fruity-Oaty octopus. I guess it's only a matter of time before the law gets me now. LOL
  
  http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9089/foozc5.jpg
  http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/91/brainslugli1.jpg
  
  Fan knitters not only show their love of a show by knitting for themselves, they spread the love for that program and create interest in others. I personally know of at least a dozen people that never would have bought Serenity DVD's if that octopus hadn't sparked conversation about the movie.

• On the post: Hulu Realizes That YouTube's Audience Matters; Puts Its Own Videos Back On YouTube

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 02 May, 2008 @ 04:04pm

  Kind of a shame the old Japanese tradition of sepuku in the face of failure is no longer practiced.

• On the post: Turns Out It's The Kids Who Don't Play Video Games Who Are Most At Risk

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2008 @ 04:30pm

  Girl Power!

  When I started playing video games, it was pong at the bowling alley. Next, it was Death Race and Asteroid at the arcade. After that, tank battles and space invaders on the Atari.
  
  I have since owned every Nintendo system, a Sega, and even Xbox. My favorite games had their share of violence....Conker's Bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark, Halo II, Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Brothers, etc... I also played several PC games, Marathon, Diablo II (LOD) and Starcraft in particular.
  
  Despite the impressive body count I have managed to pile up over the years, I have yet to be arrested for murder. And somehow I made it to age 44 without hacking cows apart with a battle ax, disemboweling anything, or taking over the planet.

• On the post: E-books Still A Solution In Search Of A Problem

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2007 @ 12:18pm

  When an ebook READER costs the same or less than an iPod shuffle and ebook prices reflect the fact that they aren't paying for labor intensive printing and shipping...ONLY THEN will the ebook format take off.

• On the post: Personal (But Illegal) Mobile Phone Jammers Getting More Popular?

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2007 @ 04:39pm

  ?

  2 people taking and laughing to each other in public...nobody says a word. One person talking on a cell phone and everyone gets their panties in a wad. (My dad and ex-step mom are like this.)
  
  Am I missing something or are there just a lot of idiots on the lose?

• On the post: Still Not Betting On An eBook Revolution

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2007 @ 01:05pm

  The problem isn't the ebook format...

  The problem isn't the ebook format...but the price and usability of the readers. I hate having to be tied to my computer to read...I like to do it outdoors or in the bath tub!
  
  "My problem with e-books is that i pay the same price for an electronic copy as I would a paper copy, especially since I need to buy a reader for a few hundred dollars."
  
  Exactly. I have been in the printing industry for almost 30 years. It takes 100th of the time and money to create an ebook than it does a dead tree book. Pricing the electronic books the same as the dead tree is just theft.

• On the post: MTV Still Learning That Things Don't Come So Easy On The Internet

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2007 @ 02:02pm

  The good old days

  I remember when MTV first aired. I invited 20 friends over and we had a party. I was 18.
  
  MTV was great to play when you had friends over. I was considered a genius for being able to hook up the cable to the stereo before they had jacks for that.
  
  Then they forgot why they were even around.
  
  A few years back I was happy again. I found FUSE. They played rock and alternative. Then THEY caught a bad case of MTV-itis. I don't watch them anymore either.

• On the post: Maybe The Crappy Movies Have Something To Do With The Poor Ticket Sales

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2007 @ 03:33pm

  You are so right....

  Drama2Sell said it all. Except one thing...
  
  I can't get a rum & coke or a glass of white wine at my theater either.
  
  My kitchen serves both :D

• On the post: Australian TV Show Says Free Downloads And Fan Uploads On YouTube Increase DVD Sales

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2007 @ 09:32am

  Thanks!

  That was damn funny!
  
  And I never would have heard about it, been interested in it, or seen it if it wasn't for YouTube.
  
  Hey stupid media people! Embed ads in your clips and give them away. You WILL mke money. Of course, it helps if you stuff doesn't SUCK...but one step at a time.

• On the post: Toshiba Figures Out The Hard Way That People Don't Want Overpriced, Locked Down Next-Gen DVD Players

  

  Wifezilla ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2007 @ 12:52pm

  All you have to do....

  All you have to do is look at the "winner" of the video game system wars. The lowly Wii.
  
  There is a point of diminishing return on graphics and dvd resolution. And with all the crap being offered by Hollywood lately, do we really need to see it at high res?!?!

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