Iphone or stethoscope? Both of them of course!!!

Probably that Steve Jobs had seen in his crystal ball all the applications coming from his star phone, but the, I admit to being surprised.

A guard in an emergency department like any other. An elderly patient arrives, addressed by her treating physician for the brutal appearance of a hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body). The quick review confirms the diagnosis. I quickly send him to do a brain scan that shows very clearly a bleeding in the brain. So I call the Guard neurology intern who is on another hospital.

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Greetings, Vaccines and gastroenteritis

Back after a few days of vacation.

And that good news in this new year. The flu is gradually declining even if we remain in many areas on an epidemic threshold. Fortunately, our old friend gastroenteritis is in full power, we almost bored.

Anyway, yesterday, our minister found us competent again since we will be able to vaccinate in the cabinets (it seems that there are balances on vaccines….). We frétillerait of joy even if the requisitions in the empty vaccination centers are probably going to miss us.

Go, happy year to all and think well of you wash your hands after the vows…

It's the telethon, if so!!

Today is the telethon. Unless you have been on Mars the last 15 days, you are inevitably aware of the telethon and the controversy…

Why should we give then?

First because I want to.

Because yes, seeing children suffer, it inflates me. So if I can help.

Because donations come to feed a research not only on myopathies, but also on other diseases and new treatment techniques that can serve everyone

Because rare diseases suffer from the lack of interest of private pharmaceutical laboratories

Because opposing suffering is simply incomprehensible

And then above all because I give to whoever I want, no offense to Mr. BERGER!

The gift for geeks: http://www.afm-telethon.fr/

For other: 36 37

It was enough for the dire….la suite

Second presentation today with many, many more questions than yesterday which a number that I did not expect (ha the power of the Internet!).

Small anthology of the fun at the common place:

-The H1N1 vaccine is dangerous because the virus that is injected is dangerous… no doctor?

-uh……. Not. There is no whole Virus in the vaccine. Just pieces of his wall.

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The switcher's backpacker: the friend BootCamp

We have seen in previous notes of our series The backpacker of the switcher first of all the basic operation of Mac OS and in particular the Finder then the installation and the management of the applications and finally the setting of System preferences. Because this series is mainly aimed at Windows users who have just switched to Mac and that one of the major fears during its switch is not to find all of our applications (or equivalent) in Mac OS, we will see Today how to use the program provided by Apple to install Windows: Boot Camp. In a second step, we'll quickly see the virtualization solutions available on Mac OS.

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It was enough to say!

Today I made a presentation of the situation of the H1N1 influenza pandemic with data from current developments as well as evaluation of vaccines, adjuvants……. I do not detail all this, I have already expressed myself in other tickets.

Part of the assembly seems reluctant to me, but especially interrogative to what I am going to say.

At the end of a half-hour presentation where I try to address most of the themes that have been debated, to respond in anticipation to all the questions, without concealing anything that we know, but also of what we do not know, I wait. The questions…..

We discuss the issue of curative treatment and its efficacy, we go back to the vaccine and how to approach it, we talk about the flu and its danger.

In the end, few questions. I am amazed and trying to revive the conversation.

It is at this moment that the word is loosened with regard to the media, of the policies, the way in which the information was relayed (ha yes the famous case of Guillain Barré, which was not one…), the organization of the vaccination centres, the fears that And above all the unpleasant feeling of "we are not told everything"…

Everyone's leaving. A large majority will be vaccinated. I am entitled to a few thanks for giving simple, clear and argumentative information.

It is therefore possible in France to speak frankly, without hiding anything and still get a satisfactory result!

Am full of optimism tonight……

Fraternal confrontation

A meeting at the end of the afternoon to discuss, in a fraternal way, the flu and the vaccine.

Information on the organisation of vaccination, the management of our patients is detailed…..

-and then by the way, you recommend this vaccine?

-Ho that no, all for a flu. I won't let myself be manipulated!

I see red. I oscillate between disbelief of what I have just heard from a professional and the high likelihood of having a trouble hearing brutal.

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Google Chrome OS on Mac

MacStyle publishes an article about the installation of Google's operating system presented last week. The installation goes through the use of a virtualization software and Anthony describes the steps for VirtualBox (free Sun software).

For those who use other software (like me;-)), I refer you to the excellent comments (including some itoubib…) for installation under Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion.

At home it works perfectly. Be careful, however, to configure the network of your virtualization software according to the instructions given.

Ready? It's this way: Http://macstyle.fr/virtualbox/installez-google-chrome-os-sur-votre-mac