penthouseplayah - Slashdot User

Comment Re:The Woman (Score 1) 319

by penthouseplayah on Friday September 18, 2009 @12:58PM (#29468165) Attached to: Spyware Prank Exposes Hospital Medical Records

My question is... why is it necessary at all for everyone at a hospital to have internet access?

Well, it is necessary for doctors and nurses to have acces to medical instructions, phone catalog, google, pubmed to keep workflow fast.
This is not a question about internet access or not, it's a question about lockdown of computers, firewall.

Comment Re:Let me explain the situation over here... (Score 1) 252

by penthouseplayah on Monday June 01, 2009 @08:17AM (#28166331) Attached to: University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy

How is passing 90%+ students that would fail keeping the reputation up? Aren't your superiors pissing their pants to warm themselves?
One thing university is supposed to teach IMHO is consecvese

World's First X-Ray Laser Goes Live 238

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @07:36PM from the bring-x-rays-back-to-shoe-stores dept.

smolloy writes "The world's first X-ray laser (LCLS) has seen first light. A Free Electron Laser (FEL) is based on the light that is emitted by accelerated electrons when they are forced to move in a curved path. The beam then interacts with this emitted light in order to excite coherent emission (much like in a regular laser); thus producing a very short, extremely bright, bunch of coherent X-ray photons. The engineering expertise that went into this machine is phenomenal — 'This is the most difficult light source that has ever been turned on,' said LCLS Construction Project Director John Galayda. 'It's on the boundary between the impossible and possible, and within two hours of start-up these guys had it right on.' — and the benefits to the applied sciences from research using this light can be expected to be enormous: 'For some disciplines, this tool will be as important to the future as the microscope has been to the past,' said SLAC Director Persis Drell."

Comment Re:Something similiar. (Score 1) 190

by penthouseplayah on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @06:40AM (#21502723) Attached to: HP Skin Patch May Replace Needles

Thats for children. The gel (lidocain, localanastethic) has to be in contact for at least an hour to work. Adults generelly don't need that, unless they're mentally ill, or the hospital charges for the patch. If done correctly its possible to stitch 2 year old children in the lips this way.

For anestethic below the dermis, infiltration analgesia is used via an thin needle.

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