Message-ID: <v02130500ad8970f4ce24@[196.20.30.2]> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:48:26 +0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Traditional I.T. Before the Internet ?! To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 10:30 AM 4/4/96, Abubakr Alkhalifa wrote: >On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>
>> At 9:34 AM 2/4/96, Abubakr Alkhalifa wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> >If we have 1 nurse / 10 villages, we can provide him/her with an
>> >Information system to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of suffering
>> >patients who might otherwise die before any of them sees a doctor.
>>
>> That's crap, pure and simple.
>
>Be objective, justify !!!!
I *WORK* with clinic nurses. They don't need a computer and Internet, they need a regular clinic visit and a pickup/flying squad service.
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>> >Here is an idea for using the Internet to solve such a problem: the nurse
>> >can consult an on-line "physician-on-duty" via the Internet, this
>> >physician could be in the other side of the Globe.
>>
>> Come on, that doesn't even work in the US.
>
>Come on, wake up Doctor, they do not need to do that in the US. We are
>the ones who need it. Why couldn't it be a last resort? What other
>alternative(s) do we have?
They do indeed need that. They do indeed work on that. The do indeed spend a fortune on that.
Maybe you want to go and look at the setup in deep, deep rural Alabama.
el
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