Hello Ignacio,
I do understand your statement, but this is unacceptable! If it takes 10
years to develop a decent medical application, there will not be anyone left
to be able to use it. I certainly do not plan on working in healthcare in
the unreasonable and criminally negligent working conditions for 10 more
years waiting for a application. At the rate that you are describing, how
many changes in the medical community do you expect? Any application to be
useful has to be useful now, not years from now. It seems that design
assumptions that are made today will not be valid in 10 years.
A answer that I expect to see is something on the lines of, "Shut up and
code something if you feel that progress is too slow." Yes, I could, but on
what? Flamewar after flamewar is on different ideas and different concepts.
It is one thing to have dissenting views on a specific idea, but this
community can come to no consensus on ANYTHING. Wasn't it Dr. Johnson who
wrote yesterday that, "templates are hardly useful to busy clinicians." I
know that Tim just didn't code that feature because he felt, "Gee, I have
found a new Zope function, I wonder what it does."
It appears that healthcare is completely individual with all clinicians
using seemingly different approaches to the well-being of the patient.
Under these conditions, a medical information system is impossible to write
using normal methods since it will have to make some basic assumptions and
by defining those assumptions invoke Hisenburg Uncertainly Principle. It
would seem that only quantum computing can hold the answer to a successful
medical application. Regretfully, only very primitive quantum computers are
available and they can't hold steady-state for more then a few nanoseconds.
Ignacio, you state that RMS waited 15 years, for what? GNU/Herd? Are you
referring to the use of FSF tools? They certainly were in some usage long
before 15 years. GNU/Herd is just now completed or close to completion but
GNU/Linux is clearly in spirit the free Unix-like OS the RMS wanted. I was
working with in '93 and it was more useable then most of the medical
information systems are today. Most of the flaws in kernel 1.0.9 were
understood and were being worked on be rabid groups of developers, but it as
least filled some needs.
I walked over to the datacenter and I tripped the FM-200 system and bathed
in the gas until my core temperature dropped to below the plasmatic state.
I guess that I can be reasonable now, but the last couple of days of posting
on FreePM have ignited a combustion that I am trying to put out. <VBG>
still smoldering
Todd Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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