tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40964142023-06-20T10:57:06.499-03:00/etc/bin/cathartic#Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-37112990907195298402007-05-05T12:29:00.001-03:002009-09-03T16:40:51.047-03:00Firefox and Santander BanespaIf you use internet banking and the most secure browser available you will probably notice you can´t login to the Banespa. Vote for this error at bugzilla so maybe it will become solved.Update: Sometime last year, the bank itself solved the problem.Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-45725916980443409272007-03-04T10:43:00.000-03:002007-03-04T10:48:13.476-03:00This is the end, for D&DIn all these years who hasn´t yet heard the ending of the animated series Dungeons and Dragons in that they discover through Tiamat (who would be an angel) that they actually died in an accident on the rollercoaster and were sent to Hell and that the Dungeon Master is the Devil?Well I found out recently that Michael Reavers one of the scripters for the series has posted a comment about this Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-13487239616840963672006-11-25T16:30:00.000-02:002006-11-25T16:33:34.317-02:00VisitsPeople do come a lot to this blog to know about self-inflicted diseases. I wonder what some people expect to find. Leave me a comment if you want to know something specific.Sorry for the lack of updates recently but I'm very caught up in exams for my third year residency, trying to go for a cardiology posting.Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-85215742430096964282006-10-26T10:04:00.000-03:002006-10-26T10:07:47.839-03:00FeedbackPlease leave comments! They won't go unanswered. And perhaps they generate ideas for new posts...Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-29736925388193926102006-10-25T09:12:00.000-03:002006-10-25T09:27:10.150-03:00Re-election dayThis weekend the second round of brazilian elections is going to take place to decide who will be president for the next four years. In Brazil that decides candidates for executive branch in two rounds, unless a candidate achieves more than 50% of votes in the first round.Lula failed by less than 1% to reach that tally.Now electoral campaigns put him at over 20% margin over his opponent Alckmin.IAccendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-51380809241815250812006-10-22T13:21:00.000-03:002006-10-22T13:24:33.989-03:00Different perspecitveThis little blue dot through seen through saturn´s rings, this insignificant blue dot, it´s earth.Credit:CiclopsAccendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-79034945185756987012006-10-20T17:25:00.000-03:002006-10-21T09:41:58.957-03:00Random CountryI´m gonna choose some random country to compare that probably has a lousy health system... uhm... how about BrazilI don´t know what kind of information Matthew Holt has on Brazil´s health system, but it is definitely untrue. Despite disparities between the states with the state of São Paulo where I live offering perhaps the best public health system in the country, there are some positive points Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-91133147039808433542006-10-17T00:02:00.000-03:002006-10-17T00:04:27.099-03:00Money and winnersNothing else to be said.Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-74047828861812210452006-09-26T23:05:00.000-03:002006-09-26T23:28:04.959-03:00Defining death take 2As a physician, one of the actions we have to take is to pronounce someone's death. Now this is not as straight-forward as it seems to be. You could maybe attempt to check the patient's vital signs mainly respiratory movements, pulse. But when these stop, as in a respiratory arrest or cardiac arrest, not only this doesn't mean death in most cases, but on the contrary it means that emergency Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-24497584644292930542006-09-26T22:54:00.000-03:002006-09-26T23:03:38.417-03:00Visitors!Hey this is so cool! I just installed statcounter to see what goes on, since nobody has ever left a comment for me. And with just a few days I've had a few visitors.Thank you very much for your visits! I have even been inspired to write a longer essay about one of the searched topics!Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-89273708451034305902006-09-16T01:10:00.000-03:002006-09-16T01:15:48.699-03:00Trust them.Diebold's election system computers are easily hackable in less than a minute. Makes you wonder if the brazillian version of it (the "urna eletrônica") is any better. In Brazil we have one sole device that is used in the entire nation. Results come up in a couple of hours as 3.5" disk are launched onto the grid. What if somehow these computers can be tampered in the same way? I'm also very Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-59854872651412480972006-09-09T10:40:00.000-03:002006-10-22T13:36:55.964-03:00How to define death.As technologies advance further and further something that seems so simple as to say if somebody is dead or not becomes more and more complicated. Enter functional-MRI into the picture.For people who came into my blog though I wrote a little bit more here.Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1156978132100713702006-08-30T19:16:00.000-03:002006-08-30T19:48:52.166-03:00Grand Rounds 101!!Got my first link ever, and even better from the 101st Grand Rounds!!! A big thanks to Protect the Airway and tune in to the next grand rounds...Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1156819542340075822006-08-28T23:35:00.001-03:002006-08-28T23:45:42.570-03:00NegligenceToday at work, I was forced to report negligence towards an elderly patient. I feel very sorry for this situation. This is the third time I have seen the same patient in a very short period of time. He always comes in a very poor state of hygiene. It is sad. His family doesn't seem to give him any of the medications necessary, they do not follow our orientations, and most of all they refuse to Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1156018205789450522006-08-19T17:09:00.000-03:002006-08-19T17:10:05.826-03:00TransparencyGreat initiative: http://perfil.transparencia.org.br/Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1155577943974933932006-08-14T14:42:00.000-03:002006-08-14T14:52:24.043-03:00Null VotesIn Brazil, with the growing unhappiness derived from the various political scandals that always result in no punishment to the people involved, people more and more want to find a way to vent their frustration.This has resulted in a campaign for the null vote. While I agree in part, it is not for the reason that is posted in an email circulation brazil defending the null vote. There they state Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1152069718970387102006-07-05T00:07:00.000-03:002006-07-05T00:21:59.043-03:00Positive de-actionEducafro is an organization in Brazil that is promoting the racial quotas to be established in public universities thinking that will solve racial minorities disparities. I cannot begin to believe how somebody can buy this argument! I mean, establishing the necessity that a racial minority such as indians or blacks need their own special quota to get into an university is saying that their are Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1151885274925717992006-07-02T21:01:00.000-03:002006-07-02T21:07:54.936-03:00Self-inflicted diseasesI talked about this a while ago, one in four doctors in the UK are starting to think the same thing: Should we pay for self-inflicted diseases such as lung cancer and cirrhosis... As I mentioned in my post, I think there might be something good out of it if, and only if, you ensure free treatment to whomever is engaged in trying to stop their addiction.Source: Kevin M.D. weblogAccendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1150319002680880452006-06-14T18:03:00.000-03:002006-06-14T18:03:43.686-03:00Attack on the congressI seriously condemn the attack made on the Brazilian congress by dissident MST (movement of the landless) dissident called MLST (movement for the freedom of the landless). Nevertheless, I think people should pay attention to this fact. There is a global discontentment in this country in relation to the Congress. After all, how many politicians involved in serious corruption scandals have been Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1148675885875790962006-05-26T17:14:00.003-03:002006-05-26T17:38:51.106-03:00Intelligence wins out!U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III has decided the controversial case concerning the teaching of the so called intelligent design (ID) in public schools. He defined ID as being creationism relabeled:By comparing the pre and post Edwards drafts of Pandas, three astonishing points emerge: (1) the definition for creation science in the early drafts is identical to the definition of ID [Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1148092865210661062006-05-19T23:25:00.000-03:002006-05-19T23:41:05.226-03:00Human rightsHuman rights by far are the most misunderstood rights humans have. These are the most basic rights. We have to defend them at all costs for everyone, because in that is its only argument, the basic right any human should have. People tend to forget that.So when in Brazil hundreds of inmates start rebellions (which the government in the first place "allowed", by letting them use cell-phone within Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1146431427417191972006-04-30T17:57:00.000-03:002006-04-30T18:10:27.430-03:00Software catharticWhy do we feel the need to use windows in our computer systems? Why does it seem that having a computer means having a windows installed as your OS. I have been asking myself more and more that question and I think their days on my system are starting to be numbered. What do I really use that can only be done in a windows only environment? Office style applications? PDF files? Internet? Easier toAccendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1145151488000726142006-04-15T22:18:00.000-03:002006-04-18T01:50:53.643-03:00DemocracyWho says that democracy is really the best possible way to direct a country? Of course in comparison to previews regimes we have had in the past, it certainly is much better, but democracy holds within itself the possibility of its self-defeat. It only works where the citizens that live in it have at least a moderate/high level of education and culture. Why is that? Let's review how the system Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1143595538944593702006-03-28T22:24:00.000-03:002006-03-28T22:25:38.953-03:00Grier's GriefCan you actually believe this!Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096414.post-1142792488792001792006-03-19T14:55:00.000-03:002006-03-19T15:21:28.803-03:00Irresponsible freedom in public healthIn Brazil health is a right guaranteed by the constitution. What this amounts to in this country is a very heterogenous map of services distributed throughout the country. Whereas in some parts even the most basic service are hard to come by, as well as shortage of even the most basic medications, in other parts patients have access to practically all of the state of the art medicine and Accendohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13693553512155544795noreply@blogger.com0