Maybe I should have highlighted what I was responding to. Here is the quote from
lakon - "Also, should try to make it into a template for doctors to download from Just Breathe
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Do you disagree with what I said now?
I quoted a post that you removed when quoting me. The removed section was relevant because it set the context of doctors providing handouts. For brevity's sake, in my explanation about a doctor/patient created template to help other doctors with their own creation of such a handout, I gave an example that you took quite literally, but you ignored the ellipsis.
Ellipsis - "A punctuation mark consisting of a series of periods (…) used to show that something has been omitted." (
www.thefreedictionary.com/Elipsis)
My later post elaborated on your concerns that focused on an emotional response that was indeed based on Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, by definition. You may not have meant it as such, but it was still your argumentative approach. You may not even be aware of this fact because it is so common. "Thank You For Smoking."
The Internet is based on hyperlinks. The more the merrier gets attention. This was a subtle point buried in my original reference. There are well established means to assure information integrity on the Internet for documents (MD5, SHA, etc.). I care if the information is FACT or FICTION, but the SOURCE need not concern me since even the FDA propagates FACT and FICTION. (The quality of the source is merely a factor in assessing truth, but not the only factor, unless you are a lamb. I prefer the silence of the lambs.) Believe it or not.
The following seems relevant and interesting since it goes a bit beyond my suggestion of a linked template for the start of a handout document, but what do I know...
news.slashdot.org/story/16/05/11/008213/open-source-artificial-pancreas-helps-engineers-son-survive-with-type-1-diabetesAnonymous Coward commented:
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|--And when a bug causes it to use all its insulin at once and the child goes into a coma and dies, you'll finally understand why open source and the medical industry do not belong in the same sentence.
I have been a type 1 diabetic for almost 20 years now, I use an insulin pump and before you get one they send you to school to know how to use it.
The type of failure you are describing, though it could "POTENTIALLY" happen, is extremely unlikely as both the pump and the system controlling the pump have SERIOUS safeguards in place to ensure that can never happen.
Open source is important to the process of innovation otherwise type 1 diabetics would still be using needles and fingerstick meters alone to manage a disease that by using those tools is in a word unmanageable.
I applaud the Open APS effort and it is something that needs to happen, and I am glad that luddite opinions like this, do not affect the progress of such efforts.
Let me ask you this: How much time do you think you spent coming up with your "Genius" assessment.. now think.. How much time do you think that people such as myself who have been using systems like this for decades, have spent thinking about and surviving the very types of potential failures you have described as a matter of every day living?
It is important that knee jerk snarky reactions like this do not get in the way of progress, because you literally have no idea what you are talking about, because you clearly do not live with diabetes or the problems associated with it.
I developed an open APS type system for a college project as part of the beginning of my graduate degree in computer science and game theory. My professor had the same reaction and now I am using one of these systems and my doctor is more than amazed that my management of the disease is as nearly perfect as it is. The professor of course is not required to justify his criticism, because it was just a blow off , based on very little thought like yours, however I am glad that I sought to make a decision like this that has increased my health by orders of magnitude over what it was, along with other changes to my diet and exercise and most importantly, the life style change of automating the process of living an "observed and measured life". Most of what type 1 diabetics live with in terms of management of the disease are in a nutshell, overcoming problems everyone lives with and do not realize the impact of, other than of course, our having to deal with and compensate for not being able to produce insulin on our own.
I suggest for your sake you rethink your position.
Thanks for commenting!
Have a nice night!"
