Web-Driven Patient Workups
An applicant from yesterday’s pool of medical school interviewees asked me what percentage of my clinical workups have relied on the Internet… and after half-a-second of contemplation, I responded with an adamant “100%!”
Tag: internet
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Bluehost Finally Offering PHP 5.3
Bluehost has finally started offering PHP 5.3 on a per-request basis. Even though PHP 5.4 is on the horizon, compatibility issues for many customers prevented large shared hosting companies like Bluehost from making the move to 5.3 earlier. By working with tech support in the early hours this morning, I…
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Help Medical Students Maintain Online Professionalism
I’d like to be very straightforward – most med students who utilize social media are amenable to suggestions and thankful whenever our colleagues, professors, mentors, and even the general public question our postings. As a group of aspiring physicians, we share the same intention – to educate others while in…
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FreeNAS Box
The day has finally come for me to create another network-attached-storage (NAS) for my data. My previous NAS, a DNS-323 unit, has carried me with 2 x 2 TB mirrored volumes for months, but this time around, I had several goals in mind. First, since the file server will be…
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Install APC Accelerator On Bluehost Shared Host
I’ve used eAccelerator and XCache for quite some to speed up my WordPress sites, but with PHP6 around the corner, I wanted to get my feet wet with alternative PHP cache (APC) – an opcode cacher which will be built into the next generation of PHP. This is a walkthrough…
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Site Preparation for Clinical Years
Since I don’t foresee myself having time to work on this site’s framework too much during clinics, I went ahead and made some small tweaks (most of which won’t be visible to the front-end user): combining a few CSS sprite images, throwing some CSS3 shading onto the page, adjusting some…
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RK.MD Domain Renewal
It’s been two years since I transferred my previous domain to rk.md. At that time, I was running WordPress 2.7, using a theme written by the K2 community, and eagerly awaiting acceptances from medical schools (especially Baylor Med :-) ).
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Rainy Beginning to Block 7b
Today was one of those “I don’t have any classes in the afternoon, so I’m going to stream lectures instead” days. The heavy downpour from the outer bands of tropical storm Hermine gave me even more of an incentive to avoid the roads and stay at home. I enjoyed finishing…
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Mirror DNS-323 Drives via Rsync
The DNS-323 is an incredibly affordable and customizable NAS which I’ve thrown into my mixed LAN consisting of OSX, Linux, and Windows boxes. In my particular set up, I have two 2 TB Western Digital EARS Caviar Green drives. Instead of configuring them in RAID-1 mode, for the added stability,…
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How Long Will Flash Survive?
HTML5 has been on the horizon for quite some time, but the breadth of Flash-based web applications has continued to expand over the last few years. Apple dealt their first major blow to Flash by not supporting it on their flagship tablet device, the iPad. This caused media giants like…