Saturday, January 30, 2010

Random

Science is random. God is not.

I've never considered myself pious. In fact far from it. In my up bringing and journey through life I've always been exposed to the education of religion and the perception of a higher presence called God, whom which is the end point of all things unexplainable by science.

science, logic, and all human comprehension seek to explain the concept of existance for all things life and lifeless.

The concept of randomness is used frequently when all processes have been dissected, less the motive remain. Random selection remains the only 'logical' explanation to explain the 'WHY' that plagues the genesis of life.

The concept of God and all things pre-determined, pre-ordained cancels out the need for randomness. Hence what we do and what becomes of us is pre-determined.

So what that mean who I am and what I do, the 'apostate' in me was predetermined and with a higher purpose? Maybe it's just me being random...

Friday, January 29, 2010

Simplify your life


We live in a time of vast complexity. All of which is an accessory or an ornament to a simple core. Why can't we just simplify it. Make things short and simple. Or at least just the beginning so that we can accessorise later.

Taken at Honk Kong International Airport, this chart takes away the need of an optician in an emergency setting. Instant reading glasses! Just compare your eye to the chart and see which is literally clearer, then mix and match the lenses with the correct diopter. Amazing.


Monday, January 25, 2010

How To Save A Life

I am disgusted with doctors....

How can a profession once regarded as noble now become such a mockery?

In the quest for becoming an expert in a field of practice, a doctor specialises. The equivalent of learning more of something less. The all knowing profession now has tunnel vision. To only see what they want to see, and disregard the rest....

I have the 'fortunate' event of experience such, when a patient started to bleed out from his nose in the Emergency Department. He started to bleed at 11am and only at 2:30pm was the decision made to ask for help. In the mean time, he lost 2 liters of blood (Mind you, the average human only holds about 4.5 to 5.0 liters of blood). That is roughly 40% of blood loss! And to add salt to injury (though not literally) was the bleed was allowed to go on with no basic intervention such as a compression on the wound....

I call it negligence and an insult to the Hippocrates Oath which states among its content "I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone."

Failure to identify a problem is a harmful deed. For the consequence of an inaction may often be as grave as a poor action itself.

Perhaps its time for a paradigm shift, that specialist not to have a funnel or tunnel vision, but an hour glass vision. That their knowledge from a vast sea may concentrate at an epicenter of specialty, but they still remain conscious and aware that the vast sea is still out there.