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Re: Demonstrating Click and Drag Selection on Paper
Subject:Re: Demonstrating Click and Drag Selection on Paper From:Tom Johnson <johnsont -at- FREEWAY -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:17:01 -0400
Misti,
Maybe you could come up with a medical analogy. Click on the donor's heart.
Drag the heart to the recipient. Let go of the heart.
I know that doesn't really answer your question, but thought of a surgeon,
who is a computer neophyte, using a computer while operating on me, scares
me just a tad. Uh-oh, windows just locked up, can we re-boot and finish
before we run out of anethesia?
Seriously, I spend so much of my time, as a writer, dealing with the
technology it leaves less and less time for actually writing. I find myself
just trying to keep caught up and I cometimes wish I could go back to the
old days of only dealing with printed documentation. My point is that will
this new technology really make better surgeons when they start adding
computer savy to their skill set. Will they still have time for keeping up
with new medical developments. Not to mention the reality of putting lives
on the line (or should I say on-line?).
Just don't do CTRL-ALT-DEL on my heart.
Tom Johnson
Traverse City, MI. Where the air and water are clean, but it gets really
cold in the winter.
business johnsont -at- starcutter -dot- com
personal thomasj -at- freeway -dot- net
On Tuesday, October 06, 1998 10:10 PM, Misti Anslin Tucker
[SMTP:matucker -at- MMM -dot- COM] wrote:
> I've run into a curious difficulty in my latest project.
>
> I'm documenting a very complex software application adjunct to a medical
> device for use by surgeons who I'm told "may never have used a computer
of
> an kind before and certainly are not technologically sophisticated."
>
> <snip>
>
> Misti Anslin Tucker
> matucker -at- mmm -dot- com
>