ChatGPT Writes A Blog Post! (P.S. I don't think the AI takeover is imminent...)
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Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - May 31, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Forgiveness
Mrs. Dalai was the love of my life, and I had the great honor of sharing the past 36 years with her. I will miss her more than I can possibly describe. She was often a contradiction in terms. She could be shy, she could be brash. She was retiring, she was outgoing. She felt the presence of God, but she didn ’t much like dealing with religion. She was easy to love, and she could be hard to love. But we loved her anyway. Mrs. Dalai and I met on a blind date on July 19, 1986. For me, it was love at first sight. For her, it took a little longer. She didn’t know what to do with me. She kept telling me to go away, and I kept...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - November 24, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Requiem for a PACS
Just a funny little epilog from the retired guy. I may be gone, but I hear things. Sometimes those things are real and not in my head.It seems that the old place has, after a VERY long time, dropped Agfa PACS in favor of...(Drumroll please...)Philips PACS, formerly known as Carestream. One site had been using the " new " Agility/Enterprise/7.0 Agfa version and the other was still with 6.x. Apparently the powers that be found neither worthy of continuation. Agfa wasn ' t even in the top three selections for replacement.The king is dead. Long live the king. (Source: Dalai's PACS Blog)
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - November 1, 2021 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Cancer
I sometimes like to open my posts with a joke. But not this time. There isn ' t a joke for this.Mrs. Dalai has cancer.How ' s that for a kick in the ass? I am neither vain nor arrogant enough to think that I could write the ultimate treatise on dealing with a loved one ' s cancer. There are any number of engaging stories out there on Caring Bridge and the like. You don ' t want to read a tear-jerker anyway, nor do you want to endure every last boring and/or gory detail. Mrs. Dalai would be very upset with me if I shared all that. Hell, she ' s probably going to be upset with me for writing this at all. She is a very p...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - September 4, 2021 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
April Fool ’s Day
Long story. I don ’t have anything funny to say at the moment. Aside from the birth of my first grandchild last month, 2021 has made 2020 look like the most wonderful year ever. Stay well, my friends. I ’ll get back to writing eventually when things are calm and contracts don’t restrict. In the meantime, if you smoke, quit. NOW. YouCan Do It! (Source: Dalai's PACS Blog)
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - April 1, 2021 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Incompetence, Incompetents, and Incontinence
I clearly have neglected my poor blog. There have been very few new posts in the past year. I ' ll chalk it up to some patois of melancholy, sloth, feeling stuck in Purgatory, SARS-CoV-2 (mainly the fear of it...we have remained free of illness, thank Heavens!), and maybe a touch of writer ' s block. But even in its tepid twilight of quasi-existence, people do still read my various random thoughts. I know because I continue to track such things. It has come to my attention that anold post from over a year ago has taken the fancy of some IT folk:In fact, word has reached me that they were not amused. " Dalai is calling...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - September 22, 2020 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Hi, General Electric!
Looking for something? Please let me know if I may be of service! (Source: Dalai's PACS Blog)
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - August 22, 2020 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Dalai's Annual April Fool's Day Post
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Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - April 2, 2020 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
You Can't Hide Your Bottom Line
Dalai ' s note: There are a number of discussions on Aunt Minnie concerning the acquisition of radiology groups by predatory venture capital operations. And so, with apologies to the Eagles....Greedy rads just never get the messageThat guys in suits are not their new best friendsBig Venture CapAnd they won ’t have to worryThey ’ll dump their overhead and drive a BenzLate at night, the reading room gets lonelyI guess selling out young partners has its priceAnd it breaks your heart to see your talents goingTo a predator with soul as cold as ice.So you tell the junior kids that you ’ll protect themFrom the guys in suits...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - June 26, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
To My Friends In India Who Happen To Be Affiliate Marketers...
I ' ve never hidden the fact that I track the readership of this blog. It ' s not that I get all that much traffic, but I do get a big thrill knowing that I have reached people from around the world. Interestingly, in the past few days, DoctorDalai.com has been viewed several thousand times by someone in the Czech Republic. To that poor fellow, I can only say, " D ěkuji! "But as the title above might suggest, I continue to be plagued by " comments " that invariably originate from India. I put " comments " in quotes because these " comments " have nothing to do with the post they " comment " on, but rather are thinly-veile...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - June 25, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
IT STILL Doesn't Get It...
Image courtesy msbmax.comFrom the IT folks today...Good morning, Due to the Data Center move to the new Data Center, Radiology Dictation will be down tomorrow starting at 11am. During this time, radiologists will need to:1, dial 800-xxx-xxxx2, enter site #3, enter dictation ID4, enter work type5, enter 2 to dictateThe Medical Transcriptionists can log into the website to listen the job and still type reports in.Please check this ahead of time to not delay patient care.We expect this to take 3-4 hours to get things up and running and back to normal.Warm Regards, Systems AnalystAt least the P...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - June 3, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Some Amusing Musings About AI
Let us begin with a quote from Yogi Berra:“It ' s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. ”Yes, round and round and round we go, and where we stop, nobody knows. The contentious AI discussions on Aunt Minnie continuead nauseum.We ' ve been having this very same discussion for YEARS now, with no real change, no resolution, no obvious final answer. And every time Google or some other NON-physician comes up with an algorithm they CLAIM will outdo a radiologist in detecting something somewhere on someone ' s scan, the sky is immediately declared to be falling. I ' m beginning to wonder if I ' m caught ...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - May 28, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Generalized Anxiety?
Just a quickie post.In reviewing the blog ' s activity, I ' m noticing a yuuuuuuggge increase in the number of hits looking for information about GE PACS, particularly the Universal Viewer. Is there something going on with GE that I ' m missing? New PACS? The old one been recalled?Inquiring but retired minds want to know! (Source: Dalai's PACS Blog)
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - May 17, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Electronic Vindication
Dilbert by Scott Adams, courtesy www.dilbert.comMy very first blog post as Doctor Dalai went online on 1/29/2005, beginning with a rant about ScImage lifted from one of my early AuntMinnie.com entries. In the subsequent fourteen years, my writing has become slightly more sophisticated (emphasizeslightly), but my basic premise has not wavered: PACS interfaces by and large are not as user-friendly as they could be, in other words, theySUCK. Forgive the epithet, but that is a very accurate statement, and most would agree.Most, but not the vendors. In browsing through my years of navel-gazing, I came across several entries whe...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - April 15, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
The " Heart " Of Darkness?
Black holes are the stuff of science, science fiction, and even fantasy, but theyare real. Until now, however, no one has ever seen one. Until now:Image courtesy PBS.comFromPBS.com:On Wednesday, the Event Horizon Telescope released the first-ever image of a black hole — a historic moment shared by scientists spread across seven simultaneous news conferences around the world. As the PBS NewsHour reported Tuesday, the Event Horizon Telescope is a two-year-old, international collaboration bent on capturing direct pictures of black holes:Two years ago, an international collective of scientists joined forces to take pictures ...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - April 10, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
