Posted by Lou Pilder on February 3, 2008, at 13:57:17
In reply to Lou's request to Robert Hsiung-nazcr » Dr. Bob, posted by Lou Pilder on February 3, 2008, at 13:35:32
> > > So are you saying your doctor said a blow up cuff is more accurate than an automatic? Hummm seems I was blocked for a generalization on that.
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> > Maybe it's splitting hairs, but IMO there's a difference between:
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> > > > his experience with wrist units is generally bad.
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> > and
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> > > > wrist units are generally bad.
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> > I hope that helps. Thanks,
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> > Bob
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> Mr. Hsiung,
> Your post has in it,[...wrist units are generally bad...]
> You write that there is in your opinion a difference between that statement above and the other statement.
> I think that there is the potential for one here, as per the grammatical structure of your statement, for one to consider that Phillipa posted something that means that one of the types is "bad". But I can not find any such statement here by Phillpa.
> Phillpa wrote about as being a nurse in a hospital with doctors and paitients and the use of blood pressure devices that she liked the one verses the other because in her past practice she liked the accuracy of one verses the other. I do not see how that could mean that one is "bad". That does not IMO conclude that one is "bad". I can not find anything in her post that says that she says that one of the types is "bad". A generally accepted meaning of the word "bad" is that whatever is bad is {not acceptable}. But Phillipa only wrote that she liked the accuracy of one verses the other and made no mention that I can see that the other type was unacceptable. I have a gauge on the dashboard of my car that reads a function of the engine in calibrations and is very accurate. Other cars just have a red light that goes on if what is being measured goes outside of its operating range. Some prefer the red light and some prefer the gauge. I prefer the gauge because of the accuracy that I like. Others may not be concerned with the degree of accuracy that I like. But I am not saying that because there is a difference between the two, in that {I} prefer the gauge, that the red-light indicator is "bad"
> I do not know what your intentions are here to have something in your post that has the potential IMO to have some others consider that Phillipa wrote, unless she did write that, and I welcome anyone to post a link to it if it exists. Could you post here why you had in your post,[...wrist units are generally bad...]if Phillpa did not post that? If you could, then I could have the opportunity to respond accordingly.
> Lou PilderMr. Hsiung,
You wrote, [...maybe its splitting hairs...]
If it is {maybe] it is splitting hairs, then could it not be that it is {maybe not} splitting hairs?
There is a test to make a determination as to if an action is splitting hairs or not. One could be the consequesnces to Phillipa here from what you say is {maybe} splitting hairs.
A NASCAR driver could be required to make a split decision based on what the gauges read on the dash. He has to make split decisions for his life could depend on the decision that he would make. I raced also, but in quarter-mile motorcycle gas. I also have an idea of a split decision and its consequences one way or the other and only had one gauge.
I am unsure as to what you are wanting to mean here by your use of {splitting hairs}. My idea is that something catyclismic could result if one does not rightly split the "hair". In this case, we are in discussion about your rationale for ostrcizing Phillipa for posting {more likely than not}. Now I do not see anything comming out of her statement that could be catastophic if one used one type verses the other. They both would give a blood pressure reading and those that prefer the one over the other could still have a reading. If one type was of the nature that one's life could be threatend by the use of one type, then could not one think that that type would be illegal to use in a hospital?
Lou Pilder
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