Great medical educational website at BroomeDocs.com

If you have never heard of Broome use google maps to find it in Australia and see how remote it actually is

Well worth a read through some of the things they deal with far far away from what most of us consider civilisation.

Ten Zulus Buggered My Cat
Easy way to remember the five branches of the facial nerve from superior to inferior

T emporal
Z ygomatic
B uccal
M andibular
C ervical

I recently had a patient sent from the GP surgery with a letter stating ‘widespread t-wave changes ? MI’. I looked at the ECG for a few seconds then realised what was wrong – limb lead reversal. Here is an example (not my patient) of left/right lead swappage There are other ECGs to see at ECG Pedia which show other combinations of lead reversal. Remember to look at the precordial leads too – if the QRS complexes get smaller as you go towards v6, positive QRS in aVR and negative QRS in aVL you could have bagged yourself an ECG in a dextrocardic person 🙂

Sounds simple – I want to run a command script on a remote machine on my home network to update my media libraries. Previously I had logged in via remote desktop Turned out to be slightly more complicated….

I needed PsExec from the useful set of Sysinternal tools. You run it from within its folder or  place the psexec.exe file in the “%windir%” directory will allow you to call it straight from the command prompt. I bodged together a little script that I run on my local machine to execute the cmd on the remote machine – more about YAMJ later…

In the following script psexec is in the folder C:\pstools on my local PC and the cmd script is in C:\YAMJ on the remote PC, and vail is the network name of my home server (open notepad, copy it in and adjust for your own paths/username/password and save it as a .bat file)

@Echo off
c:
cd\
cd c:\pstools
psexec \\vail -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD C:\YAMJ\My_YAMJ_2libraries_combined.cmd
echo Update Complete
pause
exit

The quirky thing about this is both local and remote machines are running Windows 7 but the batch file only works when I ‘Run as Administrator’ it locally. I’m sure I could add code into to run it at an elevated level automagically, but haven’t worked that out yet.

/update – it gets stranger – I need to shift-rt_click on the shortcut and ‘run as’ entering the admin credentials i use on the remote machine and it works, using the ‘run as admiinistrator’ leads to the ‘access denied’ message. The latter used to work, not sure why it stopped….

What the batch file does is update my TV and Film library on a remote machine which uses YAMJ as a frontend.

Derived from the Greek a, “not” and stērixis, “fixed position”

Intermittent flapping tremor seen in encephalopathy – classically hepatic, but also in cases of carbon dioxide retention. It is not related to the marvellously entertaining creation of Goscinny & Uderzo 🙂 (RIP Albert Uderzo March 2020)

gcs3.co.uk is my Meducation website for Antrim ED