[Novalug] how to find hidden files

Walt Smith waltechmail@yahoo.com
Fri Oct 14 12:34:19 EDT 2016


Most medical records are supplied with a windows exe
that auto starts up so you can examine your records.
IF you use linux, the visual records such as ekg charts 
or xrays are there in files.  But you have to go looking for 
them and they may be in some  medical-only format -- whatever
that means.  Did thru the folders, and in Nautilus or whatever,
turn on the "view hidden files/folders option.

Or dig using the command line.

It's possible the entire shebang of data is kept in one
big exe which prevent you from getting what you want
in the desired form.


Walt..............


suffix  FYI::

medical records are regularly given out Wrong 
by the various ( vicarious) clinics.  OR miss data.

Several examples I've personally seen:
2 -CD's made to tansfer data to another spoecialist--
one CD was blank and another had a different patients
record.   Which we viewed before we realized it wa someone
else -- including totally wrong body part -
and the patients ID, and and address were there.

And EKG, where the patient was specifically told by the primary
to see a caridac specialsit.  I examined the record because of 
patient concern, and the first thing I checked was the patients name--
oooopps  wrong patient.  Obviously a return visit to a very embarrassed
doctor  resulted in a proper EKG record.   and oopps... it was really the
incompetent staff -- they did the work.  But the doctor didn't check it.
Any of it.

There are other instances:  Thjey happen FAR too often.
Specially at "chain/francise clinics"  .   Avoid these for everything if
possible.

W..........
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From: pereira <ninorpereira@gmail.com>
To: greg pryzby <greg@pryzby.org>, "NoVaLUG@firemountain.net"
    <novalug@firemountain.net>
Subject: Re: [Novalug] how to find hidden files



> So problem solved? If not, please explain the issue as I missed it
>

The problem is that the same type of data that are there on one CD are
missing
from the other. The people who are supposed to have put these data on the CD
swear that they did so, even when I told them I couldn'd find them and
got a second
CD that looks exactly the same as the first (that is, the change in
color that indicates
where the data are is the same, just as the size and the weight and
what's written
on the front side). I tell them I use linux and wonder whether it's a
Windows-only CD.
They say " yes, of course, with WIndows you just stick it in and then it
goes". I will
try that next, perhaps at a library, and see. But, on the first disk
that's written by
the same organization although different people at another facility, I
could see the
data.

So, the question is: are those people that say everything is there
shitting me? or is it
indeed a linux question where linux is somehow not able to see specific
files that
may be windows-only. For now I think it's the former.

Nino
----
 The government is lawless, not the press (people).
 ( [Supreme Court] Justice Douglas re: The Pentagon Papers )



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