Community Open Forum: Date Change

If you are in Florida next month, consider dropping in to Florida Hospital Flagler in Palm Coast. Hosted by Bill Tol, Planned Giving Coordinator, the Community Open Forum series offers lectures on a range of topics. I will be there on March 23 to talk about “Healthcare in the Era of the Cloud”. The first 50 attendees to […]

Apple – A Disappointing Quarter?

Apple shipped 75 million iPhones in the last quarter: 831 thousand every day, 34,620 every hour, 877 per minute, 9.6 per second. The company shipped 5.3 million Macs, while PC shipments continued to fall. As usual after an Apple quarterly report, financial analysts were disappointed. As usual, I believe they are missing what Apple is all about. They seem to […]

How Libraries Play Critical Role in Healthcare

WebJunction is a site managed by OCLC where library professionals gather to build the knowledge, skills and support they need to power relevant, vibrant libraries. ZeroDivide has published an infographic about the critical role public libraries play in addressing equitable access to health information and resources. They named the infographic Library Heroes Make Health Happen. Libraries do amazing things around the world. The […]

High Cost of Drugs – Eye Drops

There are a number of stories here and in Health Attitude about the high cost of drugs. Most stories are about pills, but the problem exists for ear drops, eye drops, injectables, ointments, gels, creams, and other forms. I have cataract surgery coming up and eye drops were prescribed for me. (btw, we all have cataracts. […]

Publications by John R. Patrick | Attitude LLC

It seems like I have been writing papers for a long time. Engineering school did not require any I can recall. However, I wrote a thesis (included here) for my masters degree back in 1971. Then I went dark for a long time until I got heavily involved with Internet technology, while I was at […]