Israel Amazing Medical Technology - email Gallege De Silva.

 Beyond the Cutting Edge - Surgery in the Future

 

I wonder how long it will take for this technology to come to our countries. 

 

This is REALLY AMAZING! To everyone, please take the time to look at this brief film and listen carefully to what he is saying and to what they have already accomplished. If allowed to proceed with the research funding that will be required to bring this development to full term, it would be classified as probably the greatest step in the field of medicine ever. It is a tremendous step in the progress of medicine. This is really exciting and one more reason why medical care may someday get better. Amazing medical technology being developed in Israel If you have someone who is suffering from Cancer, Parkinsons, Tumors, etc. then the following will be of interest. It's short, but very interesting. Truly amazing! Most operating rooms as we know them might not be needed ... sometime in the not too distant future. http://www.youtube.com/embed/IfJemqkby_0?rel=0

 

 

The Hippopotamus and the Tortoise - email jksw

  

" Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed" -

NAIROBI  - A baby hippopotamus that survived the

tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong

bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal

facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said

The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about

300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki

River into the Indian Ocean , then forced back to shore
when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on

December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him. 


"It is incredible.. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a

male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to

be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu,

who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP .

"After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized.

It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother

Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond.

They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added.

"The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother.

If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive,

as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added. 

"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and

by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their

mothers for four years," he explained. 

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away." 


This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter

much when we need the comfort of another.

We could all learn a lesson from these two creatures of God,

"Look beyond the differences and find a way to walk the path together." 

Save the Earth.. it's the only planet with chocolate.

How to move a tree - email jksw

Relocation of  Tree is so easy.

Click >>>..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IV10M1RbEA

 

The kerala towel - email jksw

NO more Rottie..........thank you......

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Short skit>>>>Might stop eating parottas!!!!

http://www.youtube.p/watch?v=MW8V6ZQ54fY

Geriatric Traffic Jam

 

         

          Watch some younger drivers get frustrated when they encounter a Geriatric Traffic Jam.

          The old folks are trying to cross the road in an orderly fashion to get to a liquor store only to discover it’s closed. After they turn back and go some distance, the liquor Store man comes and opens the store and calls them back.

While they do the third trip across the Pedestrian Crossing towards the Store, one of the old ladies drops her coins on the road and begins picking them up.

The Exasperation on the faces of most of the motorists can be seen on their faces!

At least a few of the motorists saw the humour in this geriatric traffic crossing. 

Similar funny skits, are broadcast in Australia and other Countries too.  

                       http://youtu.be/G0PekTUmBdY

Experts Errors of Judgement - email from jksw

             ''The Bomb will never go off, I speak as an expert in explosives."

- - Admiral William Leahy , US Atomic Bomb Project
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power
of the atom."

-- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
"Computers in the future may weigh
no more than 1.5 tons."

-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe
five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have travelled the length and breadth of this country
and talked with the best people, and I can assure you
that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

"But what is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the microchip.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

-- Bill Gates, 1981
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings
to be seriously considered as a means of communication.
The device is inherently of no value to us" -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable
commercial value. Who would pay for a message
sent to nobody in particular?"

-- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea
must be feasible"

-- A  Yale   University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing
reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on
his face and not Gary Cooper" -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in
"Gone With The Wind."

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music
is on the way out"

-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done
the experiment. The literature was full of examples
that said you can't do this"  - - Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try
and find oil? You're crazy" -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

 "Stocks have reached what looks like a
permanently high plateau." - - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics,  Yale   University , 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value" -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole  Superieure de Guerre  , France .
"Everything that can be invented has been invented"

-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
"The super computer is technologically impossible.
It would take all of the water that flows over
Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number
of vacuum tubes required." -- Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University
"I don't know what use any one could find
for a machine that would make copies of documents.
It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself." -- the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.

"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever
be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon,"-- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen  Victoria  1873.
And last but not least...
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer
in their home."-- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

CoMSAA reunion programme.

The 2^nd International Congress and Reunion of the

Colombo Medical School Alumni Association (CoMSAA)   

 7^th-8^th September 2013 at the Hotel The Blue Water, Wadduwa

Scientific Programme - 8^th September 2013

9AM to 12.20 PM

8.00-9.00 Tea

9.00   Academic procession

9.05   National anthem

9.10   Lighting of the oil lamp

9.15   Welcome address by President, CoMSAA

9.25   Address by the Dean

9.35   Award of the Founder President’s Medal

9. 40  Vote of thanks

Session 1 - Chairperson : Prof. Lalitha Mendis         

 09.45    Dr. P Veerasingam.                                         Some milestones in the history of the Col Med School

 10.05    Dr. Anuruddha Abeygunasekera               Beyond Evidence-Based Medicine

 10.25    Dr. Ruvan Ekanayake.                                    Intervention in IHD.  Are we over-acting?

Session 2 - Chairperson:       Prof. A H Sheriffdeen

 10.45    Dr. Lakshman Senanayake.                          Gender based violence

 11.05    Prof. Saman Gunathilleke.                          Overdiagnosis-overtreatment                                                      

 11.25    Dr.Surangani  de Lanerolle.                         The Body in Motion

11.45   The debate

             Giving detailed medical information to lay public on mass media is counter-productive

Moderator:            Dr.Dennis Aloysius

 Four  speakers.      7 minutes each

 Proposed by;          Dr. Hemantha Perera,      Dr.Lalantha Ranasinghe.

 Opposed by:           Dr. Dr. B.J.C. Perera,         Dr.Sarath Gamini De Silva.

At the end the leaders of the two teams will have 3 minutes each to wind up.

Winners will be decided by the audience by the show of hands.

12.30  Lunch