في أول يوم أجازة الصيف في 1998 نزلت شارع الحجاز بالمهندسين وفي جيبي 200 جنيه تحويشة حلوة من المصروف وكان ساعتها قلبي بيدق جامد من الحماس، دخلت مكتب شركة أسمها باك PACC (Pan Arab Computer Center) وعملت أول اشتراك بالأنترنت في حياتي، المبلغ كان لشهر واحد بس لأن وقتها ده كان مبلغ مش قليل.
الدخول على الانترنت كان عن طريق المودم ال بيتصل عن طريق التليفون الأرضي على رقم الشركة، المودم ال كان عندي وقتها …
This is part 2 of a series on document creation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
While using WYSIWYG editors, I often see colleagues right justifying Arabic text instead of using the Right-To-Left (RTL) button to change the text direction. This breaks the order of characters in a line because of the way the software displays right-to-left languages compared to the default left-to-right latin …
أتكلمت قبل كده عن التطوير المتسارع للطرق والكباري في مصر، الموضوع مش جديد، ناس كتيرة أتكلمت عن ده، لكن عاوز أقف عند طريق أفزعني، وصلة بطول 6 كيلومتر ما بين الطريق الدائري وطريق الواحات بغرب القاهرة، على شمال غرب الطريق كومباوند ماونتن فيو وملاهي دريم بارك وعلى جنوب شرق الطريق حدائق الأهرام. رابط لمكان الطريق على خرائط جوجل.
في السنة ال فاتت تمت توسعة الطريق، وأصبح عرض الطريق في حدود 40 إلى 42 متر في …
This is part 1 of a series on document creation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get. It is a type of computer software that allows you to edit your document in a form that resembles the finished product (printed or displayed on screen). A word processor such as Microsoft Word is an example of a …
كثيرا ما أتلقى طلبات من زملاء حول مصادر موثوقة يمكن إعطاءها للمرضى لمعرفة المزيد عن الاضطرابات والعلاجات النفسية. ولأن الأنترنت عليه كل شيء يصعب على أغلب المرضى التعرف على المصادر الجيدة بدون مساعدة، بالإضافة إلى انتشار المواقع الصحافية الغير مهنية والمحتوى المكتوب بإستخدام الذكاء الإصطناعي التوليدي المليئ بالأخطاء.
A colleague at work dropped her laptop and spilled coffee on it. It wouldn't turn on after that. She asked me what to do and my advice was to leave it switched off and put it on a tray full of rice and leave it for two days, hoping that it will dry out and turn on again. If it didn't take it to Bostan Mall, where there are many small shops that repair computers …
More testimonies from doctors working in Gaza:
This is a video of Dr Nick Maynard, who has worked in Gaza several times, talking about a child he will never forget who was badly burned and had no chance of survival. He adds that she died in pain because there was no morphine to give her. She died on the floor of the hospital because there were no beds.
There is no morphine because Israel is …
Yesterday I posted about the dire situation facing doctors in Gaza after 5 months of relentless attacks by one of the world's best-equipped military forces. I think I want to point to more reports by doctors and nurses from Gaza.
This is a letter from Dr Mohammed Qandil published in the BMJ's Emergency Medicine Journal in February. Dr Qandil is a consultant and a member of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Some striking quotes …
Reports of another deadly attack on Al-Shifa hospital are all over the news, but I just want to highlight what really caught my attention. The current working conditions for the medical staff there. I can't even imagine how medics can work for months while they are under attack. Let alone what is being reported as the situation at the moment:
Speaking to the BBC over the weekend, Dr Mutaz Harara said: “The medical staff here …
I enjoyed parts of Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression by Edward Bullmore. It is very well written and has some good parts on the history of psychiatry.
However, I was disappointed by the way he presented his main thesis that inflammation is the main causative mechanism in major depression. His argument isn't very convincing and he doesn't provide evidence that is solid enough to support this. There is also a major straw …