dsm wrote:PS M Curie - very funny. Yes I did chuckle
Doug, I'm so glad you added that!
I had too had a great laugh, especially since I was really wondering when your poor wife was getting any sleep....
dsm wrote:So on some points we can agree but on others we should be able to agree to disagree.
I guess it's the engineer in dsm that can't accept a disagreement among
measuring machines. After all a second is a second, and there is a very concrete metal bar in Paris which is the standard meter... and a light year is the distance light travels in one year, a year is... Oh, no! there's a Solar year and there's a Lunar year. And some Lunar years have a whole month (yes, month!) added to them every now and then... and some Lunar years don't... For a fascinating read about how even in the exact sciences nothing is as exact or accurate as we think - I recommend "Opening Pandora's Box: Sociological Analysis of Scientists' Discourse" by Gilbert and Mulkay.
So, lets agree that we're discussing
relative accuracy. Dsm's breathing pattern is diagnosed more accurately by a Resmed machine. WillSucceed's, on the other hand, is diagnosed more accurately by a PB420E. And some of us have to tweak some machines to get good treatment from them... Even Rested (and relaxed) Gal. Anyone remember IFL1?
(IFL1, to those of you not in the know, changes the way a Puritan Bennett 420E responds to what it identifies as flow limitations. And some of us (ahem...) )
And while I'm on my soapbox, a reminder: Resmed has us entering (their) mask type into the machine for proper results, Respironic's just says "use our masks only". Masks which the majority of us have tried, and discarded.
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