Nice Times for a Change

Primary Care medicine is all about production and pt satisfaction these days, 2 goals which are often very opposed to each other. Add into the mix that insurance purposely throws roadblocks in our way for any pt care that is expensive, hoping it will be too burdensome for us to order it.

They are right. Primary Care is dying, choked to death by the system.

So it was nice lately...

(when I got busy and didn't finish the post - sorry!)

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wpd (.wpd) file problems - Microsoft screws up again

A long time ago, Word Perfect had Word Perfect Documents.  They may still have.  Then Microsoft decided to have Windows Photo Documents.  They were edited with Windows Live Gallery.  Both used the .wpd file extension.  My wife used both, too.  About a week ago, someone figured it out, and MS apparently turned off wpd files, and those DIRECTORIES were no longer accessible.   Nice job Microsoft!

After trying lots of utilities to delete the offending Windows Live WPD picture files, to no avail, I finally hit on using our Windows Home Server to do it.  It doesn't recognize Windows Live anything, and I was able to open the directories and delete the 2 files.  Hours wasted before figuring that out.

Hopefully Google will see wpd here and direct other frustrated users here to the solution: delete the offending modified files with an old computer/OS.  Never use Windows Live Photo Gallery to modify anything again!