DanBC

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by DanBC 2y ago
Be interesting to see if climbers like it - I'd love to see Wide Boys testing it out.
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by DanBC 3y ago
> and the guys watching him were very lackadaisical about it. Anyone who knows anything at all about suicide prevention is unsurprised by this. We know that observation does not work because staff cannot maintain it. This is true whether
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by DanBC 3y ago
> Your question was: "Does a balanced diet include fast food?" > The answer to that is simple: No Registered healthcare professionals - dietitians - disagree with you, and do so pretty strongly.
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by DanBC 3y ago
> I'm referencing Jonathan Haidt's work Why not link to real numbers though? Haidt doesn't understand the numbers, misquotes them out of context, and mangles the data.
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by DanBC 3y ago
> . The suicide rates of teen girls have tripled since the introduction of social media. This is simply false.
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by DanBC 3y ago
It's what they claim to do. The science is bunk. It's genetic astrology.
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by DanBC 3y ago
> Unfortunately, 1) these numbers come from Hamas The official Israeli count is higher than the Hamas count.
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by DanBC 3y ago
> Depression and sucidides in first world countries, the ones that tick all the intial boxes, are a highs not experienced since WWII. [1] is just from a quick googling and US-only. You won't have trouble finding much more evidence t
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by DanBC 3y ago
> maybe it’s just me, but most of the new drugs seem to come from USA. It's just you. What we see from the US is re-patenting. Citalopram gets a minor change and becomes escitalopram, it gets a new patent and some bullshit sales pi
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by DanBC 3y ago
I strongly agree with everything you say, but... > but I've always been slightly sceptical of claims about withdrawal effects of antidepressants. Even the manufacturers warn against discontinuation effects. See the "If you sto
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by DanBC 3y ago
Compare the mainstream American Academy of Pediatrics to the fringe American College of Pediatricians. One pushes mainstream evidence based treatment, the other pushes socially conservative, Christian values, based "treatment". h
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by DanBC 3y ago
The Cass Review has also said that children should have easier access to cross sex hormones - they're considering removing the requirement for children to have spent time on puberty blockers before moving onto CSH. The Cass review supp
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by DanBC 3y ago
The alternative explanation is that it was almost impossible for trans children to access healthcare in the UK and the only people making their way through the pipeline of GP to GIC to hormone centre were those who were undeniably trans.
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by DanBC 3y ago
Double check those bone density results, because new research shows they're present before treatment with puberty blockers starts. Some theories are that some children have reduced access to sporting activity.
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by DanBC 3y ago
Puberty blockers have a long use in children. Unlike a lot of paediatric medications puberty blockers are licensed for use in children, and are used for their licensed use (blocking puberty), albeit for a different population (gender incong
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by DanBC 3y ago
> they wheel you into the procedure room, and then you pass out. This is the bit that a lot of people have a problem with, and there's usually some choices in the amount and type of sedation you get. In the US they use much heavi
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by DanBC 3y ago
> One thing is clear: Screening works. If you’re of the appropriate age, please get screened. If your tubes are acting funny, please get screened without delay. Screening is for people without symptoms. If you have symptoms it's not
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by DanBC 3y ago
> Let's discuss what "invasive" means. > Putting something in the body and getting it back out without tearing, is not invasive. Just for clarity colonoscopy is an invasive procedure.
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by DanBC 3y ago
Shaun Lintern is an experienced health system journalist. This piece, written by him and Danny Fortson, is a comprehensive take down of Babylon. Lots of people had serious concerns about Babylon Health - mostly around obviously false claims
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The app that promised an NHS 'revolution' then went down in flames(thetimes.co.uk)
2 points by DanBC 3y ago|2 comments
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by DanBC 3y ago
> where they don't have money to fund NHS We do have the money to fund the NHS. Successive Conservative governments have made the choice to defund the NHS, along with public health, and social care. And they did all of this on top o
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by DanBC 3y ago
> But the average for people in the US with insurance is better than it is in many systems with universal coverage, No, this is actually untrue. People who pay for insurance want to see a return on investment, so they want to see lots of
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by DanBC 3y ago
> Do people really think that if they restrict access to methods of suicide people will magically get better? No, but we have good evidence that as part of a package of measures it's an effective way to reduce the numbers of people
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by DanBC 3y ago
The difference is that statistics were used in de Berk's prosecution, but were not used in Letby's prosecution.
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by DanBC 3y ago
> or should we read this article to imply Lucy herself might be innocent? No, the point being made is that a murderer was able to evade detection because her employing organisation did not understand the data they had, because they did
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by DanBC 3y ago
Just for clarity: statistics were not used in the Letby prosecution. The problem with Letby is that a serial killer was able to hide because finding a rare event (a member of staff murdering multiple babies) is hard to do in the noise (the
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by DanBC 3y ago
> Day One of her cool new job in the UK NHS she was handed a stack of paperwork that she had to fill in. Needless to say she did badly; it took her forever and everything was misspelled. She lasted a month before they let her go, and she
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by DanBC 3y ago
Often early detection does very little to change when people die. It will mean that 5 year survival rates get better, because you have earlier detection which means more people know they have cancer for five years before they die, rather th
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by DanBC 3y ago
Without knowing the sensitivity or specificity there's no way of knowing if it's telling you that you definitely do have cancer or just may have cancer.
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by DanBC 3y ago
Any death by suicide is a tragedy, and whatever the rate is for surgeons it's too high. This is especially true because there are some protective factors for surgeons - high pay, stable employment, and close connections to health care.

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