glfharris

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by glfharris 8mo ago
Sadly, their entire business is built on paywalling content the community built and distributed for free.
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by glfharris 2y ago
CSF sampling is a routine investigation in most hospitals. We don't typically see bacteria in these samples, when we do, its in the form of bacterial meningitis, hence the skepticism.
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by glfharris 3y ago
I'm a doctor training in anaesthesia. The idea with epidurals is to introduce local anaesthetic outside the compartment where the spinal cord is, literally epi-- --durally. To sample the CSF, or to give a spinal anaesthetic, the needle
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by glfharris 3y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing last month[1]! It's really interesting what the implications of this might be, and how valuable human-derived content might become. There's still this idea of model collapse, whereby the output
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by glfharris 3y ago
I suppose that's where things like tip jars work quite well. To reward useful but otherwise niche content.
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by glfharris 3y ago
It's very similar in the UK. Most estate agents will use a third party these days, but the amount of information you have to hand over is ridiculous.
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by glfharris 3y ago
Just making a dumb joke that if it's the pathologist that's the person removing an appendix, they're probably dead already.
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by glfharris 3y ago
Totally does work, lots of spacecraft use reaction wheels to control attitude.
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by glfharris 3y ago
There are lots of ways things don't work. The plumbing can be connected up wrong or the pumps can not work.
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by glfharris 3y ago
He's a pathologist, so if he has removed someone's appendix they'd probably be dead. Pedantry aside, your point still stands.
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by glfharris 3y ago
Interesting, I saw the same!
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by glfharris 3y ago
I'm pretty sure there are academics who would bite their own legs off for tax records from this period.
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by glfharris 3y ago
Does this matter to them though? Does apple care about having the dominant messaging platform if it's no longer a hook to get people to buy apple devices.
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by glfharris 3y ago
That's so much more readable, even as someone who's read some Illich.
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by glfharris 3y ago
There's unfortunately only so much you can achieve with scalp-based electrodes. The applications everyone dreams about - like fine BCI or controlling robotic arms - are hard to achieve with signals once they've had to pass through
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by glfharris 3y ago
Describing it as a best kept secret seems unnecessarily adversarial. The medical community aren't jealously guarding treatments from the populace. Arguably shock wave lithotripsy, a common method for breaking up kidney stones, could be
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by glfharris 3y ago
It's not as simple as you're suggesting. Take cancer screening for example. Doing more investigations and more procedures for things that weren't going to become problematic puts people at risk for the complications of those
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by glfharris 3y ago
I think that is being unfair. It's the sad reality that for many neurological conditions we don't have good treatments or cures. However, things like levodopa are godsends for many with Parkinsons, for example.
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by glfharris 4y ago
Fantastic project. Amazing to think that there's an entire first century library just waiting for the technology to be read.
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by glfharris 4y ago
I'm a doctor in the UK. We used them for vascular patients with poor wound healing/ulcers.
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by glfharris 4y ago
I've prescribed these for some patients. Always funny when they arrive in little sachets to the wards, and sometimes takes a little bit of explaining just what we're recommending!
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by glfharris 4y ago
I'm not sure linking to a post detailing the PEDs alongside their routine is typical of the average person who does bodybuilding style training.
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by glfharris 4y ago
The foils can break, leaving a sharp tip that is more able to pierce protective clothing.
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by glfharris 4y ago
I have an interest in medical books from the first half of the 20th Century. It's fascinating what you can find, even in books that have been passed through many sets of hands. In one, I found a stockbrocker's letter and managed t
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by glfharris 5y ago
By chance, I am a doctor. I spend a lot of time looking things up, even things I'm 80% sure about. Yes, it's useful to have that knowledge already, and to that I'd say that copying out a textbook is a poor way to learn. It&#x
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by glfharris 5y ago
How is that any different from the rote memorisation that's been the mainstay of most education systems up to the 21st century? It doesn't really aid understanding, doesn't incorporate active recall, and tends to become ineff
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by glfharris 5y ago
This is how I see it too. It'll be obvious to anyone where those aircraft have come from. Poland isn't going to deflect responsibility this way. Poland can't afford to donate it's air power so readily, but the USA allows
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by glfharris 5y ago
Today Kherson has been captured, and Mairupol has been surrounded. hardly what id call a reversal.
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by glfharris 5y ago
Russia does not need allies to defeat the Ukrainian army. Given enough time they will win, even if sanctions/aid to Ukraine make it a pyhrric victory. Part of the sluggishness has been the desire for the "targeted strike", so
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by glfharris 5y ago
This is partly what's driven me to second hand/charity bookshops. No, they don't have exactly the book I've been looking for. But occasionally they have absolute gems that I'd never have found independently.

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