needlesurgeon

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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
As a clinician, this news is extraordinarily exciting. Here's why. A brain computer interface is something that records neural activity in a person, and then decodes that neural activity to allow them to control objects in their enviro
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
For those interested, I have posted a relevant screening-exam paper on the main thread that asks the question, "what do we find if we scan the brains of 2000 people?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19965095
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
I was inspired to spin-this out from a different post about full-body MRI scans. This paper is asking the question, "If I scan the brains of 2000 people, what can I expect to find?" The findings more or less recapitulate the natur
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Incidental Findings on Brain MRI in the General Population(nejm.org)
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
Of all of the points listed, their eusocial nature is (to me) the weirdest. A quick Google search [0] shows that eusocial organization actually manifests not only with behavior, but with changes in physical characteristics. The 'queen&
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
Simulators are effective only as their verisimilitude. Certain neurosurgical procedures are well-reproduced using simulators (most notably the insertion of external ventricular drains[0] for hydrocephalus). Surgical simulation have also sho
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
The salaries of resident physicians are often available online. Here are some example salaries: https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/medicine/education/residency/... https://med.nyu.edu/medicin
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
I'm told by my anesthesia friends that it take about 6 weeks to train someone to be technically proficient at putting someone to sleep and waking them back up again. The five years of training are needed to understand why you're d
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
Hyper-specialization has been an approach taken by the medical establishment. For instance, within the last decade, the "vascular surgery" specialty opened up as a specialty straight out of medical school. Vascular surgery procedu
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
North American Neurosurgeon here. My opinions are based on my personal experience and my understanding of the literature. I am not an expert in residency well-being or work-hour restrictions. First: the literature is unequivocal about the e
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
This is absolutely true. Another way of saying this is: at a population based level, a very cheap and effective way to decrease the incidence of spina bifida is by providing folate supplementation. However, some mothers are genetically pre-
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
When we talk about clinical trials, we are often interested in answering (1) a primary outcome, which is articulated as a specific yes/no questions based on a measurable clinical outcome, and then (2) a series secondary outcomes, which
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by needlesurgeon 7y ago
Neurosurgeon here (long-term HN browser and my post). If you're interested in prenatal surgery for spina bifida (more specifically: for myelomeningocele), check out the MOMS trial: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full&#x2