phobosanomaly

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by phobosanomaly 2y ago
I recently worked as a physician in a Labor and Delivery unit at a county hospital where there is an extremely high rate of methamphetamine and fentanyl use among patients, I would like to provide a counter-point that I have never heard of
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by phobosanomaly 4y ago
Mucosa has vascular supply. Naumova EA, Dierkes T, Sprang J, Arnold WH. The oral mucosal surface and blood vessels. Head Face Med. 2013 Mar 12;9:8. doi: 10.1186/1746-160X-9-8. PMID: 23497446; PMCID: PMC3639856. It also has antibodies (
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by phobosanomaly 4y ago
If you don't have a strong electronics background, the XGameStation [1] with it's accompanying textbook The Black Art of Game Console Design [2] involves soldering up a primitive game console with a bunch of example game source co
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
This group has put so much effort into the open letter, but it's probably not receiving particularly widespread circulation. Perhaps it would be more effective if this group gathered the detailed knowledge of all the people who signed
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Apparently not. As psychologists worry that the coronavirus pandemic is triggering a loneliness epidemic, new Harvard research suggests feelings of social isolation are on the rise and that those hardest hit are older teens and young adult
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Isn't this just basic antitrust regulation? I don't like to use the word 'propaganda' unless it's tongue-in-cheek, but ... "Ma’s assets have been stripped, shorn, and degraded" ... come on, give me a bre
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
I've tried breaking textbooks down into Anki cards, and it takes forever and afterwards I'm left feeling underwhelmed. But, if you're going to do it, I've found that my favorite method of review is TTS on the Anki app wi
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the database guy actually implements things in an environment that can be manipulated at will. Doctors don't implement things in an environment that they control. Patients come to them w
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
'Easy access' is scary for hospitals because it means increased possibility of HIPAA violations.
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
They can have multiple free-of-charge parking garages on the outskirts that are associated with a light rail system. So you park, hop on the metro, and head into the city without having to worry about the nightmare of parking or the stop-an
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
You'd need boats in the area anyway to gather up the crew when the vessel started taking on water.
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
"In a legal context, a chilling effect is the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of natural and legal rights by the threat of legal sanction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effe
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Yes. They very likely did. Kaiser Health News has a good roundup of articles on this very topic. https://khn.org/morning-breakout/documents-reveal-just-how-i... There are such gems as: "That email and other inter
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
The sources in the linked article seem to suggest that the San Francisco Walgreens are not being driven from business due to an overabundance of middle and working-class white girls shoplifting for fun. Although the parent to your comment d
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
You provided the example of the First Nations in Canada, which would be taken by any reasonable person as an implication that the United States is a better country to be impoverished in. When combined with your refutation of the earlier p
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Ok, so what is your counter-metric (or reasoning) for why the United States is a better place to be poor in than other developed countries?
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
I guess it depends on what you're comparing. I mean, compare the US Gini coefficient with other developed countries.
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
It's all good food for thought.
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
I was just responding to your assertion that poverty doesn't really exist in the United States. It's not as widespread as in Latin America, and tends to be more sporadic, but there are hundreds of thousands of people living in ten
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
There are plenty of First-Nations people in the United States without access to clean drinking water. In your time in the US, did you get a chance to visit the Navajo reservation? "Tribes without clean water demand an end to decades o
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
There are actually many, many communities in the United States where people live on dirt roads. That's super common. I grew up on a dirt road, and my parents still live on one. Much of the rural US lives off of paved roads. With food a
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
> What other profession says nonsense like this, imagine saying this to a doctor or accountant. Med students have to jump through an unimaginable number of hoops to prove that they will put up with anything because they are supposed
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
The whole thing smells like bullshit. The idea that under a timed medical school exam a student would spend 5 minutes rooting through Canvas to find an answer rather than just Googling it in 10 seconds is absurd. Likely the faculty was too
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
This is standard procedure for many medical school exams during COVID. Examsoft locks down your primary device, and you have a secondary device (smartphone/other laptop) pointed at you throughout the exam with a live video stream to th
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
I personally support the crypto-anarchist take you're espousing, but assuming that most of this stuff isn't a predatory cesspool pushing unsophisticated retail investors off of a cliff by the force of isolation-induced FOMO seems
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Apparently the only options for diagnostic testing are brain biopsy and pulling CSF samples, both of which are probably a non-starter for screening purposes across a population. Clinical Laboratory Tests Used To Aid in Diagnosis of Human Pr
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
He's had 'several strokes.' Who knows when his first stroke was? His sister's history of stroke as well could indicate that there is something more going on. He could have had multiple microinfarcts over the years leadin
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
Practicing medicine must be lucrative because it costs an individual student around $240,000 in tuition for the M.D. itself, excluding cost of living. Doctors are made out to be predatory vultures, but unless they come from money they mus
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
That must be understood in the context of the number of applicants to U.S. residency programs from Caribbean medical schools (which are well-known to be a little predatory). From that article you cited: International medical graduates in
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by phobosanomaly 5y ago
That really depends on what you mean by 'destiny.' If you go to community college, work hard, and get decent grades you are more-or-less guaranteed a transfer spot at a good state school. It's actually pretty easy to transfer

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