poirot2

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by poirot2 3mo ago
Americans perception of themselves always baffles me. You have police brutality regularly, ICE raids shooting protestors and deporting people (inc those with the right to be there) to El Salvador, people who write critical articles of Israe
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by poirot2 1y ago
Funny because cysteinuria doesn’t do this (pee out cysteine)
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by poirot2 3y ago
I disagree with this strongly. Isolated individual facts don’t give you an overview or macro-structure to place the facts within. It’s very inefficient. Can only speak for medicine but using another persons deck is ‘quicker’ but performance
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by poirot2 3y ago
Sorry what? The NHS is free. There is no Medicare. Private health insurance is a luxury, it’s basically a queue jump to see the same doctors often in the same hospital as the NHS offers. Pricing is transparent because they just send you to
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by poirot2 3y ago
Completely true. Killer stats on this: 1 in 7 U.K. trained doctors work abroad The number of GP training places are up 2000 and number of qualified GPs hasn’t changed due to poor retention. I could go on and on. U.K. medicine is a shitshow
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by poirot2 3y ago
This implies PAs are at half the level of an MD but the difference is astronomical. Those 4000 MD hours are training to be a physician, the 2000 are training to be a PA which is a much simpler role. If PA school went to 8000h doing what the
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by poirot2 4y ago
Glad this worked out for you, well done. For anyone else who’s drinking at this level (a litre a day of vodka) please don’t quit cold turkey without seeing a doctor. It genuinely can be lethal. There are temporary medications that dramatica
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by poirot2 4y ago
Misunderstanding here. The question is at what age is the base rate in the population sufficiently high that a test with a certain sensitivity and specificity useful net risks. Multiple studies have shown that these screening programmes don
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by poirot2 4y ago
This is an ill informed take. It’s common when someone doesn’t know what X role does from the outside to think they are interchangeable. Medical school takes candidates that are already on average much stronger than NP trainees and then tr