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by pragone 7y ago
Sorry, I may not have been clear. The point I was trying to make is that PVCs and afib are not mutually exclusive - they're just not related entities. The parent brought up sinus rhythm, and I wanted to make sure everyone was on the s
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by pragone 7y ago
So it's worthwhile to make sure we all understand that we're talking about two different things: atrial fibrillation and sinus rhythm are two options in the same bucket: rhythm. You can have PVCs with afib, you can have PVCs with
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by pragone 7y ago
Right. I would argue it is possible for better classification; I don't have a reason why apple chose not to do this (especially if they're capturing the data) other than the algorithms are not as guaranteed as we would like and
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by pragone 7y ago
Determining PVCs vs afib is very trivial when you actually look at the strip. However, if Apple is only analyzing rate regularity and not actually doing analysis on the waveforms themselves they would be very difficult to differentiate. If
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by pragone 8y ago
Unless of course you don’t live anywhere because you move every 4 weeks. Turns out our society is really not designed for someone without a physical residence. It’s made for a frustrating year for me.
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by pragone 8y ago
I’m not at all surprised. As a semi retired software engineer and currently 4th year Med student, I still maintain a dream of building a usable EHR that puts the clinical, patient-focused side of things first. Currently implementations allo
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by pragone 8y ago
Well, point of care ultrasound (which is what the butterfly is for) can often lead to formal ultrasonography to be read by a radiologist. However, it can increase time to initial treatment, and depending on the level of skill of the user c
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by pragone 8y ago
Yeah unfortunately that's an attitude that still exists in some places. Fortunately I'm going into a specialty (EM) that has much less of that, and my first priority is to find a group of people I like and that I want to go to wo
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by pragone 8y ago
That's a good way of putting it!
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by pragone 8y ago
for sure! I hope to be able to incorporate my previous life into my future career. My real dream is to build an EMR designed for patient care, but is also able to do billing (all EMRs were designed and built for billing specifications, an
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by pragone 8y ago
Thank you! I was fortunate to have completed all prereqs through my bachelor's degree. I worked in software for 3 years or so, then left to go to med school.
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by pragone 8y ago
Very interesting observation! I would say that that is definitely a stereotype - accurate, but not as common as you might think. For me, the real difference is every patient's response - some (many?) doctors treat the job as a job. F
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by pragone 8y ago
Absolutely! I found that I was spending an inordinate amount of time in front of a computer and not interacting with anyone. I also was extremely disappointed with a general lack of self-improvement; I think part of that was that I just gr
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by pragone 8y ago
Changing careers. Left software to become a doctor. I'll graduate in 7 months.
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by pragone 8y ago
I'm confused - what's the problem with the hamburger menu? What would the alternative be on small screens?
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by pragone 8y ago
That's more or less it on the dot! Edit: I'd add that type 2 is associated with increasing insulin resistance, causing the pancreas to work harder. Over time, this can cause the pancreas to essentially burn out, at which point ex
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by pragone 8y ago
I'm not sure what number that's from - I think that's the undergrad tuition, not medical school tuition ( https://www.augusta.edu/mcg/admissions/tuition-augusta.php ) In any case, that's tuition
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by pragone 8y ago
> people going into 200k debt to become doctor's are mostly over paying That's probably average combining undergrad and medical school. I go to one of the cheapest medical schools in the country, and it's > $240k in lo
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by pragone 8y ago
> [Cuban medical schools] graduate loads more doctors than the US I'm guessing you mean per capita...? > A doctor must have a Batchelor's because it was decided that nurses should have one I'm not sure where you got tha
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by pragone 8y ago
I always assumed this was because Amazon didn't want to have to pay the 30% or whatever cost to Apple for in-app purchases.
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by pragone 8y ago
Seeing that always made me think that everything would be exaggerated, and the video was likely not worth my time; I also spend very little time on YouTube, so the two are probably related (namely that I don't like video-based content)
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What the Hospitals of the Future Look Like(wsj.com)
1 points by pragone 8y ago|0 comments
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by pragone 9y ago
Or you just ended up with a lot of student loan debt...
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by pragone 9y ago
Nope, got released 9/25
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Heroku CLI down(status.heroku.com)
1 points by pragone 9y ago|0 comments
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by pragone 9y ago
Like any intervention to the human body, there are risks. Properly maintained and adjusted, contacts carry very few risks. Anecdotally, I've yet to find a pair of glasses that lets me function in the world as well as contacts. (My ey
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by pragone 9y ago
> the half-life of depression is only a few weeks Are you referring to a single major depressive episode? And presumably not referring to the various other depressive disorders that last months to years? FWIW, this one of many things th
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by pragone 9y ago
Is this referring to the same type of "sticker" I hear about in iMessage? Because I still have no idea what those are about, but I hear people talking about them all the time.
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by pragone 9y ago
That would be awesome if you wanted to share it!
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by pragone 9y ago
Thank you! That's the perfect tl;dr (too long; didn't research?) I was looking for

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