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There’s actually another company called SleepMe (or maybe that’s the product…?) that makes a mattress cover that’s water cooled (or warmed) As a night shifter it’s completely life …

I think any reasonable interpretation of the comment you’re replying to is not “sleep is always good” but rather “sleep is good, on the whole”, which is absolutely true. Both studi…

Personally I use it more as a reminder than an official reference. So, for example, reminders of less common diagnoses or less common presentations of common diagnoses that I’ve le…

Both - I spent 6 years not making any salary, plus another 4 making less than a software engineer, and on top of that I took on a lot of debt.

No, this sounds like a great example of shared decision making.

Not sure where you went to med school, but couldn't be different for me for med school and residency. Very little of being a doctor has to do with money. If I wanted money, I would…

I’ve had the opposite experience. I get lenses recommended, then a repeat visit in about a month to check for lens fit and adjust as needed.

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 r…

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. Yo…

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 algori…

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 t…

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 frus…

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-…

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 t…

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 g…

That's a good way of putting it!

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 E…

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.

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 resp…

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 o…

Changing careers. Left software to become a doctor. I'll graduate in 7 months.

I'm confused - what's the problem with the hamburger menu? What would the alternative be on small screens?

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 pa…

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, …