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Sadly, their entire business is built on paywalling content the community built and distributed for free.

CSF sampling is a routine investigation in most hospitals. We don't typically see bacteria in these samples, when we do, its in the form of bacterial meningitis, hence the skeptici…

I'm a doctor training in anaesthesia. The idea with epidurals is to introduce local anaesthetic outside the compartment where the spinal cord is, literally epi-- --durally. To samp…

I was thinking the exact same thing last month[1]! It's really interesting what the implications of this might be, and how valuable human-derived content might become. There's stil…

I suppose that's where things like tip jars work quite well. To reward useful but otherwise niche content.

It's very similar in the UK. Most estate agents will use a third party these days, but the amount of information you have to hand over is ridiculous.

Just making a dumb joke that if it's the pathologist that's the person removing an appendix, they're probably dead already.

Totally does work, lots of spacecraft use reaction wheels to control attitude.

There are lots of ways things don't work. The plumbing can be connected up wrong or the pumps can not work.

He's a pathologist, so if he has removed someone's appendix they'd probably be dead. Pedantry aside, your point still stands.

Interesting, I saw the same!

I'm pretty sure there are academics who would bite their own legs off for tax records from this period.

Does this matter to them though? Does apple care about having the dominant messaging platform if it's no longer a hook to get people to buy apple devices.

That's so much more readable, even as someone who's read some Illich.

There's unfortunately only so much you can achieve with scalp-based electrodes. The applications everyone dreams about - like fine BCI or controlling robotic arms - are hard to ach…

Describing it as a best kept secret seems unnecessarily adversarial. The medical community aren't jealously guarding treatments from the populace. Arguably shock wave lithotripsy, …

It's not as simple as you're suggesting. Take cancer screening for example. Doing more investigations and more procedures for things that weren't going to become problematic puts p…

I think that is being unfair. It's the sad reality that for many neurological conditions we don't have good treatments or cures. However, things like levodopa are godsends for many…

Fantastic project. Amazing to think that there's an entire first century library just waiting for the technology to be read.

I'm a doctor in the UK. We used them for vascular patients with poor wound healing/ulcers.

I've prescribed these for some patients. Always funny when they arrive in little sachets to the wards, and sometimes takes a little bit of explaining just what we're recommending!

I'm not sure linking to a post detailing the PEDs alongside their routine is typical of the average person who does bodybuilding style training.

The foils can break, leaving a sharp tip that is more able to pierce protective clothing.

I have an interest in medical books from the first half of the 20th Century. It's fascinating what you can find, even in books that have been passed through many sets of hands. In …

By chance, I am a doctor. I spend a lot of time looking things up, even things I'm 80% sure about. Yes, it's useful to have that knowledge already, and to that I'd say that copying…