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Disinformation, misinformation, malinformation (whatever that is), and even hate speech are all just censorship in sheep’s clothing. These fact checkers end up being used by the bi…

Another scheme these PE groups have concocted is using their regional monopolies to force hospitals and surgery centers to pay an outrageous annual “stipend” for the “privilege” of…

Orthopedic surgeon here. Outpatient total joint replacements have taken off like a rocket in the last few years, in part due to advances in due to pain control (pre operative perip…

We encounter a similar problem in the medical field: endless clinic and operative notes that are 95% repetitive but are critically important for recording medical care, medicolegal…

I'm running a synology 6 bay nas which in addition to hoarding data and time machine backups, its running pihole in a docker container, plex server for the kid's movies, and a linu…

1. Roland fp30 digital piano - coming from a guitar background, learning the piano has made my music theory knowledge grow exponentially 2. Ubiquiti unifi home wifi - fun project t…

Fox squirrel bones also glow under UV, it was the subject of my senior research elective. I remember freezing then crushing up a bunch of squirrel bones, doing some extractions, pu…

Mottos (or just quotes) I remember from medical training: “There is no problem that can’t be made worse with surgery” - a cautionary phrase to counter “a chance to cut is a chance …

Similar: “cry once, buy once”

Blinding is a way to actually reveal placebo effects, and double blinding (blinding the examiner to which group the subject is in) helps negate observer bias.

They certainly do track it because Medicare will not pay for a second hospital stay in many cases. https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Ass... Beware of uninten…

Speaking from an orthopedic perspective (though most fields are similar), there are literally thousands of ways to measure this, they are called (not surprisingly) outcome measures…

Very cool move. What does the communications tool specifically do?

I read the title as “association between intelligence and childishness”. Made it halfway though the abstract trying to see if my immaturity meant I was actually intelligent. Disapp…

I’m right there with ya calderarrow. I’m a middle aged physician with no prior programming experience, but I picked this book up on a whim a few years ago and it changed my life. I…

Interesting side note about suicide among physicians (in the U.S. at least), every state license or hospital privileges (including renewals) I have applied for asks “have you been …

I just put the tags in the file name, like “2019-12-25_xmas_bob_grandma.jpg”. Obviously you can’t go crazy with a bunch of tags, but I think I can get by with 2 or 3 tags at most. …

I just dealt with this crap storm of a project last month. We had 40k photos scattered across three laptops, old hard drives, and sd cards. First I just crudely copied all of the f…

The book "Moonwalking with Einstein" was my first introduction to memorization techniques. I had no idea these techniques existed, much less there were competitions for them. I dro…

Motion and loading is definitely integral to cartilage preservation. Unlike most tissues in the body, articular cartilage does not receive oxygen and nutrients from blood vessels, …

Thanks for the compliment, I just lurk here on HN and I finally came across something in my wheelhouse. Happy to contribute. With private practice and a house full of kids I imagin…

Orthopedic surgeon here. Articular cartilage regeneration is definitely the holy grail of my field, but for all of the promises of biologics (growth factors, stem cells, collagen m…

If I hit a paywall on safari iOS I simply click "send to" button and open it in the Duck Duck Go app.

Bachelor’s degree in geography? I wonder if she went to school with Buster Bluth.