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This is definitely a part of standard follow up for small findings and part of the guidance for incidentally detected lung nodules smaller than I think mammography is a great examp…

I love the line on the landing page with a link back to hn: > That must be worst website ever made. the level of confidence (this is a second time founder after all) to put that on…

very rare diseases may be an exception, especially in known geographic locations. that can become identifiable (and is governed by HIPAA in the US)

I threw this into ChatGPT and got a lot of the way there in one shot. Then had to go back and add in some stuff like the wordle answer and captchas…

Ya, internist here. For some context, the USMLE is taken during medical school. The amount I have learned about actually practicing medicine since graduating is probably an order o…

I’m curious what problems you’ve applied this to. Would love to chat if you are open. (My email is in my profile)

> You have to hope your hospital uses CPT codes and not, say, DRG coding, or something else entirely, otherwise you'll need to look up those codes too. This is a bit of a misunders…

Err it’s more that tick-borne diseases cause anemia. There are lots of things that cause anemia! And someone with unexplained anemia deserves a complete work up (especially with he…

Just want to point out that Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter are (usually) very benign, chronic conditions. Many people have for years without symptoms. Ventricular fibrillat…

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It's really amazing to see travel nurses come back to work at a place they just left. They are now doing the same job as before, are getting paid almost twice as much with better s…

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I've thought about building an API that integrates Twillo with the HN API. Lots of planes/airlines have free messaging wifi, but not free wifi. But, if you could text a number and …

Isn’t the fact that they got cut in half (and other examples, peloton for example) evidence that this isn’t a bubble. There are companies that are exploding in value, yes, but also…

Sorry that happened to your aunt. Doctors aren’t reimbursed for prescribing medications directly (except chemotherapy infusions). Was the physician selling the medication directly?…

Like cigarettes? I have no sense of whether FB is physically addictive like smoking. But, if a company directly contributes to decline in civil discourse and harms democracy, and t…

Not GP, but anecdotally know that there are way more respiratory viruses now (summer in the US) than usual. For data, you might look at RSV trends compared to usual. (Usual is wint…

Don’t they just both correlate with socio economic status? Can’t read actual methods to check if this was adjusted for…

I’ve been trying to decide whether to move a Django-DRF API to one of these.

yes! I'd probably argue that a majority (or at least significant plurality) of acute care (hospital care) in the US is the direct result of the failure of social services. I includ…

It’s actually mandated now that providers allow free, on-demand, API access to patients for their medical data.

The GI side effects of metformin are usually short lived. They tend to last about a week or so after starting the drug or increasing the dose. Some people do have longer lasting si…

I think what you are assuming is that early intervention in infection is good. Very likely to be true. And that we can reliably detect early infection. Much less likely to be true.…