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I recently worked as a physician in a Labor and Delivery unit at a county hospital where there is an extremely high rate of methamphetamine and fentanyl use among patients, I would…

Mucosa has vascular supply. Naumova EA, Dierkes T, Sprang J, Arnold WH. The oral mucosal surface and blood vessels. Head Face Med. 2013 Mar 12;9:8. doi: 10.1186/1746-160X-9-8. PMID…

If you don't have a strong electronics background, the XGameStation [1] with it's accompanying textbook The Black Art of Game Console Design [2] involves soldering up a primitive g…

This group has put so much effort into the open letter, but it's probably not receiving particularly widespread circulation. Perhaps it would be more effective if this group gather…

Apparently not. As psychologists worry that the coronavirus pandemic is triggering a loneliness epidemic, new Harvard research suggests feelings of social isolation are on the rise…

Isn't this just basic antitrust regulation? I don't like to use the word 'propaganda' unless it's tongue-in-cheek, but ... "Ma’s assets have been stripped, shorn, and degraded" ...…

I've tried breaking textbooks down into Anki cards, and it takes forever and afterwards I'm left feeling underwhelmed. But, if you're going to do it, I've found that my favorite me…

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the database guy actually implements things in an environment that can be manipulated at will. Doctors don't implement things in an…

'Easy access' is scary for hospitals because it means increased possibility of HIPAA violations.

They can have multiple free-of-charge parking garages on the outskirts that are associated with a light rail system. So you park, hop on the metro, and head into the city without h…

You'd need boats in the area anyway to gather up the crew when the vessel started taking on water.

"In a legal context, a chilling effect is the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of natural and legal rights by the threat of legal sanction." https://en.wikip…

Yes. They very likely did. Kaiser Health News has a good roundup of articles on this very topic. https://khn.org/morning-breakout/documents-reveal-just-how-i... There are such gems…

The sources in the linked article seem to suggest that the San Francisco Walgreens are not being driven from business due to an overabundance of middle and working-class white girl…

You provided the example of the First Nations in Canada, which would be taken by any reasonable person as an implication that the United States is a better country to be impoverish…

Ok, so what is your counter-metric (or reasoning) for why the United States is a better place to be poor in than other developed countries?

I guess it depends on what you're comparing. I mean, compare the US Gini coefficient with other developed countries.

It's all good food for thought.

I was just responding to your assertion that poverty doesn't really exist in the United States. It's not as widespread as in Latin America, and tends to be more sporadic, but there…

There are plenty of First-Nations people in the United States without access to clean drinking water. In your time in the US, did you get a chance to visit the Navajo reservation? …

There are actually many, many communities in the United States where people live on dirt roads. That's super common. I grew up on a dirt road, and my parents still live on one. Muc…

> What other profession says nonsense like this, imagine saying this to a doctor or accountant. Med students have to jump through an unimaginable number of hoops to prove that they…

The whole thing smells like bullshit. The idea that under a timed medical school exam a student would spend 5 minutes rooting through Canvas to find an answer rather than just Goog…

This is standard procedure for many medical school exams during COVID. Examsoft locks down your primary device, and you have a secondary device (smartphone/other laptop) pointed at…

I personally support the crypto-anarchist take you're espousing, but assuming that most of this stuff isn't a predatory cesspool pushing unsophisticated retail investors off of a c…