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We already routinely ultrasound limbs! This is primarily for muscle, tendon/ligament, and other superficial soft tissue injuries because ultrasound is very good at imaging these st…

Here's my take as a radiologist: this seems like a neat imaging tool that complements existing imaging tools (CT/MR) with new tradeoffs and questionable value. If whole-body ultras…

> But are you all forgetting that they literally injected a homeopathic drug on the author? I'm no fan of pseudoscience either, but this is where things get blurry. The placebo eff…

I get what you're saying, but I'm not deciding what should and shouldn't count as an alternative to X. I'm trying to answer the counterfactual: how do people behave in an alternati…

It does both: https://www.openevidence.com/user-guide/visits-overview

The specific case doesn't matter--it's meant to make you think about the general question throughout this thread: when an expert isn't available, should non-experts use AI (or othe…

We're discussing calcific tendinitis ( https://radiopaedia.org/articles/calcific-tendinitis?lang=us ). If you think you have it, you can see a doctor and consider shoulder radiogra…

I used the phrase "most likely alternative" intentionally. The library is where people should go to get answers in a world without Wikipedia, but the vast majority of people won't.…

In certain circumstances, the answer is yes. If an airplane's pilots are incapacitated, do you simply give up and crash the plane because there are no other pilots on board? Or wou…

I see your argument, but it's not exactly news that an expert found a flaw in a popular tool. You could say the same about Wikipedia--experts have tons of issues with it, but Wikip…

They do. Ultrasound in orthopedics is a relatively newer field, and there aren't quite as many sonography techs and radiologists experienced in reading these studies, which is like…

I'm a radiologist but can't really weigh in without seeing the full 3D MRI dataset. Regarding this point: > They performed shockwave therapy on my shoulder even though a recent cli…

You can create custom aliases on your own domain. I do this for every log in and am migrating old emails to my custom domain aliases.

I'm a physician and have recently been on both sides of the hiring process for new physicians and residents at a few different institutions. It's absolutely not meritocratic--you'd…

Take a look at how things worked before (and still do): employers decide who get jobs based on a combination of personal biases, nepotism, and ulterior motives while applicants pre…

Some of it is lack of imagination, but some of it is because many truly visionary examples would largely sound stupid to most of today's audience. Imagine it's 2007 and you're expl…

KDE was far less mature than macOS and Windows 10 years ago. Of course it’s come a long way.

I think you may have missed the original commenter's point. Residents (and medical students) are highly incentivized to publish unrealistic numbers of papers and case reports. One …

How can you determine whether it's as good as Opus 4.5 within minutes of release? The quantitative metrics don't seem to mean much anymore. Noticing qualitative differences seems l…

Yes, you could early-detect something, but the likelihood of this thing being life-threatening are extremely low. If you choose to manage this thing aggressively anyway, you have t…

The underreported story is how we over-trust human-coded software.

Just curious: what browser do you currently use? Firefox, Zen?

Interesting how Stratechery (Ben Thompson) is #15 in the last 5 years but not even top 100 in 2025. Similar with Julia Evans: #5 in the last 5 years but not in the 2025 top 100.

This sounds super cool and useful to me, but how does this work with a partner who's non-technical? Managing personal finances is something that we do together and having a nice cl…

There's also an orange light for the microphone.