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> The American medical system acts like the smallest bit of discomfort warrants being knocked out. There is a tremendous variation in both pain tolerance and anxiety. You sound lik…

I tried to keep my statements factual and my own opinion out of it. While “shit” was a bit tongue in cheeky the term “dirty” is used among practitioners because of the wide range o…

The original commenter mentioned a “knee operation”

Propofol is an anesthetic, seroquel is not... it’s an antipsychotic. The thing with antipsychotics is they’re shit or “dirty” drugs... seroquel is not even indicated for insomnia (…

Early in residency, had a guy once that seemed “out” as normal during an operation. No abnormalities. In the recovery room claims he heard everything we were saying in the OR. We o…

Were you under with propofol the whole time though? Usually the propofol is just to put you down (it is very short acting) you’re intubated, and then anesthesia is maintained with …

50% is “super conservative”?? By what reasoning? How is that more appropriate than 5% or .5% or .05%? Either you have a justification for that estimate or you’re just making someth…

You’re so confused. > FLAC has no benefit over traditional 16/24 encoded content Yes it does. It’s anywhere from 70-30% the size depending on genre. That’s a benefit. > you might t…

> why the C programming language is the way it is. I’m curious specifically why you think this is. The 6502 with its poor register set and special purpose addressing mode seems to …

It’s not a big deal. I only mentioned as a response because the op started off saying they were from a family of MDs. Also the vast majority of practicing physicians are expected t…

> That’s asinine, obviously he doesn’t mean more data is always better even if the test is invasive or dangerous. With him classifying all MDs as idiots, no it is not asinine. I’ve…

I am actually an MD. > Had we enforced a full-body MRI for every patient, we would quickly amass enough imaging data to know which anomalies are malignant and which are not to a ve…

There new guidelines in the US that still recommend aspirin based on cardiovascular risk. That aspirin increases the risk of bleeding is old news. The difficulty has been in quanti…

If that’s what he’s saying, he’s wrong. Python threads are based on native threads. They are parallel executed, they just don’t do so very well because of the GIL.

Your example is the epitome of bullshit. There is a tremendous amount of tech in medicine and considerable investment at larger healthcare systems. If medical coding were such a si…

Absolute bullshit. To say there are no studies demonstrating better effectiveness than placebo is a tired old meme. It is true that SSRIs don’t have a profound effectiveness over p…

From a healthcare background I find your points to be incredibly rare in practice, and the articles more on point.. which makes sense given the context of the article. For the most…

It’s supposedly “news”, not editorializing. It’s their responsibility to get the facts right. Acids aren’t inherently dangerous. And I know plenty of “average” people that know tha…

I read the article and it seems like a fair summary. I mean they even added the onus to bring more games to Linux first and then we will get moving on our part. I’m a Linux user, r…

So tempting to put a link to jwz.org here. But seriously, this sounds more like the responsibility of the link submitter and/or this website then every person on the internet that …

Note that you don’t have to use the connection credentials to make use of row level security in pg. the security policy can be based on session variables (or anything really) which…

No not misreading. Ruby mongrel was the antithesis of a bulky server environment, it was a single threaded worker host generally spawned behind something like Apache or nginx or li…

The terms are in common use since the 80s at least (no, Microsoft did not invent these terms with D3D). You can prove this in google scholar. In fact for 3D rendering, retained mod…

Don’t really agree with the history. MRI ruby had always had a fast startup time and was not originally created for the web... it’s more like a “better” Perl cum toolkit for C/unix…