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Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
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#142Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
#143A trick I learned from Argentinian circus people, who make amazing BBQ, is let the grill heat up and then cut an onion in half to rub on the grate. It imparts a nice flavor and cleans the grill very well.
Off topic but any other tricks you learned from Argentinian circus people? Or circus people in general?
There's one where you put six relatively small guys on motorcycles inside a spherical metal cage. They drive around in circles but can't for the life of them get any mobile phone signal while inside.
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#144This is a real problem. My wife had been having extreme stomach pain for months, multiple trips to the emergency room, gastroenterologist, nothing could be found. She described that she felt that there was a hole in her stomach, the doctors called it stress. On her final ER visit (two months after the pain began), something showed up in the CT scan (the 3rd one). Embedded in her belly fat was a wire. Everything click…
Well, now I'm thoroughly terrified of BBQ.
You and me both. Yeesh!
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#145When I go to Korean BBQ with my colleagues, we use the chopped onion to clean the grill.
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#146I use one of these bristle brushes because I didn't know better, I've also even seen a few bristles fall out before & had me a bit concerned.
However I always end up microwaving for 30 seconds after, because by the time I've let the meat rest and turned off the grill my food isn't as warm as I want it.
So maybe I've been lucky, as I figure there would have been a reaction if there was metal in the microwave.
Anyways now I'm looking for an alternative, I'm thinking of using a large wooden spatula and let it conform to the grill overtime.
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#147> said the number of cases across Canada isn't tracked. We are Neanderthals sometimes. (I'd like to think it was because of privacy reasons)
It's because each province maintains their own health care data and many of them refuse to share anything with the others - whether from a paranoid privacy standpoint or a bureaucratic inability to make it happen.
So just ask country X for their data?
Except every country is this bad. This is the problem, it's the medical community in general.
Surly a quick online anonymized form, with a $ kickback/punishment for the hospital, which a lacky could fill in, with patient opt out ability could save lives and $$$ for countries.
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#148> said the number of cases across Canada isn't tracked. We are Neanderthals sometimes. (I'd like to think it was because of privacy reasons)
It's because each province maintains their own health care data and many of them refuse to share anything with the others - whether from a paranoid privacy standpoint or a bureaucratic inability to make it happen.
So, my hometown in Melbourne has a reasonably well-known children's hospital, the Royal Children's Hospital. A colleague of mine tried to get an appointment for his kid there, and they told him to apply by fax (who even has a fax anymore?). And even after he supplied all the forms by fax, they still asked him to fax them in the correct order. He ended up going somewhere else.
The bureaucracy there comes straight from the consultant doctors. Half a decade ago, an ex-colleague of mine worked in QA there, and there was nothing he could do. Any suggestion he would make would require X or Y department to change procedure or software (some departments couldn't even talk to each other electronically). The departmental heads had their preferred vendors, with their preferred sales reps, with their preferred kickbacks. As soon as you'd float a plan to improve efficiency and intercommunication, the relevant department head would defend their turf with the statement: "If you do this, children will die". Even for something as non-medical as simple appointment software. There is nothing you can say to that, because the department head is the designated expert for X or Y, so they have the final say.
Another meeting he was at showed how insular the place was. A comment was made by one departmental head, and one of the old guard (30 years or so) dismissed him as "we don't do that here. if you'd been here any length of time, you'd know that". The reply was "I've been here for 17 years...".
The RCH is a particularly bad example of this, but it's illustrative of politics. There is so much politics and turf warfare in medicine, some hospitals worse than others, that homogenising a system cannot happen unless it is a specific priority driven from the top, as only the top has the authority to tell the lieutenants to "just fucking do it". It's not paranoia or bureaucracy that creates these silos - it's politics and nest-feathering.
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#149The traditional BBQ method of the Aboriginal Australians is the one I like best. You pull a dead tree down, light it, then roll a supermarket trolley/cart filled with meat into the resulting fire.
:/ Please don't
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#150Couldn't they have some sort of instrument with a metal detector attached to find things like that?
... an x-ray machine?