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Comment · 1 year ago
> the possession of such devices will generally be prohibited by March next year. The police are currently conducting a free collection campaign, urging individuals to turn in coilguns at their nearest police station."
Comment · 2 years ago
It wasn’t a simple texture swap. They added 40 new levels.
Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
I have a hard time picturing the radiologist whose reputation and malpractice rely on catching small anomalies being comfortable using a machine predicated on inferring the image contents.
Comment · 2 years ago
The SEC only found wrongdoing in eleven trades, whose profit netted approx $272K. They did not penalize him for trades not found in violation of the law.

Clearly, too long, didn’t read.

Comment · 3 years ago
We have known about sleep deprivation causing a remission in suicidal ideation for a while - we have inferred a depression benefit as well, but it’s nice to have it quantified.

However, we also know resumption of sleep pretty quickly ends the effect. It’s not a sustainable intervention, so much as it an interesting finding for hypothesis generation.

We also see the reverse effect in mania; on balance, regular healthy sleep wins the day.

Comment · 3 years ago
Physician here, and I cannot emphasize this enough. To the point where I actively avoid most medical/healthcare threads - it’s oppressive to contribute.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is incorrect.

Phase I is “is it immediately dangerous?”

Phase II is assessing side effects at various dosages, to dial in possible dose ranges. There is some measurement of clinical effect here, to assist in dialing in dosages.

Phase III is does it work / what is the effect size.

Comment · 3 years ago
In short:

A common adverse effect from oral polio vaccine, occurring at a far lower rate in the new vaccine than in the one it replaced.

Headline link makes it sound like -bad- news.

Comment · 3 years ago
> “I thought using these Fitbit-like devices on the neck collar was a creative way to understand resting, flying, or foraging behaviors. And when Ryan was doing all this physical work to figure out what this accelerometry data would tell us, I was very eager to see what the results were,” Ward says. “But when it was all analyzed, I was like, ‘Wow, that's not too exciting.’ Basically, when you harass, they fly a little bit more because you're scaring them, or they might be alert a little more, but it wasn't a fundamental difference.”

Well, that’s one way for a PI to publicly skewer their former grad student.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
You’re more literate than most patients. You’re right, it should list all of the above. I think your post reads (and per other poster, I’m not alone) that you had a $1300 normal outpatient visit, so I read that as you misreading your bill.
Comment · 4 years ago
When working for a hospital, it’s an admin somewhere. When in private practice, the insurer generally has geographic monopoly, so I sign off on whatever they shove in my face if I intend to accept their patients. The only time I have a real say in price is in private practice for uninsured patients, which is where I set aside a piece of my time for charity care.
Comment · 4 years ago
That’s not what the doc gets paid. That’s the pretend amount that the insurer and doc have agreed upon, before their agreed upon discount.

Source: doctor.

Comment · 4 years ago
My issue with my wife is not having 45 mins a day with her. If I had that, the note would be supernumerary.

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