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by DanBC 4y ago
> No it doesn’t Yes it does. You not knowing what GRADE is or how it works but insisting that you are well informed is a great example of the problem with these discussions. You dump a load of ill-informed mangled sources into a thread,
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by DanBC 4y ago
Just checking you know that Kiera Bell lost.
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This is untrue. Puberty blockers have been in use for trans children for over 40 years now, we have lots of evidence of benefit and lots of evidence that there's not much harm. We don't have randomised controlled trials, but if yo
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by DanBC 4y ago
Anti-trans campaigners misunderstand what's meant by "low quality evidence". It just means we don't yet have double blind randomised control trials of certain treatments. But that's to be expected: trans children ar
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by DanBC 4y ago
See also this blog from the NHS about why they've made some of these decisions. https://digital.nhs.uk/blog/transformation-blog/2019/pee-and...
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by DanBC 4y ago
The Times, like much of the UK press, is on an anti-trans crusade. Much of this article is incorrect or misleading. The report from the Cass review was clear that the safety issue was with a single provider. This means that more clinics for
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by DanBC 4y ago
Also, the problems with the ambulance service is not the lack of ambos - they're cheap enough to buy. It's with the lack of qualified, trained, registered paramedics and ambo staff to operate the ambulances. It's also the fac
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by DanBC 4y ago
"Metropolitan France" is the area of France that's in Europe, and that's 543,940 km².
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by DanBC 4y ago
Here's the BNF page for naltrexone: https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drugs/naltrexone-hydrochloride/ Here's the NICE guidance for alcohol use disorders: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg115
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How well do the Covid vaccines work? (and why has this been so confusing?)(youcanknowthings.com)
16 points by DanBC 4y ago|29 comments
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by DanBC 4y ago
If you don't know what "radical feminist" means, and that it does not mean "a feminist that is radical", this discussion is going to be hard fucking work.
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by DanBC 4y ago
You're claiming that this is a limit for treatment and that this is maximum amount the NHS will spend per patient. That's simply untrue. Yet again: that figure is the negotiation amount used by the NHS when dealing with companies
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by DanBC 4y ago
RiO isn't an NHS product, it's made by Servelec who sell it to some NHS organisations. Yes, it's terrible. https://www.servelec.co.uk/product-range/rio-epr-system/
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1 points by DanBC 4y ago|1 comments
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Over the years so many people have patiently explained why and how you're wrong whenever you mention the NHS that I can only think you're choosing to misrepresent the information now. And here you're repeating the claim that
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by DanBC 4y ago
It's fairly common to see people on HN say that the NHS can't be on the brink of collapse because we've been saying it for year. EG, one example from 20 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31531180
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by DanBC 4y ago
> nobody in power is going to reform it This kind of thing is only ever said by people who've got no idea how the NS works. Just today Javid announced his intention for a new, major, change to the way that primary care will work.
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by DanBC 4y ago
> but it proved impossible to get tested for any other STD. You've asked for direct access to specialists, and in England you do have direct access to sexual health clinics where you don't need to be referred by GP, you don&#x2
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Similarly, due to different funding models, private healthcare can give drugs/perform procedures which don’t have a good cost/benefit analysis but the customer doesn’t mind paying for. Private healthcare causing harm by over
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by DanBC 4y ago
There's quite a lot to mention here. There is not a "UK NHS". There are 4 NHSs in the UK, one each for Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and England. They really are different, with different laws and staff and government de
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by DanBC 4y ago
Bit weird of you to use that NHS Providers site. Chris is here talking about the Conservative party making misleading claims: > So here is a challenge to politicians who say they support the NHS. Be clear and straight about the numbers –
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by DanBC 4y ago
When you consider the massive reforms carried out by Lansley (a Conservative health minister. These reforms caused huge problems, didn't particularly work, were widely misunderstood even by his own party, and are now being rolled back)
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by DanBC 4y ago
5 year survival is not a particularly useful statistic though. Those people are not living longer, they're being diagnosed earlier. The all cause mortality hasn't been changed. Rates of regret for cancer treatment are quite high -
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by DanBC 4y ago
What's this if it's not collapse? https://twitter.com/SittonGary/status/1534148868396531712?s=...
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2 points by DanBC 4y ago|0 comments
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Newsround is a news programme made by the BBC for children and young people. It's aimed at 6 to 12 year olds.
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Will US fast-food conquer Britain? (1981)(youtube.com)
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by DanBC 4y ago
> These are failings of individuals and their decision making processes You have a deficient understanding of substance use disorders, which mostly have nothing to do with personal failings.
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> It got through Covid without collapsing aswell Where "not collapsing" means tens of thousands of people died preventable deaths and hundreds of thousands of people suffered preventable harm because the NHS wasn't able to
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Yes, that's exactly the point they're making. A lot of people get pneumonia, it's a very common cause of death, we see it on very many death certificates. And, even though it's so common, we still see very many more (bet

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