Shinkei

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by Shinkei 12y ago
I agree with the dissonance between physical and psychological self you mentioned and it's great that you have achieved that insight. Unfortunately, it seems like most people do not understand this dichotomy and there are also many (ma
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by Shinkei 12y ago
The severe misunderstanding of statistics is in the original paper. I have a much more detailed post here, but basically just because many types of cancer are stochastic in their risk, doesn't mean that the incidence of cancer over
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I have always been personally bothered by the way images are photoshopped to the extreme. For me, it feels fraudulent to have an advertisement of a product and use an image that has been doctored. I mean, we can think of a whole spectrum of
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Physician here. I think I can provide some clarification for what is going on here. I just read the article the WHO is addressing and this is a line from the final paragraph: Our analysis shows that stochastic effects associated with DNA r
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I agree with some of your points, except that the initial absence of probable cause makes this case worthwhile. The reason to defend constitutional rights in this context is about what the government 'could' do, not what they &#x2
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Has anyone ever quantified the dollars spent per criminal captured for these kinds of programs? I mean flying a small plane, using proprietary technology, agents' time... I'm guessing this is in the millions of dollars, but who ar
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by Shinkei 12y ago
So can anyone explain why banks would suddenly close an account like that in the UK? Would they do that in the US? He is despositing a lot of cash and electronically transmitting money from that account. Wouldn't any small business tha
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I apologize if Mr. Bernstein is reading this, but does anyone else feel like this post as well as many of the others he linked in his article are meandering, circumferential... maybe even raving? I really cannot follow his reasoning or disc
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Physicians use this book: http://www.amazon.com/Sanford-Guide-Antimicrobial-Therapy-Gu... It has huge spreadsheets of antibiotics based on organism, resistance, etc. But there are a LOT of nuances to choosing the right medi
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Yeah, have to echo some of the comments here. These medications are not 'snake oily,' so I don't know if you just intended to use a different phrase. These medications are actual pharmaceuticals and some of them based on huma
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Yes, specialty hospital seems to be a great model. Atul Gawande talks a lot about this type of practice in his "Complications" book; a great read if you haven't seen it.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Patients should be informed and the process should be open and honest. And also, any physician who would balk at a 2nd opinion is not confident in his or her own course of action. That said, it's very easy to get caught up in a situati
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Thanks for this information. I like your Medium article. Radiologists strive to mitigate the inherent problem of incidentalomas by using evidence based guidelines and attempting to rigidly adhere to them... but all too often there are compe
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I'll concede almost everything you've said, especially regarding our knowledge of 'psychosomatic' diseases and pain. However, I watched part of that video and the moment you hear "doctors said I would never walk aga
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by Shinkei 12y ago
>A handful of Neurologists around the country. But this is where we don't get the whole story; A handful of Neurologists could also be wrong but still have consensus. I want to see the reasoning behind their decisions because if an
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Softer sciences? It was simple human error, not a failing of the science itself. I've made a more extensive post separately, but in short... regulations have slowed the advances that could prevent this kind of human error.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I made a more extensive comment separately, but this is exactly right. The physicians were doing the appropriate thing in this case, but if you search hard enough you are going to find someone who will indulge treatments outside the standar
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Wow... I really hope I didn't get to this thread too late that this just gets buried. This is a classic example of hyperbolic reporting to try and show physicians as some kind of incompetent lot whereas this 'guy working in his ba
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Doctors are a heterogeneous mix just like people in any profession. There are good guys and bad guys... but nobody thinks that they are the bad guy. ;)
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by Shinkei 12y ago
This is a very complicated issue. I don't know laws/regulatory system in the UK, but in the States the FDA has to approve a medication for a specific indication. So if later people discover X drug is great for unapproved Y conditi
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by Shinkei 12y ago
It's a very good point you make and many have already made great comments in reply. But as a physician who strives to prevent errors, I will throw in my two cents: The culture is changing. The youngest physicians are working more reaso
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by Shinkei 12y ago
>a misuse of tinder according to its current usage So is the supposedly ingenious idea you mentioned of assuming the burglar is a Tinder user and swiping through thousands of people (using bandwidth, making themselves a fake profile, etc
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I think it's hard to judge so quickly when we could easily consider a sliding scale of importance. If someone steals a pack of gum from the local CVS, I put that much lower on the scale of importance than say an extreme of a child bein
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Plus, even in what you've quoted, is there anything you can cite as faulty/wrong? The media doesn't have to be a court of law, and I really don't see anything controversial in what was stated there. The entire first se
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by Shinkei 12y ago
The claim, though false, set off a wave of outrage that eventually escalated into a campaign against all the designers and critics who have argued for making gaming culture more inclusive. At their most articulate, the GamerGate crusaders
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Very interesting. As a side note, I am suspicious of the data on this site regarding stripper and adult actor names because these are often pseudonyms.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Yeah I agree. I guess that's what confused me is that maybe he recanted his confession or they weren't willing to bargain his sentence down to something he was willing to accept.
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by Shinkei 12y ago
I agree with the decision. I'm kind of confused about the amount of resources going into this robbery--not to mention the level of defense the defendant is getting. I've heard of murder suspects getting less defense! Couldn't
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by Shinkei 12y ago
Serious question: Why not link to it? I am certainly not a HN 'veteran,' but I've never seen censorship on here. Is there some unspoken rule that these comments can't have sexual content?
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by Shinkei 12y ago
The incentive is that it determines your congressional representation and funding from federal gov't for all sorts of things such as education, welfare, etc. Not to mention, it is spelled out in the US consitition. http://en

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