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by arkades 8y ago
That’s a common misconception. Most are clinically silent. The ones that land you in an emergency room are dangerous.
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by arkades 8y ago
Quite a bit. It scratches and stumbles on nice paper, but for everyday printer paper, it gives a reasonably smooth glide and looks much more impressive than its price merits.
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by arkades 8y ago
> a city requires people who don't receive luxury salaries to function. That is such a key, and overlooked, point. People are so busy imagining themselves in the shoes of one of the luxuriating few that they forget about the entire
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by arkades 8y ago
Just to give them the benefit of the doubt: When every public-facing thing you build is centered on hoovering up data, you're going to have two broad classes of errors. Hoovering up too little data, which doesn't hit the news, and
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by arkades 8y ago
His work, which I came across in my early teenage years, was mind expanding. I am grateful for and to him. Wolfe was also one of the authors that really made genre fiction academically respectable, without hiding in shame about what and who
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by arkades 8y ago
My favorite cheap garbage pen is the moonman m2. It’s joined the lamy safari as my daily driver.
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by arkades 8y ago
Have you tried the Moonman M2 yet?
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by arkades 8y ago
The medical community uses checklists. They've been using checklists for a while. A number of studies found that they only help for a few months, while they're new. That said, "the medical community" is not a homogeneous
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by arkades 8y ago
The medical community uses checklists. They've been using checklists for a while. A number of studies found that they only help for a few months, while they're new. That said, "the medical community" is not a homogeneous
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by arkades 8y ago
The “rest periods” were ten seconds long. This doesn’t generalize into anything meaningful; when was the last time you focused on a new skill so intensely that you didn’t have ten second pauses?
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by arkades 8y ago
Speaking as a colorblind person browsing that page: I don't think they did.
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by arkades 8y ago
If you were speaking to someone that didn't used to work in QI, that would almost sound convincing. Except that QI is, from a study-design perspective, equivalent to "shittily-built pragmatic observational trial," aka, the th
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by arkades 8y ago
> I honestly feel like hospitals (and other similar facilities) need to be designed to encourage this. I agree. But hospitals are also ridiculously expensive on a per-sq-foot basis. Outside of very high-end hospitals that can try to make
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by arkades 8y ago
> "It's not a hotel, and it's not vacation!" A surprising number of nurses take patients' conditions personally. I can't say I've never been irritated by a patient asking me to do something trivial and
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by arkades 8y ago
> hooked up to all sorts of machinery that was obviously designed to save the nurses’ time; No. We use that equipment because when shit goes sideways, I want to be able to glance at a monitor and know all your vitals, not have someone ta
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by arkades 8y ago
> Learned helplessness That's not what learned helplessness is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
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by arkades 8y ago
So, I went ahead and straight to the website of the actual campaign ( https://www.endpjparalysis.com/ ) because numbers like "41% reduction in bed sores, 30% reduction in falls" are pretty hard to take at face value
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by arkades 8y ago
Prior to the 18 patient study of rapidly growing teenagers, with subjective rating scales performed by unblinded investigators, 83 percent of participants had "severe" autism. Now, only 17 percent are rated as severe, 39 percent a
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by arkades 8y ago
(1) This isn't Nature, it's SciRep. Don't get distracted by the URL. (2) Nature is an extremely high impact factor journal. However, it's ... not really a medical journal. Nor a psych journal. Nor a developmental peds jo
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by arkades 8y ago
There have been a number of studies in the past 5 years or so enumerating the benefits of intermittent fasting, and providing quantitative guidance on how to do so effectively and with net physiological benefit. Equating that to anorexia, a
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by arkades 8y ago
> child factory that has a brain From the perspective of biology, that’s not even a joke, just an accurate statement.
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by arkades 8y ago
No. Patients get charged $1000 for an ibuprofen based on a particular hospital's calculation at distributing costs across a variety of procedures, staff, and settings. However they distribute those costs, the costs must bear the expens
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by arkades 8y ago
> If I read this right, you can still use the free service the IRS provides if you make less than $66,000. You did not. You can contact the private companies such as H&R Block and request Their free service if you make less than 6
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by arkades 8y ago
Apparently a follow-up to an identical article written years past, that was also not well-received.
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by arkades 8y ago
I'm pretty sure there's a reddit dedicated to logging into people's purely secured home webcams.
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by arkades 8y ago
I know I’m short a night of sleep but: I’m pretty sure you two are in complete agreement.
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by arkades 8y ago
> The whole presumption that you want to spend 8 hours in an ergonomically ideal position without motion seems like bunk. That’s because it is bunk. Low back pain researchers found ages ago that the most ergonomic setup for alleviating b
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by arkades 8y ago
There’s a guy on my psych floor right now that, at his best, is too psychotic and paranoid to hold a job for more than a few days. At his worst - where he usually is, because his paranoia includes medications, and he believes he’s completel
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by arkades 8y ago
How can we not? A new paper in my field recently came out regarding how to reduce patient reliance on a particular med, with possibly better results for the patient. The paper had data to back this up. I couldn’t get it through my instituti
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by arkades 8y ago
Where is “here”? In the US your rates are contracted with insurers, so for any patient with insurance, a cash add-on is fraud.

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