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by arkades 8y ago
> The government, soapboxes, homes and places of business that are happy to have them. This made a lot of sense when I was a kid. Since that time, communication has become incredibly centralized - whether it’s the platform (eg, YT), or t
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by arkades 8y ago
> - Epic makes it easier for medical directors to track population health and impose standard protocols of care. Individual practitioners don't always like that! I am not expert enough in those fields to say who's right, and I
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by arkades 8y ago
> I’m upvoting this in hopes that someone with more knowledge than me can explain why the EMRs are all terrible. As another poster said: EMRs are billing and compliance tools, paid for by administrators that are intending to buy billing
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by arkades 8y ago
> Five weeks of vacation, while not very common, is common enough that it's not really worth writing about otherwise. Where do you work that you think this is common? My wife and I are both in reasonably well compensated professiona
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by arkades 8y ago
The last time this went up, someone made a comment about disabilities being relatively rare. I wanted to add a point here: In the United States in 2015, 11 percent of noninstitutionalized adults reported having a disability (National Counci
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by arkades 8y ago
> I think the difference is that Peapod doesn't have stores, so the "shoppers" can pick from an entire warehouse of produce. So if a head of broccoli looks "off," there are far more alternatives than someone &quo
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by arkades 8y ago
In fairness to the other side, I think the glitter-in-the-eye part is where an issue might arise. I don't agree that the privacy thing would hold up for shit, but courts have ruled against folks setting up booby traps on their property
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by arkades 8y ago
The thieves are the ones bringing the camera into their privacy zone, not the person who made the package. The thief, in committing the theft, explicitly consented to taking an unknown item into their possession.
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by arkades 8y ago
> She writes, composes, plays and tours widely, and has released a number of very successful albums. Keating enjoys a level of success that is beyond the wildest imagination of even the most talented musicians I think the premise of his
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by arkades 8y ago
For the BBC, that’s a surprisingly softball article. He defrauded venues out of money, bandmasters out of a good chunk of their time (and considering fucking with their pay at the last second, money too.) it seems there should be a lot more
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by arkades 8y ago
Oh, is the suit making a comeback?
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by arkades 8y ago
Allston is across the river.
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by arkades 8y ago
It’s been said a few times in this thread that that is a misrepresentation by the article. Allow me to quote at length from an article on the topic by Brown and Lee: One of the characteristic features of prions is their resistance to a numb
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by arkades 8y ago
A virion is the singular noun for a viral particle. The viral genetic material plus capsid equal an individual virion.
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by arkades 8y ago
That is interesting, and new to me. I’ll have to read up on it more. Thank you for the link.
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by arkades 8y ago
We take measures now, for tissues where prions are a possible transmission risk. The article mis-represented that. But: (1) there are only so many resources to go around. Should we be devoting them to vanishingly rare things rather than thi
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by arkades 8y ago
No, it quoted the speculation. > them may then become contaminated, the authors write. They recommend single-use instruments or the adoption of new decontamination procedures for opthalmological equipment with better effectiveness on pri
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by arkades 8y ago
> There were also human cases getting reported at a rate that some suggested matched the pattern for the early days of an epidemic. An epidemic is by definition a statistically significant deviation from historic baselines. Every single
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by arkades 8y ago
Prion disease is exceedingly rare. CJD is the most common, with an incidence of 1 per 1,000,000 person-years worldwide, inclusive of all transmission vectors (including medical procedures). Iatrogenic transmission is a rarer subset still: t
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by arkades 8y ago
Would you like to offer up your version of events? An anonymous person saying "no, that's not accurate, in some ways, you don't need to know which," doesn't ... well, I don't know to extrapolate any meaning fro
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by arkades 8y ago
> I don't know if the oath comparison works out so well for development. Let us not forget that each physician is directly responsible for a life every time they see someone I commit every single day of my professional life as a phy
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by arkades 8y ago
I always took it literally. I can’t be the only person that did.
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by arkades 8y ago
Nor are they going to be coordinated, because each of these services addresses a number of different units in the hospital. In order to have all of these services available for each patient in concert, we'd need to multiply the staffin
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by arkades 8y ago
> intensive care unit (ICU) There are only two reasons for someone to be in an ICU: they require a therapy no other floor will administer, or their condition/therapy requires very frequent administration/titration/observat
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by arkades 8y ago
Hm. Apparently my Phys101-level understanding of electronics has caught up to me.
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by arkades 8y ago
I think that’s implied by his pointing out that capacitors use vacuum. A cap that doesn’t allow electron flow wouldn’t be a cap.
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by arkades 8y ago
> I work on exactly this problem What are some potential solutions?
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by arkades 8y ago
I use FreshDirect. It’s uncommon for something to be shown in stock and then be blocked as unavailable at checkout, and exceedingly rare for something to not be delivered. My only gripe is that I’ve occasionally gotten produce that looked O
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by arkades 8y ago
What diaper service did you end up choosing?
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by arkades 8y ago
This was why McDonalds, Budweiser, and Marlboro swiftly went out of business.

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