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by atahanacar 2y ago
Nice to see a fellow MD (very possibly older and more experienced than me) on HN. >he totally forgot about this event and is in complete denial. I can never understand this, especially with well educated people like your father or mine.
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by atahanacar 2y ago
Definitely possible. Blood pressure fluctuates during the day. Activation of the sympathetic nervous system causes the BP to increase. So technically the measurements were "correct", but it was misleading because when talking abou
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by atahanacar 2y ago
Even with a catastrophically high measurement, no doctor would diagnose with a single data point. At worst, they would ask the patient to measure at home multiple times a day, after teaching the correct method of measurement. At best, they
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by atahanacar 2y ago
>I’ve never seen a discussion how ‘reactive’ one is physiologically Then you have never looked for it. This is pretty basic stuff taught in the very first year of the medical school. >when stressed rushing to a doctor’s office visit E
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by atahanacar 2y ago
>Still putting off colonoscopy I hope you won't regret putting it off. >They love to misdiagnose hypothyroid or diabetes so they can begin destroying your endocrines Yes, my favorite pastime when I'm bored of treating "
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by atahanacar 2y ago
Definitely increases my BP though. Imagine someone ignoring their own health problems because they believed what a HN commenter said.
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by atahanacar 2y ago
Literally the first year of medical school, we were taught to let the patient rest for at least 5 minutes before taking vitals, while also asking about recent exercises or caffeine intake. This reduces the likelihood of a mistake, but white
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by atahanacar 2y ago
It's not only easier, but the actual correct way of doing it. That's why your doctor recommended it.
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by atahanacar 2y ago
>This is a standard medical test I have completely given up on any doctor to perform accurately. I do it myself at home once or twice a month. I do it with the same device, in the same chair, at the same desk, the same time of day, after
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by atahanacar 2y ago
>This gives an accurate reading and is often DRAMATICALLY lower Just because it gives lower results doesn't mean it's more accurate. I can raise my arm during measurement or use a tourniquet above the cuff and get a lower resul
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by atahanacar 2y ago
Yet another medical topic being discussed on HN, with comments full of disinformation and skeptics that think they've noticed something new that doctors have missed. Remember people, don't take medical advice from HN.
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by atahanacar 2y ago
As far as I can understand from the video, pattern is variable frequency PWM.
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by atahanacar 2y ago
>They seem to think that if the prevalence of a disease in the general population (or a specific patient's age/sex/racial demographic) is low, then the probability of someone presenting with signs and symptoms of the disea
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by atahanacar 2y ago
>This post has been rescued by the second chance pool at https://news.ycombinator.com/pool >When this happens, the relative timestamps (X minutes ago etc.) are reset to the time at which the post is selected for the f
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by atahanacar 2y ago
Ha! I had this exact same moment happen to me before[0]. Apparently: >This post has been rescued by the second chance pool at https://news.ycombinator.com/pool >When this happens, the relative timestamps (X minutes ag
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by atahanacar 2y ago
What you are describing is a meme in my country, used to make fun of religious anti-evolution people who claim "evolution is only a theory and not a proven law, thus doesn't exist". We call gravity "yer çekimi", whi
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by atahanacar 2y ago
>I’ve seen nurses make mistakes several times because the equipment is too confusing. Once, I had to page the nurse myself because the IV they thought they set up was not functioning and I was able to discern that from the screen on the
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by atahanacar 2y ago
>The page isn’t accessible from Turkey. I had to enable VPN to read the article I can access it just fine, no VPN, no DPI-prevention tools.
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by atahanacar 3y ago
You can find a button for the transcript in the description (or the three dot menu near the dislike button if it's still serving you the older interface). You have to open the transcript first, then Ctrl+f
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by atahanacar 3y ago
>problem of incentives I don't see the problem here. In med school, the first thing we're taught is "primum non nocere". Of course it makes sense to penalize even if no harm is done to patients, if the methodology of
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by atahanacar 3y ago
This is medical ethics 101. I don't have the time right now to explain it, but I will leave some keywords if anyone is interested in reading about it: therapeutic misconception, vulnerable groups, medical vulnerability. Related to your
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by atahanacar 3y ago
You can, but that doesn't mean everyone gets to enjoy it. And I'm not specifically talking about bidets. There are many convenient things used daily in Europe and Asia that are extremely rare in USA.
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by atahanacar 3y ago
>French invention [citation needed]
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by atahanacar 3y ago
Cultural differences? America is very backwards and hilariously underdeveloped in some areas especially in day to day life. The fact that the parent comment calls toilet paper "sandpaper" is another example.
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by atahanacar 3y ago
I can write a book on anything and still have no evidence or idea what I'm talking about.
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by atahanacar 3y ago
Because non-web applications are always very efficient and high performance, right? The problem isn't the technologies available to us. Majority of devs just have no desire to write efficient code.
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by atahanacar 3y ago
>This is known as the Otto Wartburg effect No it isn't. Warburg effect is observed in cells as a result of cancer. >Metabolic therapy is tremendously successful in eradicating cancers even in later stages. [citation needed] Every
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by atahanacar 3y ago
This isn't a valid concern in my opinion. Photo manipulation has been around for decades. People have been drawing other people for centuries. Also, where do we draw the line? Should Photoshop stop you from manipulating human body beca
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by atahanacar 3y ago
Safety from what? Human anatomy?
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by atahanacar 3y ago
It is right at the end of the first sentence.

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