bakedoatmeal

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by bakedoatmeal 10mo ago
Google Search has 3 sources of revenue that I am aware of: ad revenue from the search results page, sponsored search results, and AdSense revenue on the websites the user is directed to. If users just look at the AI overview at the top of t
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by bakedoatmeal 1y ago
Recently heard a physician who essentially manages every case of this disease in Alberta give a really fascinating talk. The hepatic cysts these worms produce are very difficult to distinguish from cancer on imaging and the infection itself
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by bakedoatmeal 3y ago
Diabetes mellitus is an insulin problem- either a lack of insulin (Type 1) or insufficient response to insulin (Type 2). Insulin is responsible for lowering blood glucose. The hormones responsible for raising blood glucose (cortisol, IGF-1,
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by bakedoatmeal 3y ago
What is the connection between being at risk of diabetes and hypoglycemia? Wouldn’t a pre-diabetic be very protected from hypoglycemia?
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by bakedoatmeal 3y ago
I don’t have the data for a cost-benefit-analysis but frequent inaccurate checks cause harm as well. The false positive rate is 3%; if all 330+ million Americans tested themselves each year, that’s millions of benign cases that will need to
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by bakedoatmeal 3y ago
Antibiotics harm the host as well. Giving grandma 4 antibiotics to treat a typical case of pneumonia goes against “do no harm”. Not to mention the added cost of prescribing more antibiotics. When we can safely give multiple therapies withou
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by bakedoatmeal 3y ago
The ED is the primary source of hospital admissions so I don’t think the two are that separable.
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by bakedoatmeal 3y ago
How do you keep a lifetime supply of LSD? Isn't it an unstable molecule with a limited shelf life?