bonsai_spool

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by bonsai_spool 3mo ago
> Okay. And what is the 30-day survival for cases where CPR would be otherwise indicated but are not performed? Great question, but it's obviously not possible to answer. I suspect the survival rate won't be 0, and maybe won&#x
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by bonsai_spool 3mo ago
> Did you read what you linked? It's not a study of the effects of cpr, it's a list of facts about cardiac arrest that occurs outside a hospital. It explicitly says cpr is life saving: Oh my goodness, did YOU read anything on
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by bonsai_spool 3mo ago
> Early CPR (+AED if available) absolutely saves lives. Article is from 2011 by a family med doctor. You have to provide a denominator to make this statement. 30-day survival for out-of-hospital CPR is 10%, and discharge from the hospita
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by bonsai_spool 3mo ago
I don't do SNP design but I don't think 23andMe made their own chips at first (if they have ever). SNPs are chosen based on being informative for population discrimination, with traits being overlaid afterwards
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by bonsai_spool 3mo ago
> In the US it's legal-sorta but the NIH can't fund it and the FDA is not allowed to approve treatments based on it What references are you following? Haven't heard this before.
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by bonsai_spool 3mo ago
I'm curious whether Opus4.8 or similar can attain Mythos level through good system prompting and steering? You would expect this to work if it's true that the strength of Mythos is its unwillingness to quit before it gets a desire
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
I remind you that we began this with the idea that doctors are prescribing treatments for their own financial benefit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621445 At the diffuse 401k ownership level, individual actions ar
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> It looks like owning a chunk of the place you refer to is fine The article you link to says that anyone can be liable even if she didn't realize her referral violates the law. I cannot imagine any reasonable physician risking this
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> But what you are trying to get at is that there is law about self-referral ("Stark law") but in reality there are exceptions that render it fairly useless What are the exceptions that render it useless? I have never heard of
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
Absolutely is - this is such a no-brainer of a public health intervention. We're not touching on the cost of treatment (including inability to have future children! very much something a State should be interested in avoiding).
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
Everything above is fair, if true. I don't see a reference in your answer so I can't assess the quality of evidence. The point is that they cannot refer you to one of their companies. Of course, there may not be a meaningfully-com
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> You see a cardiologist and they recommend a stent. They aren’t going to recommend a different cardiologist does it. Things must be different in NZ. First, it's true that you're going to want to go to who your doctor knows&#x2
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> There was actually a project at an innovation center at a well-known medical center which leveraged ML to maximize the amount of codes they could bill for without being rejected. T I think this perspective makes sense from someone who
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> Doctors are incentivized to prescribe treatments, because that's how they make money for themselves and their practice. This is literally illegal! Physicians cannot refer patients to entities they own or have an interest in. What
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> 5% of denied in-network claims were turned down because the care was deemed not medically necessary". I think the truth is murkier than what you're providing. With the caveat that I am presenting a strong case here that likel
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
Uh ok bud.
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> I have yet to see an argument as to why a company isn't incentived to drop a health insurer if they're forcing employees _not_ to do a $50/month option and instead pick a $1k/month option. That definitely does happe
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> if you punch into a chatbot questions about the employer pool insurance product, your comment is exactly how the chatbot characterizes it. That's because it's the truth? I've taken graduate health policy classes from peo
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
Employer funded plans are not all the same. Large entities with a lot of money (like universities, big firms) self-insure. Thus the insurance company in those cases is simply managing all the administrative sides of insurance while the plan
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
Did you actually read that article that spends many pages explaining how there is no good way for a firm to patent a repurposed drug that is working the same way as it worked in a prior indication, but is being used for a new indication wh
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
It’s somebody’s random blog instead of three published, peer reviewed articles. I’m not sure what you expect to hear
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
Yes.
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> lol, hilarious. > I actually don't think we have the data available that I want I get the sense you haven't looked... > intentionally sticking our heads in the sand forever makes no sense. Because you make statements li
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> I’d want to see the data https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Go right ahead!
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
"Because Mexican immigrants have much less education than the average U.S. worker, they increase the supply of less-skilled labor, driving down the wages of the worst-paid Americans." That doesn't sound like the claim you mad
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
This is clearly made by an LLM and thus not a credible resource. From: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9336118/ "COM claims can be difficult to gain for repurposed compounds, as the patentee must som
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> You know even on 2008 Krugman, who is known for making predictions that end up being wrong, was saying immigration depressed wages of Americans. Do you have evidence of this claim?
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
> I believe companies can patent the new use even if the patents for the original use have run out. This is not true > insurance typically won't cover off label use Generally not true but it can be the case, especially for expen
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
You can get scans without your normal doctor recommending them. The point is that there is evidence that scans obtained ‘just because’ are harmful as they lead to unnecessary procedures at the population level
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by bonsai_spool 4mo ago
The risk estimation is why people aren’t recommended to get scans! There are studies on ‘VIPs’ who get ‘executive MRIs’ and wind up getting treated for things that would never have justified intervention.

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