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by cfu28 4y ago
A screen for Down's syndrome is routinely done at the end of the first trimester/start of the second trimester.
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by cfu28 4y ago
It's not the number of medical schools that is the issue, it's the amount of residency spots available after graduating med school (in the us).
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by cfu28 4y ago
Let’s say starting tomorrow we decided to pay all doctors in the US $0 dollars a year. How much would the US actually save an annual healthcare expenditures? Approximately 8% Doctors salaries are not a major driver of healthcare expenditure
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by cfu28 4y ago
If you don’t mind closed source software, I’ve found PhotoStructure to be a little nicer. Ive found it’s the closest thing to google photos/apple photos that’s still self-hostable: https://photostructure.com/
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by cfu28 4y ago
This is neat. How does live-reloading work? Manually reloading a chrome extension with each code change has been a pain point for me in the past.
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by cfu28 4y ago
Not familiar with Qovery, but yes you can create preview envs. They’re called “review apps” for Dokku and it’s super neat. It ties in really nicely with GitHub actions so you can spawn and tear down preview environments with each pull reque
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by cfu28 4y ago
The author of just-js did a write up about how he got that performance: https://just.billywhizz.io/blog/on-javascript-performance-01...
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by cfu28 5y ago
Ilford hp5+ still seems reasonably priced, even if it’s a little higher now than it was just a year or two ago
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by cfu28 5y ago
I get the AMA is not exactly the most unbiased source, but the study the article refers to uses quality measures and cost data from electronic medical records. Survey is an uncharitable take.
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Amid doctor shortage, NPs and PAs seemed like a fix. Data’s in: Nope(ama-assn.org)
3 points by cfu28 5y ago|5 comments
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by cfu28 5y ago
It does feel like it functions as one. It is a section of the MCAT that is least correlated with the amount of studying and the hardest section to improve on with retakes.
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by cfu28 5y ago
This assumes that actions that make a patient happy also make them healthy. There’s a risk that pursuing patient happiness can come at the expense of patient health. The doctor may be more inclined to keep a patient from switching doctors t
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by cfu28 5y ago
The AMA certainly has physicians as members, but I would call it a stretch to say they represent the interests of a majority of physicians. Plus, the AMA/AOA has been lobbying for more residency spots for a while now, which would incre
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by cfu28 5y ago
Physician salaries only make up about 8.6% of all healthcare costs. That’s less than Germany, Australia, France, etc. Healthcare costs do need to come down, but slashing physician salaries should be near the bottom of the list of things to
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by cfu28 6y ago
> Ψ Ψ is naturally found in tRNA, so its not really something to be concerned about. Edit: scratch that, confusing pseudouridine with 1-methyl-3’-pseudouridylyl
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by cfu28 6y ago
Anything particular reason you're worried about extra mRNA fragments? mRNA needs a initiation sequence in order to be translated into a protein, which only exists at the front. It also needs a polyA tail to maintain stability or it wou