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by davak 10y ago
Doc here. Not negative on this story, but it is completely false to say 0/18 would have improvement with standard care. Patients frequently improve from strokes; some quite rapidly. Maybe you had a typo? The next step is intervention v
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by davak 10y ago
Typically those are different types of steroids though. Anti allergy steroids are called the "body's universal solvent" because of all the side effects including muscle weakness and fat gain. Anabolic steroids work on a diffe
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by davak 11y ago
In general, of course. But if you had a database of 1000s of people with STDs, how many lives might get destroyed if that got hacked?
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by davak 11y ago
As a physician and code slinger, I will say that I often worry about my patients, my servers, my partners, my code, my projects... Part of doing tough complex things is worrying if you are making the right decisions. If a patient dies inapp
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by davak 11y ago
Nerdness is kinda cool now, right? Anyway, friends made fun of all the stereotypical characters... I'm nerd plus plus but I remember Ross being a dick.
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by davak 11y ago
Complete garbage. Source -- My personal everyday experience.
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by davak 11y ago
Imagine you are in a small hospital room and unable to get out. A 300 pound 6'2 dude is yelling that he's going to kill you. His brain is so scrambled that the tazor did nothing. You are backed into a corner and he's walking
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by davak 11y ago
Working in hospitals over the last ten years, I have noticed an increase in how violent patients are. I believe the increasing use of synthetic rec drugs and the failing mental health system is to blame. Previously many of these dangerous c
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by davak 11y ago
MD here. I agree with this completely. I will also add that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is unlikely one disease although we are not smart enough yet to know to divide them more specifically. I've "fixed" cases like this by diagn
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by davak 11y ago
See how much money your physician takes from drug companies. https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/ As a physician I can tell you that this type of public reporting has radically decreased the amount of stuff that doctors t
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by davak 11y ago
* Source needed.
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by davak 11y ago
As an ICU physician, I hate the NOAKs. The data may say that they bleed less. However, when they do bleed, I've got nothing that really reverses the bleeding. Of course, novel reversal agents are coming and each one will likely only re
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by davak 11y ago
I assuming hsv-1 was approved and successful because it's a pcr test requiring very little blood already. Most of the other tests require much more volume. It sounds like these tests were the ones that were supposed to be revolutionary
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by davak 11y ago
Then you are lucky. You could have been told you have brca, huntingtons, or several other horrible genetic disease. A negative test is often the best result!
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by davak 11y ago
Arq is the tool you need.
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by davak 11y ago
Yes. Yes you should be tested.
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by davak 11y ago
"Normal" lab values are typically the 95% range of normal people tested. This is why over-testing is dangerous; about one out of twenty tests will be abnormal in normal folks.
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by davak 11y ago
He spends a lot of time trashing the physicians because they won't do additional workup and chase MRI abnormalities. When he finally gets somebody to do something, he just put his brother in some temporary pain without any long lasting
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by davak 11y ago
MD here. Something is odd. If it's big enough to be tumor-like it's big enough to be biopsied. If it's small, they can just watch it on serial CT scans. If it's growing, they can put her on bypass and replace that sectio
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by davak 11y ago
This is typically because of sleep apnea or snoring. I had a whole family of thin folks with sleep apnea that this was their initial complaints.
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by davak 11y ago
I loved it. To me medical school was the entire reason that I had worked so hard in high school and college. I finally could quit worrying about grades and just focus on learning. Every waking moment was studying. I knew if I slipped that I
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by davak 11y ago
Non-anesthesiologist ICU physician here so slight bias should be noted. I'm a huge fan of this. Machine will be much more anal about minor issues that some anesthesiologists / CRNAs may ignore. Additionally, this will greatly brin
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by davak 11y ago
MD but not an oncologist. Some of these cases of breast "cancer" would likely resolve on their own if the screening hadn't detected them. We all have "cancer" cells that our body does a pretty good job handling on a
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by davak 11y ago
See a doctor certified in sleep medicine. Sleep is a delicate habit that can be tough to fix. The consequences of poor sleep are huge. Frequently broken sleep is a warning sign of other health problems.
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by davak 12y ago
As a physician I think the diversity hypothesis should really be challenged. Our guts, microbes, and even genes take a while to change. Is diversity really helpful or harmful? When you study people that live to be very old, many of them eat
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by davak 12y ago
I would love to buy you a beer sometime and discuss that with you. If you have any sources for that epiphany... please let me know.
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by davak 12y ago
Ohhh. I want this for my area. Great idea.
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Ask HN: Resources for Managers/Admin
2 points by davak 12y ago|1 comments
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by davak 12y ago
MD here. Just remember that women live longer than men. Although it'll never be proven that hormones are part of that provess, I think it's a good assumption. Many males as they get older become more lovable and more pleasent to b
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by davak 12y ago
For normal people monthly lab testing would be overkill at best and dangerous at worse. The thing to remember about lab tests is that the "normals" are based on bell curves so approximately 1 out of 20 labs will be abnormal from t

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