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by dillydogg 2y ago
As an immunologist, I see no reason why the newborn from tens of thousands of years ago wouldn't be perfectly suited for the modern world.
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by dillydogg 2y ago
It's amazing to think about. I'm sure you could take one of more ancient human babies, teleport them to the present day, and they would be able to grow up like any other kid. It's remarkable. Part of our human-ness is our rob
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by dillydogg 2y ago
Hasn't baseball already turned into this with the rise of three true outcomes?
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by dillydogg 2y ago
I agree, I saw the name and thought "this will be hard to get off the ground with that name". My guess is signly (pronounced sine-lee)
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by dillydogg 2y ago
A friend of mine studies Chlamydia, which, when intracellular, replicates in a structure called an inclusion. So all of the Chlamydia researchers had to rewrite their proposals to say "parasitophorous vacuole" which had fallen out
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by dillydogg 2y ago
There are between 100-200 cases of brucellosis in the US each year, so I would call that rare. It's common worldwide, but not where this patient lives. Also, the species of Brucella is a less common one in the US. Erlichiosis is closer
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by dillydogg 2y ago
It is step 2 now, given that step 1 is now pass/fail. But yes step 2 is the single most important factor in residency match
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by dillydogg 2y ago
I agree, aerospace is great! I'm surprised I don't hear of it more often. I'm recent convert to MacOS and was surprised at how bad the window management was by default, but aerospace fixed that right up.
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by dillydogg 2y ago
I've thought about the same. Dogs have "eyebrow" muscles that wolves do not which make their expressions more human-like. Domesticated dogs have William's syndrome [1], which is a human genetic disorder which leads to ma
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by dillydogg 2y ago
There was a seminar given to the breast cancer society by an epidemiologist years who who presented them with a scenario: Prevalence of breast cancer: 1% Sensitivity (percent of people who have the disease test positive): 90% Specificity (p
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by dillydogg 2y ago
Depending on the risk factors (prolonged surgery, open surgery, opioid use, hypokalemia, NG tube placement) postoperative ileus is seen in 10-20% of people after GI surgery. Not to minimize the terrible subjective experience you've had
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by dillydogg 2y ago
I think this must be a setting on your device to open links in the app.
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by dillydogg 2y ago
Sure, I agree that, when neuroscientists begin to wade into the realm of consciousness etc., they are wandering into a world they are unequipped to discuss. In my experience with my neurobiology colleagues, they are pretty dialed into their
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by dillydogg 2y ago
This hasn't been my experience at all in medicine and science. I perhaps have more exposure to both science and medicine than most because I have an MD-PhD. Perhaps at the medical student level there is truth to this, but the physician
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by dillydogg 2y ago
Whoopsie, good point. I agree.
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by dillydogg 2y ago
The only feasible way I can think of is a locally run model. Perhaps whisper?
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by dillydogg 2y ago
I agree, though the famous 7 word advice comes to mind. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. In this sense, I think dietary advice has been relatively stable over the decades, though there is definitely arguments over how much is "to
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by dillydogg 2y ago
As someone who did a surgical rotation in med school (though ultimately decided against surgery), I can support that surgeons really are good at paying attention to their knots. I had a good number of my knots cut out. Good practice though.
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by dillydogg 2y ago
I find this is so frustrating to describe to patients. There really is a limited scope of appropriate outpatient antibiotic use.
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by dillydogg 2y ago
A quick way to be skipped over for jury duty is to bring up jury nullification during jury selection. Which I think is horrible, obviously. I was very excited to exercise my right to say presumptively possessing weed isn't worth jail t
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by dillydogg 2y ago
I'm not IT, but the hospital I work for has the resident physicans on call Tuesday to Tuesday and the attending physicians Monday to Monday. I have found it to be a good system, with the weekends being covered by people who have a good
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by dillydogg 2y ago
I've never seen a physician take the 5 minutes of the patient resting with their arm at heart level, personally!
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by dillydogg 2y ago
One of my attendings has a running joke where he takes fresh interns in July and tells them "I will take you to <most expensive restaurant in my city> if you can take this patient's blood pressure correctly." He's
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by dillydogg 2y ago
I doubt it would be faster in a typical microbiology lab. Every time I've used plasmidsaurus in the recent past I've had results next day. It is a reasonable little bit of labor to prep plasmids for sequencing and then there is a
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by dillydogg 2y ago
I think a major criticism of how this study is designed is that it is not truly "blinded". I doubt many of the participants were unsure if they received psilocybin vs escitalopram. That being said, there are a number of studies th
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by dillydogg 2y ago
Do you use a zero drop shoe, barefoot style shoe, or run truly barefoot? I have noticed that I have been cranking up the cushioning as I have increased my mileage, but I also have found that my favorite sandals are zero drop Bedrocks.
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by dillydogg 2y ago
What other tools are you thinking of? My understanding is that waist circumference is one of the better predictors of all cause mortality.
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by dillydogg 2y ago
And to clarify for those reading this, HIV is not passed from mom to baby via inhereted genome, but as a blood borne illness in pregnancy, during birth, or in breastmilk.
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by dillydogg 2y ago
The cells infected by these viruses don't form the sperm and eggs, so no. But a great portion of our genomes is thought to come from old viruses (which actually may be used immunologically!) https://www.science.org/cont
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by dillydogg 2y ago
When I was getting my immunology PhD, the prevailing thought about the prevalence of autoimmune disease in women was that estrogen promoted B cell survival, leading to more anti-self B cells from being removed.

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