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by dwelch 4y ago
Agreed. I think the article and parent comment seem to be from the perspective of someone who has never had to, say, read or interpret a chest CT. Or had to tell someone that they have an indeterminate module that may be cancer but may be n
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by dwelch 5y ago
I can count on two hands the number of nurses at my one hospital who were fired (or forced to resign, or whatever corporate language you’d like to put on it) last year because they refused to get vaccinated and had recently had COVID within
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by dwelch 5y ago
I agree. This is kind of bizarre behavior from someone who is such an important contributor to Home Assistant, a large scale open source platform. I can’t imagine most of the leaders in Home Assistant would share this attitude, but maybe I’
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by dwelch 6y ago
Imaging in general has an important role in screening for certain diseases, and in some cases is already more important than physical examination. This mainly depends on how "well" physical examinations can detect an illness, the
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by dwelch 7y ago
While I think I know what you’re getting at, there are of course examples of “detecting pathology early and then treating it” preventing morbidity, mortality, and saving money. This is the basis of all (good) public health cancer screening
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by dwelch 8y ago
I do clean installs on my Late 2013 13" MBP annually with each major OS update, and my performance is still very good.
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by dwelch 9y ago
As a medical student with an interest in software, this is great to see. A great solution to a costly problem that is likely underestimated by most. As I spend more time "on the ground" in the healthcare system, I see more of thes
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by dwelch 9y ago
Furthermore, I'd imagine the cost of the naloxone alone is a small percentage of the total cost of the emergency responders + acute care given in life-threatening overdose. The article doesn't discuss a recurring theme in medicine