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by epmaybe 7y ago
How do you know you are healthy? Edit: This isn't meant to be accusatory, I'm just curious
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So some background information is necessary to get everyone on the same page. The optics of the eye are such that the lens and cornea focus light onto the back of the eye, the retina. That focusing power can be inadequate or overpowered dep
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I'm not sure if scleral remodeling the reason. My understanding was that the lens part of your eye became less elastic as you aged, you can't focus as near, and you became more farsighted as a result - a phenomenon called presbyop
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by epmaybe 7y ago
Do we know if that myopia is caused while in prison, or if it is just picked up while they are in prison. Because it would be very unusual to see myopic changes from emmetropization (eye remodeling) occurring in adults.
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This is a really dumb way for doctors to prescribe finasteride, by the way. If we assume that the reason patients get finasteride this way is to get insurance to cover it, and the doctor has no evidence to suggest the patient actually has a
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by epmaybe 7y ago
While I don't know much about how secure the messages are in WhatsApp, it's easy to imagine other ways Facebook could harvest data from users. They could track what you tap on in the screen, or how much you scroll, or what buttons
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Looking at my own experience with doctors who were practicing throughout this scandal, I always try to think: what will our generation's scandal in the medical community be? The loss of the doctor-patient relationship could be one. Our
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That's a lot of HN though, you'll see people talk about tangentially related things to the main topic, and never address the linked topic. I've learned to accept it as is, and not to worry about it too much.
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It's probably the only thing that causes your blood to turn blue, usually from numbing medication haha. Skin looks blue too, but patients are generally totally fine.
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I think it's actually a violation of the uber TOS for the driver to circumvent the app, and of the passenger not following the community guidelines of Uber, if I understand correctly. Similar to how Wag's new TOS tries to prevent
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It's actually good for the purposes of the study, as the highest risk populations for decreased bone mineral density are elderly populations. We know from multiple studies that women are at highest risk due to decreasing estrogen level
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What do you mean limited funding? Seems like there's a TON of funding for cancer research right now, given the moonshot campaign (extra $1.8B over 7 years). It's hard to study something like this, because you have to find a large
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What combination of words would you like to be used to describe these new foods? Do you feel the same way about soy milk or almond milk?
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There are definitely a lot of ideas and research behind them that are just waiting for more accessible low-latency internet connections. Robotic surgery was an interesting one for me, as the latency was a tremendous bottleneck for remote ap
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Out of curiosity, are most people that use ecigs going for the expensive mods, or are they going for the more popular brands that are closer in quality to the epuffer?
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Dna testing is available but has similar problems in that there's no standard to set a cutoff for limiting the number of false positives or false negatives. It's also even more expensive and very unlikely to be covered by insuranc
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The lone star tick and alpha gal allergy is one of my favorite tick borne factoids I like to tell my peers. Just so happens I had a patient with an alpha gal allergy who had anaphylactic shock from a contaminated bun!
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Right, but if you could do it for Lyme couldn't you do it for every bacteria? Blood testing would be our best bet, and we already do that with Lyme antibody testing and Lyme DNA testing. The main problem is that they are very expensive
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by epmaybe 7y ago
Serious question: do you think more could be done to help bring awareness to patients to encourage earlier screening for Lyme disease and other tick borne diseases? I remember being told that if I ever saw a tick on my skin or if I had a ta
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by epmaybe 7y ago
That's not always true. You have lots of skin in places you don't tend to look at regularly.
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I don't think he read my comment in full, where I specifically mentioned that it would only cost that much at an ambulatory surgical center, linked to a source, and accepted that it would definitely cost more in a hospital.
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This is a misleading article. If the patient truly qualified for outpatient total knee replacement (orthopedic surgeon was out of Cancun in less than 24hrs per the article), the cost of this procedure would have been around $11,677 in the
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The csi interface doesn't take up as many CPU cycles, so if frame rate and performance is important, or even power consumption, it's better.
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I went to a talk by a VP of development at a prominent pharmaceutical company, and nowadays it's taking around 7 years from basic studies to animal studies to human trials to approval. This is especially true for biologics (antibody dr
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> no chance for equity What about as a partner?
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So what you're saying is that if someone put in the effort to get through device certifications they could disrupt a rather profitable market. I feel like it would be relatively easy to get approval with a 510k (basically saying your d
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Most of my peers had maybe a single class worth, if that, of programming experience by the time they started college to pursue CS. I would say the majority didn't. I wasn't at a university with heavy focus on computer science, so
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I discussed the funding in my comment above, in that medicare funding is only part of the problem. Nothing would stop a hospital from paying for resident training so long as the ACGME gave their blessing.
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Disclaimer: I'm still a medical student, take my biases into account when you read this. It seems like mid level providers are being granted more and more autonomy each year. In fact, they have full practice authority in 20 states (no
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I have an idea of how to improve transparency, similar to how some insurers provide more information to patients regarding the cost of an MRI at different places in town. However, it requires healthcare consumer buy in at a larger scale, wi

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