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by et2o 10y ago
I can't remember what journal it was published in and google isn't helping. I found this for hospital-level comparisons (these should be much more accurate due to far larger numbers): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p
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by et2o 10y ago
That's true, they are a high profile center in this field.
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by et2o 10y ago
It's hard to just "improve the risk adjustments." The statistics aren't there. I agree patients shouldn't be left in the dark. The most important thing is getting the best care. There isn't an easy solution. H
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by et2o 10y ago
It's not that some surgeries are being shifted from one center to another, its that no one at all will do them, generally to the detriment of the patient.
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by et2o 10y ago
Most surgeons do not do enough cases over their entire careers to be meaningfully compared to their peers. There was a big paper about this recently. The ratings are a sham meant to instill false confidence.
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by et2o 10y ago
These ratings are not great because they incentivize doctors not to take more complex cases. They claim to be risk-adjusted, but in reality you cannot adjust for all possible risk factors. Lots of things in medicine are very unique. There&#
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by et2o 10y ago
Does anyone doubt this happens frequently in less egregious terms? Especially in computational fields, it's extremely easy to copy the idea of a paper with your own dataset. At least it doesn't matter that much in my chosen field;
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by et2o 10y ago
If it was $500-600 new, it has lost ~80% of its value in 4 years. I think you can safely call that rapid depreciation. Maybe less rapid compared to other phones.
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by et2o 10y ago
Very happy to have your comment, Gwern. I am a big fan of some of your work. I certainly agree with you in principle. I just am not sure the sample sizes here are truly large enough to capture an effect on the order of 1.25x for such a comp
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by et2o 10y ago
8 studies included, each with small sample sizes, with a combined OR estimate of only 1.26 makes it hard to draw any conclusions from this.
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by et2o 10y ago
I agree, I do not think it was racist. If you cannot contrive of a way that this could be "interpreted as racist" it is hard to continue the conversation.
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by et2o 10y ago
I said "interpreted as racist."
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by et2o 10y ago
I appreciate you sharing your perspective and experience.
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by et2o 10y ago
He wrote a rap song as part of his job intended for "Youth Across America." He was asked once if he would perform the song at a company dinner and he declined. His decline was accepted without question and was not brought up again
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by et2o 10y ago
You can only get maximum 6 cores from a Mac Pro currently. He is saying that the modern processors they should be using have 22 cores.
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by et2o 10y ago
Can't cut and paste with the keyboard...?
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by et2o 10y ago
Disagree. This is an engineering failure. You have to look at reality; it's often not easy to tell what kind of cable you are planning to use. Any command line interaction is decidedly more involved than the typical user plugging in a
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by et2o 10y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about.
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by et2o 10y ago
Doctors take care of people who don't take care of themselves all the time, everyday. It's part of being a doctor.
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by et2o 10y ago
The problem is that obesity is truly the primary cause of many medical problems. You can treat other symptoms but sometimes things won't get better. This article is garbage.
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by et2o 10y ago
Comments like this are incredibly uninformed and in my experience not really true. If you can get into medical school, you could do another job that is a lot less of a slog and make more money. There are slides going around somewhere where
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by et2o 10y ago
Sorry to be negative: Introducing a vasoconstrictor to be used everyday topically in the mouth around the gingiva is probably an irresponsible idea. I think you need to do longitudinal animal studies before you can sell this in good conscie
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by et2o 10y ago
Define health
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by et2o 10y ago
What would you call data science/computational data stuff? Not backend, because you often sit and view the results in your R Studio console or whatever while working interactively. Not frontend because you are often directly mutating d
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by et2o 10y ago
I hate to be a jerk, but... what is the point of this entire competition? Physionet audio recordings of heart murmurs? Stethoscopes are on their way out. Cool model, I guess. Does it get us anywhere new? I don't know.
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by et2o 10y ago
Thanks, appreciate your comment.
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by et2o 10y ago
Looks interesting. What kind of applications do people use this for?
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by et2o 10y ago
I'm really sorry to hear about your troubles, thanks for sharing. That sounds so tough and I am glad you're doing what you can to stay healthy.
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by et2o 10y ago
Sort of different problems. People are definitely working very hard on b-cell replacement with stem cells, there was a cool nature (I think) paper a few months that I can't find now. Definitely would be Nobel-prize worthy and would hel
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by et2o 10y ago
Another interesting thing is that your body has three signaling mechanisms to maintain a minimum blood glucose (can't live without it!). First glucagon, then cortisol, then epinephrine all function on a variety of pathways to generate

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