jdmcnugent

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by jdmcnugent 2y ago
Disinformation, misinformation, malinformation (whatever that is), and even hate speech are all just censorship in sheep’s clothing. These fact checkers end up being used by the big social media and news organizations as their basis to sup
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by jdmcnugent 3y ago
Another scheme these PE groups have concocted is using their regional monopolies to force hospitals and surgery centers to pay an outrageous annual “stipend” for the “privilege” of letting them provide anesthesia. This is in addition to th
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by jdmcnugent 4y ago
Orthopedic surgeon here. Outpatient total joint replacements have taken off like a rocket in the last few years, in part due to advances in due to pain control (pre operative peripheral nerve blocks, etc), accelerated physical therapy, and
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by jdmcnugent 6y ago
We encounter a similar problem in the medical field: endless clinic and operative notes that are 95% repetitive but are critically important for recording medical care, medicolegal defense, and payment for the work done. There are surpris
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by jdmcnugent 6y ago
I'm running a synology 6 bay nas which in addition to hoarding data and time machine backups, its running pihole in a docker container, plex server for the kid's movies, and a linux vm for little python scripts and a mqtt server.
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by jdmcnugent 6y ago
1. Roland fp30 digital piano - coming from a guitar background, learning the piano has made my music theory knowledge grow exponentially 2. Ubiquiti unifi home wifi - fun project to learn some more in depth networking 3. Synology nas - ru
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by jdmcnugent 6y ago
Fox squirrel bones also glow under UV, it was the subject of my senior research elective. I remember freezing then crushing up a bunch of squirrel bones, doing some extractions, pumping it through the hplc machine and found it to be from p
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by jdmcnugent 6y ago
Mottos (or just quotes) I remember from medical training: “There is no problem that can’t be made worse with surgery” - a cautionary phrase to counter “a chance to cut is a chance to cure” “Never be the first or the last to do something” -
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by jdmcnugent 6y ago
Similar: “cry once, buy once”
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by jdmcnugent 6y ago
Blinding is a way to actually reveal placebo effects, and double blinding (blinding the examiner to which group the subject is in) helps negate observer bias.
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by jdmcnugent 6y ago
They certainly do track it because Medicare will not pay for a second hospital stay in many cases. https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Ass... Beware of unintended consequences though, hospitals are
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by jdmcnugent 6y ago
Speaking from an orthopedic perspective (though most fields are similar), there are literally thousands of ways to measure this, they are called (not surprisingly) outcome measures and they are basically the foundation of almost every medic
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
Very cool move. What does the communications tool specifically do?
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
I read the title as “association between intelligence and childishness”. Made it halfway though the abstract trying to see if my immaturity meant I was actually intelligent. Disappointed.
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
I’m right there with ya calderarrow. I’m a middle aged physician with no prior programming experience, but I picked this book up on a whim a few years ago and it changed my life. I started automating little thing a here and there and now
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
Interesting side note about suicide among physicians (in the U.S. at least), every state license or hospital privileges (including renewals) I have applied for asks “have you been diagnosed with or received treatment for a mental health dis
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
I just put the tags in the file name, like “2019-12-25_xmas_bob_grandma.jpg”. Obviously you can’t go crazy with a bunch of tags, but I think I can get by with 2 or 3 tags at most. I was afraid to use sidecar info or xattr because I think
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
I just dealt with this crap storm of a project last month. We had 40k photos scattered across three laptops, old hard drives, and sd cards. First I just crudely copied all of the folders on to an external hard drive and ran a freeware dup
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
The book "Moonwalking with Einstein" was my first introduction to memorization techniques. I had no idea these techniques existed, much less there were competitions for them. I drove my wife crazy trying to impress her with memo
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
Motion and loading is definitely integral to cartilage preservation. Unlike most tissues in the body, articular cartilage does not receive oxygen and nutrients from blood vessels, but rather directly from the oil-like synovial fluid that h
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
Thanks for the compliment, I just lurk here on HN and I finally came across something in my wheelhouse. Happy to contribute. With private practice and a house full of kids I imagine my blog should be ready by 2029.
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
Orthopedic surgeon here. Articular cartilage regeneration is definitely the holy grail of my field, but for all of the promises of biologics (growth factors, stem cells, collagen matrices) it always seems to be “another five years away”. T
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
If I hit a paywall on safari iOS I simply click "send to" button and open it in the Duck Duck Go app.
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by jdmcnugent 7y ago
Bachelor’s degree in geography? I wonder if she went to school with Buster Bluth.