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by monkburger 2y ago
There is a specialist shortage. Refs I've sent to Endros take months. I've even had to refer patients to places nearly 150 miles away.
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by monkburger 2y ago
The angle I would love to hear is that these people denying medical care are not culpable for the consequences. If I don’t order a test/surgery/whatever and the patient is harmed, I may face civil or criminal liability. But if the
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by monkburger 2y ago
I frequently have to deal with this, particularly peer-to-peer (P2P) authorization. I have never been assigned a practising oncologist as a peer. Often a retired unrelated speciality (paediatrician, psychiatrist) or a non-practising insuran
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by monkburger 2y ago
Stool tests are questionable to begin with.
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Verizon Nationwide Outage(techradar.com)
6 points by monkburger 2y ago|0 comments
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by monkburger 2y ago
All homes need fresh air ventilation systems - at least here, all new homes are required by code to have it. ERV / HRV or a static one that goes into your air handler. Personally, ERV is the way to go. Panasonic makes one that is perfe
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by monkburger 2y ago
I've always wondered if UFO's are just billionares from other planets.
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New technology set to transform the search for alien life(theguardian.com)
2 points by monkburger 2y ago|1 comments
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Which Security Cameras?
7 points by monkburger 2y ago|12 comments
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by monkburger 2y ago
Indeed. We have a very limited winter. There are often more warm days than cold days. The last time I had to use my snowblower was in a mega snowstorm during the winter of 2015/2016. That is simply unheard of! (at least here)
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by monkburger 2y ago
Our last big snowstorm was in 2016. Afterwards we were in a snowfall drought for years (well below average) We had a few close calls for big snow, but they never materialized. This is unheard of. Even during strong El Nino patterns, the eas
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by monkburger 2y ago
I've gone from 6b to 7a. Winters almost do not exist here in the mid-Atlantic. Sure, there are some cold snaps, but they do not last as long as 20 to 30 years ago. Snowfall? Getting less and less with an occasional nor'easter here
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by monkburger 2y ago
There's a few: NOAA's GHCN: Global Historical Climatology Network, Its coverage includes data going back several centuries, with the earliest records starting around 1750. HadCRUIT (Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit Temper
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by monkburger 2y ago
They aren't guesses. Those charts are reflecting oxygen isotope ratios (which are measured directly), among countless others (which are covered in Hasen et al) Oxygen isotope ratios are more or less ^16O and ^18O. These isotopes are di
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by monkburger 2y ago
Yes. I don't like using Wikipedia for a source, but here's some paleoclimate data going back to the early Phanerozoic. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Al... Also,
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by monkburger 2y ago
As the oceans warm, there's more humidity. More humidity, more latent heat of vaporization. This is the energy that powers thunderstorms and hurricanes. The planet was probably the warmest during the Cretaceous. The planet is warming u
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by monkburger 2y ago
Usually, yes. However, some PCPs / endo will order up A1c as well as glucose challenge, depending on certain factors (eg, family history, BMI, symptoms). If I were you, order up the following: - A1C - 12 hour Fasting blood glucose l
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by monkburger 2y ago
> Also note that HbA1c tests aren't perfect for diagnosing type 2 diabetes and can > have false positives or false negatives. When we do workups on pts suspected of diabetes, we use the following criteria. - Iron deficiency anemi
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by monkburger 2y ago
They are like the blind and proud idiots in Versailles who lived in a bubble of bliss before the mobs of commoners came and dragged them off to the guillotines.
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by monkburger 2y ago
mRNA research is going to change medicine for the better.
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by monkburger 2y ago
The energy released by an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 on SA is approximately 6.31×10^16 joules. When converted to an equivalent in terms of TNT, this energy amounts to about 15,080 kilotons of TNT. (About the same as the Castle Bravo nuclea
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by monkburger 2y ago
More of a concern in the bay area, the geological composition is sand, mud, basic river delta sediments--not the most stable stuff. eg: During a hypothetical Earthquake in the Bay area, the liquefaction of sand occurs, which causes undergro
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by monkburger 2y ago
San Andreas is a transform fault, also known as a 'strike-slip' fault. These generally do not cause as much damage as a subduction zone event, also known as dip-slip. An example of this type of event (dip-slip) would be the 2004 I
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by monkburger 3y ago
Greed makes them expensive. Besides, modern American homes are constructed very poorly, unable to justify the cost..
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by monkburger 3y ago
America: Land of Gun Care and Health Control
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by monkburger 3y ago
I wonder if any kind of pro-security legalisation were proposed, how many lobbying firms from big tech (Google, Amazon, etc) would fight it tooth and nail. Kind of reminds me of PHK's criticisms of HTTP2, tho ( https://queue.
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by monkburger 3y ago
Teflon contain PFAS Look at pubchem.
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by monkburger 3y ago
Yes. Many compounds are not even listed because of IP/patents. Just a reminder - Chemical Companies, legally, police themselves. We have sooooo many PFOA's, like GenX, and some minor ones that are similar. The original DuP documen
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by monkburger 3y ago
This is the most ridiculous 'bill' I have seen in quite some time.
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by monkburger 3y ago
The NAM overestimates southern jetstream energy. And the 3km is just awful for anything beyond 24hr. HRRR is OK, but usually <10 hours for better numbers. You should relllllly look at the soundings, though.

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