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by mv 14y ago
In the insanity that is the Match students must interview at 10+ places around the country in order to get a residency. Many spend upwards of $10,000 in addition to medical school for travel expenses. Fourth year is relatively flexible beca
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by mv 14y ago
All the benefits you listed are available with the gold card which you receive after purchasing (25?) drinks with a normal registered card.
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by mv 14y ago
openelec and raspbmc work reasonably well on it. there are still some kinks, random crashes, and menu lag that haven't been fully ironed out.
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by mv 14y ago
Oh gosh. For every one of the 'miracles' of full recovery from brain death, there are thousands more about people being kept alive waiting for a miracle. It disgusts me how okay people are with mechanical respirators, TPN feeds, and the lik
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by mv 14y ago
Awesome. Free 3G wireless is back on a touch kindle! Hopefully the refresh rate is increased, browsing on the old keyboard kindle was cumbersome and slow... but it is still the best device to take traveling... MP3s, Books, and it is free to
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by mv 14y ago
I really wanted one of these when they first came out, however, the arrogance of having locked down hardware really irked me... iirc you had to pay something like $5/month after spending $250 for the sensor just to have access to the data!
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by mv 14y ago
This is as good as it gets: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/
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by mv 14y ago
this is sad.... and also a result of a war on drugs. Decriminalization of drug use would actually allow people to get help without losing their job/life/everything. There is no reason for this senseless madness. End the War on drugs. Portug
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by mv 14y ago
"We learned quite a bit about Power of Attorney and Medical Directives, as well." this is important. I see too many people say 'do whatever you can' but they do not realize what they ask. The loss of the mind is terrible, but so also is the
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by mv 15y ago
Bullshit process? URL Pharma exploited a loop hole to do 'research' and a clinical trial on a drug that has been known for centuries to work (yes centuries, the plant it is based from has been used since roman times).... Doctors are angry
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by mv 15y ago
Wow. It really makes you wonder what can be accomplished today!
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by mv 15y ago
no that doesn't at all. Why not have any two humans mate to have offspring? there are 23 pairs of chromosomes and only 1 pair is sex determining. doesn't really make sense to have male/female especially since the 'male' physical characteris
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by mv 15y ago
You misunderstand, it isn't selfish to want it for yourself, but it is selfish to keep someone else alive in a vegetative state. It is so easy to choose 'life' as the correct and right thing when in fact 'death' is the natural and moral thi
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by mv 15y ago
ugh. This is exactly what drives up the cost of medicine. People hear crap like this, and then come in demanding that 'everything be done' for their 95 yo grandmother in a coma in the ICU. Sadly technology can keep this type of person 'aliv
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by mv 15y ago
a quick search shows that it was republished: http://www.amazon.com/Self-Discipline-10-days-Thinking-Doing... I haven't read it, but looks interesting.
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by mv 15y ago
Am I the only one who thinks the story is a little too perfect and ridiculous? It is much more likely that the author simply fabricated the story. He did manage to start a very popular thread, and get a ton of people with really high rep to
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by mv 15y ago
that is because doctors are trained to multiply drinks per day by at least 2 to get actual drinks a person is drinking a day. ... sad thing is for most people at the doctor's office this isn't unrealistic at all.. Oh and if they say 'one dr
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by mv 15y ago
If you want to link it probably would have been better to use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture Miller was a date setter, but not an advocate of the traditional fundamentalist 'rapture'. He was waiting for the second coming which would
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by mv 15y ago
All the articles listed there have been in the last few weeks. It would be nice to see an all time best of list. Maybe look at the upvotes vs registered users at the time? That way an article way back with 100 upvotes would be able to compe
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by mv 16y ago
I'm confused. So I have to pay $249 for a sensor, then pay $9/month to have any real access to the data? Biggest ripoff ever. I know HN is all about monthly billing, but it seems like these guys are really reaching on this product. The amou
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by mv 16y ago
you must 'match' into a specialty. If you do not have a good rank or board scores you can only match into the 'lower' residencies like family or psych
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by mv 16y ago
I am a 3rd year in medical school, and firmly believe that sleep deprivation is a terrible weeding process. If a doctor is sleep deprived I do not want them touching me with a ten foot pole. They make enough mistakes as it is! Sure you ar
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by mv 16y ago
it is awesome that people differ. Everyone has advantages and disadvantages but people aren't equal. Some people will have lots of advantages with minimal disadvantages, and yet others will have the opposite. I don't understand why peop
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by mv 16y ago
Do not say 'backed up by medical knowledge' unless you plan on citing sources. I don't have much time right now, but I did find a good starting point: http://www.ajcn.org/content/53/6/1561S.abstract "In this regard, the proneness to stor
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by mv 16y ago
What I find odd is that most people want to believe everyone is born equal. They want to believe this so badly they ignore any evidence to the contrary. For example, I can eat anything and won't gain weight, yet someone else is morbidly obe
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by mv 16y ago
this statement is why I love HN, and it is also the reason why I take most business feasibility ideas given here with a grain of salt. The intelligence and community here breeds people that become so disconnected with how the other 99% of p
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by mv 16y ago
"training dataset includes several thousand anonymized patients and will be made available" That seems like an awfully small dataset. It also doesn't look like it is limited to one disease which would make the search space enormous especial
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by mv 16y ago
heh, this 'leak' probably was on purpose and from a machine that is so old/blocky/pixilated to make the public see this as a non-issue. The images leaked look NOTHING like the ones at http://dontscan.us/ .... If the general public see thi
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by mv 16y ago
I'm no expert, but it seems unintuitive to have to click 'course notifier' and then 'getting started' to actually get signed up. There should be a 'Start watching courses now' link on the homepage... Most people that go to that sight probab
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by mv 17y ago
and pay you $0.99 for the privilege? No thanks.

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