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by oaktrout 4y ago
I care about savings to the patient and taxpayer if that's helpful. I just googled "average cost of emergency department CT scan", I agree that is not what Medicare would reimburse.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong here: You save $45 on the professional services, but you still pay the same facility fee (~$1000), the CT scan still costs the same (~$5000), labs are still the same (~$110)... etc. So maybe you have save
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by oaktrout 4y ago
With the Boeing engineers the outsourcing wasn't obviously an issue to individuals outside the system until the 737 MAX was grounded and 346 people were dead. Requiring such a sentinel event before the value of US engineering was known
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Truly reddit is a place full of idiots on all sides, do you have specific criticisms of the study I posted though? Or specific criticisms of the study in the NPR article?
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Truly it's a nuanced topic and you cannot say that across the board NPs cost more than physicians. I have no doubt that NPs and PAs can be cost saving when employed appropriately. An issue with your first study is that some NP care was
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by oaktrout 4y ago
The AMA obviously has an agenda, but that doesn't that change the fact that non-physicians cost patients and taxpayers more money, hard to argue with the cms data. Who cares if your doctor gets paid more if he is saving you and the tax
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I'm sure the high paid software engineers at boeing said something similar when jobs were being outsourced "we need more US engineers". Look at the software problems they had and tell me they were wrong. Just like software en
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by oaktrout 4y ago
There is some evidence in the primary care world that going to a NP for primary care costs more than going to a doctor: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/scope-practice/... . In short, NPs order more tes
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I appreciate the response. Hard to draw many conclusions from that study for a number of reasons, but perhaps the greatest in my mind is highlighted near the end: "TCOVID-19 prevention measures (vaccination, isolation, and mask use) ar
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I was under the impression that there is no data showing that the covid mrna vaccines reduce transmission. If you are aware of a source that says otherwise I would love to check it out.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
You said "The same people who refuse the vaccine take unknown substances in 'supplements' which have no regulation at all. It makes no sense. Explain it." I replied to that point directly. The "outrage over vaccines
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I can explain it. Tylenol has been around since 1955 and is only demonstrably toxic in overdoses. The mrna based vaccines have been only used for the past couple years, hence long term side effects are unknown. Not everyone who refuses the
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Agree. Also, was that the cost of hospice or of all her medical care? If you're including rent in the cost, did grandma have a home that she sold? Would she have been paying that much in rent anyway if she wasn't sick? Would it ha
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I would argue the video in question is none of those things (not demeaning, not in public, not without permission, etc).
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Who cares if he did it to make himself more famous? He helped 1000 blind people see. Celebrities who get famous from sex tapes get less flack. Imagine if we encouraged this sort of behavior and Instagram was full of people helping others in
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Creating cards is great, but for those seriously deep in the anki game (eg 20,000 active cards or 20 new cards per day for years straight), there isn't enough time to create all the cards you need to learn and pre-made decks are king.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Citation for your pancreatic cancer claim? I am skeptical, or perhaps we have different definitions of better.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Arguably more chronic conditions might point to US health care being better. These individuals with multiple chronic conditions might not be alive except for high quality US medicine. It also argues that we suck at primary prevention, but t
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Couldn't get that report to run on my phone, but there is an older linked study here that noted 57% of NCAA football programs were profitable: https://christopherlee.com/college-athletics-by-the-number/ . Also, eve
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I agree especially with #1. You can see the children that were never told no and never challenged. They fail spectacularly when mom and dad aren't their to hold their hand in the real world.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Lol at not letting them use a tablet as much as they want being abuse. Maybe their room is clean and their grades are good but they aren't developing social skills because the tablet is their only hobby. IMO, part of parenting is makin
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Many people get a rash when a viral illness (epstein barr comes to mind) is treated with amoxicillin. This is not an amoxcicillin allergy.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
The question is where do you draw the line? Hypothetical: the smell of flowers makes me sick, it's possible to garden indoors. I want you to remove your outdoor garden and grow your flowers indoors only. Is that fair?
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Covid infection outcomes exist on a continuum from death to harmless. There is also "long-flu", and I'm sure there are persistent responses to other respiratory viruses, so long covid isn't totally novel. If you're
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I would say it's not so clear, and it's open for debate until hospitals open up their books. Yes residents need to be supervised, but one doctor can supervise many residents seeing many more patients than they could alone. If hosp
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by oaktrout 4y ago
One advantage that gas stoves have is that they don't need electricity to cook, so if your batteries or generators fail, you can still prepare a meal while you wait for the power to be restored.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Assuming you can afford solar panels and a battery and they are not damaged in the storm and you don't go too long without sunny weather and ...
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by oaktrout 4y ago
More specifically I would say that's how caffeine tolerance works.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I enjoyed the article but found it to be a little wordy and difficult to skim to find what I was looking for. Most systematic reviews and meta-analysis convey more information in less text. I personally prefer to get to straight to the fact
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by oaktrout 4y ago
To be clear, on my read there were no difference as far as downsides, it seemed to improve the mental health of the parents and it taught the babies to return to sleep without needing intervention from the parents, which I would argue are m

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