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by oaktrout 5y ago
I have a feeling the surgeon did the surgery because he was in Belize, you can probably get away with more there.
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by oaktrout 5y ago
I dont think it is, DTaP/TDaP are what is given for tetanus, they vaccinate against Diptheria/Tetanus/acellular Pertussis. No polio in there.
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by oaktrout 5y ago
It seems like AI is good at finding what's popular (video views/ad clicks), but it doesn't seem to be very good at science/engineering (drug discovery/self driving cars/radiology).
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by oaktrout 5y ago
Is everything we do not socially unnatural though? Remote work? Video calls, social media, online forums? What, other than living in hunter-gatherer societies is not socially unnatural for humans?
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by oaktrout 5y ago
I think your comparison is off. First, I believe seatbelts are relatively straightforward to manufacture, and so no one small company is likely to make a profit from their manufacturing in a monopolistic anti-competitive manner, hence no ra
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by oaktrout 5y ago
Saying most mental health professionals are a joke is perhaps a little harsh in my opinion, after all they are trying to understand and treat the most mysterious and complex things known to man. We don't diagnose diabetes with a list o
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by oaktrout 5y ago
To add to the above, my understanding is that classifying autism spectrum disorders into subcategories (eg aspergers) didn't seem to provide much benefit and it made things more difficult to understand. At this point all of our limit
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by oaktrout 5y ago
If you did a lung CT they probably looked for blood clots (your doctor would know if they did or not), in which case dimer is not going to help you. Ironically, if you are having panic attacks, a drug that lowers your heart rate may help tr
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by oaktrout 5y ago
The 3% from the meta analysis above was not for a single "best case scenario fitness regime". It was a number calculated by pooling data from ~28 studies with varied methodologies. A significant portion of those studies employed d
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by oaktrout 5y ago
The data you posted shows that the average person was able to maintain about 7lbs of weight loss without surgery, so it's definitely more than 5%*. Also, who is saying we are calling patients weak willed losers? Should we not tell pati
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by oaktrout 5y ago
"Research shows that nothing doctors recommend has any effect on weight loss except bariatric surgery." Source 2 that you posted contradicts that statement, and notes that the average person was successful in maintaining some weig
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by oaktrout 5y ago
If it works for 5% of people it is by definition not useless. Bariatric surgery is not without its risks, and I would rather weed out the 5% who respond to the low risk approach before exposing them to the risks and long term side effects o
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by oaktrout 5y ago
I didn't see a dimer mentioned in that article, and on a brief glance its not in any of the algorithms I saw for diagnosing myocarditis. Perhaps walterbell suspects your symptoms are related to blood clots and that is why he recommend
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by oaktrout 5y ago
Math and physics are tested on the MCAT. There is also a reasoning section which a philosophy education would probably help you do well on.
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by oaktrout 5y ago
No offense taken, I myself conceded "this is totally unscientific" and noted that large cities tend to be democratic. The crime statistics are per capita, but again, you would still expect larger cities to have higher crime rates.
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by oaktrout 5y ago
I combined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_the_50_large... (proxy for political party), and found that the top 1
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by oaktrout 5y ago
Do smaller tires work on slippery roads?
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by oaktrout 5y ago
"ideal set is 3x5 rep to 3x8 rep with 3 minute rest", ideal for what? Ideal for hypertrophy? Strength? Power? Fat loss? Probably not endurance... Perhaps the exercise routines on this site aren't great (I don't know), if
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by oaktrout 5y ago
The advice works if patients listen (which is patient choice). Reducing salt intake and losing weight are simple ways to lower blood pressure and they are also effective.
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by oaktrout 5y ago
"70% is an election landslide, but I'm not sure it tells you that one kind of staircase is preferred over another." I think 70% definitely tells you what kind of staircase was preferred assuming there are enough staircases (a
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by oaktrout 5y ago
Seconding your view points. If a patient dies from a hypertension related cause (say stroke), and the patient has not followed the strict low salt diet the doctor recommended, does the doctor pay for that? At what point does the doctor stop
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by oaktrout 5y ago
Without malpractice insurance, would doctors be incentivized to not take on risky patients? Risky could be defined as litigious (I know this patient has sued another doctor before) or medically difficult to treat (this patient needs this su
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by oaktrout 5y ago
If you are asking about increasing longevity, it's mostly about taking care of yourself (rather than some magic pill or supplement). Don't smoke, exercise, maintain a healthy weight, get the recommended cancer screenings (e.g. m
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by oaktrout 5y ago
Are you a bot?
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by oaktrout 5y ago
There are multiple types of dementia, a woman with known heart disease might have vascular dementia (dementia related to decreased blood flow to the brain). This article is really about alzheimers (although that's not clear from the ti
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by oaktrout 5y ago
I know someone just like Jack (some of the similarities were shocking). They have a home to go to, a loving family, a large and supportive friend group, opportunities for work. They are not dead yet, but having been through prison, buprenor
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by oaktrout 5y ago
But how do we get people to choose the slow release over the rush? Buprenorphine and methadone are the slow release analogs you speak of, we already have those, and they are helpful for some. Still, there is a fraction of the addicted that
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by oaktrout 5y ago
The link you've provided doesn't discuss the use of rhodium as a drug, it's the archive of a site named "rhodium" that was used for discussing drugs... I don't know how these catalysts are interacting with bomb
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by oaktrout 5y ago
"However, an enlarged liver helping someone process alcohol better sounds bizarre to me. I thought a liver being able to process alcohol faster was due to increased enzymes since the body again is trying to balance itself and is dealin
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by oaktrout 5y ago
The author seems confused about how BK channels relate to tolerance, here he notes that decreased BK channels lead to increased tolerance: "Exposure to alcohol upregulates microRNA (mir-9), which in turn modifies BK mRNA, selectively d

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